I think this is the best video to sell this game. Shows how much fun you can have even with little stupid ideas
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Super Mario Maker level design layouts and ideas
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Saw that a few days ago. Utterly fantastic... Now I wish custom sounds were included when you upload a level...
Probably silly question but he didn't mention how he did it and this is the first time I notice something like this...
At the start of the levels, there are a lot of bushes under the bridge section.
You can copy/paste them as you please? Are other enviroment objects available to do the same?
If so, that's really cool. Levels will look more lively.
You have to earn stars to upload more levels. Would be nice that earning a certain amount of stars would then allow you to upload custom sounds because you've shown evidence of being a good level designer.
But I'm just bummed that sharing them with friends isn't an option.
But I'm just bummed that sharing them with friends isn't an option.
Oh my god I started choking from laughing so hard.
OmegaDL50
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This would be nice to know. It would be cool to assign numerical health values to an enemy.
Like Bowser Jr. needing 6 or 9 stomps to beat instead of the usual 3.
TheMoon
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Safe bet is: no.
Simbabbad
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Those are vines (you can climb) and fire flowers, that is, gameplay elements. You can't edit background elements. But it shows how pretty levels can get when you're clever, Josh's levels are gorgeous.
The way the Goomba growls when getting out of the pipe can't be a coincidence lol. He must have done that before.
It's a shame custom sounds aren't allowed online, even if it's understandable. Would be nice if Nintendo could just monitor that and reject levels with custom sounds that are inappropriate, but I guess that could be a full time job lol.
petethepanda
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Linkstrikesback
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At which point they just quit your level. That's pointlessly mean. Don't do it if you want people took like your level at all.
Not that we know of. But I think the 10/100 Mario Challenges and Miiverse are going to be the way people play this game outside of creating.
VGChampion
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I'm sure it's been answered but I'm probably just searching for the wrong thing because I can't find it. Can you have multiple custom sound effects in a level or just one? Watching the Giant Bomb video above it looked like there was only one spot for the bird audio cue but I'm really hoping we can have a few.
No better way to get 0 stars.
KittenMaster
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I had an idea of using a conveyer belt (moving Mario's desired direction) and a para koopa troopa constantly jumping, which makes it land on the conveyer belt and pushes it back a bit, causing the flying koopa troopa to constantly jump in a loop.
Also using spinies or beetles that fall from the ceiling to land on the conveyer belts to launch them at you.
Also using spinies or beetles that fall from the ceiling to land on the conveyer belts to launch them at you.
I would say that's cruel and unusual....but then I remember World 8-4(for smb and lost levels) and world D-4 pulled this crap. One with invisible blocks that trapped you so you had to choice but to use the pipe lol.
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I said bushes tho
How did he manage to stack a bunch of them in the same area when in a "normal" level they're so few and far between.
Same can be said about the trees.
TheMoon
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I said bushes tho
How did he manage to stack a bunch of them in the same area when in a "normal" level they're so few and far between.
Same can be said about the trees.
background graphic flourishes like that appear randomly but if you copy the tiles they are on, they will be copied as well which is how you can kind of put them where you want them.
Thank you. That's what I was asking.
I think I saw in an earlier video that bushes and stuff are randomly generated, but once they're generated you can drag them around as you please.
Looks like you can only have one custom sound in a level. In the full Giant Bomb video, they try recording a second sound, and it replaced all existing instances of the first sound in the level.
Sir_Crocodile
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That's so cool - a way of adding even more elements without further cluttering the menu, just like with the shaking elements feature.
good job nintendo
I was planning on doing a few levels based on other Nintendo games, so it's unsurprising but a tad irking to see DK and Metroid already done, not to mention a shooter. They're all probably better than what I'll come up with, but should be a laugh finding out. I've had a few other ideas that haven't popped up yet, so fingers crossed.
I have not seen anyone doing that but I'll take your word for it.
Everyone seems to only focus on spamming objects without actually messing with the level itself.
perfectchaos007
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The twitch and youtube stars are going to be stealing your dreams and ideas until September 11th.
TheMoon
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I think it was mentioned in one of the two GameXplain Q&A videos released over the weekend. I watched too many SMM videos recently ...can't keep track where which little nugget was mentioned
speaking of which: in the most recent IGN Live thing (another 2h) Jose made a level with just 100 seconds and overshot the timer while tapping to lower the limit so he went to 90 before correcting to 100. So that confirms you can go below 100 seconds. Still no final word (that I've seen) on going over 500 though.
