You could upload an unfinished version of it, and get people's feedback before editing/extending it.
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Super Mario Maker |OT| Miyamoto Simulator 2015
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You could upload an unfinished version of it, and get people's feedback before editing/extending it.
If i have a chance I (or someone else) could help you test it. Just upload it, have people play it, and then delete it. Rinse and repeat.
I've made a few levels just like that if you want to see how I approached them:
9B89-0000-003F-247B
6CE8-0000-0046-29D9
5293-0000-003A-7E9E
All three of those involve entering castles/buildings/caves and exploring them. It's a lot of fun to design levels like that, but requires a whole bunch of testing.
You plough your way through a few 100 Mario Challenge stages.
One, an automated level. Another features obvious jumps with invisible blocks blocking you.
Frustrated you carry on, with hope that this time, this time it will be a good level. You hold your breath as the stage loads into view. It's a NSMBU stage. Several stacks of giant Bowsers and Bowser Jrs block a flag pole that is right in front of you. There are countless giant Koopa Troopers and Goombas with wings filling every available space. There is a single ? Block containing a Star on the otherwise completely flat stage.
Upon completion you see the stage has one million stars. You load up your own carefully planned and designed stage and stare at it's one star and .07% completion rate.
Slowly, with a dead look in your eyes, you begin to drag every possible enemy onto the level and make them giant. You place an amiibo constume in every avaiable block. You rename your course "dank mario meme run". You hit upload.
Two seconds later, your stage has over two thousand stars.
This is Mario Maker.
One, an automated level. Another features obvious jumps with invisible blocks blocking you.
Frustrated you carry on, with hope that this time, this time it will be a good level. You hold your breath as the stage loads into view. It's a NSMBU stage. Several stacks of giant Bowsers and Bowser Jrs block a flag pole that is right in front of you. There are countless giant Koopa Troopers and Goombas with wings filling every available space. There is a single ? Block containing a Star on the otherwise completely flat stage.
Upon completion you see the stage has one million stars. You load up your own carefully planned and designed stage and stare at it's one star and .07% completion rate.
Slowly, with a dead look in your eyes, you begin to drag every possible enemy onto the level and make them giant. You place an amiibo constume in every avaiable block. You rename your course "dank mario meme run". You hit upload.
Two seconds later, your stage has over two thousand stars.
This is Mario Maker.
Conor_Fool
Banned
Question regarding unlockable costumes:
Is the limit of costumes set to 20 on easy 100 mario challenge, 40 on medium and 40 on expert? Cause if so...it's gonna be a while. Took me a good hour plus to beat expert, but at least with the skip option you can find some pretty awesome levels
Is the limit of costumes set to 20 on easy 100 mario challenge, 40 on medium and 40 on expert? Cause if so...it's gonna be a while. Took me a good hour plus to beat expert, but at least with the skip option you can find some pretty awesome levels
AcademicSaucer
Member
This level A5D7-0000-0047-2A68 is amazing , is a Super Mario World level about saving Yoshi .
UncleSporky
Member
I made a quick video about a pretty difficult castle level that I played the other day. No commentary or anything, but I could look into doing that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9B4oPesY7k
If anyone wants me to give their levels a shot and maybe record some of them, let me know and I'll take a stab at it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9B4oPesY7k
If anyone wants me to give their levels a shot and maybe record some of them, let me know and I'll take a stab at it
KodeAndGame
Member
So I decided I'd try to write something that would pick levels from this thread to suggest to me. I'm not done, but in the process of writing this, I got some fun data for you all. At the last time I ran my script, I had:
- 8349 posts
- 2964 posts with codes
- 4506 codes mentioned (non-unique)
- 2194 unique codes mentioned
i am just happy that even 20 people have liked any stage i've made. actually, i'm just happy to be designing platformer levels. like, actually doing it. this itself is a small dream come true.
SO I made this relatively simple level I think with piranahas and what I think are some cool jumps. Tried to do an increasing complexity and difficulty thing but I think it's still pretty simple as it goes further on.
I don't know how to get a picture of it off the WiiU but the ID is 6E28-0000-0047-4529 if anyone is willing to give it a look. Comments or criticisms are encouraged, it's only the first level I've ever tried to make.
Edit: Nevermind I figured it out.
I don't know how to get a picture of it off the WiiU but the ID is 6E28-0000-0047-4529 if anyone is willing to give it a look. Comments or criticisms are encouraged, it's only the first level I've ever tried to make.
Edit: Nevermind I figured it out.
In all seriousness though, I think that is the games best strength. It's just really fun to make levels. Mario fans have been crying out for something like this for years.
