Atomic Suberb

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5.2
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2
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249
Date uploaded:
15 Dec 2002 at 05:00

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Atomic Mike (More uploads by Atomic Mike)
Type
Battle
Version
1.23
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Atomic Suberb.j2l Atomic Suberb 4.38 kB 15 Dec 2002
Suberbia.j2t Suberbia 36.25 kB 15 Dec 2002

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This is my first creation using my Suberbia Tileset. It is a battle level. Check it out!

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User Reviews (Sort by Helpful Index or Date Posted) Average: 5.2

Review by American

Posted:
Posted more than 20 years ago
I might as well work here (708 Points)
Number of reviews with ratings577 Featured reviews5 Average helpfulness85%
Rating
5.2

Since you released the tileset about five minutes ago, I consider this a demo level. Here’s my review of the tileset:
Tilesets made in the fairly rudementary Microsoft Paint program normally fall into one of three categories: absolutely awful with no effort, an honest attempt but still not very good, and adequate for a tileset but an amazing masterpiece for an MS Paint tileset. To truly make a worthwhile tileset in MS Paint requires time, patience, and a whole lot more ability to not pull your hair out than I will ever posess. Suberia, which sounds like it could be a planet out of nearly any space game ever created, is a fairly simple tileset. If you have ever reviewed many tilesets made in Paint, you’ll know that simple is what to expect. The entire tileset itself occupies 34 32-pixel lines but is followed by annoying stencil remnants that at least take up double the room the tileset does (removing these to reduce filesize would have been welcome, especially if you are going to host levels with this tileset often.) Included are some nice-looking general purpose colored blocks and ground that suspiciously resembles grandmother’s banana bread. The green sucker tubes look acceptable, but without textures or anything complicated don’t look professional. Blue mountains that look similar in quality (pretty lame but acceptable in MS Paint) to Blade’s mountains in Aztec are there if you so desire mountain-y layer seven eyecandy. Street lights add an interesting touch to the tileset, which is obviously going for a city look. In fact, if you look at the tileset long enough, it almost looks like some cartoony MS Paint version of Toxic Bunny’s War Torn Night tileset (a la Distopia) minus the war torn part. Then there are some Mario-ish transfer tubes that are way to narrow to suffice for anything other than eyecandy. Then there is a block that literally has “warp” written all over it. This is followed by a collection of letters and symbols for printing out your bids of worship to the Snufuss. A shameless clan ad for backgrounds of tunnels that look sort of like spraypaintings adorn the bottom of this tileset, followed by the blue versions of the mountains earlier in the tileset. While I doubt that it will be used much beyond Atomic Clan levels, its not the word MS Paint tileset that there ever was. Still, it’s an MS Paint tileset and not an amazing one at that. I have always had trouble rating MS Paint-made tilesets because they all have that cartoony look, but this one is fairly clear. My rating for this tileset is a 5.7. It may not be graphically amazing or textured like tilesets made in PSP or Photoshop, but it does have a nice homely feel. Worth a download if you’re interested in MS Paint tilesets, but everyone else probably will not be missing much.

LEVEL:
Now, as exciting as a battle in the suburbs of Anytown, USA sounds, I can’t say this battle level is much to get excited over. The level itself is fairly smallish, but does not exactly feel constricting. The top of it consists of land area while the bottom is water (yeah, a lake below a suberb…sounds realistic, don’t you think?) The flow of the level is pretty good in the land areas, but obviously it’s hard to say much for nearly empty water areas. Near the bottom of the water area is a small building (suburban shipreck) consisting of a room with a seeker powerup. Ammo placement is actually fairly good, and whatever layout there is is not bad at all. However, I can’t say that I like this level much, mainly because of its diminuitive size. This is good for a demo level, but not good enough to warrant a completely seperate J2O upload. I give this level a score of five point two. It’s not bad, but really not anything special. It should have been included with the original tileset download instead of being featured seperately. Instead of just downloading this and the tileset seperately, download this and rate the tileset. This is a good example of a demo level, but little more.

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Review by Atomic Mike

Posted:
Posted more than 20 years ago
CTF Bug (0 Points)
Number of reviews with ratings0 Featured reviews0 Average helpfulness0
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lol, actually that was a better review than i expected. anyway, the part about the huge amount of extra unused tiles at the bottom of the tileset, i fixed that and had the tileset end right after the green background mountains.

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