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It's done. Get it here. If you can mirror it, by all means, please do so!

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Hello! Remember Knytt Stories? Remember how fun and interesting it was to fiddle with the editor? Remember how so many of us were excited at the prospect of making levels, and then nobody really made much except for dessgeega?

We're going to make a story, exquisite corpse-style. I was lucky enough to participate when Zaratustra made the first Exquisite Knorpse experiment; it was a lot of fun, even though the rest of the authors were sadomasochists, so the resulting story is as annoying as it is amazing.

I'd like to see what happens when we try something similar here on Select Button. I want you to participate!

HERE ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS:
-To participate: announce your intention in this thread before September 21.
-I need about eight (more) participants. I don't mind going over, but in the unlikely event that there's a lot of interest in this, I'm limiting this first attempt to ten people total.
-We're using Knytt Stories version 1.1.0 r2.
-Each player in sequence will have exactly one week to work on the level. This means the experiment could take 9 to 10 weeks; considering that many of us have obligations like school and work, please indicate if you'd like to have a particular spot in the sequence, or if there are specific weeks that won't work for you. (It could easily go a lot quicker, though. Keep that in mind as well.)
-For simplicity, the player in this story will never pick up any abilities. When you announce your intention to participate, list which abilities you'd like us to include; the player of our game will start with every ability that's listed by five or more participants. (Remember: the abilities are Running, Climb Walls, Double Jump, High Jump, See Invisible, Radar, Umbrella, Hologram).
-When it's your turn, I'll send you the level and a color-coded map similar to this one:



The dark blue spaces are "empty"; you can fill as many as you'd like. Light blue rooms are "blocked off"; every room it's possible to access from them has already been filled in, so they will be filled with a placeholder configuration in the level you receive to work on. Rooms of other colors are visible; green ones have exits the player can reach in the game's current state, while yellow rooms have one-way exits. Red rooms have exits that it isn't currently possible for the player to reach, but you may be able to change that depending on what you build in the squares around them. The pink squares in that map were built as if they were light blue, but the containing wall is actually "hollow" on layer 3, so they're functionally red while aesthetically light blue. The white-outlined square is the screen the player starts on.
-When you're finished modifying the level, send me an email (jalove AT gmail DOT com) with the level attached. Only changes to dark-blue squares will be added to the final level. Modifications to green, red, yellow, pink, or (obviously) light blue squares won't be copied across. Be sure to leave some exits for the next player!
-Fancy scripting and custom assets are acceptable. If you're going to overwrite one of the tile-sets, try to make it one of the goofy ones other people aren't likely to miss. If you use flags, I'll make a note of what flags players before you used. If you don't know what flags are, don't worry about it.
-While the absence of in-game abilities implies a linear progression, you should probably allow as much back-tracking as possible, especially if players before you have left more than one valid exit.

Let's do this!

(Posting to King of Posters for maximum visibility; we can move this to the Development forum on Sunday.)
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Nah. I tried contacting most of the people who signed up for that, and everybody was unresponsive. We just needed better planning and concrete time limits. Hence the changes here.
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We're half-full. Room for five more!
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That's ten. I guess I'll put forth my preferences for Run, Climb, Double-Jump, and Umbrella.

Toups, Boojiboy, New Ska: need item preferences from you.

Running and Seeing Invisible are in; Climb needs one more vote, while Double Jump and Umbrella each need two.

If somebody else still wants in, we can probably make room.
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Okay! If Toups wants Double-Jump included, it'll be in the game. Otherwise, you can count on running, climbing, seeing invisible objects, and the umbrella.

I rolled some dice to assign the general order of turns:

1 BotageL
2 OGC
3 boojiboy7
4 dessgeega
5 Zaratustra
6 SuperWes
7 The New Ska

Herr Toups: as close to Sep 29 as possible
Skelethulu: after Nov 1
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Thought I'd be done with it before work today. I was, but I didn't have enough time to hide the screens.

EDIT: It's in BotageL's hands now. If you can finish quick, great--otherwise, try and finish by the 28th.
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Toups has it.

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2 BotageL
Herr Toups: as close to Sep 29 as possible
dessgeega: after Oct 1
4 OGC
5 boojiboy7
6 Zaratustra
7 SuperWes
8 The New Ska

Skelethulu: after Nov 1
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(getting pretty psyched for this, guys)
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WHAT IS UP

I am posting to bring you this link:

Knytt Stories Editor Manual (pdf)

And yes, all custom sound must be in ogg format. :( :( :(
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Andrew why do you hate the player so much. :(

This level just got really hard. :( :( :(

Sending to dessgeega in a moment.
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I'm not that worried about the difficulty. Since the player starts with all the necessary abilities, as long as there's a healthy degree of interconnectivity between the paths, we should be able to keep the player from getting stuck on any excessively difficult part. Might need to warn the player not to save in any really difficult areas if they don't think they'll be able to get through, though.
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Sorry 'bout the delay, but I'm not going to have access to my computer for a bit. Hopefully I can send this tonight, but we'll see.
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The level now includes two custom music files, so apologies in advance if the file size is too big. Let me know ahead of time and I'll leave 'em out when I send it to you for your turn.

