Ice Dodo - RADIANCE

Radiance - Map by Painkiller (me)
Difficulty 9
Sleepy Cup
Song: Gods and Glory by Christopher Larkin (Hollow Knight OST)
After 3 months of development, it's finally done.
Radiance, originally titled "Domine Avis" was my first ever hard map, save my about me map, which was a joke and turned out to be impossible when I made it, anyways. I have put a lot of work into this map, and it has seen a lot of changes; in fact, it looks entirely different from how it used to appear.
As you may have guessed, this is based on Hollow Knight - more specifically, Godhome, the dream realm home to the mythical godseekers, who attune to the gods of Hallownest to ascend to a higher realm of being. I got a little more creative with the editing, but recording the map ended up becoming a ridiculous mess for no reason, and I didn't have the interest in being more detailed.
self-critique time
Being the first difficult map I made, there were a LOT of issues with it. The gameplay, especially at the start, is just a bunch of generic killblocks. The infamous antigravity part has gone through a crazy amount of balancing, and it's still the hardest part of the map. I got more creative later on, starting with that part where you drop into the void, but that then became even harder than the antigravity, leading to more nerfs, and the frictionless part after with the wall pushing you forward ended up being rather gimmicky. I was also very nervous about the structure, because I for some reason believed that a map going straight forward was poor design, and I wanted the player to go backwards several times. This led to a lot of trouble with visuals after the antigravity...
Another issue was the recoloring. Domine Avis had this color scheme where it went from this crimson red to a strong pink, to a light shade of magenta, to pure white. I had a lot of creative freedom with what I did to color the map, whereas the recolor to fit Hollow Knight essentially just limited me to shades of gold, along with darker and lighter colors. I did my best, but much of the exciting colors that DA had were lost with Radiance.
Since making this, I have improved greatly in skill, which in turn has helped me to improve in making hard difficulty maps. I've made Cosmic Canyon, Ultimatum (teaser on its way! one day! i swear!), and now yet another big project on its way that I can't give much info about until progress is made with the Mayhem revamp. And, of course, more is coming soon.
If I ever get a cup, it'll be pure madness.
Until the map gets added, here is a link: tinyurl.com/RadianceIII
When it gets added, it'll be in Sleepy Cup.
Thank you!

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