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Post your suggestions for the next Level Designer contest, whether it be Last Legacy or Super Mario 63, here!
If it's a theme that would only work for one game or the other try to clarify. Also, please make sure you can actually do something out of your theme suggestion. Provide a few ways for your theme to work, like a good tileset for it, some gimmicks to make it fit the theme more, etc. If you have to pin it down to a really precise glitch, then it's way too specific. If you have no idea how you can make it, it's impossible for the average level designer.
Also, now that we have a brand new thread, try to check previous suggestions now that we don't have about 200 pages of suggestions.



Old Suggestions Topics
Super Mario 63

All the themes that were used on LDCs in the past:

SM63

• Hot and Cold
• Bowser's New Castle
• Desert Oasis
• Halloween
• Unfinished Level
• Airship
• Ruined Treasure
• Garden
• Runouw.com
• Bridge Over Troubled Waters
• Galaxy
• 2012
• Alternate Dimension
• Beach
• Pure Platformer
• Earth and Sky
• Musical Moods
• Winter
• Freestyle
• Death
• All Things Mario
• Storytelling
• Cave
• Fire
• Science
• Jungle
• Forest
• Conflict
• Water
• Urban
• Grasslands
• Finale / The Ultimate Battle

LL

• Spooky
• Time Travel
• Snow with Mountains / Mountains with Snow
• Ruins
• Temple

Oh is this part of the new rearrangement? Cool.
Alright umm...how about cubism? Like Picasso. Could that work in SM63 and LL?

Also double post (EDIT: oh wait thanks Ninja Veso) but I gave a quick look at the old Contest Theme Suggestions thread and I got some themes (Note: It doesn't include the LDC themes) (Also Note: It's in Google Docs so you can Edit it and help me)

Here's the list

How about "Natural Disasters"?

Making a level involving one of the many natural disasters, or even two.

For example, I can make a level about a foreign land facing a massive flood and Mario has to save them somehow. Or, I can make a level about Mario having to fight against hurricanes and landslides to reach the top of a mountain.

How about an Artificial theme of sorts? Stuff that's not natural, like maybe man-made materials or whatnot?

Natural Disasters could be good; just not sure about the hurricane part.

Artificial is hard to imagine something concrete, unless you mean stuff like Plastic Beach, in which case it's a little bit too strict.

FrozenFire wrote:Natural Disasters could be good; just not sure about the hurricane part.

Did we have that one before? I can't quite remember.

Night time or darkness theme maybe? Unless that's too much like Space.

I'm sure a number of these have already been suggested, but I'm running down everything I can think of right now...

SM63 Only

• Hat Trick (Must use the Cap Powerups)
• Stars and Stripes (Must use lots of either Red Coins or Silver Stars - no plain Shine sprites)
• Lone Star (No Red Coins or Silver Stars)
• Flooded (Must use FLUDD)

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LL Only

• "Hands Free" or "Kick Boxing" (Only weapon allowed is Handcuffs)
• "Shot Put" or "Thrown" (Only allowed weapon is thrown - fireball, axe, or ring)
• "Duel" or "Sword Fight" (Only allowed weapon is swords)
• "Upside Down" "Topsy Turvy" or simply "Gravity" (Whole level must be gravity altered)
• "Colorful" or "Rainbow" or "Monochrome" (Whole level must have color modification of some sort - either multiple colors or one specified color)
• "Blind" or "Spotlight" (Must use the Darkness trigger at 100% for the whole level)
• "Slo-mo" or "Lag" (Must use Time Control trigger)
• "It Takes a Village" or "Villager" or "Townie" (Must have some part of the level set in a village/town with multiple NPCs)
• "Grinding" (Finishing the level must be by collecting multiple drops from enemies, or gathering specified number of coins or similar mechanic)

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Both

• All or Nothing (either uses all available powerups or none at all)
• Bottomless Pit (whole or most of level needs to be platforms over empty space)
• Mining (Finishing the level by breaking through the ground - breakable blocks for SM63 or lots of Delta for LL)
• Vertical (Self explanatory)
• Tragedy (Unwinnable level, but asks that you die in a specific way)
• Long Haul (All entries must be at least 999 in one direction)
• At Death's Door (Must play level with little to no life and/or no health powerups)
• Bouncy House (Must have some mechanic in it for bouncing the player along for some part of the level - either platforms or bouncing off of enemies)
• Race (Level must played under some kind of time constraint - either an actual timer, or forced movement/autoscroll)
• Moving blocks (Level must be made of only moving blocks)
• Switch (Finishing the level must require hitting a switch of some kind)
• Underwater (Whole level must be under water)

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