I tend to plan out levels long before starting. When I started out with the hack I used graph paper to draw the levels out to convert to a NSMB level. But now I get so many ideas I can't fit them on paper, they just keep flowing and I tend to make levels basing solely around a certain gameplay mechanic.

It can take me anywhere up to 3-4 Hours to design and create a level, and about 30 Minutes to place all the sprites and objects. When I'm done with that, I quickly run through the level on my R4 and fix all the obvious mistakes, and I make sure I can get every Star Coin, and then I finish the level, ready for the testers. Overall, it takes me around 5 hours to create a level from start to finish, and I don't have much to do on weekends, so I can manage making several levels in a matter of days. If I had used all my spare time on NSMB5, it probably would have been finished months ago, but I do have a life.

I'm sorry World 6 is so long overdue, people. Year 12 is unforgiving. Fortunately I have a 2 week break starting today, and i'm hoping to have world 6 finished by the end of the weekend.

Wow... you really have a rough time with school well for now your lucky....
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Great news! I've finished World 6!! I will give the demo to Storment soon. And now, the final stretch, World 8!! This World will probably take me a while as World 8 is the largest World, and also with the way I have designed my Space levels, I'm going to have to make 4 identical variations of the same level for each level. How will it work? Wait and see.

Final Boss has been finished, but there's stil a long way to go for World 8.

I haven't had too much time to work on World 8, but I'm slowly getting there. I've got 5 levels of World 8 done, along with the final boss room.

I'll probably use the rotating rooms. But as I've said before, World 7 and 8 are clone-free worlds. Because World 7 is made up of classic levels, which work better without a clone, and the level designs i've used for World 8 break the rules of clone levels. WAY too many glitches.

The final level of NSMB2 kept the rotating rooms. But the way I did it made the graphics mess up. It seems that the right-half of the tiles in the room get deleted during the transition and are replaced by a mirror image. When the transition finishes it just drops Mario into the same location of the other variation. The tricky way the original developers made it work was by making the design almost identical on both sides so you wouldn't notice anything wierd. That would be something to take into consideration when trying rotating levels.

Hopefully I'll be able to finish 8-4 Tonight. Then there'll be only 5 and a half levels left.

Only 5 levels left now. Finished the Final Castle. But now I want your opinion. The Final Boss Stage is out in space, on the "top" of the castle. Should I make the final battle use the wierd low-gravity physics, For difference's sake? There have been some levels of World 8 that have used this feature already. Plus, it makes the final boss more challenging.