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All To Get Her

Guide two girls through a puzzle-platformer dungeon in their quest for the ultimate reward. (Solo or two-player co-op!) · By vgperson

Rescue the Princess (custom dungeon)

A topic by Stelliferous created Sep 11, 2017 Views: 683 Replies: 2
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Princess Asha has been kidnapped by an evil king and locked away in a tower, and it's up to the brave knight Brooke to rescue her!

One notable  feature of this dungeon is that Asha and Brooke are separated for almost the entirety of the dungeon, until the very final level - this leads to what I think are very different types of puzzles and a different overall feeling compared to the original game.  Let me know what you think!


Also, several puzzles take place across multiple screens, which, while interesting, can cause some levels to be impossible to complete even with rewinding, if the player makes a mistake and crosses a level border. I've noted some common situations that could cause this issue in parentheses after the level names.  However, the  penultimate level and the one before it are particularly strongly intertwined - to the point where they're practically one double-long level - and so it's especially easy to permanently mess up on those levels. Because of this, I've prepared an alternate version of this dungeon that starts you at the pre-penultimate level, but is otherwise identical. If you reach these levels and find you've made it impossible to continue, you can use this alternate dungeon to pick up where you left off, if you like.


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The engine sure is not designed for some of this stuff (I'd have to add lots, including letting Rewind cross levels, to properly accomodate this kind of design), but your efforts are commendable. I couldn't figure out some of the later puzzles, but there are some very clever tricks ard dungeon design here.

I had to keep things the way they were in the main game because each level ultimately has to be self-contained enough to beat no matter what state you reach it in, even if you use Restart, or else you could get stuck (and for the purposes of time trials, too). And it's hard to force a split when the girls don't start out split; making Brooke Berserk away is the easiest way, but that doesn't show up until late. A few levels do it, but it's risky to have it span multiple levels if there's a chance of getting on the wrong sides. So yeah, that's an advantage of custom dungeons.

I definitely wouldn't expect the game engine to cover some of these strange mechanics, haha! Some of them felt particularly weird or had almost hacked-together solutions (bridge builder is very buggy and hard to get to cooperate,  and the solution to Brooke's wood block puzzle on W. Tower F1 feels practically like cheating once you do get it), but I felt like they were interesting enough to include anyways. W. Tower F2 and F3 are probably the hardest just because there's a pretty specific sequence to do things in, and the level can break pretty easily if you miss a step.

Doing a split like this in the main game definitely would be pretty hard. One issue I had a lot when designing was forcing them to stay split even with access to bombs and the destroy magic - in several levels I ended up having to use switches and iron blocks as "indestructible blocks"...having stuff like that hanging around the main levels would confuse a lot of players, I'm sure.