[WIP] Mario Worker: Community Edition

JUE13

This is a development thread. Prototype is available.

A preview version, the Prototype Build 1, is available to download.

Mario Worker: Community Edition

A Mario Forever level editor based on Thunder Engine. A successor to other Mario Worker editors out there.

I started the development back in February of 2025, but after a long hiatus and release of MF:CE v2.0 update, I decided to come back to this project in September of 2025.

Project Source code: https://github.com/meteo-dream/mario-worker-ce

Current progress: Prototype Build 1 is available with the most basic features.

Prototype Build 1 Features

Can edit, load, save, and play levels
Pressing Space opens up the tile/object picker menu
Some enemies that come by default in Thunder Engine are available
- More complex enemies (yellow paratroopas, rotodiscs, etc.) are planned for later
Can resize the editor window without stretching its contents, for more comfortable level building
- Levels will still be played in 640x480 window like usual
Select tool, Pan tool, Paint tool, Pick tool, Erase tool, and grid customization
Camera zooming in level editor
Use either Pan Tool to move the camera, or hold middle mouse button in any tool
- Hold Ctrl and use arrow keys for classic scrolling
Controllable player in the editor, which may help with tile placements a little
Very basic level properties
- Level information and time limit
- Gradient background for the current section
- Camera limits for the current section
- "Wide-screen" checkbox, which will resize the game window to 864x480 resolution if checked
Selecting individual objects with the Select tool, that can then be either removed by pressing Delete key, or edited by pressing right click
- Select multiple objects by holding Shift
- Better selection experience will come later
3 sections per level, limited to 48000x24000px each
- Up from 2 sections limited to 20000x10080px each in MWR
- Sections are modular, so in theory, there can be an infinite amount of sections
- Unfinished: tiles cannot be placed on sections other than 1, and there is no way to navigate between them in a level
Most tiles from the original MF, along with some featuring slopes
An option for some tilesets to draw terrain that connects with neighboring tiles automatically
Power-ups, that could be put inside question blocks, or placed on levels as is
Basic Overworld decoration objects
Several language translations are available
Special objects: initial player position and finish line

Planned features (for full release)

Properties for individual enemies
- Either a dropdown box, or a list on the right-side panel
Most, if not all, hazards and enemies from original MF
Pipe and door warps
Tileset editor, along with custom tiles
Custom music in levels
Parallax background and foreground
Brown/Blue/Gray bricks and question blocks for each section
- Will also make these sprites customizable in the future
Scenario system
- Will be an integral part of created levels
- Will have more options that will affect all levels in the scenario
- The player can either choose to play the whole scenario, or an individual level of it
- Editable cutscenes between levels in scenarios
Platforms and options for them
Water and lava
Complex enemies and hazards, like roto-discs, podoboos, and others
Exporting levels in ZIP archives and loading them directly, which would solve the frequent problem of MWR when it comes to custom stuff
- Might mask it under a custom format, so that people don't confuse it with non-playable ZIP archives
Simple map system with ability to insert a PNG image of a map
Some tweaks from MF: Community Edition, including Luigi, skins, and engine tweaks

Planned in the far future

Undo/Redo system
Editable camera areas in sections, similar to Hardcore World 1-3
Most stuff that MWR provides, along with additions from our own projects and other stuff that I can come up with
Forced/Preferred engine tweaks for scenarios
Expandable screen size per scenario (from 640x480 up to 1280x720)

I will continue updating the post and posting in this thread as the development progresses. Might take a while for a full release to come out, though. Periodically, I will release public prototypes.

DOWNLOAD: https://rnx.su/s/MarioWorkerCommunityEdition

Laki

When its finished, this might be the definitive Mario Worker edition out there! This sounds really cool, and I guess it isn't bound the the limitations of Clickteam, like the massive lag from making big levels due to every tile being its own object. I can't wait to try it out!

docky

@Laki me too

JUE13

Devlog from September 28:

Made object picker have subcategories for better organization, which can be folded.
Tilesets are now actually shown in the object picker. Each subcategory corresponds to its own TileSet, where you can select an atlas with tiles. (Pipes will be in their own tileset)
When you select an atlas from object picker, a menu at the bottom appears with tiles to be selected within the atlas.
The tile drawing itself isn't ready yet, but you will be able to paint over other tilesets, as well as change the drawing order for the whole tileset.

