JumpCrafter

JumpCrafter was developed over the course of several years by students of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Its goal is to enable game design students to explore level design for platform games. As such, it provides an easy-to-use level editor to create your own levels. It also contains a review mode to annotate existing levels, e.g. to highlight design patterns, kishōtenketsu or areas that are especially well done or need improvement. Levels can be easily shared via JSON export which allows instructors and/or learners to give feedback to each other.

Please reach out if you are planning to use the game for your teaching! 

Here are some link to resources you might want to use:

• Super Mario 3D World's 4 Step Level Design (Game Maker's Toolkit)
• Level Design Patterns in 2D Games (Ahmed Khalifa)
• Patterns and procedural content generation: revisiting Mario in world 1 level 1 (Dahlskog and Togelius)

Also check out some example levels in the download section!

Development:
v2.0 Fabio Stuber
v1.5 Melissa Beck, Fabio Kathriner
v1.0 Kevin Brenzikofer
v0.1 Olivia Kaufmann and Trong Viet Dao

https://hexlab.cdm.depaul.edu/

More about Game Design Games: Game Design Games: Designing Games for Teaching Game Design.