Level Design Tips/What Not To Do (READ SECOND)
Level Design Tips/What Not To Do (READ SECOND)
Thanks to SAJewers for moving this to a new thread and making it a sticky!
I put together a list of level design tips and rules for a thread like the one SAJewers proposed in the A2MBXT Beta Testing Thread. It's attached to this post in docx format.
If anyone has any questions or tips of their own, feel free to post! The current document mostly goes over basics of level design, so I'll probably be adding stuff later that expands on SAJewers' NPC-specific tips, ie. how to utilize NPC's well and such.
I put together a list of level design tips and rules for a thread like the one SAJewers proposed in the A2MBXT Beta Testing Thread. It's attached to this post in docx format.
If anyone has any questions or tips of their own, feel free to post! The current document mostly goes over basics of level design, so I'll probably be adding stuff later that expands on SAJewers' NPC-specific tips, ie. how to utilize NPC's well and such.
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Re: Level Design Tips/What Not To Do
Few more:
- Unless you can justify it, having only mushrooms in your level, and no tier 2 powerups (leaf, fire) is not a good idea.
- While metroidvania levels can be fun, long levels can quickly get boring. Luna Tower is a good example of a level that is long, but not boring.
- Test with all powerups. CTRL + T will bring up the Level Test Settings Window. Use this.
- Kicked shells as level design is rarely a good idea.
- Plants not contained in pipes are rarely good ideas.
- Love Frog != increased difficulty without making the level worse. You'd be surprised how many levels are ruined by 1 Love Frog. Same with banana Snakes.
- Keep death/replayability in mind. You'd be surprised how many decent levels end up leaving a bad taste because you in the level and have redo a section, which becomes annoying. When testing, throw yourself in a pit, or intentionally kill yourself.
- Fake Difficulty. Read it. Avoid it.
- Avoid Leaps of Faith (where you can not see the next platform) as much as possible.
- Avoid Item Babysitting (Per SMWC Mod SNN : "I consider "item babysitting" any situation where you have to lug one item to one area to get another item, which you'll lug to another area (or the previous area) to get another item, etc. Carrying one item through a level would not be item babysitting if you don't have to carry a second item BACK through the level.").
- Avoid sections in your level that are inherently easier as, or impossible without being small (AKA Big Mario Discrimination).
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-Unless you make it so the two absolutely cannot touch, do not put a Mushroom near lava. The reason for this is that if they do, the game crashes. Not applicable anymore.
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I'd actually like some clarification on this glitch, from anyone who knows a bit more about it. Here's what I have so far.Grounder wrote:-Unless you make it so the two absolutely cannot touch, do not put a Mushroom near lava. The reason for this is that if they do, the game crashes.
First off, this glitch doesn't happen every time a mushroom touches lava. It's never been a problem in levels I've made, for example.
From what I can tell, this is more likely to happen if your level already has a lot of events running. I made several generators that dropped mushrooms into lava in an otherwise empty level with no problems. I dropped one mushroom into the lava of Quill's MaglX level and got the error immediately.
I've heard that it's more likely to happen if the mushroom is off-screen, but testing hasn't verified that at all. Again, in the empty level I made with generators, I had some mushrooms take about a minute to reach the lava off-screen, with no ill-consequences.
As a general rule, you should avoid letting this bug happen and keep it in mind when making a level. However, I'd still really like someone who knows a bit more about the engine to clarify why it happens.
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That glitch happens if a mushroom or power-up of any sort falls into a lava off-screen.
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Two things:Sturg wrote:That glitch happens if a mushroom or power-up of any sort falls into a lava off-screen.
1) I can get it to happen on-screen in certain areas just fine.
2) When I let a mushroom travel in a straight line off-screen for a solid minute into lava, it didn't do anything.
EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLNG94aT4jA
A quick proof-of-concept video from Cinder Canyon. For whatever reason I haven't been able to replicate the glitch on any of the lava pools prior to the one where the video ends. On that pool of lava I did it three times, with the first mushroom always triggering it.
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Re: Level Design Tips/What Not To Do
And I just replicated this bug off-screen as well in the same place.sedron wrote: EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLNG94aT4jA
It can happen in both off-screen and on-screen, I know a lot of levels in ASMBXT that do this.
