SMBX Newsletter - June / July 2020

[Taycamgame]

SMBX Newsletter - June / July 2020

Hello, and welcome to Issue #2 of the SMBX Newsletter! This will cover a bunch of things that have taken place since the last installment. Lets get into it!


SMBX2 News
The latest release of SMBX2 is Beta 4 Patch 2 Hotfix 1. Featuring bug fixes and a few other small bits in addition to everything from Beta 4's initial release, so be sure to download it if you haven't already:

https://codehaus.wohlsoft.ru/downloads.php

Make sure you download the correct version. If you already have beta 4 installed, download "Patch 2 w/ Hotfix". If you haven't downloaded beta 4 already, you should select "Full Download".


Upcoming / Current Contests
The level submission period for Chocolate Contest X1 has finished! Stay tuned for the results...


Level of the Month - June

Results: show

 

Statistics:
Level Count - 9
Votes Cast - 48
Tied Placements - 3

Congratulations to Prox for winning LOTM for June - your level, "Corrupted Cyberspace Countdown", received 15 votes!
Check out the rest of the results here:
viewtopic.php?f=69&t=25975


Featured Episodes and Demos
The Princess Cliche 2 by Super Wario Bros

More Info: show

Although this is an unofficial sequel to The Princess Cliche, this episode will allow you to have a fresh experience while still keeping the charm of the original. Gather the 16 Fallen Stars - can you do it in 30 minutes? Get it here:
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=26057

 
 

Quest for Cheeseburgers by DylanJ

More Info: show

Journey through 6 worlds, battle 23 bosses and quest for... Cheeseburgers? This longer than usual episode could take you 20+ hours to 100%! Get it here:
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=26017

 
 

Super Fortnite Bros. 2 by Computerfan0

More Info: show

Super Fornite Bros 2 is a zany, wacky, joke episode made by computerfan0. In this episode meant to troll and mess with you, can you handle the madness and traverse through the the five worlds in just 30 minutes? Get it here:
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=25926

 

Project Spotlight
Waluigi's Creepy Adventure by Mr.GreenMan and Tails608

More Info: show

Waluigi finally takes center stage, and it's time he gets a bit of payback. This project is being built on SMBX2 Beta 4.
viewtopic.php?f=90&t=26070

 

The Tale of Two Kingdoms by saintjust

More Info: show

This is a new project with a mysterious plot - what could possibly be up with the two kingdoms? Created for SMBX.
viewtopic.php?f=90&t=26075

 

Super Mario Fantasy by Fuyu and Prox

More Info: show

Where's Bowser? Nevermind, we're going on vacation to the Apricot Kingdom! Created for SMBX2 Beta 4.
viewtopic.php?f=90&t=26040

 
 

And that's all for this installment of the SMBX Newsletter! Stay tuned for the Summer installment next month!

[Luna]

You seemingly messed up the project links. The Picture for Tale of Two Kingdoms image redirects to the Super Mario Fantasy topic and both links for Super Mario Fantasy redirect to Super Mario Bros. ReDeluxe'd.

[Taycamgame]

You seemingly messed up the project links. The Picture for Tale of Two Kingdoms image redirects to the Super Mario Fantasy topic and both links for Super Mario Fantasy redirect to Super Mario Bros. ReDeluxe'd.

Fixed! I've also added a link to LOTM in the LOTM section.

[ShadowXeldron]

For a bit then I though that the "Hotfix 1" refered to Patch 1

[LGLMAKING]

You seemingly messed up the project links. The Picture for Tale of Two Kingdoms image redirects to the Super Mario Fantasy topic and both links for Super Mario Fantasy redirect to Super Mario Bros. ReDeluxe'd.

Fixed! I've also added a link to LOTM in the LOTM section.

The Super Fortnite Bros 2 link redirects to Trouble from Purple Planet by Chipss

[Taycamgame]

The Super Fortnite Bros 2 link redirects to Trouble from Purple Planet by Chipss

Fixed. The reason these issues occured is because i just copied the formatting from the previous newsletter. I guess I must have missed some URLs.