Alongside tilesets, there are some more changes:

Categories (which is what you choose between enemies, items, tiles, etc) are now independent of each other when drawing, so you can paint enemies over coins for example.
Objects now show a visible 32x32 interaction box in the level editor when placed, so that you know where to interact with it (the object sprite itself is only visual). These red boxes appear only if you have the corresponding category selected.
- For example, the following image is in Enemies category:
- Here is the Items category:

RunninPigeon

when do you think this will be finished? cuz it looks amazing

JUE13

@RunninPigeon a prototype will be released soon

JUE13

Devlog from September 29:

Fully implemented tiles, can draw now
Tile selection shortcuts by scroll wheel and 1, 2, 3, 4 keys added
Tilemaps without any tiles are automatically deleted

New editor tile system in action:
https://rnx.su/index.php/s/XR3XWdfyCWAEYmL?dir=/

JUE13

Devlog:

The gradient setting in level properties now actually works, and also some presets are available
Pressing H key in the editor sets player's position to mouse cursor (not saved in the level)
Picker tool now works with tiles, but not for objects yet. Also available by holding Ctrl and clicking a tile
Different sections can be explored in the editor now
The editor camera is now limited from (-640, -480) to (48640, 24480)
Added a button to center editor camera on the first screen of the current section
Added an editor option to erase any object of the selected category by right click. By default, it's off, only erasing objects of the same type
The cyan outline around the level is the in-game camera limit, the settings for which i will add later

Vontar

Amazing progress!! Really excited for the prototype

JUE13

YouTube now knows about this project too! Also showing some recent progress on video.
Youtube Video

JUE13

Devlog:

Added support for translations
Switching between editing categories now stores selected object for the previous category, like in MWR
Holding Ctrl in the editor and pressing arrow keys now scrolls the camera like in MWR
Added power-ups to the object list menu
Power-ups can be inserted into Containers (question block and brick) by selecting the power-up to paint, hovering over a placed container and pressing left click
Overworld music is now playing in levels (testing feature)

JUE13

Devlog:

Added translations to some languages: French, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Chinese (simplified)
- Thanks to Sonilan, Ulvvis, Akanavy, Master 48, miyameon, Yaolinggui, and Yukana!
Added a temporary way to change camera limits of levels, available under "Experimental" tab in level properties. This will be reworked in the future
Added an option to make wide screen levels, available in the same "Experimental" tab
Some editor settings are now saved between sessions
- Some of them have had their default values changed
Eraser Tool now works with tiles category, erasing tiles from all tile maps, in contrary to right clicking with Paint Tool
Added some simple decoration to showcase how it works
New "Special" objects: Start Player Position, and Finish Line
Added quick switching through objects using the mouse wheel or 1, 2, 3, 4 keys on keyboard, similar to MWR
- Previously this was only implemented for tiles
Default grid settings for objects are now 16x16 pixels. Grid display has been adjusted to account for smaller grids
- Tiles will still have a 32x32 grid without offsets for performance reasons
- Some settings for tiles will be more customizable in the future
Tiles in the bottom panel are now sorted a little better
Mario can no longer go past the left border of the screen
- There are no restrictions for the right border of the screen yet
The editor now supports high DPI displays, and will be scaled to 200% automatically for such screens
- Can be overridden by editing editor_scale property in editor_config.thss file. Values below 0.5 are "Auto"; set to 1.0 for 100% scale (the default)

The prototype is going to be released in just a few days!!
Sorry for taking longer than what the video said. I will post a new video on YouTube when it releases, as well as another post in this thread.

P-Tux7

Here is a sheet with some enemies I would suggest to be added: https://www.spriters-resource.com/custom_edited/mariocustoms/asset/136823/

-Goombud
-Spike Top (red and blue)
-Banzai Bill
-Muncher
-Monty Mole (two kinds, hopping and chasing)
-Boo
-Spike
-Aimed Fireball/Iceball Piranha Plant (like SMB3)
-Sledge Bro
-Boom Boom and Para-Boom Boom

Also I'd like to suggest some para-enemies which doesn't require new sprites, such as the Para-Goomba and the Para-Spiny from Super Mario Maker.

I also made a SMB1 Gao sprite for SMBX, maybe you can use that?

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Enemies I am interested to sprite if you want:
-Bony Beetle
-Thwimp
-Para-Beetle (SMB3)
-Mega Mole
-Sideways Thwomp
-Other Super Mario Land enemies

JUE13

Prototype Build 1 release!
Youtube Video

Download: https://rnx.su/index.php/s/JnE7kak24tYzz4X

human-foxstudio

I know this is only a prototype build, but I have a couple suggestions for features that I think should be either in an update or the full release:

Ctrl + Z and Ctrl +Y keys as Undo and Redo keys.

The ability to select multiple objects at once with a selection box.

Different level goals - Flagpole, SMB3 box, pipes and etc.

Enemies from other Mario games.

Visual effects in level, so people can recreate world 3-4 and do other cool stuff.

Yoshi50Windows

I suggest to change "nível" to "fase" in the PT-BR translation.

LXS

add what enemy

docky

i wanna see the polish language in this game (not available yet)

WSW

Would MW:CE be ported to mobile platforms?

JUE13

@WSW It's not guaranteed, and it's one of the least important tasks to me