Creating a first-person adventure game with Super Mario Maker

Super Mario Maker 2 is designed to let you create your own Mario platformer levels, but the tools are flexible enough that a sufficiently ingenious creator can make all kinds of amazing things with them.

Enter aaaa, whose Super Mario Maker 2 level, 3D Maze House (P59-698-55G), is a first-person adventure game in the mold of Wizardry, an astounding technical feat.

The basic setup is this: Mario needs to escape a creepy house by collecting a few coins, thus granting him a special key for a locked door. The top left of the screen is what Mario "sees," while the bottom gives details on where Mario is located-not just what floor, but precisely where in the house, too-and the right is how Mario makes navigation choices.

A First-Person Adventure Is One of the Coolest Mario Maker Levels Yet [Patrick Klepek/Vice]

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