Design Reference

The design is mostly from my experience of one day viewing at Daxiongshan (which means Moutain of Bear-Picking Star). Unlike the traditional mountain viewpoint in China, there is some amusement equipment here that gave me ideas of building my own amusement park.

Overview:

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1. taking the e-bus to half of the mountain (ticket office 

2. climbing to the mountain top (where you can see the Chinese traditional building called Picking Star

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3. sliding down from the top

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4. water sliding to the half of the mountain

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5. they closed the animal's paradise because of the pandemic 

6. walking across the bridge to the viewing platform which builds by the glass you can see through (scary but exciting

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7. walking down to the bottom with river flows around

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Design for the map

Amusement Park Rides

Intro of Super Mario Maker 2

Super Mario Maker 2 is definitely my favorite video game. Not just because Nintendo and Super Mario are an important part of my childhood, but also it is an outstanding game with no doubt. I would call it another revolution of video games.

What makes it different from the previous version of Super Mario?

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Players can design and create their own course then upload/share, then other players from all around the world can play it. But the creation of the players is much more than this. There are so many ways to make a level( not just a level).

  • Music

There is an element: music note cube. Laying different items on it could make different tone colours, the height of where you put these things makes different tones. So there is a popular type of level making - music course. Players don't need to control the character because it moves itself ( or keep pressing ➡️). While the character walks through the map, you can hear a song or music play.

  • Movie

By layout and designing triggers to tell a story. Like the music course, most of the movie courses are remote. The enemies can trigger the machine operated. I used to play a level that tells a love story of two Spike Tops.

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They meet each other and fall in love, then they make a baby. However, spike top's wife is heisted by Koopa ( the evil boss in Mario's world). Then spike saves his wife with his son, they make another baby. The End.

 

 

House recreating

World One

I put the entry, the goal, and the ticket office in this world. Getting out of the ticket office we take the ride to the tube to another world.

Design for the ticket office

I love my design for the ticket office.

My character enters the ticket office, throw the POW to get rid of the black flower. At the same time, this POW will also drop the 50 gold coin on the conveyor belt. Without black flower, the character is able to step on the P then the mouse will step on the note cube to trigger the key. Then Toad is able to go into the door with the key.

Which means, you pay the ticket with 50 coin to the staff (the mouse) then he give you the ticket (the key).

World 2

By entering into the tube, we go into another world in this course. 

For world 2, I choose the sky scene as the theme. 

First, the mountain is high enough into the sky. (Though it is not high of the mountain in China)

Second, the elements of this theme are interesting. Not just the mushroom platform, you can replace it with the rainbow. (I like the rainbow platform) which could present as the see-through platform in the middle of the mountain.

 

Elements Layout

Reflection

I wouldn't say the course I made is doing well. 

Firstly, it is not easy enough for the climbing part. This means players can't enjoy this course as the amusement park.

Secondly, there is no brilliant switch design in this course. The ticket office which is my favorite part is just okay but not good enough. I assume that I don't have enough understanding of this game.

Thirdly, I didn't represent my amusement park experience with this course in the video game. But I think it is just fine because it is not necessary to recreate exactly the same. However, I didn't paint well either in the course. There are so many players making great levels better than me. 

So I will not upload my course until I fix this well. But I'm still happy with this special form. I will continue to use it next time if possible but use it well.