...that was the point. It's jumbled text. I'm being a tease.

Pic of the Week - Week 27



Pipes actually have quite a significance in this hack. They're your primary use of transportation, thanks to limitations. In previous hacks, the I rarely used pipes as a platform instead of an entrance. I decided to mix that up a bit by making a Pipe Maze in the sky world. Where you drop in in the maze depends on which Pipe you used to gain entrance!

Pic of the Week - Week 28



Chain Chomps are a lot like dogs. It looks like this one can hear the barks of another Chomp through that pipe. Is that why he's more eager for the pipe than Mario?



Thanks! I'm aware of the bugs. I will try to make sure the full hack will have no bugs!



That wouldn't be very fair, so no. But curiosity does kill the cat.

The overworld is currently 22% complete. Overall, I can't really say. I don't know for sure how much content the extra areas will have, but it will be fairly large. I'd guess the hack is about 12% complete right now. Production will speed up a lot after the open world is finished, because I'll get to go back to classic linear level design.

Today, not one, but two Pics of the Week!

Pics of the Week - Week 29



Mario's getting pretty high up in the sky, it seems! Let's hope he has a way of getting down without falling to an untimely demise.

Actually, it would be pretty handy to have a way to get to places faster, wouldn't it?

I'm thinking of adding a cloud FG effect in the sky areas to desaturate the look of the tileset without having to actually modify it. They're high quality rips, and I fear if I edit them externally and re-import them, there'll be color loss and it won't look so great.

With Mushrooms.

Pic of the Week - Week 30



Ropes! Because if there's anything that should belong inside a hollow tree- it's man-made ropes!

Video game logic.

I've officially met the 25% milestone for the overworld development. Let me show you just how much that is.



This image represents the full overworld, downscaled to a small degree. The white area represents the content that you were able to access in the demo build from earlier this year. The light grey represents the content that I've currently completed for the overworld- and the darker grey represents the remaining space I still need to fill.

As you can see, I've been working on the top-right corner of the overworld, which contains Sky and Forest biomes, but also features Grassland, Mountain, Underground, Tropical and Tree areas. When I get to work on the next quarter, I'll be going counter clockwise with the bottom right corner, which focuses on Beach and Ocean, and includes a portion of the Cave biome.