Giant Bomb Makes Mario

This was awesome, I really hope they do another one soon and check back on this level.

I think that giant Magikoopa can clear the blocks around the goal.

yep, Jeff mentioned this in the post-show chat too

EMERGENT gameplay!

I'm only 2 days into the creation tools, but here's a little something I cooked up: 8832-0000-0067-AA1B. Less insidious than this nonsense but it's impossible not to be a jerk.

It's really cool how all these completely random elements have seemingly come together to make a deceptively well designed level.

Is this not premium content? it should be cause randos could come in here and learn our secrets!

fucking amazing video!!

'Go! Just go! What are you doing?'

'I'M PANICKING!'

Dan is the best.

So good.

That was fun to watch. When Bowser triggered the P switch and fell, I laughed pretty damn hard. I was disappointed that no one noticed or commented on the fact that someone named "DumbRyckrt" played one of Dan's levels around the 33:40 mark.

The saws you made to prevent people from flying the lakitu clouds in the sub-level were actually useless. (For their intended purpose, anyways. They're still a jumping hazard.) As you found out, the lakitus follow you throughout the level. Therefore, you could just let the lakitu fly past the saws then kill it and take the cloud. But by reading these comments, there have been a few creative solutions to the level, so this is not that out there.

He applies such careful logic to it.

@shaunage:

so frustrating watching patrick try to handle bowser at the beginning haha, i wanted to yell through the screen that he could just run through the trampolines instead of jumping

@ejiehi: goomba jail, that is.

This just shows you how well designed the building blocks of Mario games are. They are made to bounce off each other in such a delightful way, even a bunch of random ideas can coalesce into a pretty neat level.

"Sit on the back of your shirt to straighten it out" Jeff helping my fat guy issues one problem at a time.

POLICE STATE!

What a beautiful, terrible level. The emergent Bowser situation is such a perfect GB stroke of luck.

Also, they should totally do a NSMB level. I bet Dan could do some truly evil things with walljumps.

Bowser hitting those P-Blocks while Patrick was trying to clear the bridge was so good.

Fantastic video!

Someone tell Dan he made an autoscroll level...

a friend of mine tried the level and gave up at the very beginning. Complained of too many deaths at the beginning.

Excellent! Patrick's first trip to the star jail cell was the best.

I totally skipped the sub-level. Kamek shot one of the blocks separating the goal from the main area and it turned into a coin. I snuck in as small Mario and finished it.

this is a really good video

Here's another twitch streamer that played the level. It's interesting to see how he does things differently than Patrick.

http://www.twitch.tv/andy/v/17567744?t=2h17m45s

His two interesting strats were bringing a trampoline with him to go into the star trap and then get back out with star power. He also got through the p-bridge by jumping on the first p-switch and using the bounce back to go to the wooden platform. Most of the p-switches will fall, letting you safely move onto the bridge.

This was great. And the level ended up so much better than I thought it would. The accidental Bowser following you cost Patrick a lot of tries on this level.

Did anyone else finish the level without even going into the warp pipe? I discovered that accidentally!

Played the level before watching the video. Fuck whoever thought the warp pipe going back to the beginning of the level was a good idea. Fuck. You.

Dan with his presenting and pointing at the start really reminds me of Mac from It's Always Sunny

Oh man, this was all super good.

@danryckert I found the best way yet to beat this. Have Magikoopa teleport into the goal area, have him shoot a block to have it disappear, then accidentally fall through as small Mario while the clown copters bear down on you as you prepare for death.

This guys dismay when he discovers the one way wall is hilarious.

Bowser can trigger P-switches? This changes everything...

The Clash? I thought Dan didn't want to be a worldly and empathetic person.

I feel like you made two great silly-yet-interesting levels and then made them impossible by forcing the player to pull off both halves in a single go of it.

I'm thinking about what Jeff says about having too much going on in a level and wondering if another way to look at it is that people keep making levels that are just too long.

It isn't a crime to make two things, guys.

Edit: Though I must admit that the pipes-sending-you-back-to-the-beginning gag only works as well as it does because it's after such a long level.

Edit 2.0: Look at how most of the solutions people are finding involve just doing something to skip the second half of the level entirely, which is a shame because then they don't get to see the best parts of the level. (POLICE STATE, the impossible yoshi egg, goomba jail, etc)

With Dan's luck, Nintendo will probably offer him a lead level designer position.

It really is fascinating to watch all the outside the box tactics people come up with for this dumb (in the best possible way) level.

This game is the dark souls of mario games. It seems to illicit the same response from me

This is great, not only is really interesting to watch and has lots of interactivity with the audience, they all look very amused by all of it, specially Jeff (who did a very good job picking up suggestions from the chat).

edit: I just saw Patrick playing and deconstructing the level which made me amazed by how this level with random inputs ended up such a genius thing.

I assume you're talking about lyrical content? I don't really know or care about The Clash's lyrical matter, so I could be wrong, but as a person who listens to what sounds good to me, and what sticks in my head, and doesn't invest interest or emotions into a band's lyrical matter, I as a conservative enjoy Rage Against the Machine immensely, without being worried changing about myself.

Having something chasing you (bowser, the lakitus) is an effective way to encourage the player to look for efficient ways to solve an obstacle in an outside the box way, yet at the same time it discourages the player to explore the environment and find potentially subtle details or secrets.

If you watch Patrick's stream, he would have found the feather almost instantly if he had taken the time to kill those dry bones on that platform from underneath, but he never did that because he felt he needed to get away from Bowser as fast at possible.

But seriously, these are actually really good levels. That final thwomp in that chain needs to be moved up to be even with the rest (it's impossible to spin jump there without getting hit as tall mario as it's currently placed) and I would remove the second lakitu and only have the one throwing chain chomps.

Other than those two changes and them needing to be broken apart, this is actually a lot of fun to play if you are looking for a challenge.

This really shouldn't have worked but somehow it did.

Whoever came up with the Police State idea: I fucking love you. The idea of a really bad Banksy in Mario is just endlessly hilarious to me.

This is one of the best features you've done I a whole. There needs to be more of these!

The Youtube archive is now available for those that prefer it over the Twitch archives.

More of this!

Bowser almost acts as an auto scroll. Damn it I might get this game.