Too many chili dogs
If there’s a level editor, World 1-1 fromSuper Mario Bros.will find a way.
But before I get to that, there’s a more pressing matter: fat action figures dressed up like Sonic the Hedgehog. Yes, wecoulduse more of those in this industry. I’ve been playingAction Henk, a time-trial platformer in which the titular hero slides down orange Hot Wheels tracks, wall-jumps off toy blocks, and generally tries to avoid touching the floor (because it’s lava).
The game has been on Steam Early Access for a while now, but developer RageSquid recentlyadded new content, including disco-themed levels and, most notably, a level editor tied to Steam Workshop for convenient in-game access. So that — and my fondness for this style of game; thinkTrialsminus the motorbikes, at a faster pace — was an easy in for the team to seek me out.
The editor, as demonstrated in this gif, is straightforward.And gifs don’t lie.
Anyway, someone builtWorld 1-1inAction Henkand I played it, as you do for reasons beyond our mortal understanding. Certainly not for the novelty, which has long since shriveled.
The classic level comes to every game with a course editor sooner or later. It was tailor made forSuper Mario Bros.to teach players the basics and remains fun to this day, but attempts to translate it to other games — including this one, fun as it is — often fall flat. They can’t compare.
Still, when faced with the choice of which user-made level to try first, there was no choice.
Feels good to get that out of my system. Now I can move on to original custom levels.
As others have noted before me, Action Henk is noActionHank, but he’s cool nonetheless.
