Topic: Nintendo Heavily Utilizing Digital Manual In Super Mario Maker

[Kairon]

They're hoping players gain an advantage from the manual's best practices, videos, and even its advice column.

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The digital manual for Super Mario Maker will feature best practices, videos, and even an advice column in the hopes of inspiring and guiding creators within the game.

Since Super Mario Maker is built on the idea that players can create their own custom Mario platforming stages within the game, Nintendo is hoping the beefed up digital manual features help out would-be level designers.

"We found that players get stuck in creating a course," Nintendo Game Director Yosuke Oshino related, "they can look to [the e-manual] for inspiration again and again in getting them on their way." Nintendo Designer Takashi Tezuka added that "it's going to be packed with all sorts of interesting content."

Indeed, the purpose of the added content is to give players guidelines, tips, and encouragement to make compelling levels within the title. For example, the videos can do things like show players where they should place coins for the most effectiveness, and teach players how to build structures for Mario to jump on or over.

"We think you can read the Super Mario Maker manual all day," Tezuyka admitted. As for Oshino, he said they were "actually really, really proud of our e-manual."