Super Mario Series

[Spark Of Spirit]

That's very true. I've only had to take down a stage once because of players getting stuck, but when it comes to things like Bowser messing up I just leave it. Not much you can do about him.

Very good level, by the way. 

[Nel_Annette]

Thanks! I was trying to make a Part 2 for it, but scrapped that. I ran out of blocks and enemies and couldn't achieve what I wanted. So I'm repurposing some level sections for something else that will hopefully be up in a few days.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Your levels are tough. In contrast I think mine are way too easy.

[Nel_Annette]

I think I'm going to dial it waaaay back in the future, honestly. Both those last levels took me forever to upload because I couldn't freaking beat them. Trying to be malicious to other players in SMM means also being masochistic. Yours are way better balanced. I loved that little brick building one. Each room got just a little bit harder in a nicely scaled way.

I need twelve more stars before I can upload more levels though, so if/when I reach that point I'll probably have a few easy levels to put up.

[Spark Of Spirit]

If you want to try a really inventive tough level, try this: BC51-0000-0112-B30E

It's one of the best ones I've played, and one of those levels you wonder why it doesn't have more stars than it does. I've found a lot of good ones via the SMM website.

Oh, and another awesome one: 30BA-0000-01AC-511D

EDIT: If you want to try to get more stars, you might want to reconsider taking down under-preforming levels, tweaking them, then putting them back up. I used a rule of 1 star for every ten plays. I would toss the rule away when the level got to 10 stars.

[Spark Of Spirit]

That thwomp on the moving donut blocks is a bit too high. You can't see it coming at all. Rest of the level was cool, though.

[Nel_Annette]

Sorry about that. I'll delete it and retweak it! Soonish.

[Nel_Annette]

What I've realized is that the game actually lets me keep my rank even when I take levels down. I don't lose the stars players gave me. So, I can kind of cheese it and use this opportunity to retweak my old levels now that I understand the mechanics of making a level a bit more. Pretty much redid the Flying Battery Zone homage and now I tidied up the SMW airship one as well. Hopefully doing this will boost me up to 50 and then I can just put everything up. I did clean up the Thwomp one too. Lowered quite a few Thwomps to be in sight and added a little semi-hidden area that would make the final section a lot more tolerable (plus it will make it a lot easier for me to upload).

[Spark Of Spirit]

Yep, you keep every star you're given.

I have two new levels in the works right now that I'm still slightly tweaking. One is a shooter level and the other is a really hard one. So, they both require a lot of testing and time to make them just right.

EDIT: And just in time for the weekend, I have uploaded them! Give 'em a go. Hopefully you won't hate me for Dangerous Dig. 

[Nel_Annette]

Actually, I congratulate you for perfecting Hell.

Say, Spark, have you tried the course with ID 44D7-0000-01C6-F52E? It's bloody brilliant.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Whoa, that was really cool. It's amazing how many unique levels are out there. A stoplight mechanic. Never would have thought of that.

Now if only Nintendo would put out some more themes and items...

[Nel_Annette]

Whoa, that was really cool. It's amazing how many unique levels are out there. A stoplight mechanic. Never would have thought of that.

Now if only Nintendo would put out some more themes and items...

I want football men and pokeys, damn it. And slopes. And jungle, desert and ice backgrounds.

[Foggle]

Finally got a chance to play Mario Maker again, so I went back and edited/re-uploaded my levels to both fix bugs and make them more intuitive. I played some of your stages too, Nel.

Will check out more from both of you soon, but I'm too tired to continue at the moment.

[Nel_Annette]

Right on, man, I followed your account!

That ghost level I uploaded was meant to be easy. How the hell is Spark the only person out of sixteen people to beat it? XD

[Spark Of Spirit]

I thought that was strange. It was pretty tough, but nowhere near your toughest.

But, I mean, I don't even have 100% completion on my level where you can't even die. If there's a way to fail to complete a level, someone out there will figure it out.