What's the longest time it has taken you to build a level?

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What's the longest time it has taken you to build a level?

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I've just finished building level 21 of The Countdown, it took me 3 months. Even though my first level (Brimstone research lab RL1096) took me a just a week.
What is the longest time it took to build a level for everyone else? Just curious.
I bet you are all expecting good things from level 21 now :P
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Re: What's the longest time it has taken you to complete a level?

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D2 lvl 15 took me about 30 hours because I couldn't figure out a way to defeat the Ice Boss. I eventually opted for sitting in the doorway that leads to the exit and sniping him. Super frustrating, and I still have to do that most times.
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Lucky there's cloak close by before entering the Ice Boss domain. Two secret doors at the top of the red arrows has a few shield orbs and a cloak.

The level 7 boss in Descent 1 took me a long time to beat at first.
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Re: What's the longest time it has taken you to build a level?

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To build a level, that would be Anthology without a doubt - looking at the timestamps of the various work-in-progress files, it seems to have taken a little over two years.
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Months.
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Hard to say for a specific level, but I've got a small pack I've been working on for Overload almost since that game came out -- partly because I kept interrupting it to build other levels for the two community DLCs and JosheM's challenges, and partly because my free time situation isn't really what it used to be and conceptualizing + building out spaces for the sort of setpiece-based design I'm going for takes a fair amount of energy.

I'm well-over halfway through now though :) Not giving up on this one.
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Re: What's the longest time it has taken you to build a level?

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Probably months, considering I had to learn the entire editor while doing it. It was fun though
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Re: What's the longest time it has taken you to build a level?

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On the other hand, the level that took the shortest time to build was my first one, Brimstone research lab RL1096, with almost a week.
Currently working on Descent: The Countdown Level 22 (Ogep'rgs) (Geometry)
Descent: The Countdown
Normal levels done 21/27
Secret levels done 2/3
Next level to be done: Level 23 (IO Sulphur Refinery)
The grand collection (Only after Descent: The Countdown)
??? ?/?
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Note
Any levels I make are free to use (even redesign) and include in any mission set. Just pm me if you going to do so.

Descent levels be like
Ah yes
Enslaved squares
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