It's here, the 10th Anniversary of N++! To celebrate, we've updated the game (on Steam, consoles coming soon) with new super secret super hard Solo levels and some very hard multiplayer levels as well, plus 6 new colour schemes. Our little gift to you, to thank you for playing and for supporting us over the years! <3 The community of fantastically talented level creators has hand-picked these iconic levels to commemorate the occasion, and have this to say:
“Hey, game developers: If you want to make a gamer feel loved, ship your game with a built-in level editor. Fortunately for us ninjas, Metanet Software has always been feeling the love, since they've been shipping their games with level editors since before some of their fans were even born. Players took to N++'s mapmaker in droves as soon as the game was released, and we've been uploading maps ever since, with no signs of stopping. So what keeps players making N++ levels for ten years straight? Unlike other games with level editors, N++'s engine doesn't bog you down with texture alignment, ambient occlusion, color theory, subscription plans, or the 3rd dimension (which, as we all agree, should never have been added to video games). Instead, the reasonable constraints of the N++ engine reduce decision fatigue and allow mapmakers to focus on practical matters of gameplay and aesthetics. In N++, the player flows between prototyping and testing so smoothly that mapmaking becomes just another way to play the game. The mapmaker can even be your dojo. Stuck on the bottom right corner of S-E19-04? Remake it in the editor and practice at your leisure. The world's your oyster when you're mapmaking in N++. To celebrate TEN++, our intrepid review team traveled back in time to find unique levels from the early days of N++ mapmaking. A big thank you to NateyPooPoo and scottie1230 for writing the reviews below. Here's to ten more years!" -bigblargh
Thank you bigblargh, that is incredible to read. So much love to bigblargh, NateyPooPoo, scottie1230, xXCRAZYxWIZARDXx, Nahoj-PlusPlus, Vanjelis, SwarleyZ83, Arcanely, Billy_PhD, huystread and Ammonia_clouds for your submissions and writing! And now check out these awesome Featured maps: //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Name: Insanity v1 Author: xXCRAZYxWIZARDXx
I have made the journey of the endless scroll. I have delved into the vast, dark chasm of the ancient. I’ve sifted through three thousand levels to try and bring you the best of the best I could find.
But then I thought… Why only show you the brightest gems? Why not show you what it really was. Wipe off the unforgiving dust of eternity and show you a world that we once knew to be our own.
This is what we were. No unified mapping community to guide us, but thousands of proverbial monkey ninjas throwing entities at the screen just to see what would happen. Call it art, call it expression, call it awful even. Call it whatever you’d like, for it was certainly insanity and insanity pays no mind to your opinions. It only is. And in Insanity v1 it can be yours if you wish to experience it.
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Name: H3LL Author: Nahoj-PlusPlus
Whatever you do, do NOT tell Sony about the name of this level 🤫
————————————— Name: Isolation desolation Author: Vanjelis
A NUMA-esque experience fitting of N++'s early days. Built of aspects that remain timeless in the N zeitgeist. The harmony of structure and jagged rock. The puzzled explorational pathing. And the feeling that you are visiting a small piece of some other world.. some unknown corner in a realm of fever dreams.
————————————— Name: Any which way DDA Author: SwarleyZ83
The lore of the DDA has been reduced to an ancient and dusty tome in our modern era. Yet they were once integral to the fabric of the N-iverse, and as a result some of the best DDAs in N++ are found in these early transitional years.
For the uninitiated DDA stands for “Don’t Do Anything”. And if you are a good instruction-follower you will watch the level play itself. This one is especially clever as it is three DDAs in one. It works whether you press nothing, hold left throughout, or hold right throughout. Giving you a different show each time.
————————————— Name: FUN Author: Arcanely
It’s like Arcanely says exactly fifty times in this level… FUN.
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Name: Tube Town Author: Arcanely
Pneumatically actuated.. anti-gravitated.. speed acclimated.. flow activated.
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Name: Unfair Author: Ammonia_clouds ID: 30855
Mappers are always making these crazy levels then telling us that we have “skill issues” or that we just need to “get gud” and that their levels are actually “EZPZ grandma could do it with her eyes closed”. It’s nice to see a mapper step up for once and acknowledge their level for what it really is. To simply name the level after the word I say every time I die… "UNFAIR." Thank you ammonia_clouds, may others learn from your wisdom.
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Name: Poisoned Grove Author: Billy_PhD
A smoking chimney on a fragile cliff. A leap across a chasm. Climbing out of pits. This is the quintessential N userlevel universe.
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Name: Missile run Author: huystread
Whether you're sweeping through this level collecting gold and going for the highscore, or just making a dash for the exit, one thing is for certain - it’s going to be pure arcade non-stop action from start to finish.
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Name: Weasel Crime Patrol Author: ammmonia_clouds
In the bustling hedgerows, deep within the countryside, operated a ragtag crime-fighting team who were tasked with stopping a gang of thieving weasels. The team was made up of: a deathball who could sense and track movement through even the thickest of brambles, a laser drone whose time across the pond gave inspiration to a new tactic - laser first then questions later, and a floor guard who was happy to help. The trap was set, gold cleverly placed in clearings throughout the hedgerow, now all that was left was to wait and catch the gang of weasels sneaking off with it. However, unbeknownst to the team, gold doesn’t attract weasels, it attracts ninjas.. and they eat it.
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Want to play these levels? Awesome! All levels can be played from all platforms. First, you’ll need N++:
Nintendo Switch: https://www.nintendo.com/en_CA/games/detail/n-plus-plus-switch Xbox One: https://www.microsoft.com/en-CA/store/p/N-/BT33CHSSB89V Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/230270 PS4: https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/n-plus-plus-(n)/cid=UP2108-CUSA00041_00-NPPGAMENPPGAMENP Kartridge: https://www.kartridge.com/games/MetanetSoftware/n-nplusplus
Then from the Main Menu, just go to Browse, and choose the “Featured” tab. So easy! Of course the levels probably aren’t ;)
Want to suggest levels to feature, to make your own levels, or to enter design contests? Join the excellent community on discord: http://discord.gg/nplusplus
