Random Stranger posted:

So there's a few problems here. The first is that I didn't understand the concept behind the level for my first two attempts. Using the enemies as a "code" is a solid idea, but it's tough to communicate in Mario Maker. It was your title that clued me in, but remember that not everyone playing speaks English. If you encountered this level but it was named "コードを覚えて" would you be able to figure it out? Removing the other background enemies so the code doesn't appear to just be part of the background, repeating the code several times so it's clearly something important, and doing something to draw attention to it like placing stars around it might help with this, but I'm not sure it would be completely effective.

Your method of controlling the player after the decision isn't great. The platforms are slow and because you need to hide the results I spent a lot of time on your level waiting around. And then punishing with death is always going to annoy a player. A better approach would be to send them backward.

The water at the bottom of the stage hinders your goal since I wound up in the water after a bad choice and could survive indefinitely. Just have it be a pit if you want to kill the player.

That said, the layout wasn't terrible and being able to take an idea and implement it is half the battle. So keep trying!

J-Spot posted:

Having trouble clearing stages? Can't tell a goomba apart from a super mushroom? I've got one thing to say to you:

Please Learn How to Play Mario!



Level ID: 1TF-C8F-YWG
Difficulty: Easy
Multiplayer friendly?: Yes

I wanted to challenge myself to make a stage that would fit in the easy classification that actually engages the player in some way. What I came up with is a tutorial stage for new players and children. It teaches all the basic SMB1 moves and power ups in a mostly risk-free setting. This is a remake of a MM1 level, but if you played it back then this one is refined with some stuff added to replace a mystery mushroom section. I'd love to hear impressions, especially if you've got any really young kids.

neonchameleon posted:

Am I missing something really obvious, or is the intended strategy after the first chomp and at the top of the hill mid-air sideways bomb excavation?

ultrachrist posted:

Is there a way to force an on/off switch to a different color?

So if I have part of a level above ground and then you go underground and then back above ground, I want the switch to be BLUE.

Which is easy for full clear since you go underground with it blue every time. But the check point is underground so if you start from the checkpoint and return above ground, you never touched the block initially and now it's red!!

Random Stranger posted:

Since you clearly want to make refinements, I'm going to run down a few things that made me go, "Huh," while playing:

• The checkpoint on the roof wasn't visible after climbing up initially. I might have missed it if I didn't compulsively get on top of everything.
  
• The invisible block with the p-switch isn't much fun. I found it, but unless the player knows that they're supposed to be looking for a switch they're more likely to stumble around there. If the block was visible it would still give people a challenge to hit and activate it.
  
• At the bottom of the shaft, the sloped edge scraped the top off the "pokey".
  

But it's pretty good. I'd give it a like and comment, but you seem like you're going to delete this version soon.

Mahoning posted:

Oh man, I just obsessed over beating two of Matt Thorson’s (creator of Celeste) levels.

The second one, Starlight Shells (PHP-GYT-VJG) nearly had me rage quitting. I went like 10-15 minutes only saying the word “motherfucker” out loud in different ways like that scene in The Wire.

Anyways, I finally beat it after probably 100 tries, which is about right since its clear rate is 1.46%.

DorianGravy posted:

I uploaded my third level: Crumbling Sky Cathedral (DD4-FKS-YHF).

Strange noises have been coming from the old Sky Cathedral. Go investigate. The passageway to the main hall is blocked by debris, but maybe you can find another way. I hope you're not afraid of heights!



I put more time into this level than my first two, so I'd love to hear some feedback. If you let me know what you think, I'd be happy to give a mini-review of one of your levels in return (just leave me your code). Mario Maker is fantastic.

The Lobster posted:

Dicked around and made this level, shouldn't be too hard. I'm aiming for Normal Endless as usual.

DarkLich posted:

Finally finished up the next SMV batch!

Help Im Alive posted:

Does it ever surprise anyone else how popular the SMB1 theme is?

In MM1 I thought it was because of the mystery mushrooms and IIRC SMB/NSMB were the only themes available when you first started, but it's still super popular in this one compared to like SMB3

potatocubed posted:

Do coins mean anything in SMM, or are they just there as jump guides and sky writing?

Rollersnake posted:

This... actually didn't take nearly as long to make as I thought it would, because the car handles very similarly to City Connection. I'm kinda shocked I managed to make a level that actually plays like the game it's based on, and I'm really curious to hear what City Connection fans (you exist, probably) think of this.

Everyone else—you all were dying to play a level that has the car and Meowser, right?!

Rollersnake posted:

...I have it out for snake block levels in general—I don't even like the official ones from Super Mario World, and I dunno if I'll ever play a level that changes my mind about them.

Rollersnake posted:

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Asema posted:

Not a big fan of the smaller thwomp right before the bigger thwomp but that's just me running past it on the first read and not dealing with it again.

Nep-Nep posted:

For this level I decided to intentionally make the worst level I could. I didn't want to make a level that was just hard or unfair or full of walls of enemies or whatever. I do promise that nothing like that is in this level. While there are a few invisible coinblocks, they don't softlock you or kill you or make you do large level portions over. I can't be 100% certain but I'm fairly sure there's no way to softlock in this level at all Unless you do the one really obvious foolish thing that is fairly telegraphed as a bad choice. There is also a death pit but it's like 3 seconds into the level and you'd have to choose to walk into it.

However, this is a bad level. I designed it to be as unfun as possible. There are checkpoints, but if you mess up and run out of time or do manage to die, you'll pretty much have to start over, because both checkpoints are at the beginning, to show my sincerity, in that I had to clear check this piece of garbage 3 times, not including general playtesting.


Super Bad Levelio World 2 1-1
CP3-0GL-7VF

Should you play this, I hope you get whatever it was you were looking for out of the experience, and I'm sorry in advance.

In Training posted:

You can always hit the Retry button.

In Training posted:

Well then here it is!

HCM - Spike's Snowy Vacation
5KB-R9K-XDF