For anyone new: welcome! We're holding regular level design contests to help give the game unlimited replay value. See the bottom of the post for rules. There's a Pushmo/Pullblox contest you can check out as well.

The current theme is eShop Games. That includes DSiWare and download-only 3DS and Wii U games, but not Virtual Console, 3D Classics or retail downloads. Enter by 11:59PM BST on Wednesday 3rd July.

The last theme was Hardware, and these were the entries:

1. iphys

2. Zyrac

Contest Rules and Schedule
Submissions for each theme are accepted until 11:59PM GMT on the third Wednesday after the theme starts. Post a QR code image to enter.
From Thursday to 11:59PM GMT on Friday, you can vote for the entry you like best. Anyone can vote - no other participation is required.
Once voting ends, the winner will be announced and the next theme will begin.

Bit of a slow start, then, but that's understandable. I'll kick us off:

I'll get started on it, as soon as I finish the first Pushmo...I still haven't finish the extra part of the game

I will be working on something once I have unlocked all of the features in the Crashmo editor, which hopefully is soon. I've been playing it nonstop since noon. LOVING IT!

I think I might join in with this thread! It'll be difficult coming up with a design that's both challenging and fitting with the theme. I never contributed to the Pullblox thread because although users were creating some visually great stages, they were often all too easy to truly appreciate.

I'll see if I can come up with something before the weekend is out.

@Raiko: Then why not contribute and win every time? Man, everyone's a critic.

I tried, but I could do no better. I'm not saying anybody is rubbish here. Just in most cases the levels looked better than they played. That goes for nearly all user created content I played.

I'm going to give it a go on here though!

Making difficult levels is, well, difficult. I try to make my levels challenging, but it's very rare for anyone to come up with a Pullblox design as tough as what the game's developers made. Those guys earned their pay.

That doesn't apply to all games, though, so it may well be a different story here.

If I have some spare time soon I might take a shot at doing one if I can think of a good idea.
Then I'll try for a while, decide that it's not working well enough and give up, but at least the effort is there.

OK, so here's my first ever attempt. I tried to make it difficult, but it'll probably be cracked in a matter of minutes. :/

You need to chill out a bit, Raiko. I'm sure people will appreciate your submission regardless of how long it takes them to beat. I like a challenge and all, but a level doesn't have to be super hard to be enjoyable.

@Zyrac: Exactly! I posted a pretty heated reply early but decided to remove it because I don't want to be all pissy over such a small thing, but I think our work deserves a lot more credit than @Raiko gave it with his comment earlier. I think given that we are restricted by time and themes, we have managed to make some pretty challenging levels. At the very least, I find the difficulty levels each user assigns to their levels are accurate (here on NL I mean, I don't mean in general). Though we may not be producing 5 star difficulty levels every time, I can't help but be a bit offended that @Raiko would determine our levels not worthy of his participation because they don't cause people to spend hours and hours ripping their hair out. There are many things that make Pushmo (and Crashmo) enjoyable. I've calmed down significantly now, but earlier I was pretty much fuming lol.

We do some great work and I'm really disappointed you didn't choose to participate earlier Raiko! We need more people participating in these contests. That being said, I'm going to get working on my submission now ^_^.

<3

EDIT: All done! Enjoy!

At what point do you unlock the features in the studio? You guys know I can't work without ladders. ._.

I'm not trying to offend anybody. I'm not knocking anybody's work. I'm also referring to nearly all pullblox levels I played, not just those made on here. The contest threads are great for keeping the game alive in the months ahead. I was merely stating why I didn't participate in my own level creation in the first game and why I stopped using the feature all together. Unless you were making a random clump of colour, it was always going to be difficult to create something challenging in Pullblox.

My point was that i'm hoping I find things are more appealing with Fallblox as the game is much harder, generally.

Every 10 levels, for the first 6 or 7 sets of levels, introduces a new feature. You only unlock that feature when you've completed all the levels associated with that feature. At least that's how I think it works.

Actually you only need to beat the first level of a world to unlock its gadget... or at least that's how I remember it. And just so you know, the editor is complete once you have move switches. There are less levels than in Pullblox, so it shouldn't take as long to get everything.

I'll enter later when I unlock some features.

Remember guys, this isn't the long schedule you're used to! 24 hours left!

Ugh. I love making NES themed Pushmos, wish I had this

Seems like some people aren't yet ready for this, but we can still continue. This theme's entries:

1. Zyrac

2. Raiko

3. Bazly

You've got until 11:59PM GMT on Friday to vote for one.