Posted by Stygmax

That's actually a very good place to take inspiration from, as it has a similar feel and concept, being a Nintendo game from a similar franchise. The challenge is getting it to feel more like a "galaxy" and less of a "closed-in factory".

Just make the factory "opened" like a grille & patio. There could be small walls no taller than Mario himself and the machines would be within the open walls. In fact, open walls allow for guiding Silver Chomps and Golden Chomps.

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Swootsa, I never had the name "Fearsome Factory" in mind and I was away so I do not know who expanded on my old idea. I think we should make it an ammunitions factory perhaps? Bullet Bills and Bob-ombs are crafted here. We should inspiration from that level in W8 of SM3DL that is Bullet Bill factory mixed with Flip-Swap. Bob-ombs and Mario Sunshine red-blue platforms would be like the first mission of Space Storm but with an added challenge.

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My original concept for Bullet Base was a town-like galaxy. Using the ideas in the above posts, there could be "downtown" that was once run by the Gearmos but now Bullet Bills make themselves there.

EDIT: Chomps in an abandoned wind tunnel? Maybe even reactivating the testing fan for a possible Cloud Flower challenge?

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I have idea for a section of the factory that deals with Warp Pipes (partially based on my old Pipeworks design). There could be this giant conveyor belt that drops off things on a pipe. If you in the pipe, you get transported to a black hole and die. Now, there will be warnings, don't get me wrong. You have to run up the conveyor belt to a sideways pipe that takes you to an area with all useless pipes. The useles pipes are used for platforming. After that section, you make it to the pipe-forging area. I don't know if it is possible to have red-hot pipes, but if we can, they should be used here. The red pipes come out of an oven and onto a conveyor that transports them to a small square tunnel. An invisible wall keeps you from going inside the tunnel (there is nothing gameplay-worthy inside). You must make it to the inside of the oven. A Ground Pound Switch inside stops the warp pipe production (oven shuts off, then the conveyor belt shuts off when the last pipe reaches the square tunnel). Good, but now what? The Ground Pound Switch also causes a Mecha-Koopa to appear. The Mecha-Koopa is inside a glass rectangle. Hitting the Lever Switch next to the glass rectangle causes it to disappear. You can now defeat the Mecha-Koopa to get a Key. The Key opens a door in the Warp Pipe forging chamber to your next destination.

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The tunnel should have a low ceiling so that Mario can't jump. That way, Mario will have to rely on waiting, hiding in niches, and back-tracking. That would be the puzzle of this galaxy.

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Spikes? Like Bowser's Dreadmill. Only problem is that spikes would have to move with the conveyor belt and not stay in place with the rollers.

What we could use are Choppahs (meh) or electric fences (too unoriginal and overrated for this galaxy IMO).

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