Oh, no doubt, but live in hope and all that. Incidentally, does anyone know if it's possible to make a flying enemy hover in one spot rather than going up and down? Obviously you could just put a red koopa on a single block, but that ruins the illusion a bit. I'm wondering how possible it would be to do Bopopolis-style sections.
TheMoon
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Very possible. That's one of the easiest things to do since Mario uses the same kind of alternate height jump via button press that DKCR/TF do.
It'd be ONE level, and as long as the difficulty is fair going through it again should not be seen as something terrible
The Technomancer
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I think it was mentioned in one of the two GameXplain Q&A videos released over the weekend. I watched too many SMM videos recently ...can't keep track where which little nugget was mentioned
speaking of which: in the most recent IGN Live thing (another 2h) Jose made a level with just 100 seconds and overshot the timer while tapping to lower the limit so he went to 90 before correcting to 100. So that confirms you can go below 100 seconds. Still no final word (that I've seen) on going over 500 though.
Metroid level creator says you can't go over 500
TheMoon
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are we 100% sure he had everything unlocked already?
I think it was mentioned in one of the two GameXplain Q&A videos released over the weekend. I watched too many SMM videos recently ...can't keep track where which little nugget was mentioned
They first showed it during one of the treehouse streams at E3: https://youtu.be/psXWPU_qNoM?t=11m41s
VGChampion
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Dang, was really hoping for a few slots. One slot only means either place a ton for abuse or very, very sparingly so as not to be annoying. I know it's local only but still.
TheMoon
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You could think up lots of bizarre things by combining enemies with items and maybe boxing them into small enclosures. A big flying chain chomp can be scary as shit in tight spaces.
Ah, neat!
I think it's something most have just forgotten and only Josh has really been using in his levels.
Treehouse Live demonstrated moving a flower back during E3 https://youtu.be/psXWPU_qNoM?t=11m42s
EDIT: And he does mention bushes and flowers and how you may or may not want them to clutter the field so you have that option to move them or get rid of them.
As others have alluded to, I'm concerned about 99% of user created levels just trying to be as crazy as possible or having some gimmick. Not that there is no place for that at all, I just really hope there are a decent number of people trying to create tightly designed, balanced levels that would fit in a good Mario game. Not sure how good I'll be at designing levels, but this is the direction I want to go. I'd like to create something that would be fitting in a retail game.
ErrorMacro
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The no custom sound part is understandable, although I feel like a simple community flagging for inappropriate sounds could solve it.
The potential for funny levels with custom sounds would bem simply to big.
The potential for funny levels with custom sounds would bem simply to big.
Emperor Bohe
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yeah, I seriously hope that Nintendo allows us to hear custom sounds. Allow us to turn them on or off if you must.
ShockingAlberto
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I imagine at some point that becomes an issue of copyright more than the inevitable racism and other slurs.
Elfforkusu
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UncleSporky
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A true exercise in frustration would be to use all the space available to make identical rooms of pipes, like 6 on the ceiling, 6 on the floor, every pipe takes you to another random room but only one pipe somewhere takes you to the end.
There would be hardly any way of knowing which room you were in. Some games do this sort of thing and you can trust that "wrong" pipes would send you back to the beginning, but what if you weren't?
There would be hardly any way of knowing which room you were in. Some games do this sort of thing and you can trust that "wrong" pipes would send you back to the beginning, but what if you weren't?
It's a shame you can't make signs of any sort, as I've been pondering the possibility of making a level where you reach the end and would have the (signposted) option of going back to the beginning with maybe a new item or something and playing through the level in a different way or accessing a new path. Not pretending it's a great idea, but it's something I've been thinking about.
demosthenes
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I like how you think.
perfectchaos007
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In SMB2, you could take a pipe that sent you back to the beginning of the game. I think it was world 4-1 where there's a pipe that sends you back to 1-1
ErrorMacro
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Now this is a difficult issue to address that barely anyone seem to remember.
Was this a problem for any other game with huge ammounts of customization and sharing (such as LBP)?
You could think up lots of bizarre things by combining enemies with items and maybe boxing them into small enclosures. A big flying chain chomp can be scary as shit in tight spaces.
Ah, neat!
True, yeah that's what I mean. More of an obstacle boss like bowser smb1 was.