This isn't the most accurate test because of the fact that level was empty. Like you said; events, graphics, npcs, blocks, size, all apply to how big the level is. Whenever a power-up hits the lava within an empty it still frame-skips a bit(for me at least) in an empty room, because for some reason the game freezes for a sec try to figure out where it went. Do that with a more full fledged level and it can crash easily. In Cinder Canyon's case I'm pretty sure it crashes where it does because of the attached layers with the falling platform and the land.I've heard that it's more likely to happen if the mushroom is off-screen, but testing hasn't verified that at all. Again, in the empty level I made with generators, I had some mushrooms take about a minute to reach the lava off-screen, with no ill-consequences.
Clarification: I meant that it can happen off-screen as well.That glitch happens if a mushroom or power-up of any sort falls into a lava off-screen.
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What not to do -> See pretty much all my ASMBXT levels.
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Re: Level Design Tips/What Not To Do
This list is missing a lot of what to actually do.
- Make sure the player always has some idea were to go.
- Try listening to the level's music while making the level.
- If it's your first level, make it short.
- Don't make the player's progressing depend on tedious tasks or have obstacles that require perfect mastery.
- Make sure you test your level right before submitting it.
- Most complex gimmicks could be done better with ideas from other people.
NPC specific stuff
- Thwomps are often the resort of a lazy level design. If they aren't part of the main theme, it's going to feel out of place and absurdly easy.
- Bats, love frogs, donuts, and banana snakes are often thrown in for the sake of making things harder. Don't be like that. Jumpfish and Bonzia Bills are a variant of this.
- Make sure the player always has some idea were to go.
- Try listening to the level's music while making the level.
- If it's your first level, make it short.
- Don't make the player's progressing depend on tedious tasks or have obstacles that require perfect mastery.
- Make sure you test your level right before submitting it.
- Most complex gimmicks could be done better with ideas from other people.
NPC specific stuff
- Thwomps are often the resort of a lazy level design. If they aren't part of the main theme, it's going to feel out of place and absurdly easy.
- Bats, love frogs, donuts, and banana snakes are often thrown in for the sake of making things harder. Don't be like that. Jumpfish and Bonzia Bills are a variant of this.
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Alright, I thought you meant it only happens as a result of being off-screen. I think we're more-or-less on the same page, then.Sturg wrote: And I just replicated this bug off-screen as well in the same place.
It can happen in both off-screen and on-screen, I know a lot of levels in ASMBXT that do this.
This isn't the most accurate test because of the fact that level was empty. Like you said; events, graphics, npcs, blocks, size, all apply to how big the level is. Whenever a power-up hits the lava within an empty it still frame-skips a bit(for me at least) in an empty room, because for some reason the game freezes for a sec try to figure out where it went. Do that with a more full fledged level and it can crash easily. In Cinder Canyon's case I'm pretty sure it crashes where it does because of the attached layers with the falling platform and the land.I've heard that it's more likely to happen if the mushroom is off-screen, but testing hasn't verified that at all. Again, in the empty level I made with generators, I had some mushrooms take about a minute to reach the lava off-screen, with no ill-consequences.
Clarification: I meant that it can happen off-screen as well.That glitch happens if a mushroom or power-up of any sort falls into a lava off-screen.
I'll play around with it a bit more in my spare time, but from what I can tell it's mostly based on level complexity?
In any case, when designing a level in SMBX you should avoid letting mushrooms and lava play together.
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Show your level to someone while making it. You can get surprisingly good ideas as feedback. The skeletons in my level "Snowy Evening" were originally my brother's idea.
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It's often a good idea to allow for multiple different ways to clear an obstacle.
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This method of creating levels may not be for everyone, but it's what I like to do these days.
1. Think of a gimmick for a level. It could be a gameplay gimmick, a focus on a particular enemy, an aesthetic, or a combination of these (don't combine too many things though or it'll get unfocussed).
2. Think of every way your gimmick(s) will affect gameplay through their very presence (for example, ice physics reduce traction) and list them. These are elements that you have to include in your level if you're to use that particular gimmick.
3. If any of these gameplay alterations seems fundamentally unfun, return to step 1 and think of a new gimmick. Otherwise, proceed to step 4.
