Super Mario Maker Web Portal Arriving in December

It would be cool if you could generate QR codes and share them online.
It would also be cool if you could play your own levels on your 3DS.

Maybe in a future update...

I reckon there's some tie-in here with the new Nintendo Account service because you can access levels in the game you had bookmarked on the web/app

This will be good and useful.

But why?

Why can't this search be implemented into the actual game instead? All it seems to be getting is a new tab where you can view all the levels you've saved for later via the web portal.

Seems like a typical Nintendo move. Not doing things the obvious way and making things unnecessarily complicated.

But still, it's gonna be great to search with more criteria. Maybe I can avoid all automatic, water and scrolling levels now.

I agree with A01 that it would be nice to see this integrated directly into the game... but this is still a huge step forward for the game. Discovery has always been the biggest problem with this game - and while the improved portal won't be perfect it will be the best option available so far!

I like this allot. I dont even have the game but I can imagine picking out cool ones to play at my mates who have it in advance.

More great news to come out of this Direct, then. Searching for levels by typing their names? Yes please.

Anyone here listen to NVC on IGN's website? I love those guys and listen weekly. Jose and Peer have been clamouring for this for weeks! They have both said that searching for what you like is the biggest hurdle for the online community. Interestingly enough, Miyamoto-san has said the game has generated a lot more nastiness in the courses than they thought haha. It's true! Some stages and just mean haha. I think this could help casual gamers find easier levels or levels with higher completion rates. This is a smart move by Nintendo.

@Captain_Gonru They could call it "2nd screen". Because when I see that pic of a smartphone all I can think of it using a 2nd screen with an Xbox.

Typed on my Wii U Gamepad for the irony.

@Captain_Gonru PS - The ad idea would make me feel better if it were an app. The fact that fhey are showing it in a web browser on a smartphone rather than an app makes me think they still use dial up AOL in Nintendo HQ.

Good idea, but terrible executed. Why is it impossible to add text search in WWW and ingame?

@Captain_Gonru But does anybody even go to a web browser to click on a bookmark, or do people just click on an app that then opens a web browser to taht page? I'm OK w/ the back end being a web browser page, but it needs an app front end for people to see it on their phones. That's the way mobile works.

Shades of the NX are beginning right under our noses... I love it.

@rjejr Web apps provide ultimate portability, though, because as long as the layout is coded intelligently, it can work on any device with any screen size. This avoids needing a team just for an iOS app, a team just for an Android app, a team just for a Windows app, etc. Moreover, they can easily make updates that will be pushed to every single user immediately and it saves space on everyone's phone.

Chrome's "Add To Homescreen" button is great, as it essentially turns whatever website you're viewing in to an app and would be perfect with this SMM website.

Cool! I'm pretty sure they'll implement this into the actual game, eventually, too.

@rjejr You can make an icon out of every link in Android.

This news just sold at least one copy of Super Mario Maker. Having to deal with typing in BS Friend Codes was the biggest reason I didn't want this game. Now it's gone and it has a proper web portal where you add levels to your queue and then find them waiting for you in-game. Don't know what took them so long, it should have been there at launch, but now I'll get a copy of this game.

Not sure why they aren't adding these search options to the game as well, but I'm sure they will eventually.

@rjejr Okay, so bookmark the page and drop the bookmark on your home screen. There's your "app". No, not everything needs an app on mobile, people just need to learn how to use their phones properly. At work we have a machine that's always spitting out errors in German, so I put a translation app on my phone. And by translation app I mean a shortcut to Google Translate on the web browser. Links to web pages mean I don't actually have to download apps that waste space on my phone and aren't as easily updated or supported on all phones. You sound like you're the one still using dial up AOL when you ask for an inferior app instead of being grateful that they're doing a web page that all can access. Apps should be for things that are actual programs, things you can't actually do in a web browser. Apps should not be "here's a web page in a downloadable format because we want to develop three different versions and waste space on your phone lawl".

@HarryK: You can do it in iOS as well. (my phone mentioned above is an iPhone)

Miiverse posts should have 'play now' link as well as the numbers. So old fashioned to scribble the numbers down on paper then retype in the game

@rjejr
We you can still use it with the gamepad then just close the browser with the game already runnig it will be pretty quick.

Sounds like a brilliant app and another Nintendo/Mobile connection.

I watched it on the Nintendo Direct. I was extremely disappointed. Only aesthetic criteria like backgrounds or music, or right meaningless like region. I was hoping for a real sorting taken into consideration quality, cohesion, things like that, like the best levels you could play according to Nintendo or users, because most of the levels are crazy or worthless.

Those weekly level lists here on Nintendo life will be a lot more convenient to use now if they link to something we can click on to add the level to our game

I think this is awesome. Back when I was more into COD, I used to jump on their browser to check out stats, progress, and load-outs just to waste time. I'll actually use this.

@HarryK @SetupDisk @Captain_Gonru @mjc0961 @Sgt_Ludby

Thanks everyone for all the feedback and your common theme - summed up nicely here:

"people just need to learn how to use their phones properly."

And there's the rub. And my reply. If it's so easy to do, why do we have apps then, why don't companies all just make websites and let people make their own icons? B/c people want and expect apps, that's why.

If its so easy let Nintendo do it, why should 2 million people have to make their own links?

I'm ok if they skip Windows, iOS and Android is fine.

@rjejr Well, it just depends on ease of use. Android and iOS just have to place the "create an app" button prominently and that's it. Websites can even have background services and notifications now, which was the big plus of apps. Websites and apps will more or less merge, if the apps don't offer any functionalities.

Heh, isn't punched in to the game itself, but hey, one of the main problems of the game is solved.

Consider this my shameless plug, I manually play through and rank the very best levels each and every week so that you don't have to! So if anyone here has some Mario Maker levels that want some loving remember to check out my channel for some great Mario Maker levels!

Top 10 best Mario Maker levels for this week! Since I skipped week 8 there are a lot of great levels! And had to cut a lot of great levels too! So remember to send those codes over my Youtube so that you don't miss out on being ranked for week 10! And now that we are getting that Mario Maker search page I know I might not be using it as long as you keep sending me those levels directly to me! Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/YZgyUkynFIo

Why Nintendo doesn't add these features to the actual game (as a update) is anyone's guess. Now I need to visit the mentioned site to create a play-list I'll later find in the game. Strange.