[Blake Izayoi]

Awesome dude I got both 2nd and 3rd place with the "Level of the Month" thing

Great newsletter

[Emral]

This died swiftly.

[Taycamgame]

This died swiftly.

I aim to get it back up and running soon with a larger issue encompassing the past 2 months. I've been sorta busy recently and this hasn't been the greatest priority of mine (plus i keep forgetting about it).

[Emral]

This died swiftly.

I aim to get it back up and running soon with a larger issue encompassing the past 2 months. I've been sorta busy recently and this hasn't been the greatest priority of mine (plus i keep forgetting about it).

Set yourself a reminder if you wish to stop forgetting.

[Cedur]

I didn't even notice it dying.

[Emral]

48 hour newsletter challenge

[Taycamgame]

48 hour newsletter challenge

Ha
I'm planning to just release a new issue in December. I think it makes more sense to do one at the end of the year covering the past 6 months worth of content and then after that release one every 3 months. The issues will be bigger and there will be less of them, but I think it will be more manageable this way. Thoughts?

I also tested out a new channel in the main SMBX server whose purpose was for people to send in contributions to the Newsletter. That didn't really work though as no-one posted anything they wanted to share in there. The main reason that idea came about was that it puts everything all in one place, making things more efficient on the Newsletter Team's end. Perhaps there's a better way to allow people to contribute?

[Emral]

I'm skeptical, as it never seemed particularly unmanagable, and a less frequent update cycle defeats the purpose of a _news_letter. Furthermore, skipping an issue of the newsletter seems all the more easy with less frequent post intervals. I'm open to see what happens, but currently my stance is that we just need a more dedicated person writing these if we want them to continue.

[Taycamgame]

I'm skeptical, as it never seemed particularly unmanagable, and a less frequent update cycle defeats the purpose of a _news_letter. Furthermore, skipping an issue of the newsletter seems all the more easy with less frequent post intervals. I'm open to see what happens, but currently my stance is that we just need a more dedicated person writing these if we want them to continue.

Actually.. I have literally just got an idea for an Issue I'd like to create pretty shortly. Trouble is, there's going to be a huge backlog of content that has been missed since the previous instalment. That's my fault though and I'm prepared to put the effort in.

[computerfan0]

48 hour newsletter challenge

Ha
I'm planning to just release a new issue in December. I think it makes more sense to do one at the end of the year covering the past 6 months worth of content and then after that release one every 3 months. The issues will be bigger and there will be less of them, but I think it will be more manageable this way. Thoughts?

I also tested out a new channel in the main SMBX server whose purpose was for people to send in contributions to the Newsletter. That didn't really work though as no-one posted anything they wanted to share in there. The main reason that idea came about was that it puts everything all in one place, making things more efficient on the Newsletter Team's end. Perhaps there's a better way to allow people to contribute?

Somebody did send a contribution in

[Archived]

I'm skeptical, as it never seemed particularly unmanagable, and a less frequent update cycle defeats the purpose of a _news_letter. Furthermore, skipping an issue of the newsletter seems all the more easy with less frequent post intervals. I'm open to see what happens, but currently my stance is that we just need a more dedicated person writing these if we want them to continue.

So in essence, I'm part of the newsletter team and have been on the SMBX projects discord server. The problem on both was that no one was writing anything unless I specifically told them to or wrote stuff all by myself in the latter server. A few months ago, I told TayCamGame to be in charge of designating stuff to write instead since this semester in college, I have extremely difficult classes. Basically in both of these if I became busy or unavailable no one else in the newsletter team started to do stuff by themselves. The latter was solved since it was a projects server, we just let the projects owner submit announcements about their projects in project-news channel. TayCamGame tried to do something similar with the SMBX discord, but since the servers have different use-cases, there was really not much traction that went on.