Now it's dessgeega's turn.

1 Intentionally Wrong
2 BotageL
3. Herr Toups
4. dessgeega
5. OGC
6. boojiboy7
7. Zaratustra
8. SuperWes
9. The New Ska

?. Skelethulu: after Nov 1
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OGC has it. We're half-way there!
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The current list looks like this:

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2 BotageL
3. Herr Toups
4. dessgeega
5. OGC
6. boojiboy7
7. Zaratustra
8. SuperWes
9. The New Ska
10. Six

?. Skelethulu: after Nov 1

OGC has about two more days with it, and then I'll send it on to booji.
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At the end of the first Exquisite Knorpse level, Zaratustra included a color-coded map showing who created which rooms. I was planning on doing something similar.
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OGC and I had to work out a couple kinks first, but we're good to go! I'll be sending it along momentarily.

But no, there's no Mac version. Otherwise you'd have it by now!
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Sorry about the delay here, guys. We should be back on track in a little while. I've got kind of weird computer access at the moment, so it looks like I can get the level to Zaratustra on Thursday.
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Sorry about the delays on my end, guys. Real life kind of interfered. Wes, you should be getting the level late tomorrow evening. Then we've just got Skelethulu, The New Ska, and Six!

(Incidentally, the level's really taking shape now. We're finally getting to the point where most of the screens can actually be reached by the player, and I've seen some really cool rooms and regions.)
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I sent it to Wes. I think we can get this finished in time for Christmas vacation.
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Out of town for a week. We'll get to the next turn next Monday, probably.
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Sending to Skelethulu now. We MAY be able to see this thing finished by New Year's, if not by Christmas. I'll be out of town that week, though, so I expect we'll probably still be working on this in January. Starting to see hints of the level's Final Form, though.
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We're gonna try! Sending to The New Ska in a bit.
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Actually, The New Ska hasn't been online since, like, the 23rd of November, and I don't have his email address, so. I'm sending it to six, and then we'll end with The New Ska.
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sup guys
i told ska he could have the level since six was taking too long
but we're in the middle of moving and haven't gotten internet activated at the new apartment yet
[the neighbors have wifi though. this is the most i've used my wii in months.]
i'll be able to send the level from my parents' house over christmas probably.
but then julie and i will be in michigan over the new year, so. should be done in mid-january.
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in that event i will break things. specifically i will break the level into pieces until i can find a way to make it all fit
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This is now a race. Six and The New Ska should both have the level. First one to complete their submission and send it back gets to be next--which is to say, they've already completed their turn.. The loser earns the consolation prize of getting to see a couple rooms from an earlier version of the level, and the advantage of a tiny head-start in terms of designing rooms, since he just has to find a way to fit them into the new map configuration.
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Sorry this is taking so long, guys. The holidays made things complicated. One way or another, this is going to be finished in two weeks.
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The New Ska has successfully returned the level. If Six can send his contribution within the week, it'll make it into the level; otherwise I'll finish without him.

The current map layout looks like this, if you're interested. (Linked to prevent accidental spoilage, in case you really don't want to know anything about the level ahead of time.)

We're almost there, guys.

We still need an intro and a conclusion. These can be either a short piece of text or a series of 600x240 images. Here is the first screen and last screen of the game, for reference. If you're interested in providing one of these, say so in the thread, but don't actually post your contribution--send it directly to me. (jasonlove AT gmail DOT com)
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Map layout's finished. If Six has something to add, it'll be inserted in a Special Bonus Edition. Just waiting for a couple people to get back to me on the intro/conclusion, and we'll publish!
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The person who was considering doing the intro and/or conclusion has officially backed out. Would one of you guys like to do one or both of these, or shall I just put something together myself? Let me know by tonight--I'm eager to get this thing finished, and I'm going to be out of town over the weekend.

(Also, Zaratustra wasn't kidding when he said hole-filling would take a lot of work. I wound up adding over a hundred rooms to the map after The New Ska sent it back to me. Consider the map layout I linked above largely obsolete.)

ALSO: consider possible names. Alternately, we can use a placeholder name for now and decide after you guys have played the level as a whole. Or I can even just pick something vaguely appropriate--probably "From Salt-Water Breach", which I like because salt-water breach abbreviates to SB.
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This is now ready to play.

Get it here; I also emailed it to everyone who participated.

Also: if you can host it somewhere, that'd probably be good. I don't know how reliable sendspace is.
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So, NOBODY'S successfully gotten the game to run? Hell. Let me try something else.

EDIT: I think some truncated text in the settings file may have been to blame. Let's try this again.
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Okay, try this one.
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Just emailed you again, Negativedge. If you can get that to work, I'll upload that file to sendspace; otherwise I'll see what else I can try.
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