Ends 04/13/2010 12:00 AM

I'd sign up but, idk I have too much stuff to do. Hope this goes well though.

Try again, I just gave it a spin and it worked fine for me.

If there's further issues I can get a mirror for the download.

I'm working on a level right now! I'll take you up on that.

Made a concept stage to test a variety of the editor's features and abilities. It's around medium difficulty and is very large with multiple paths. There are three stars to find in the stage. I am hoping that will be fine for the event.

edit: version 3 the final
http://rpgmaker.net/users/Magi/locker/Magi_LakeshoreParadise_v3.lvl

Enjoy!!! Tell me about bugs!

1 star per level, so your level can have multiple paths, so long as it comes to one star. Back to basics :B

Hey, kenton, beat your level. It's really short-n-sweet. Unless someone produces something even easier, this should be the first level! I like it.

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I could see me making an entire game in this maker. SMB3 is one of my all time fave games.

THIS SO MUCH THIS ARGGGL BLARGGGL FARGGGGL JAMS. And I'm having this much fun playing with a damn keyboard.

I may never use RPG Maker again.

Hey speaking of level names...is there a level naming convention of any kind?

*Kentonia Mini-Review:

I know you said this wasn't for the game but:

I liked this and I think you did a better job of sticking consistently to only SMB3 objects and enemies (I tried to do the same thing but wound up splicing in some SMB1 stuff). I don't think this would make a good 1-1 type level without some changes to make it a bit easier. (It might make a good world 1-2.)

To start with, the possibility that the mushroom will go off to the left at the very start of the level is a real cockslap. It then makes shelling the mushroom out of the next block pretty difficult (no problem shelling out the tail) and the next part with all the para-troopers is really hard to do without getting hit at least once. So if you had bad luck on the first mushroom and hence couldn't get a mushroom from the second block....yeah.

The only other thing I didn't like about the level was that if you just try to slide your way to freedom down the goomba slide, you just go hopping off to an anticlimactic death. In general, good use of classic Mario "high road, low road" level design. My favorite part was what happens if you dawdle long enough at the bottom; all the goombas file neatly into that little pit or divot and you can use the bob-omb there to make goomba stew of them.

PROTIP: You should use the blue frame for the level-ender object (it's in the SMB3 backgrounds section) and center it in the black zone at the end of the stage.

Magi:

Disclaimer: I don't have a gamepad so my sense of difficulty is at a disadvantage here. I am extremely good at old school mario though so maybe me playing on a keyboard balances out to a normal person playing with a gamepad.

First impression--way too hard for anything except a Star-Road type scenario. My idea of Paradise does not involve as many hammer brothers. The music boxes above the start point are difficult to stumble across and if I hadn't seen them in the editor I might have given up before finding them. After that there is another "grr paradroopers moment" as one of the green flying koops can death drop you from off of the screen. Getting that first mushroom was tense. Basically this seems to be a "learn by dying" level.

You can't pick up white blocks from above (can you?) so I don't know how you're supposed to get to the lift.

Of course your level follows a normal difficulty curve, which means that the first part was easiest.

Jumping between the up-to-down piranha pipe and the muncher plants without taking a hit is close to impossible for big mario and it's easy to fuck it up even when you're little. The part with the narrow pipes and spikes is super nerve wracking. When I got past it finally and got Yoshi I thought it would get easier but the part with all the bullet guys and falling donut platforms was hellish.

I tried to backtrack back to the beginning and try to use Yoshi to gain access to the lift at the beginning but...died there too. I had a mysterious death where I was big mario riding yoshi and I immediately died when one of the donut platforms fell directly onto the top of a question block. It looked like I got squished to death. You might want to look into this.

I finally, finally got past the bullet-guy/donut platforms hell section. I wanted to explore the multiple paths but I couldn't figure out how to do anything but the lower/middle one.

Finally beat it after 18 deaths. Good points:

*I actually like the difficulty, it's just strange you didn't mention it in your wriiteup for the level.
*Really aesthetically pleasing, the generous use of background objects and multiple paths make the level feel very lively and full.
*I loved the star chamber at the end.

Dudesoft:

What a crazy, eclectic level! It was really all over the place on every level. There's a ton of changes of music and scenery and the difficulty also feels really, really erratic. Some thoughts:

*The waterfall joining the water at the very beginning does not look right.
*The first pipe island...the way it mixes graphics from all four mario games in very different styles...really looks like chopped ass.
*It is hard to get out of the water when using a keyboard.
*You might want to slow down your moving platforms a little.
*I really liked the miniature quest to stomp the goombas (even though it was, I think, lifted right from one of the sample levels). Anyway it made me feel like I was playing a miniature RPG with a story and everything and it was cool.
*Checkpoints are broken...well, they work but I think you can only use one per level. So after I hit the second checkpoint I was still spawning at the first.
*There is no music in the area at all after you get the tanuki suit. It comes back when you pipe into the blooper death jump.
*The difficulty is all over the place but is generally reasonable. It would be much harder if you weren't so generous with the power-ups.
*One million bloopers converge = death. The final drop into the water is incredibly hard.
*I liked the end of level boss though he was out of nowhere. I actually died to him once (almost twice). I think Redigit (the creator of SMBX) really beefed this enemy type up from the original.

The area with the trillion fish was more frustrating than challenging. That would be about the only thing I'd change.

If you mean the place with no music, I flew over that area every time. And there was only one Tanuki suit, and a reasonable amount of tails. Yes there is a difference. Yes I am an enormous mario nerd.

Edit 1: I forgot to mention THIS:



But I'm pretty sure that's the editor's fault, not yours.

I remember finding at least 2 tanooki suits....maybe 3? 2 for sure.