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Super Mario Maker - Over 1 Million courses uploaded
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bobawesome
Member
It's a feature of the pixel Mario amiibo.
The first level took about 30 minutes. The second level took me 2 hours but my latest level took me around 23 hours. I get bored easily so when I say a "shit-ton" of effort. I mean it, lol.
I know Mario Maker is designed to let your imagination go wild. But I somewhat feel it's to promote Mario to audiences on YouTube and Social Media. Which is why theres lots of Auto and flashy glitch levels.
Bananastand
Member
It has weekly rankings so it shouldn't be to bad in the long run.
sixteen-bit
Member
Congrats on the milestone
Mysterious
Banned
Remember when people questioned if Mario Bros. games had a future after this? Well...
Honestly I feel many of the complaints in this thread could be replicated word for word by new entrants in the mobile market - "the most popular entries rely on gimmicks", "no one can see what I've put out there", "the top 10 stays the same and no one else can break in", "my popular stuff is popular for the wrong reasons", "99% of what's out there is crap", etc.
Not that these complaints aren't valid, but I think discoverability and sorting is just a problem in general for digital distribution platforms / marketplaces, and not specific to user-created content or Mario Maker. Hopefully Nintendo improves things with better search functions, but I wouldn't expect huge differences.
Not that these complaints aren't valid, but I think discoverability and sorting is just a problem in general for digital distribution platforms / marketplaces, and not specific to user-created content or Mario Maker. Hopefully Nintendo improves things with better search functions, but I wouldn't expect huge differences.
lwilliams3
Member
Wow, already? Nintendo may need to improve the search features very soon to sort all of those levels up.
thecouncil
Banned
edit: wrong thread!
Gotdatmoney
Member
Please God Community feature. 100 Man Mario on Expert is such garbage. Gaf has mad a lot of super good levels though.
test_account
XP-39C²
Why is the last clip of SMB blurry? Is that the retro filter?
If you press down, A & B when a level is starting up you can toggle a retro filter.
test_account
XP-39C²
Thanks. I guess that is why many of those level screenshots are so blurry?
DICKS AHOY
Banned
whenever a level starts with springs and/or the name of the course is in japanese and you're playing hard mode just swipe your butt out of there lest you just die a million times in stupid frustration
mario maker is literally teaching me to be a racist
mario maker is literally teaching me to be a racist
TheMoon
Member
No that's just how they look.
I'm curious to know what you mean by this in this context. I personally haven't had any trouble finding great courses whenever I've sat down with the title. I either sort through the top ranked courses (and the other courses made by those users) or play through the courses made by people that have gotten codes from directly.
There needs to be an easier way to find courses.
There needs to be a way to implement checkpoints.
There needs to be a way for a creator to link levels together, essentially creating their own worlds.
The game as it is feels too freeform. It feels like a blank canvas, a la Mario Paint. Great for artists, not so great for the players.
There needs to be a way to implement checkpoints.
There needs to be a way for a creator to link levels together, essentially creating their own worlds.
The game as it is feels too freeform. It feels like a blank canvas, a la Mario Paint. Great for artists, not so great for the players.
That video was amazing. The best is yet to come.I imagine he's celebrating the sales
I can't wait until Nintendo releases DLC level packs from their devs.
The top ranked seem to be a lot of auto plays or other game knockoffs. The thread is good too for codes, but say I want to sit down and play a random selection of courses that are at least aimed to be designed to fit into an actual Mario game, I'd like those to be easily found and selected.
Locking the costumes behind playing 100 Mario mode was the work of an evil son of a bitch too.
wild wild rice
Member
Maybe a way the maker or the community can tag the type of level it is? As in traditional, experimental, short, long, difficult, funny, autoscroll, etc.
I haven't had much luck coming across good stuff on 100 Mario challenge.
.Starwolf_UK
Member
I remember in Mario vs. DK games they would put out level templates with the idea you filled them so maybe a similar concept here perhaps limiting tools you can use too.
Btw, Mario vs. DK is just as bad when it comes to UGC. Tipping stars is way worse as imagine if in SMM you needed to earn coins to unlock level elements. Anyone who made levels full of coins would be starred like crazy.
The thumbnails are ass. In-game the graphics are sharp for better or worse.
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
And only a quarter of them are uploads of the tutorial 
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.Fair enough. =)
Sorry I came off as a jerk, there. I imagine when Nintendo designers create a level, they put a LOT of effort in. Predesign, draft, tweaking, cleaning up visual details, more tweaking, alpha, testing, beta, testing, etc. I imagine (because I have no idea) that this may take WEEKS.
