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Vel'Cheran of Persia [work in progress]

Posted: July 14th, 2021, 6:56 pm
by VelCheran
Hi everyone,

A few time ago, I started the creation of a mod of my own. I'm not done yet but I wanted to share the first seven levels with you. It's available there.

The main idea of the mod is to provide at least to ways in each level: a glitchless one and another one which requires a glitch to go through. The glitch way is intended to be the fastest one (otherwise it would be useless :D ). Sometimes they diverge during the whole level, sometimes only for a very small part of the level.

Don't hesitate to test it and tell me if it's fun or not. I included a SDLPoP exe to make it easier to discover, of course when you know it I guess it's funnier to play it without quicksaves ;)

Re: Vel'Cheran of Persia [work in progress]

Posted: August 2nd, 2021, 1:37 pm
by Akruzen
Hey there Vel'Cheran!

Nice levels. Though I couldn't finish level 1 yet :D

Here are levels 2 and 3:



Edit: Fixed the embed video -- ATPFF

Re: Vel'Cheran of Persia [work in progress]

Posted: August 2nd, 2021, 2:02 pm
by atrueprincefanfrom18
princeomkar wrote: August 2nd, 2021, 1:37 pm Hey there Vel'Cheran!
Nice levels. Though I couldn't finish level 1 yet :D
Here are levels 2 and 3:
[video]
Nicely done! :)
Glad to see I am not the only one using Quicksave and Quickload ;)

Re: Vel'Cheran of Persia [work in progress]

Posted: August 2nd, 2021, 2:26 pm
by Akruzen
atrueprincefanfrom18 wrote: August 2nd, 2021, 2:02 pm Nicely done! :)
Glad to see I am not the only one using Quicksave and Quickload ;)
I think it's still acceptable to use it since they are not cheats, and main purpose of custom levels are to "test" whether a player is able to pass it or not.. and not to check whether the player is capable of avoiding silly mistakes ;)

P.S. I actually started using quicksave and quickload after I saw couple of your videos :D

Re: Vel'Cheran of Persia [work in progress]

Posted: August 2nd, 2021, 5:56 pm
by VelCheran
I included SDLPoP so that players could discover my mod using quicksave/quickload.
When you know the mod enough, it's more interesting in my opinion to run it with DOSBox from start to finish, but everybody plays as he prefers ;)

Re: Vel'Cheran of Persia [work in progress]

Posted: August 2nd, 2021, 6:16 pm
by VelCheran
princeomkar wrote: August 2nd, 2021, 1:37 pm Hey there Vel'Cheran!

Nice levels. Though I couldn't finish level 1 yet :D

Here are levels 2 and 3:

[video]
Very interesting. Was it your first playthrough of it?
A few thoughts:
  • you were not supposed to avoid drinking that green potion at the beginning of level 2, but I'm not sure if I want to correct this because that was clever.
  • I didn't think about this glitch at 2:37, well done!
  • Very cool fight against the last purple guard on level 2 :)
All in all, you didn't always take the quickest paths so that leaves you something to discover, but well played. I have to say I'm happy you died in some of my traps :D

Thanks for your video. I guess level 1 is a bit too hard for a first level, but once you understand how to get out of the initial maze it gets easier to beat.

Re: Vel'Cheran of Persia [work in progress]

Posted: August 3rd, 2021, 4:09 am
by atrueprincefanfrom18
VelCheran wrote: August 2nd, 2021, 6:16 pm I guess level 1 is a bit too hard for a first level, but once you understand how to get out of the initial maze it gets easier to beat.
Really? Ok, then let me try ;)
princeomkar wrote: August 2nd, 2021, 2:26 pm P.S. I actually started using quicksave and quickload after I saw couple of your videos :D
Thanks man! :)

Re: Vel'Cheran of Persia [work in progress]

Posted: August 3rd, 2021, 6:59 am
by atrueprincefanfrom18
Level 1:



Re: Vel'Cheran of Persia [work in progress]

Posted: August 3rd, 2021, 7:00 am
by atrueprincefanfrom18
Level 4:



Re: Vel'Cheran of Persia [work in progress]

Posted: August 3rd, 2021, 8:40 am
by Akruzen
Level 4 and 5:



I also found a faster way to solve level 5:


Re: Vel'Cheran of Persia [work in progress]

Posted: August 3rd, 2021, 8:44 am
by Akruzen
atrueprincefanfrom18 wrote: August 3rd, 2021, 7:00 am Level 4:
I think we both used a shortcut and a longcut :D
If we combine our shortcuts together I think we can pass this level under 2 minutes :)

Re: Vel'Cheran of Persia [work in progress]

Posted: August 3rd, 2021, 9:09 am
by atrueprincefanfrom18
princeomkar wrote: August 3rd, 2021, 8:40 am I also found a faster way to solve level 5:
Voh! Great job! :lol:

Re: Vel'Cheran of Persia [work in progress]

Posted: August 3rd, 2021, 6:34 pm
by atrueprincefanfrom18
Level 6 and 7:



Re: Vel'Cheran of Persia [work in progress]

Posted: August 5th, 2021, 11:45 pm
by VelCheran
Thanks a lot for your feedbacks!
I corrected level 5 right away when I saw Akruzen's video :lol: I also fixed level 4 so that you can't climb through the mirror anymore. About the other glitches that I didn't foresee, that was well played. I'm a bit disappointed you broke my final puzzle on level 7 but that's life I guess :mrgreen:

Re: Vel'Cheran of Persia [work in progress]

Posted: August 6th, 2021, 2:54 pm
by Akruzen
Just a suggestion for you VelCheran,
I think you can make next levels more visually appealing like levels 1 to 5. Like, it feels like prince is in the castle. But in level 6 and 7, though the level design is good, it feels like some tiles are placed in a void rather than a castle or dungeon. Just a suggestion, it's up to you :)