4. Think of every way your gimmick(s) could affect gameplay through specific usages (for example, if your level is based on disco shells, using them to clear our enemies would be one usage, riding them would be another etc.) and list them.
5. Go through the list and remove those which seem unfun (if you're very lucky, this will be none of them).
6. Go through the list again and note down which (if any) usages require knowledge that the player may not have. You'll need to provide training areas for these usages if you include them. By this I don't mean have an explanatory textbox: have an area where the player can see (and preferably interact with) the usage while exposing themselves to minimal risk. For example, 1-1 in SMB has its first usage of jumping between pipes over land so that players can get used to it before having jumps between pipes over bottomless gaps.
7. Go through the list again and note down which (if any) usages are more advanced forms of other usages or build on the knowledge of other usages. You'll need to introduce the simpler usages first. For example, if your gimmick is Yoshis, introduce green Yoshi first, and introduce Red, Yellow & Blue Yoshis before you introduce Black Yoshi.
8. If you're building a world or episode rather than a single level then you can ignore parts of steps 6 & 7 when the player has already learned a usage and/or used a simpler version of the usage in a previous level.
9. Bearing in mind the conditions of steps 6 & 7, compile your list of usages into another list in order of ascending difficulties.
10. Make this list into a level with small transition sections between each usage (if you like) to make it look less like it was written to a formula.
11. Test the level and add powerups at every point where you need them. If the level is too long in your testing, excise the dull bits, being sure not to break the conditions of steps 6 & 7 in the process. If parts are too hard, tone their difficulty down.
12. If you wish to increase the difficulty of your level, decrease the quantity of powerups (but not their quality). Bear in mind that you will naturally find your own level easier than the average person, so always make your level easier than you intend it to be. That way it will actually be the difficulty you intend rather than slightly harder. Alternatively, if you wish to make your level easier, increase the quantity of powerups or decrease the quantity of enemies. DO NOT increase the difficulty by increasing the quantity of enemies: this is a sure-fire way to make a messy level.
1. Think of a gimmick for a level. It could be a gameplay gimmick, a focus on a particular enemy, an aesthetic, or a combination of these (don't combine too many things though or it'll get unfocussed).
2. Think of every way your gimmick(s) will affect gameplay through their very presence (for example, ice physics reduce traction) and list them. These are elements that you have to include in your level if you're to use that particular gimmick.
3. If any of these gameplay alterations seems fundamentally unfun, return to step 1 and think of a new gimmick. Otherwise, proceed to step 4.
4. Think of every way your gimmick(s) could affect gameplay through specific usages (for example, if your level is based on disco shells, using them to clear our enemies would be one usage, riding them would be another etc.) and list them.
5. Go through the list and remove those which seem unfun (if you're very lucky, this will be none of them).
6. Go through the list again and note down which (if any) usages require knowledge that the player may not have. You'll need to provide training areas for these usages if you include them. By this I don't mean have an explanatory textbox: have an area where the player can see (and preferably interact with) the usage while exposing themselves to minimal risk. For example, 1-1 in SMB has its first usage of jumping between pipes over land so that players can get used to it before having jumps between pipes over bottomless gaps.
7. Go through the list again and note down which (if any) usages are more advanced forms of other usages or build on the knowledge of other usages. You'll need to introduce the simpler usages first. For example, if your gimmick is Yoshis, introduce green Yoshi first, and introduce Red, Yellow & Blue Yoshis before you introduce Black Yoshi.
8. If you're building a world or episode rather than a single level then you can ignore parts of steps 6 & 7 when the player has already learned a usage and/or used a simpler version of the usage in a previous level.
9. Bearing in mind the conditions of steps 6 & 7, compile your list of usages into another list in order of ascending difficulties.
10. Make this list into a level with small transition sections between each usage (if you like) to make it look less like it was written to a formula.
11. Test the level and add powerups at every point where you need them. If the level is too long in your testing, excise the dull bits, being sure not to break the conditions of steps 6 & 7 in the process. If parts are too hard, tone their difficulty down.
