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Sednaiur has made some nice SMB1 style tilesets. You can probably find some graphics you may be missing from there, and combine them with the original dungeon/castle tileset. A ruined castle that has been taken by forest, and probably even half sunken to he ground could make for some interesting ar...

Would anyone be able to point me in the direction of a tileset of a fortress that would work with a theme of it being overtaken by the forest around it? I'd like them to be similar to the SMB1 dungeon graphics, but if they aren't it isn't a deal breaker for me. I'd make them myself, but I am not a s...

There are two things in the submission thread that I do not understand fully. The first one being converting files to .ogg files. The second one being about item babysitting. Would you consider it an item babysitting level if the level was based around using Sheath to collect keys and hit switch fur...

Today, the world has rotated around the great ball in the sky we call "the sun" 22 times since I came into this world, so apparently that is significant or something.

I really need to take a break from MH4U. Because the game is doing everything in it's power to prevent me from making progress. Trying to get some Brach Hammers from the Brachydios, which can only be obtained by breaking its arms. The part I'm looking for "supposedly" has a 59% chance of b...

In my town in Animal Crossing New Leaf, I have a camp site visitor moving into my town in the next few days and I'm in the middle of mass deforestation to clean up all the fruit trees I planted since there are a lot of them. I may need more axes...

I recently started playing Animal Crossing New Leaf again after a 5 month period. Which was also just after a 9 month period. Mainly play it when I need to take a break from Monster Hunter. I also load up Etrian Odyssey 4 every once and a while to do a little grinding there.

Isrieri wrote:If you had to give your level a non-spoilery* tagline that hints at what awaits, what would sit the most butts in front of a controller?

Press B to Jump!

I never even looked at the Wohl editor until now, since I made my level in vanilla SMBX. And I could totally get behind using it. I opened it and at first it looked like a cluster****, but after poking around a bit, it looks very intuitive and user-friendly. Might try making a quick level with it ov...

It can be seen like that, but does not have to, if you manage to use the character in some other way well, via the mechanics or something else. Also I believe only the people who disregard the character rule entirely, will score low on this category. There doesn't really need to be. Also since I ge...

In addition to gameplay aspects the character usage can be seen as how well the level is made for that character storywise too. Wait, there is supposed to be a story to my level? And I'm supposed to try to use any mechanical differences with my characters? Well jeez, that changes how well my level ...

let's go, bottom ten! let's go, bottom ten! i was actually gonna make a serious level but then autoscroll was like "nope" so then my only goal was to get a laugh or two maybe let's go, bottom ten! There's some PRETTY STEEP competition for the bottom slots this year. I wish all of you the ...

If it's going to be two episodes, how are you going to handle the release? Will you release them both when the whole thing is done, or will you release the first when raocow finishes playing through it? Aha! So, this is kinda spoilers I guess, but we're going to be using something of an Oracle of A...

270 entries so far. I grossly under-estimated with my guess of 173. My only desire is that my level makes under 200, but if it doesn't I won't care. Because it wouldn't have placed at all if I hadn't submitted it. My level was finished, playtested and all, about a week and a half before I submitted ...

I would say my level is fairly easy. Not much happens and there isn't really a penalty for failing a jump other than having to climb back up, and it isn't a very far distance if you fall.

I'll guess 173.

No rules. Credit them or don't. I recommend if you want to, put a credits.txt file in the level folder. Well, then I may have done goofed on that one. I put a sign post at the end of my level for the credit for the music in my level. That's fine too. I mean, I'm not going to take points off for cre...

Any specific rules on crediting other people for graphics/music? I just stuck any credits I had in a .txt file, but I don't know if there are specific rules... No rules. Credit them or don't. I recommend if you want to, put a credits.txt file in the level folder. Well, then I may have done goofed o...

Hoeloe wrote:

Mabel wrote:welp time for last place

The big news is that we all get last place.

Would that not mean we would all also get first place?

Dog In Da Grass wrote:Y'all people disappoint me. I was hoping for more Toad levels and less Mario ones in this contest

Mine is a mix of Toad AND my other character. If that counts for you.

So, I've got a question for you all, as I'm fairly curious about something. How do you all usually go about structuring your levels? Do you draw a map of it first and then build it in the editor? Do you get a vague mental image and try to work in the editor based on that? Or do you just kind of win...

Pretty sure I'm not even going to get a level started at this point. Don't say that. Devote a little time to your level each day. Even only 20 minutes a day is sufficient to get started. I was really daunted by it at first, but once I started working on my level all the pieces falling into place. I...

I'm thinking of remaking my level from scratch, and I'm still mulling over if I should or not. But besides that, is the an accepted limit to how big your level submission is? File size that is, including custom sprites and music.

Superwiidude wrote:The .ogg isn't doing anything for me either. Does me having a windows 8 computer matter at all?

Have you put the music file in the same folder as your level? Not trying to sound like an ass or anything, just genuinely curious.

Is there a limit to how tall a level can be? Because I tried changing the height of a level yesterday, and the graphics started to glitch out in the editor when I would erase blocks after a certain height. Yeah, certain vertically-oriented backgrounds glitch out when you pass the top of the graphic...