So I bet you did out a lot of effort in that level (23 hours? Whew!) especially compared to the majority of the mario maker levels. It's unfair to compare you to the professionals at nintendo! Keep up the good work!
Magical Sound Shower
Banned
I love the game and the concept, but after a week of owning it, I'm getting REALLY tired of the gimmick levels. I wish there was a way to sort levels by types, like "serious level", "troll level", "autoplay". It's starting to kill my enjoyment of the game and willingness to publish my levels. Why should I spend time designing stuff and play-testing it only to upload it and have it ignored while super crap levels with 10 giant Bowsers and 200 flying koopas are super popular?
I uploaded a level two days ago and it got 3 (!) plays total. What's the point?
I uploaded a level two days ago and it got 3 (!) plays total. What's the point?
TheSlySoul
Member
Yeah, this game really has made me appreciate the NSMB games more.
I give Nintendo kudos because I could never make more than one world when I was developing platformers.
TheMoon
Member
Maybe the novelty of gimmick levels will wear off after a while. Right now everyone just wants to see the "crazy stuff" ...
I can definitely agree with this.
All good ideas. I guess we'll see if and how the platform develops.
Don't feel bad �� I didn't take it personally ��
Just remember that Nintendo also gets telemetry (Research) from play tests and Quality assurance.
EDIT: Also not 23 hours straight. Like around 10-12 hours over two nights
TheMoon
Member
"HOT LEAKED NUDES INSIDE"
level is SMW with only koopas and you have to "undress" them to get the shells and reach the goal
Charles Brandon
Member
It should be that you have to rate each level out of 5 for difficulty and 5 for quality
and then additionally, I like the idea that you can choose a tag.
It's academic though as all know Nintendo won't change anything
and then additionally, I like the idea that you can choose a tag.
It's academic though as all know Nintendo won't change anything
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
People bitching about bad levels in a create and share type game, are ridiculous, did you really expect a slew of great levels if there was a tutorial or better search function? they'll still be shit levels and especially since it hasn't even been a month yet since the game was released.. you guys are ridiculous lol
Charles Brandon
Member
Meh. Wouldn't make any odds. Lots of people are stupid, lots of people are twats, lots of people have no imagination. Making them sit through a video of Miyamoto won't change that.
I'm confident the quality will improve. People will get bored of shit levels, stop starring the same shit gimmicks and look for more satisfying levels, or just leave the community. Shit levels will eventually get ignored and deleted. People will get better at making levels or stop making them.
I'm confident the quality will improve. People will get bored of shit levels, stop starring the same shit gimmicks and look for more satisfying levels, or just leave the community. Shit levels will eventually get ignored and deleted. People will get better at making levels or stop making them.
...no. That post made no mention of community quality (well, it did, but said 'regardless of'...). They were talking purely about the speed at which certian numbers were reached. Took Mario maker a week to hit half of what LBP hit in 3 years.
captmcblack
Member
I love this game, and everyone I show it to loves it too - both the idea of making levels to challenge each other to beat, and the idea of playing new levels from other people that are fun and challenging.
I would love it if Nintendo had a Youtube channel showcasing quality levels, or even giving tutorials on how to make better levels too; that would increase the amount of good levels being played and shared.
I would love it if Nintendo had a Youtube channel showcasing quality levels, or even giving tutorials on how to make better levels too; that would increase the amount of good levels being played and shared.
TheMoon
Member
There's enough video material out there of Miyamoto and Tezuka explaining basic principles. Nobody gives a shit. Everyone just wants to throw everything into a blender and watch the madness.
WarioWare DIY was actually great at rating minigames, but you actually had to draw art, so it's not exactly analogous.
One thing I hope Nintendo does is inviting prominent developers to design levels. That's what they did with WarioWare DIY and most of them were briliant.
I imagine he's celebrating the sales
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The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
No-one should ever ever have expected otherwise. This game is worthwhile because of smaller sharing communities like our own thread. Fuck online user content uploading databases.
I imagine he's celebrating the sales
This is simply amazing, haha.
There's a manual, but nobody reads those things.
Calamari41
41 > 38
It's pretty easy to "curate" your own infinite well of quality levels. Even ignoring the NeoGAF community here, all you have to do is give stars to creators when you run across good levels. Check out some of the other levels they've created, and especially what they've given stars to as well. Follow the ones you feel are worth following. I've had good luck when assuming people that create quality levels will give stars to other people who create quality levels.
wild wild rice
Member
True, I'm pretty optimistic about Nintendo continuing to support and tweak the game.
TheMoon
Member
Noooo that's bad, that means YOU have to do work. We want the work done FOR US.
God, Nintendo y u so lazy.