Quote from gurcrist on August 20, 2011, 3:52 pm

I really enjoyed the map. Not too difficult, but was fun. My daughter loved it. To crank it up a notch you might want to [spoiler]have the button that raises the three tiles in the bridge room timed.[/spoiler]

Thanks again for a fun map

Quote from xdiesp on August 20, 2011, 4:20 pm

Medium map with accessible, non-linear structure yet unfortunately kept down by severely unpolished looks. Style's a wild mix of Decay and Clean, maybe (but I'm stretching it) not intrinsecally evil but given the overbright lightning certainly ending in a brutal salad effect (contrasting details). Again it's the puzzles keeping the thing afloat, simple and catchy.

But if I may suggest, either lock the player inside the final room (now you can just pop a bridge and leave) or have him bring the 3 cubes inside (I couldn't believe it was that easy). Have a tour of the oldie [SP] One in the Chamber and see how the colour look more coherent, despite the intense detail. Bug: the water in the final room isn't lined to the wall, you can actually see its box's border.

Quote from Saturn on August 20, 2011, 4:31 pm

Okay map, not alot to say. Framerate is low and like what was said you can place the light bridge to get to the exit. Dunno why there were 3-4 laser cubes when you only needed 2, i guess its needed if you destroy one acidentally.

Quote from Localized on August 20, 2011, 8:29 pm

You know I really liked the style of this map. Sure there are a few things that need refining, but I enjoyed playing it.

Quote from rlink0 on August 20, 2011, 9:33 pm

Possible glitch in the room before the elevator. I was able to crouch to the edge of the starting platform and point the laser directly at the place it was supposed to go. I didn't have to point it at another redirectional cube.
Otherwise, I liked it. Not too challenging, but still interesting enough.

Quote from Marise on August 21, 2011, 9:20 am

Thanks for catching the workaround with the light bridge in the last room. Yikes, not sure how I didn't catch that. Easy enough to fix of course. The puzzle in that room isn't meant to be particularly challenging, though. But I might think about ways to add to it a bit.

I had a heck of a time with the visuals, this being my first decayed map. Although I am not sure where I mixed in clean style, aside from a couple of spots where I put a small section of clean tiles on the wall (intending to imply layers of tile that had fallen away over time - but I could certainly remove those few clean ones if that is the problem).

Thanks for playing and leaving feedback.

Quote from NuclearDuckie on August 21, 2011, 11:01 am

In the room with the blue gel, I didn't need to use the light bridge at all to finish it. [spoiler]To get the cube, I simply grabbed it from where I was standing when it fell, and to reach the laser, I just leapt down onto the gel covered floor from where the light bridge began, rebounded back up on the other side and climbed over to where I needed to place the cube.[/spoiler]
There were also problems with the cube I needed to use [spoiler]to kill the turrets[/spoiler] in the other room. I wasn't able to retrieve it should it fall into the water, and when I held it under the orange gel "pipe" (by the way, why wasn't there a pipe?), it retained the same clean appearance, which I found misleading.

However, I did really enjoy the puzzles along with the unusual visual style (particularly the "enclosed" feel I got with the light bridge-climbing room). To the actual gameplay I would only suggest changing the positioning of the autosaves to each time you align a laser correctly. Perhaps the last chamber should be a little more complicated but it felt more like a "closing sequence" to me than an actual puzzle.

As far as the modeling/texturing goes, the details were pretty if clashing at times, but I have to agree that the lighting was sub-par. I'm OK with brightness - in fact I've been hating the onslaught of dark chambers lately; they feel so uninspiring - but the bright lighting of this map seemed overbearing especially when there wasn't really any realistic source for it. Some of the brushes looked a bit plain too.

Quote from Marise on August 21, 2011, 3:28 pm

Version 1.1 is uploading now. It includes the following changes...

-Made some visual changes and dimmed the lights. Hope it looks better now.
-Fixed light bridge exploit in final room and made the door close when player enters.
-Addressed frame rate lag by having gel droppers turn off while player is not in the appropriate room.
-Fixed other issues mentioned in feedback.

Quote from pfalstad on August 21, 2011, 8:22 pm

NuclearDuckie wrote:

There were also problems with the cube I needed to use [spoiler]to kill the turrets[/spoiler] in the other room. I wasn't able to retrieve it should it fall into the water, and

[spoiler]Oh, is that what I was supposed to do there? I was playing one of my daughter's saved games where she had already dropped the cube in the water. I just jumped down onto the platform the turrets were placed on (from the light bridge) and disposed of them by hand.[/spoiler]

I thought it was very odd that the orange gel looked blue when it falls on the light bridge.. Not that you have any control over that I suppose?

I enjoyed the level though, the puzzles were fun, thanks! The rooms felt a bit cramped, but that's OK. I expected the final puzzle to be harder with all the cubes lying around (I only needed two).