The Top 10 Video Games With Level Designers

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08 November, 2022

The Top 10 Video Games With Level Designers

You can create games in certain games, and such games may be very good. Here are the top games that make advantage of the excellent level building tool.



Sometimes, game creators give their blood, sweat, and tears so that we may give our blood, sweat, and tears—but for a lot less money—to the same thing. In reality, we pay them for the opportunity because level-creation games are fantastic for releasing creativity and, maybe a little bit of mayhem. For fun, you know.



With the knowledge that there is no way to fully convey what each of these games is capable of in the limitations of a concise piece of writing, we have gathered a few of our favorite level editors to present here. However, keep in mind that each of the games offers (or supplied) online communities where players could share and appreciate other other's levels.



10/10. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator



Armies clash in Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, or TABS for short. This game transcends the concept of a level creator in that it focuses more on establishing the obstacle arrangement than the actual architecture of the level. Players may design competing armies and then pit them against one another in the game Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, which has the ideal amount of sarcasm for such a dumb thing in its name.



There are many swordsmen, archers, pikemen, shamans, war mounts, siege weapons, monstrous harbingers of death, and even a rewind button in case you want to watch your red and blue googly-eyed crash dummies die in slow motion! It has everything a completely accurate battle simulator could possibly need.



9/10. Ben 10 Alien Force Game Creator

Gamemaker for Ben 10 Alien Force

One of the most heinous crimes of the twenty-first century is the removal of this game from the Cartoon Network website. However, when was the Ben 10 Alien Force Game Creator accessible? That was the time. Let's examine how outstanding this ostensibly straightforward one-off was.



B10AFGC (sorry, we're not coming up with a better acronym) gave players a single screen to squeeze as much chaotic creativity into as they could. There were several traps and opponents to choose from in addition to designing a level with vertical tiers, comparable to the layouts of arcade games. The option to choose which of Ben's extraterrestrial heroes would be the main character was the actual thrill. Each one has a particular control structure and skill set. Although quite simple, it was ideal.



8/10 Level editor screen for Portal 2

With Portal, Valve created an instant classic. What are a teleporting gun, a feisty robot AI, and ominous lore hints? That is essentially the perfect gaming trifecta. When the sequel was launched, it ingeniously developed the themes and included a level editor DLC for PC gamers that is still in use over ten years later.



The initial plan was to let users design their own, simple testing spaces with doors, boxes, and huge, red buttons. However, the community has naturally gone a bit farther, adding patches to broaden the mechanics to the point that they're producing market-quality stuff.



Maker King Maker King 7/10

Master King, in contrast to the other games on this list, is now under early access, which implies that the player population serves as a test audience for an unfinished game. Fortunately, Master King is a no-charge game, so there's minimal chance of really losing money. A two-dimensional side-scrolling platformer with opportunities to customize the area and produce specific character items, including monster mounts, is the level creator by Green Frisbee Games.



Mario seems to have a Super Meat Boy color, which is a brilliantly ironic aesthetic choice. Many of the game's elements seem to be inspired by other well-known series, such as Portal and Donkey Kong. The multiplayer ability of Maker King, which enables users to compete in real-time on levels created by other players, is a standout feature.



Happy Wheels: 6/10

Happy Wheels

The world was never the same when Fancy Force released Happy Wheels online in 2010. The game's slogan, "Choose your insufficiently equipped racer, and overlook catastrophic repercussions in your frantic pursuit for victory," explains it up better than anything we could write. It would be an understatement to say that it was a success. It would be correct to describe it as functionally identical to QWOP.



Even so, it is well-liked and unquestionably deserves its notoriety. The conditions for success, the level layout, and the obstacles—typically sawblades, spikes, and highly armed NPCs with no need to move—can all be customized by the player using the level editor. Happy Wheels is a lesson on how to make something so absurd that no one can help but laugh at it. Simply expect a lot of cartoon blood.



5/10\sMinecraft\sMinecraft

Although it wasn't technically intended to be one, Minecraft was undoubtedly utilized as one. For those who are unaware, Minecraft is really a survival game with RPG elements whose components may be rearranged in sufficient ways to essentially make whatever the player desires. In essence, Minecraft is essentially electronic Lego.



According to the broadest meaning of level creation, Hogwarts and New York City are both represented in Minecraft as copies. In a same vein, enormous interconnected tales that are recorded for an audience have also been utilized as improv stages in Minecraft. In a more literal sense, people have used Minecraft to make entirely functional versions of Pokemon Red and platforming obstacle courses. Creativity has no boundaries, and neither does Minecraft.



3.5/10 for Super Mario Maker

First Super Mario Maker

Mario Maker earned its laurels not just by being the first widely-played triple-A game designed only for level construction, but also by being an exceptionally enjoyable and well-polished experience. Listen, everything Nintendo does is a platinum seller; that's just how it is.



Players have the ability to combine known gameplay elements to create fresh ones, such as stacking foes into a lethal tower or giving whatever you wanted Mario to have difficulty reaching wings. Music levels were created after players discovered that the bouncing music blocks' pitch changed when they were positioned at a certain height. Players may still create local levels for the Wii U game even if they are no longer able to share them, despite the servers now only having restricted functionality.



3/10

Roblox\sRoblox

At first sight, Roblox seems to be nothing more than Minecraft's off-brand cousin, but it makes up for what it lacks in a unified appearance by putting more of an emphasis on the level editor. Its main goal is to provide users the resources they need to create their own games and a server on which to host such games.



The website is well-liked by horror enthusiasts looking for a place to frighten as many people as they can. It's also often used to reproduce well-known media, such Beat Saber, Squid Game, and Friday Night Funkin. One of the most socially connected games on our list, Roblox stands out from the competition since it mainly relies on voice chat.





Super Mario Maker 2 gets a 2/10

Super Mario Maker 2

Mario Maker 1 and 2 are quite distinct games, despite the fact that include two titles from the same brand may seem repetitious. A large number of Mario's more contemporary foes, multiplayer creation and play, and the Super Creator World were also included in the sequel.



The user may construct their own Mario game in Super Creator World, replete with custom overworlds, using the levels they have made. It gives us the impression that we not only made something, but also something unified, entire, complete, and sometimes, something enrage-inspiring.



1/10\sDreams\sDreams

Dreams, created by Media Molecule and released by Sony, is, well, everything. The Playstation game is almost a complete game maker. The ability to create fully drawn, two- or three-dimensional worlds from the ground up with assets, game mechanics, music, and more is provided to players (who are we fooling, no one plays Dreams, they work in it).



Interested in creating a side-scrolling platformer? That is something dreams are capable of. Perhaps a strange culinary simulator? Even dreams have that power. Hey, how about an RPG that is based on a well-known series and has voice acting done by pros from the original work? You can really achieve it via your dreams.