Whoops I Accidentally More Courses Again, Someone Take This Game Away From Me

Whoops I accidentally more courses again, someone take this game away from me

Adventure! - Secrets and shortcuts abound! Zip through in record time or explore at your own pace. F539-0000-004C-4BA6

Cannons’ Cliff - A level with on-rails shooters! I mean, uh, cannons on tracks. (I’m not sorry.) 6B81-0000-0048-C696

Cinnamon Cavern - One heated minute to traverse a deadly corridor. Speedrunning skills are key! E13E-0000-0058-8E3D

Dark Side of the Airship - A perilous climb beneath a floating behemoth. Be sure to jump on the Note Block at the beginning! 5CD6-0000-0057-C125

Quick update

Hey! Here’s a quick update on my current state of affairs.

You may have noticed I haven’t been saying much over the past few - well, I guess it’s months at this point. (Or you may have forgotten I exist...) It’s not just the blog, I’ve been pretty quiet on all fronts. Unfortunately, it’s not because I have some announcement up my sleeve, or something I’ve been doing that takes up all my time.

I just haven’t been saying much... to anyone. Or doing much of anything. At all.

College has been totally kicking my butt lately. (You know it’s serious because I pretty much NEVER say that.) I’ve lacked the energy to anything but the most important of my itinerary, and even that gets neglected more often than I care to admit. Now add to that a few big projects that I want to tackle, and it all feels like a crushing mountain of failure. I don’t have much that’s important on my plate, so I have the time to do any of these things, it’s just that I’ve been too drained to start.

To be quite honest, I have no idea when I’ll get better. My situation isn’t directly caused by college. It’s the length of every day, the lack of replenishment in my down time. Undersleeping during the week, and then oversleeping on the weekend. A lack of energy to care for myself. It’s a vicious, self-defeating cycle that’s really hard to break out of.

Mind, I’m not totally hopeless. I’ve been doing a few things here and there - I still read my dash, tweet occasionally, and hang with my friends sometimes. I’ve even drawn a little for the first time in five years. But all of the big projects that I want to accomplish are on the backburner right now until I figure this stuff out. It may take forever, but I’m determined to fix this.

Expect to hear from me again in the future, perhaps with big news. In the meantime, just know that I’m working towards getting better.

Why wouldn’t I be making Super Mario Maker levels with all my spare time?

A couple of these were already posted here, but I included them anyway just to keep everything in one place. If you want to catch these levels as they’re posted, check out my Twitter.

I reuploaded this level with some bugfixes - Mario could get stuck in a few places, which is to be expected with something of this scope. Shouldn’t be an issue anymore. Course ID is above.

I made a level in Super Mario Maker called Duality that flips upside-down every time Mario enters a pipe. The course ID is 2FA8-0000-0030-C2AD if you want to try it out!

More, more, more Mario! Because level design is my life, or something.

4-2 Remix (SMBS) - A level from the little-known Super Mario Bros. Special, complete with hidden secrets! 471A-0000-0086-00B9

Grape Garden 3 Remix - The blimp level from Kirby’s Adventure, adapted for Super Mario Maker! 69C1-0000-0086-2050

Stonefall - No enemies, just rocks. Lots and lots of rocks. A9DE-0000-006A-8FB9

The Time Machine - An autoscrolling level that you “rewind” with doors to solve puzzles. 5CC1-0000-0088-4A13

Here’s a digital art thing I made recently! It’s my first real attempt with it so it’s nothing fancy yet, but I’m glad I’m starting to get back into drawing more - it’s something I’ve missed a lot.

Speaking of missing a lot, I actually posted this a whole month back on Twitter... haven’t been on Tumblr in a long time, I really need to fix that. How many memes have I been missing out on???