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Jenuall wrote:Round 8 Guidelines

"If you can't stand the heat then get out of the kitchen!" That's what Chef Toad always used to yell at Mario when he wandered into the wrong areas of the castle again, claiming to be on the hunt for "magic mushrooms". Well Mario heeded that advice but didn't pay much attention to where he went next and it has definitely been a case of 'out of the frying pan and into the fire' as he has only gone and found himself trapped in some fiery hell-scape from which it will take more than psychedelic mushrooms to escape!

That's right we're into the semi-finals of AYAMMM 2021 and things are really starting to heat up! The goal for our final 4 Mario Makers this time is to make a Lava based level! with a specific focus on channelling the feel of classic kids game
"the floor is lava" - we want Mario to really feel the heat and never quite feel like he's standing on safe ground!

The conditions here are that you must use the Caste Theme to allow your level to contain lava (I'll also allow the use of the Forest Night Theme as this turns the water into poison which is essentially the same thing)

In addition you should make heavy use of the various forms of moving/temporary parts for Mario to stand on - we don't want too much solid ground for our plumber to chill out on! Moving lifts, snake blocks, donut blocks, flimsy lifts, enemies you can stand on - they're all fair game to help make a level where Mario feels like he's only ever one step from landing in the lava!

I'm not going to put a limit on the use of actual solid ground in the level as I don't want to be too pedantic about it, but the overall feel should be one of lacking safe spaces in the level to kick back in! For example a large ground platform where you can just stand there and take stock indefinitely = bad, but that same platform where the lava is rising to kill you or a buzzsaw is approaching to slice Mario in two or even where the autoscroll will shove you into the lava if you're not careful - those are all fine!

Submission deadline is 8pm Sunday 16th of May - send your level name and code to me via PM.
- Do not post the level in the thread or otherwise share it with anyone beforehand.

OrangeRKN wrote:

Jenuall wrote:The conditions here are that you must use the Caste Theme

As an absolute monarchy I guess it makes sense the Mushroom Kingdom would suffer social stratification

Jenuall wrote:Everything flowing smoothly or is anyone getting a bit hot and bothered?

OrangeRKN wrote:Anyone been trying for speedruns? I realise today is usually when karl comes along and steals the records