Super Mario Maker

Overview

Super Mario Maker allows the user to create custom Mario levels. The game includes Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, and New Super Mario Bros. U settings, and the user interface is deliberately reminiscent of the GUI from the Super Nintendo classic, Mario Paint, including the random appearance of flies on the screen that the player can swat and the use of a dog and a robot to represent the undo and save functions, respectively.

Though stages allow for a limited total width, they can be designed to force Mario to move both right and left. There also appears to be new power-ups not included in any previous Mario titles, including Luigi Mushrooms, which make Mario much taller and skinnier, and Mystery Mushrooms, which give Mario one of a variety of costumes based on other Nintendo characters.

Gameplay

The player can freely switch between edit and play mode at any time, allowing the player to play-test stages in progress. Most elements of a stage's layout can be edited, including the placement of pits and their width, pipe placement and height, question mark blocks and other floating blocks, moving platforms, coins, and enemies. Items can be freely arranged in ways that would not be seen in a real Mario game, such as by stacking a Goomba, a Koopa Troopa, and a Piranha Plant on top of each other. Players can also include a variety of extra sound effects in their levels, including ones they record themselves, though unfortunately, to prevent potentially exposing children to obscene language or noises, these recorded sound effects are not included when levels are shared online. These sound effects can be triggered by things such as enemies performing an attack, objects emerging from pipes, or even simply walking Mario over an invisible trigger.

Mario Maker supports the sharing of levels online as well a ranking system for the most popular levels. The game also includes a 100 Mario Challenge mode, wherein players must complete 16 randomly selected user levels with only 100 lives at their disposal, and a harder variant known as 10 Mario Challenge, where the player only has 10 lives to clear 8 premade courses.

Amiibo Support

A special "30th Anniversary 8-bit Mario" amiibo was released alongside the game in Classic colors faithful to the original Super Mario Bros. sprite and Modern colors which are more in line with Mario's current appearance. The amiibo itself is much larger than the standard figures and, appropriately, when used with the game will allow the player to add a Mega Mushroom to their course, causing Mario (or an enemy it's been applied to) to grow much bigger than normal.

Super Mario Maker supports over 100 other amiibo figures/cards, using them to unlock various costumes based on the appropriate character for use in the game which can be donned by using a Mystery Mushroom power up. However, these costumes can only be used in the original Super Mario Bros. tileset. These costumes (as well as many others not tied to amiibo) can also be unlocked on their own without the use of the amiibo figures by completing various challenges such as the 100 Mario Challenge.

Development

Super Mario Maker was announced during Nintendo's digital event at E3 2014 on June 10, 2014 as simply Mario Maker. The name change to Super Mario Maker was announced at the Nintendo World Championships on June 14th, 2015. It was released on September 11th, 2015 for the Nintendo Wii U and coincides with the 30th Anniversary of the release of Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Mystery Mushroom Costumes

1. Mystery Mushroom (pulls randomly from unlocked costumes)
2. Mario (modern recolor)
3. Peach
4. Luigi
5. Bowser
6. Goomba
7. ? Block
8. Trampoline
9. Toad
10. Bowser Jr.
11. Mario (Silver)
12. Gold Mario
13. Builder Mario
14. Yoshi
15. Shy Guy
16. Wario
17. Rosalina & Luma
18. Sidestepper
19. Shellcreeper
20. Mario (Mario Bros.)
21. Dr. Mario
22. Kart Mario
23. Waluigi
24. Green Yarn Yoshi
25. Pink Yarn Yoshi
26. Light-Blue Yarn Yoshi
27. Mega Yarn Yoshi
28. Donkey Kong Jr.
29. Donkey Kong
30. Diddy Kong
31. Kirby
32. King Dedede
33. Meta Knight
34. Pit
35. Palutena
36. Dark Pit
37. Mega Man
38. Samus
39. Zero Suit Samus
40. R.O.B.
41. Marth
42. Ike
43. Lucina
44. Robin
45. Pikachu
46. Charizard
47. Jigglypuff
48. Mewtwo
49. Lucario
50. Greninja
51. Captain Olimar
52. Pikmin
53. Link
54. Zelda
55. Ganondorf
56. Sheik
57. Tingle
58. Toon Link
59. Shulk
60. Ness
61. Lucas
62. Inkling Squid
63. Inkling Boy
64. Inkling Girl
65. Wii Balance Board
66. Wii Fit Trainer
67. Chibi-Robo
68. Villager
69. Tom Nook
70. K. K. Slider
71. Resetti
72. Rover
73. Timmy & Tommy
74. Blathers
75. Mabel
76. Kapp'n
77. Celeste
78. Kicks
79. Isabelle (Summer Outfit)
80. Isabelle (Winter Outfit)
81. Digby
82. Cyrus
83. Reese
84. Lottie
85. Captain Falcon
86. Mr. Game & Watch
87. Sonic
88. Duck Hunt
89. Pac-Man
90. Foreman Spike
91. Little Mac
92. Fox McCloud
93. Falco Lombardi
94. Slippy Toad
95. Peppy Hare
96. Arwing
97. Mahjong Tile
98. Dr. Lobe
99. Ashley
100. Nikki
101. Fighter Fly
102. Totem Link
103. Arino Kacho
104. Super Mario Kun
105. Cat Mario
106. Cat Peach
107. Necky
108. Frog Mario
109. Mario Trio
110. GLA
111. Felyne
112. Sky Pop
113. Arcade Bunny
114. Master Belch
115. Mr. Saturn
116. Captain Toad
117. Excitebike
118. Birdo
119. Yamamura
120. Daisy
121. E. Gadd
122. Bulbasaur
123. Charmander
124. Squirtle
125. Chitoge Kirisaki
126. Barbara the Bat
127. Statue Mario
128. Mary O.
129. Toadette
130. Yu Ayasaki
131. Starfy
132. Wolf Link
133. Balloon Fighter
134. Nabbit
135. Tetra
136. Donbe
137. Hikari
138. Ayumi Tachibana
139. Baby Mario
140. Iris Archwell
141. Mallo
142. Bubbles
143. Disk-kun
144. Volleyball Player
145. Babymetal
146. Popo & Nana
147. Hello Kitty
148. My Melody
149. Shaun the Sheep
150. Undodog
151. Dr. Kawashima
152. Callie
153. Marie

Reception

The game was very well received both commercially and critically. It has sold 3.73 million copies worldwide as of September 30, 2016.