Mega Man Maker

Mega Man Maker (previously known as Mega Maker) is a fan made action-platform game, released in July 2017 for Microsoft Windows. Based on Capcom's Mega Man series, players are able to create and share their own Mega Man levels online[1] such as a traditional stage from the Mega Man series, puzzle levels and automatic levels (which were made popular in Nintendo's Super Mario Maker) and are able to play other people's levels either by searching their level IDs or the level name. The available categories are "newest", "oldest", "worst rated", "best rated", "popular" and "most played" with the number of up votes and downs votes affecting best rated and worst rated respectively.[2] It is commonly referred as a Super Mario Maker alternative by Mega Man fans.[3][4]

Mega Man Maker
Developer(s)Mega Man Maker Team
Director(s)WreckingPrograms
Programmer(s)WreckingPrograms (game and client)
Alex (server and database)
Mors (website)
Artist(s)Gaem
Sodacoma
Schmidkalkan
Composer(s)CosmicGem
RRThiel
Sapphire Sunsets
littlelamp100
SeriesMega Man (unofficial)
Platform(s)Windows
ReleaseJuly 15, 2017
Genre(s)Platform

Gameplay

The stage builder allows users to select from 137 enemies, 53 level objects, 30 bosses, 71 special weapons, 78 backgrounds, 164 tilesets, 3 playable characters, 125 music tracks from the original Mega Man series, and additional items added by the developers. Some of the features include the ability to rate other people's levels, controller support, and level browsing with six different filters.[5]

The game has two major modes, play and build. The build mode allows players to design levels by placing tiles and enemies, setting the music, establishing the character's moveset, etc. Players can also download levels and edit them to their heart’s content.

The play mode allows players to upload their built levels and play others levels. Players can rate the levels they play (but not their own levels) with a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Players can also search for levels by name or by a specific ID code. There is also the Wily Challenge, a mode where players can either get from 10 lives to 100, depending on the options provided for Wily Challenge, to play through random levels. The Wily Challenge has three lengths; Short (5 levels), Medium (10 levels), and Long (20 levels), and then three difficulties; Easy, Normal, and Hard.

Development

The game has been in development since September 2016 and was started by the current leader of the game, WreckingPrograms, who served as the project's leader and central programmer, sprites, and designer.[6] Eleven other developers provided content for the game, ranging from music, artwork, sprites, and programming for the game's website, while a team of fifteen playtesters was hired to test the game.

The game is built on top of the Mega Engine, which was also developed by the creator of the game. Besides bug patches, the developers have included more content down the road, including assets from Mega Man 7 onward as well as other additional features, such as the ability for players to place more than one boss in a level.[7] Mega Man Maker and its development team are not affiliated with Capcom[8] and the game is currently only available on PC.

The latest items, tiles, weapons, backgrounds and music for update 1.6 are from Mega Man 11, as that game was previously not represented in Mega Man Maker. This update also introduced the possibility to build levels with other people online, which was previously not possible in Mega Man Maker.

References
  1. "Mega Maker Allows You To Create Your Own Mega Man Levels". Den of Geek. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
  2. Beck, Kellen. "Make your own Mega-Man level thanks to this fan-made Mega-Man game". Mashable. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
  3. Good, Owen S. (2017-07-09). "Can Mega Maker — a fan game creating Mega Man levels — make it to its July 15 launch?". Polygon. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
  4. "Mega Maker is a neat looking, unofficial Mega Man level editor". pcgamer. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
  5. "'Mega Maker' Game Features Level Creation; Uses Assets From 'Mega Man' 1-6?". www.christianpost.com. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
  6. "Mega Maker's Creator on Building Your Own Mega Man Levels". Shacknews. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
  7. "About Mega Maker".
  8. Good, Owen S. (2017-07-09). "Can Mega Maker — a fan game creating Mega Man levels — make it to its July 15 launch?". Polygon. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
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