12. If you wish to increase the difficulty of your level, decrease the quantity of powerups (but not their quality). Bear in mind that you will naturally find your own level easier than the average person, so always make your level easier than you intend it to be. That way it will actually be the difficulty you intend rather than slightly harder. Alternatively, if you wish to make your level easier, increase the quantity of powerups or decrease the quantity of enemies. DO NOT increase the difficulty by increasing the quantity of enemies: this is a sure-fire way to make a messy level.
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-A boss shouldn't take more than 10 hits to die.
-If you boss has "phases" before you can even damage them, make sure you keep the amount of them around 3-5 or less, any more will make it super tedious to do.
-On that note, make sure the window of time to hit these bosses with phases isin't extremely short leaving you no room for error, a good range depending on the kind of boss should be 5-10 seconds of vulnerability.
-If you boss has "phases" before you can even damage them, make sure you keep the amount of them around 3-5 or less, any more will make it super tedious to do.
-On that note, make sure the window of time to hit these bosses with phases isin't extremely short leaving you no room for error, a good range depending on the kind of boss should be 5-10 seconds of vulnerability.
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A+ Good advice much win.Willhart wrote:Show your level to someone while making it. You can get surprisingly good ideas as feedback. The skeletons in my level "Snowy Evening" were originally my brother's idea.
Seriously, if you want the highest quality level-design play-testers are practically required. Or watch-commentators if you know someone who could help with that. Or people who would find it fun to watch you mess around with the level. Or who would enjoy playing the level themselves.
It helps a ton. Especially to get a fresh perspective on what the player 'knows' the first/early times through the level; if you don't have play-testers you likely won't realize that that one jump is actually completely blind (after all, you didn't have any trouble with it when you tested the level...) or that one enemy can hurt without you being able to react to it if you're the type who [INSERT PLAYSTYLE THAT ISN'T YOURS HERE] whenever you encounter [A THING], or that that one particular jump you've tested 48 times is actually ludicrously difficult compared to all the obstacles around it - you've just gotten used to it after succeeding a bazillion times at it.
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Not that I'm hugely qualified to speak on such things, but Imma gonna toss my two cents in here anyways. I'll be fairly brief on what I want to say though, and skip a bunch of stuff I've already seen posted.
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My tips:
1st - inspirations: Before you can create your level, you need inspiration. Some people get neat ideas by playing different games, some (including me) get them by listening to music,...
The only thing that is important is that you first need ideas.
2nd - Plan your level: There are different ways to plan a level, I do it with by drawing the level layout, many more people do it by creating the level in a "raw" form. Find the planning style that fits your creativity best.
3rd - creating the level: It's important that your creativity should not go "out of control" - a level is not always good with tons of different gimmicks.
Restrict yourself to a minimum of 1-2 minutes per level and to a maximum of 4-5 per level. Although there are some people (like me) who like very long levels, the majority of players don't like levels with a playtime of 9-10 minutes.
The background should match the theme of your level, or else it looks out of the place. The music should "underline" the atmosphere of the level (for example, a mountain level shoud have a monumental song, or an ice level should have (depends on the atmosphere) a slower, more sadness-driven song)
Avoid graphical errors like clash or cutoffs as good as you can (for example, don't use SNES (16-bit) and NES (8-bit) graphics combined in one section of the level, although you can use them in differnt sections)
As a side-note: if you create a Touhou-style level, create it in a way that it can be beaten WITHOUT godmode.
4th - gameplay: You shouldn't aim for a specific world you want to appear in, so don't create a lunatic level for World 8 or something. Just keep it in your style, don' spam too many enemies, place enoug powerups but not too many, etc.
Wow, I never wrote such a long post before, but anyway, I hope this helps.
1st - inspirations: Before you can create your level, you need inspiration. Some people get neat ideas by playing different games, some (including me) get them by listening to music,...
The only thing that is important is that you first need ideas.
2nd - Plan your level: There are different ways to plan a level, I do it with by drawing the level layout, many more people do it by creating the level in a "raw" form. Find the planning style that fits your creativity best.
3rd - creating the level: It's important that your creativity should not go "out of control" - a level is not always good with tons of different gimmicks.
Restrict yourself to a minimum of 1-2 minutes per level and to a maximum of 4-5 per level. Although there are some people (like me) who like very long levels, the majority of players don't like levels with a playtime of 9-10 minutes.
