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Hey guys! Marionette Man here, requesting some assistance with my newest project entitled VIRUS.

Here's the premise: it's a platformer about a man who has a computer that's filled to the brim with viruses and hacks. He knows of an important file needed for work, but his computer is nearly unresponsive. So he does the only thing he thinks he can: transforms into a virtual character and go into his computer's hard drives searching for this file. (I know it sounds silly, but about how many games out of 100 make sense?)

2 of my friends and myself are going to make the majority of them, but we would like 3 more from someone (or 1 from 3 different people) as we often get stuck when it comes to designing levels. All we need are some 2d .png images of layouts for platformers. It could look like anything, but preferably 8-16 bit as this is an arcade game.

The levels are divided by hard drives:
C:\John Drive
D:\Onamor
E:\UNREADABLE
There are to be 6-10 levels per drive, each supposed to take place in a folder on that drive. It must have a black background, and be somewhat colorful. Make them look glitchy too. This is an infected computer that the man is now in. It's also an older computer too. An 1988 Macintosh to be exact. Give the folder a name, and try to design it around that name. The levels could have the player going left to right, up and down, or both. Just be sure to be specific for what things are, such as lifts and ladders. The program can't allow warps, so keep that in mind.

We could also use some suggestions for some glitchy enemies, such as corrupt looking spritesheets from other games.

You will take full credit for your work, and receive a copy of the game (which will only be playable on Windows).


Anyone interested?

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Re: Level designers and enemy ideas needed for new arcade game project
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2013, 02:40:09 AM »
G:\ Games

Where you play through Other platformers and games.
I might be some time.

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Re: Level designers and enemy ideas needed for new arcade game project
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2013, 11:04:07 PM »
G:\ Games

Where you play through Other platformers and games.
That's an idea. Is that a suggestion or an offer?

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Re: Level designers and enemy ideas needed for new arcade game project
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2013, 09:34:01 AM »
Something Minesweeper-y as a level, given it's on a computer.

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Re: Level designers and enemy ideas needed for new arcade game project
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2014, 05:06:47 PM »
Something Minesweeper-y as a level, given it's on a computer.
That's a cool idea! If you could give a rough drawing of a level, that would be great  :bigsmile: