Level 1 Design

After a couple of false starts, I've spent the last few days off and on using my screen editor 'ChillED' to construct a level for the game, set in the forest - since the original game starts in a forest, it seems appropriate for the sequel to as well?

No doubt the layout will change considerably due to circumstances I've not foreseen yet (probably to do with code or gameplay restrictions), but I'm fairly happy with what I've come up with.

Here is a little animation of how the level was built up; most of the stages are here, with only a few left out that only had minor differences from a previous save.

EDIT:  After posting this, I decided to use Photoshop to overlay some of the sprites on the current final version of level 1 and post on Twitter.  There seems to have been some pretty good feedback, with some nice responses!  Anyway, the image that was posted on Twitter is below and a link to the actual Tweet is here...

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