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  MARIO MAKER 2 IS OUT! I've been sketching Mario levels on paper since I was five, and now that I'm studying game design, level design is actually a career-relevant skill. You can imagine how hyped I was for the first Mario Maker, and this time was no different. I might post some of my level codes on dA once in a while, if people are interested.
  But anyway, this piece isn't about Mario Maker 2. The reason I bring it up is, I actually got so impatient for the game's release that I decided to try out Lunar Magic, the program used for making Super Mario World romhacks. As it turns out, at the time I downloaded it, the community was right in the middle of an overworld design contest-- and hey, I happen to like making maps!
  So, working off an old map concept I never used for anything, I whipped this up. Now, it's nothing too fancy. No events, a relatively low 56 level exits, and almost entirely vanilla except for a few custom sprites. I also couldn't quite pull off everything I wanted to do, due to SMW's limited tilesets. However, it does accomplish my primary goals of looking nice and not causing softlocks. If you're curious about the route players would take through this map, I have a labeled version as well (although, really, you could probably puzzle it out from just the map itself).

EDIT: The contest results came in, and this map got 5th place out of 26. Not bad for a guy who never used Lunar Magic before this!

Description
  MARIO MAKER 2 IS OUT! I've been sketching Mario levels on paper since I was five, and now that I'm studying game design, level design is actually a career-relevant skill. You can imagine how hyped I was for the first Mario Maker, and this time was no different. I might post some of my level codes on dA once in a while, if people are interested.
  But anyway, this piece isn't about Mario Maker 2. The reason I bring it up is, I actually got so impatient for the game's release that I decided to try out Lunar Magic, the program used for making Super Mario World romhacks. As it turns out, at the time I downloaded it, the community was right in the middle of an overworld design contest-- and hey, I happen to like making maps!
  So, working off an old map concept I never used for anything, I whipped this up. Now, it's nothing too fancy. No events, a relatively low 56 level exits, and almost entirely vanilla except for a few custom sprites. I also couldn't quite pull off everything I wanted to do, due to SMW's limited tilesets. However, it does accomplish my primary goals of looking nice and not causing softlocks. If you're curious about the route players would take through this map, I have a labeled version as well (although, really, you could probably puzzle it out from just the map itself).

EDIT: The contest results came in, and this map got 5th place out of 26. Not bad for a guy who never used Lunar Magic before this!