The background should match the theme of your level, or else it looks out of the place. The music should "underline" the atmosphere of the level (for example, a mountain level shoud have a monumental song, or an ice level should have (depends on the atmosphere) a slower, more sadness-driven song)
Avoid graphical errors like clash or cutoffs as good as you can (for example, don't use SNES (16-bit) and NES (8-bit) graphics combined in one section of the level, although you can use them in differnt sections)
As a side-note: if you create a Touhou-style level, create it in a way that it can be beaten WITHOUT godmode.
4th - gameplay: You shouldn't aim for a specific world you want to appear in, so don't create a lunatic level for World 8 or something. Just keep it in your style, don' spam too many enemies, place enoug powerups but not too many, etc.
Wow, I never wrote such a long post before, but anyway, I hope this helps.
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After playing Item Babysitting...
Test your levels with Sheath/Link. You'd be surprised how different your level plays. You guys will never understand the amount of rage I had trying to play through this level with Sheath.
Also, remember the following:
Test your levels with Sheath/Link. You'd be surprised how different your level plays. You guys will never understand the amount of rage I had trying to play through this level with Sheath.
Also, remember the following:
- raocow, Kood, and Sheath can not ride Catnip. Filter them out if you require catnip.
- Sheath can not wear shoes. Filter her out if you require shoes.
- Demo and Iris are the only ones who can slide. Additionally, the sliding physics are different depending on which of the two you use, as well as your powerup state.
- Kood and Sheath can not spinjump. Filter them out if you require spinjumping on enemies like flower saws or paralars. not that if the gap is small enough, Kood may still be able to cross it, while sheath may be able to get across by killing them.
- When Sheath gets a powerup, she will always get that powerup, regardless of state.
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"When Sheath gets a powerup, she will always get it"SAJewers wrote:After playing Item Babysitting...
Test your levels with Sheath/Link. You'd be surprised how different your level plays. You guys will never understand the amount of rage I had trying to play through this level with Sheath.
Also, remember the following:
- raocow, Kood, and Sheath can not ride Catnip. Filter them out if you require catnip.
- Sheath can not wear shoes. Filter her out if you require shoes.
- Demo and Iris are the only ones who can slide. Additionally, the sliding physics are different depending on which of the two you use, as well as your powerup state.
- Kood and Sheath can not spinjump. Filter them out if you require spinjumping on enemies like flower saws or paralars. not that if the gap is small enough, Kood may still be able to cross it, while sheath may be able to get across by killing them.
- When Sheath gets a powerup, she will always get that powerup, regardless of state.
Isn't that how collecting powerups works? Are you talking about the fairy/cat angel form?
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Turnips, I would assume.
Since as Demo, hitting a fire cactus box small would produce a turnip. Well, Sheath is always the same size unlike all the other characters.
Since as Demo, hitting a fire cactus box small would produce a turnip. Well, Sheath is always the same size unlike all the other characters.
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What I meant was, if you put a fire or leaf in a box, it will always be a fire or leaf. With the other characters, if you're 1 heart/small, it will be a mushroom.TiKi wrote:"When Sheath gets a powerup, she will always get it"SAJewers wrote:After playing Item Babysitting...
Test your levels with Sheath/Link. You'd be surprised how different your level plays. You guys will never understand the amount of rage I had trying to play through this level with Sheath.
Also, remember the following:
- raocow, Kood, and Sheath can not ride Catnip. Filter them out if you require catnip.
- Sheath can not wear shoes. Filter her out if you require shoes.
- Demo and Iris are the only ones who can slide. Additionally, the sliding physics are different depending on which of the two you use, as well as your powerup state.
- Kood and Sheath can not spinjump. Filter them out if you require spinjumping on enemies like flower saws or paralars. not that if the gap is small enough, Kood may still be able to cross it, while sheath may be able to get across by killing them.
- When Sheath gets a powerup, she will always get that powerup, regardless of state.
Isn't that how collecting powerups works? Are you talking about the fairy/cat angel form?
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I'm surprised nobody's linked to this article:
http://www.1up.com/features/learning-level-design-mario
It is a very good guide and it stopped my first level ever from being a total train wreck.
http://www.1up.com/features/learning-level-design-mario
It is a very good guide and it stopped my first level ever from being a total train wreck.
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