Healy's Journal

Heya, peeps! I've been working on a new Knytt Stories level for Fubaka's Epic Level Competition on the Nifflas boards. It is tentatively called "Sleeping Pills" (because it takes place in a dream world, you see) and I got about 14 screens done this week, not counting repeats. They're all in the same area, a kind of gloomy town. I hope to get started on a new area by the end of next week. Here are a couple screens:

The past couple of weeks I have just been lazing around, not doing much of anything that would prevent me from updating my blog. And I'm sorry about that! BUT: I do have an excuse for last week. Kinda. Sorta.

For it was right around then that I was putting the finishing touches on... Juni in the Haunted House! *lightning crash*


Anyway, JitHH is another Knytt Stories level, this time a harder, mazier level about exploring (and maybe escaping) a haunted house. It's got thrills! It's got chills! It's got 4 endings and a They Might Be Giants tune you can listen to, if you play your cards right. Finishing up this level was a pain and a half, and it really drained my energy towards the middle of last week, when I was working on it final areas. But it's done now, and you can download and play it! Provided you already have Knytt Stories, of course.

Anyway, this week I hope to put this blog back on a normal schedule. Hopefully I can get Currently Reading Wednesdays on time, too. See you then!

I regret to inform you all that Currently Reading Wednesdays, our weekly book review feature, has once again been postponed to Friday. To make up for it I will be reviewing three things by then, as usual. In the meantime, you might want to try one of the following things:

Try my new Knytt Stories level, House Key
Try the selection of games on nitku's Hugo Online Interpreter
Watch one of my favorite ASMR videos
Check out the meme-game-thing in this post, which is still ongoing
All of (or none of) the above

Hi! I don't know if you guys knew this about me, but every now and then I create new levels for Nifflas's Windows platformer game Knytt Stories. Today I just finished a new Knytt Stories level called A Visit to Grandmother's, and you're all invited to play it! It's a short-and-easy level that focuses more on exploration and environment than challenge. You can download the level from the official Knytt Levels archive here, or from this alternate link over here.

If you don't have Knytt Stories, you can download it from the creator's site here. Then, when you first start up Knytt Stories, you click the "Install Level" option on the main menu (you should see a screen with a bunny on it). Drag and drop the .bin file onto the game screen, and things should go smoothly from there. If you haven't played Knytt Stories before you might want to try the tutorial before playing this game, although I tried to make it very easy even for a total beginner. Remember that you jump using the "S" key!

Here are the songs used in the game:
"Mellotron" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

"Two-Headed Dinosaur Main theme" and "Intro 2" by Ben Bartlett
(Tracks available here)
Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/