+---------------------- ABOUT LEVELMAKING - BY NEMO ----------------------+
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|      Olliz  Psy  Fuida  Nookie  Timmo  Hemman  Gavelin  skint0r         |
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I have just read BarTek's article about levelmaking. And it just makes me 
mad. I have some things to complain about that article. First of all i would 
like to take some rows to say that his article shouldn't even be allowed to 
be called "Levelmaking" because appearently the guy doesn't have a single 
clue what levelmaking is all about. In his article he goes on about what "we" 
want. And i think his article is all about what kuskits wants, it doesnt 
involve anything about levelmaking. He says, "we want new fresh HOYLABEL 
LEVELS in wich we can break timelimits and records" well, thats kinda true, 
but then he says "new competable levels to play on. And when u get bored 
of them, u may easily create a new bunch and carry on whit your hoyling" 
that isn't about levelmaking, just puking out levels so that everyone can 
hoyl them. 

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First of all you have to have a good idea. Something that you have imagined
in your thoughts and went on thinking about it, something that made you 
sleepless. Don't misstake me, im not saying that this is the key to "perfect" 
levelmaking, there aint no such thing as perfect levelmaking. Althought 
some of the designer gods up there have managed to get pretty close. Another 
thing in his article is this...

"Level making is about creativity, this half of the brain is better
adapted then the other when it comes to music, art and other creative
stuff. If you can write poems and draw beutiful pictures you probably
have a *good* advantage whit level-making"

I mean, some of it is true, but what the fuck is he saying actually?
That if you aren't good at poems or drawing you probably should forget 
all about levelmaking? I think this is nuts, just like this one...

"And what i mean whit this is that u may play a level which has lots 
of nice picures, propperly set grass and even some tricky funny areas.
But after driving the level for a time you discover that it only has
ONE straight way... like the level "Sink /Internal nr 45" These kind of 
levels indicate that the lev-maker isnt very skilled!"

I mean, the guy is totally out of his mind. He says that if you make a one 
way speedy levels which is really fun you probably aren't skilled and you 
probably can't draw good pics or write nice poems. This idiotical comment 
just shows what he think makes a good levelmaker. And that is if the 
levels is hoylable its pretty perfect and you probably are a nice drawer 
or poem writer :) I mean, hoylable is just one part of the perfect level.

I mean the thing he says in this comment is really true, TRUE ABOUT HOYLING!
And this is why im writing this article, to make sure that his article isn't 
about levelmaking, it's all about MAKING LEVELS THAT ARE HOYLABLE!

"If you play one of psy´s hard levs. You will find it almost impossible
to just even finnish it, and when you do finnish it a couple times you
will notice that your best-time and your second-best time may have
big differences. (example: best - 45.34 / second-best 58,90)
This wouldnt be REAL hoyling"

"But when you drive a very simple level [like warmup] where most people 
get the same time as you, you would wanna stand out as one individual and 
find the fastest style to beat the others. Its so tempting beacuse the
level is so easy and you cant resist of improving it a few seconds better 
while others only have improved by a few hundreds. And its often much 
easier doing this on these levels that is so easy to finnish, but hard to 
improve."

How could you say something like this..

"SUMMARY: EASY made levels whit DETERMED ways are more challanging
to beat than some hard tricky ones whit 30 different ways of driving."

...and then call your article "Levelmaking"

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The dude claims this...
"ExpreZz Ya SelFz iN Ya Levs, And ThaO shAll N0t bE Forgotten oVeR tiMe"

But the thing he was saying in his article was, make hoylable levels, screw
nice pictures.

I myself have nothing against BarTek, hell, we even play in the same team.
But i think that articles like his shouldn't even be published. It disgusts me.

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Ali Dorani AKA nemo^, nem0r-
2001-12-09