Helmsly

Splatoon won the Best Multiplayer at The Game Awards last night:

This is probably my Game of the year. I actually had zero interest in it back when Nintendo first announced it in 2014 and was skipping through any talk of it on the Directs leading up to its release. I just didn't care for it. Then back in May I played the testfire and desperately wanted to play more of it. I pre-ordered the game that night off amazon and when it arrived, I found myself playing it for 4 or 5 hours a night. Much like @Kounan, i would intend to play for just a few of rounds and it would turn into 4 hours without realising it. Even now, six months after its release I'm still putting in a couple of hours a day. Whats also been impressive to me is how well Nintendo have supported it. The game has had a new map or weapon every week along with a few larger updates with new gear. The pacing of it has kept the game fresh throughout the past six months. We're even getting a new stage to play on tonight.

[tweet]672149341751001088[/tweet] Also, here's the archive of the Treehouse Splatournament:

I am starting to wish they would put more then two maps in rotation now. There are currently Thirteen maps in total in this game, and most probably more to come so it makes no sense to keep it locked at two. Especially when they up it to three during the Splatfests.

[tweet]670150375547256832[/tweet]

[tweet]669094604176818180[/tweet]

[tweet]667631804694835200[/tweet] .

[tweet]666888779387576320[/tweet] Was added last night.

Yeah pretty much the best thing to do is this. As Serebii mentioned, get off expert mode, it's trash. Normal mode is where're better stages are. Featured mode has a decent selection of levels too, and when you find a stage you like, click on the creators profile and see what else they've made. And of course this very forum has a lot of really good level creators posting their stuff in the Mario maker ID thread

Will try and join you guys some time this week

[tweet]660411122198163456[/tweet]

When you delete stuff while creating a level, randomly the item you delete turns into three flys. You just have to swat them all and the mini game starts up.

EU Splatfest results:

[tweet]652785816356454400[/tweet]

This is worth watching for some tips and ideas, Nintendo UK had Playtonic Games (the team making Yooka-Laylee) showcase some levels they made in Mario Maker.

Click on Mario and Drag him to the pipe you want players to be able to enter. It should load a new area and ask you to place the other end of the pipe for Mario to come out of. Whats also neat is you can change the setting of the other area the pipe leads to, so for example your level can start in a underground stage and the pipe can take them to a ghost stage

Results are in: I was on Team Messy. Got 24 Seashells for my troubles

Castle Level I made the other night. I also attempted to remake a couple of levels from other games which you can see if you click on my Mii character if you load this stage. Transylvania from DuckTales for the NES and the sewer stage from level 1 and 2 of TMNT for the NES. They don't translate too well to Mario but I just wanted to try making them anyway

You can upload screenshots to an image host site directly with the Wii U browser. Just press the home button to take the screenshot, click on the Wii U browser and go to an image hosting site like Imgur or whatever and click on upload. Obviously, It helps to make an account on the site so you can access all your images easily. (Not a level I created, this level came up during an expert run on 100 Mario's lol)

Ha! My copy just arrived from amazon. Looking forward to playing some of the levels you guys created.

The voice cast for this is quite impressive:

Same for me but with Amazon. The tracker has a Royal Mail tracking number that Royal Mails website says isn't recognised and Amazon claim its currently out for delivery. It aint coming today, its past 8pm Edit- ...And yet Mario Maker was still in stock at Amazon.co.uk untill this morning.

I think that's what happened. The order page has changed for me now and it says it'll be here tomorrow but also says its currently out for delivery

Yeah, this is probably the first time I've formally complained about anything. In fact, right now, the Amazon store page for Mario Maker says its in stock and even has the option to have it delivered today, yet my pre-ordered amazon prime order won't arrive until next week.