Alright folks, back again for another round!

Episode 002 - Boiling

This go about we're taking a look at:

-100 Celcius (ducklings and ice) - ALGORITM067
My first lbp3 platform lvl - Hank1902
Hoverboard Neon! - xtacaine666
Acorn Bounce - Lara_1988_
Hello... - hanakama

It's another...interesting...set of levels, but hopefully you'll find something that floats your boat. As always, thanks for all the support, and i hope y'all have a great day!

Behind the Curtains Stuff

Whoo boy, Thursday was pretty much awful, full stop. So, the new Windows update seems to have borked my mic, or at least my mic has developed some kind of issue concurrent to the update. Anyway, there's some kind of buzzing when i record Isaac (though no issues when recording on the PS4, so we're living in the mirror, i suppose). Tried to get the thing unkinked, thought i had, and ended up with two episodes recorded where you can barely hear my voice.

Then, found that there was something gone sideways with our washing machine, seemed like something with the hose, so i hiked over to the Home Depot equivalent, got a new one, came home to hook it up, and...it was still spitting water out at me. So, hike all the laundry over to the coin-op which is not exactly super close...so basically the morning and afternoon of my busiest recording day were wiped.

Still, had gotten episode 003 wrapped and there were still a few hours, so i figured i'd try to put together a quick episode of LBsP, did the recording only to discover there's (maybe) some break in the level (it was an LBP2 one, so that's a possibility), but i wouldn't have time to fire up the PS3 and check there if i also wanted to do level recordings for 004, which i did want to do. Also, somewhere in that process i turned my mic off and forgot (probably when i tried to replay the LBsP level on the PS4), so lost the first level from the 004 set and had to quick change that up. By that time my mood was so sour that i probably shouldn't have gone through recording the rest, so i'm going have to give those a hard listen to see if they're actually worth keeping, or if i want to just scrap the lot and start fresh (which would suck, because there're some decent levels in that set).

Basically what i'm saying is...really Thursday? Really? What'd i ever do to you?

Whoop whoop, Tuesday Takeaway!

-100 Celsius (ducklings and ice) - ALGORITM067

How can you not like saving ducklings? Are you some kind of monster? Surely not, you're good people, one and all (even the monsters). *ahem* What to say? It's a solidly presented, mostly fun level. The power-up is fairly solid on, though i think i figured out the inconsistency in its use. Basically, you can turn water into ice with it, but you're only using the flame side of it to interact with the thermometers (which, indirectly, melts ice). Logically the fire should directly effect things, but...a level has its own mechanics, and ALGORITM067 does tell us how it's supposed to work. The only fly in the ointment i think was the difficulty spike early on with the ice block conveyor. The jump off the block when it hits the water is really tough to pull off.

My first lbp3 platform lvl - Hank1902

Yeeeahh...this one, it just wasn't fun when i was recording; it wasn't fun when i was going for PiPs (which, i suppose, is also recording), and it wasn't much fun playing it this morning. The real nail in the coffin for me was there's just no pace to the level, It feels like i should be shuffling along, but if you do, you're likely going to keep getting killed. What you need to do is move forward, stop, wait, move forward. i have the hardest time getting into that style of platformer.

Hoverboard Neon! - xtacaine666

i do kind of wonder if xta will look back at their screen name some day and wonder why they told the whole world of their support of Satan? i mean, let your freak flag fly, but... i mean, if you're going to go into it, at least pick a more interesting daemonic entity. Anyhow...not really much to say. This one's a pretty solid on, but not particularly stand out hoverboard level. i really liked the contrasting black and neon piping, even through it does make it difficult to see the sticker work (which i'm pretty sure is exactly what i said in the episode).

Acorn Bounce - Lara_1988_

The play is a little bit awkward, considering the level is based on one originally designed for the Grappling Hook, still, i had enough fun going through it. The music, though...it's very elevator-muzak-y. i can appreciate the work that went into putting it together, but...it's just not for me?

Hello... - hanakama

Yeah...this is a jank gallery. i suppose i should have figured that, but i thought the Level Badge looked so nice. To be fair, we did see that in the level, but the juice isn't really worth the squeeze. Also the depresso-spider-mech...at least it moves pretty cool. mdkd99 mentioned that maybe hanakama had gaffled the last bits in the level there, which i suppose is always a possibility. The skill on display stands out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of what we see. i can't really say one way or the other. i took a look at one of their other levels, which was a Hatsune Miku running platformer in a box. The animation on that was actually pretty good, so i can't knock hanakma too much. On the other hand, it was an LBP2-level, and i think playing in LBP3 caused some load-bearing bit of logic to glitch out. i think there were probably supposed to be dropping platforms during the water bits, as the jumps are way too far to hit normally.

So that's the that. Hope there was something fun in there for y'all. Have a great day, and thanks for all the support!

Behind the Curtains Stuffs

Hrrm...lazybones me? i dunno, just needed a little production break from the debacle that was Thursday. Though, that's why we keep a week's buffer in there. Plus, i've got...something like 2weeks off work with nothing planned, so...it's not like i won't have time to get caught up.

A crazy set of levels. I enjoyed this episode though.

Glad to hear you liked it, yeah. It was certainly an unusual bunch, though hopefully you found something fun to play. i do wish i could figure out why the url and video tags haven't been working here, though.

You could try to go into edit mode and click on preview, or remake all the urls.