The game was always going to be swamped by rubbish stages like any UGC game, but so far this thread at least has had tones of great stuff.
Heck, even 100 Mario Challenge can surprise you (sometimes
).So I figured out why I've had a bumper haul of stars over the last 24 hours - Someone posted the video of my WarioWare course to reddit and it went down pretty well.
Well enough for me to get my next medal!
I'm having so much fun with this game. It feels like it was made with me in mind. I'm just finishing up a course that I'm really happy with. Watch this space!
Well enough for me to get my next medal!
I'm having so much fun with this game. It feels like it was made with me in mind. I'm just finishing up a course that I'm really happy with. Watch this space!
Same for me. Making the levels and see it all come together is what I like most about this game. Of course I'm happy when someone stars one of my levels, even if it's just a few people. Makes creating the levels even more rewarding.
I think the biggest reason I care about getting stars is because it directly affects how many levels I can have online at once. Luckily I surpassed the 50 stars required to get 10 more level slots before even putting up 10 levels.
But it does feel really good to know I've brought people some enjoyment through the levels that I had fun making in the first place.
UncleSporky
Member
Did you guys see this? Nintendo Life made a database for Mario Maker levels. You give them the name, the code, a summary, even the URL of the miiverse post and they grab the preview screenshot!
Seems like a really good tool.
Seems like a really good tool.
Mine doesn't ♪ I went for a Hammer Bros, 2 Koopas and one Goomba, and a few platforms. And no one is stacked on someone else ♪ (well, I had in mind to make a mini-castle, and since we don't have the SMB3 mini-bosses and bosses, I went for that).
Conor_Fool
Banned
Nevermind... carry on.
When you have placed a mystery mushroom in the level, just press it and it should open the costume selection screen.
TheSlySoul
Member
Drag Mystery Mushroom from the toolbar, then tap it. You get a list of all things unlocked. Tap one you want and drag it on the mushroom to make it always that set skin.
Boy Wander
Member
OK, so I finished off my "You only live once!" stage and tweaked it so that the boss battle is 100% always winnable. I'm quite proud of this level though it's not typical Mario fare. In any case, I still don't think anyone has tried and commented on the full version. Will play anyones stages who give this a go and comment. I've also posted a revamped version of my "Whomps Stronghold" level to remove the falling goomba cheap kill. Next I think I may try a simple level or an autoscroller, which I'm guessing will be hard to get right.
You only live once!
7A2A-0000-0047-66C5
Whomps Stronghold (Redux)
B430-0000-0047-5D65
You only live once!
7A2A-0000-0047-66C5
Whomps Stronghold (Redux)
B430-0000-0047-5D65
I feel like I should comment on this one, since I did something similar in Boo's Inverted Haunt (DBF8-0000-0042-2E51).
I obviously got the idea right away, but that's because I've been thinking upside down (actually 180 degrees flipped) for a few days, so I'm biased here. The opening with the enemies in boxes is serviceable, but consider using coins. Lots of coins. Place coins on the ceiling above the first pipe, so when you flip it, Mario lands on the coins. Coins where Mario needs to be, both in normal and upside down versions, so the player will know when to flip. I feel like there should be more instances of using both sides of a platform, too. Also, be careful with instant kill pipes. If you want this, you need to have the player trust in your gimmick. Being apprehensive about using a pipe will break the flow of the level.
I do like that Goomba you get to drop off the world, I wanted to do one of those for my level, but I didn't want to use SMW Dry Bones, so I had to leave it out.
You could also consider limiting the stage height to the lower screen, as noted by the thick line in the editor. If nothing, and that's not even a single block, is above that line, the stage becomes locked vertically and will not scroll. That would make it easier to make the change noticeable.
But feel free to look at my take on the flipping level idea and see if there are any ideas there that might inspire you for your own.
Cool puzzles, but I got stuck after getting the giant shoe. I know I have to get a regular size shoe to advance, but couldn't find any working pipe to get back.
I haven't had a chance to play this yet (at work), but I just wanted to say I love what you've done with the aesthetics in the thumbnail! Creative use of the tileset.
Nocturnowl
Member
Oh yeah, I played this one yesterday and it was pretty good, I was stumped momentarily until I realised you could spring out of Kuribo's shoe like a sacrificial Yoshi jump.
I played your 1-1 last night and I just played through the rest. I really like your levels, the Mario 3 themed ones in particular feel very genuine and make me feel like I'm playing through Mario 3 for the first time again.
Skellig Gra
Member
How can I bring this to a friends house without re-unlocking everything? Is it possible to just bring the data on an sd?
Junahu
Member
Submission for the SMM-GAF Community Contest #1
Koopa Plateau 1 [46EB-0000-0046-D07B]
Nothing especially spectacular. The gimmicks are mushroom platforms, koopas and note blocks. Very low skill floor to complete the stage (There's one instance of needing to bounce off of a note block to reach a higher plateau). No running required, no jumping needed until the bonus room, only one pit you can reasonably fall into.
Getting the difficulty low enough to be playable but still being engaging is the hardest part of making levels. There's also the problem of the more skilled players taking blind jumps off of platforms. You have to make sure the level can adapt to being played hard and fast.
Koopa Plateau 1 [46EB-0000-0046-D07B]
Nothing especially spectacular. The gimmicks are mushroom platforms, koopas and note blocks. Very low skill floor to complete the stage (There's one instance of needing to bounce off of a note block to reach a higher plateau). No running required, no jumping needed until the bonus room, only one pit you can reasonably fall into.
Getting the difficulty low enough to be playable but still being engaging is the hardest part of making levels. There's also the problem of the more skilled players taking blind jumps off of platforms. You have to make sure the level can adapt to being played hard and fast.
Twilightzoney
Member
Okay well I wanted to see how much of the Kaizo layout stuff would work in Mario Makers physics surprisingly there can be stuff replicated from it somewhat. In some cases it makes it easier.
My first one where I was testing stuff out.
My newer one where I've added hidden shortcuts to make it easier for people. When I beat the level I didn't use the shortcuts but then again I was playing and testing it for a long while. Took a lot of set ups from the other Kaizo stuff to make this since I wasn't sure what kind of set ups I could do for this one. Now I learned new things.
Next level I make won't be ridiculous at all though. I'm gonna try something new. Spent like total of 9 hours testing these stages out. Crazy.
My first one where I was testing stuff out.
My newer one where I've added hidden shortcuts to make it easier for people. When I beat the level I didn't use the shortcuts but then again I was playing and testing it for a long while. Took a lot of set ups from the other Kaizo stuff to make this since I wasn't sure what kind of set ups I could do for this one. Now I learned new things.
Next level I make won't be ridiculous at all though. I'm gonna try something new. Spent like total of 9 hours testing these stages out. Crazy.
zeioIIDX
Member
So I searched the thread but did not find an answer and I'm kinda stumped. Exactly how does one leave a course comment at a specific point in a level? Every time I've tried leaving a comment, it's just a general Miiverse comment and I see no option to place a little marker in the level for my comment to show up at.
evilromero
Member
A great filter would be game type so I don't have to suffer any NSMBU levels.
Extremely confusing level. The first part seems pointless because you can just skip it with the clown car. After that I couldn't really figure out what I was supposed to do in the doors. Eventually I reached Bowser, blocked off by a giant bullet bill cannon. Tried all different things here but couldn't advance.
I liked your other level though!
I also have to quote this. I played all of your levels, including the new one. I really like them, it's awesome. I hope you create many more, I favorited you so I can find you easier. :3
ID5: Independence Dave DF8D-0000-0047-8487
The harrowing fifth installment of this season's sensation, Spiky Dave, is now live on Mario Maker. In a dramatic turn of events, Mario and Dave set aside their petty differences and join forces to defeat the alien menace, restore peace, and unite the world under one banner.
In Dave 5, we don't fight to end tyranny or oppression or persecution, but to avoid annihilation. We fight for our right to survive, to exist. So, this Fall, declare you won't go quietly into the night. Let this be your Independence Dave.
Boy Wander
Member
Thanks for playing. It's amazing how, because you're building a level and have a premise in mind, you assume everyone else will get what you were doing. Obviously not!
The clown car bit is supposed to be Agent Mario flying to Evil Bowsers Volcano base. It's a deliberate flying part. The rest is exploring the base. For the Bowser encounter
Depending on where you are determines where he fires at you. So you need to be up on the platforms so he disintegrates the blocks that hold the P switch. The P switch will then fall. Bowser will then, at some point, jump on the switch. This will cause the barrier to slowly lower. You can then either use a fire flower or take a bomb up to where the star is being held to finish off bowser and see the ending.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
NSMB is by far the best style.
Also I'm utterly shocked at the completion rate for my Yoshi stage. I thought I made it a super simple introduction to the concept but only one out of the four people that played it beat it. I shudder to think what the clear rate of a more complex stage would be.
TheSlySoul
Member
I hate NSMB Grasslands though, the theme is so annoying with the BAHs.