The Super MakerMatic 21

TheSuper MakerMatic 21 is a machine that can create games, as well as records and comics. It appears inWarioWare: D.I.Y.

After having a nightmare where creatures emerge from his TV,Dr. Crygor gets the idea to create the MakerMatic.Wario asks him to fix his TV, but upon seeing the machines, he asks to trade. Dr. Crygor explains that they are not TVs and tells him how they work. Wario then decides that money can be made out of them by making games. Afterwards, Wario hires the player to make and sell games to make him money.

The machine contains tools that can be used to draw graphics, make music and assign AI (Action Instructions) with ease.Penny hosts the tutorial for using the Super MakerMatic. It has three different options: Game MakerMatic, Record MakerMatic and Comic MakerMatic.

Shared features[edit]

Graphics editing[edit]

The graphics editor is found in the Game MakerMatic and the Comic MakerMatic modes. While mostly identical between all versions, the Comic version removes color-related options due to the black-and-white limitation and features different Picture Stamps. Some animation-aid tools are also only available in the art editing mode of the Game MakerMatic.

Palette: The palette in the Game mode is comprised of seven 14-item pages: one page of solid colors, two pages of simple colored patterns and stripes, one page of black-and-white patterns, one page of concrete elements (such as brick walls, audience members and water) and two pages for custom-made patterns. In the Comic mode, it is comprised of two 14-item pages: one page for textures and one page for custom-made patterns.

Palette/Stamp/Character Orientation: The palette, picture stamp or character stamp may be rotated or flipped. This tool is represented by theDude in Undies for the Palette mode and his alternative caveman and leotard-clad forms for the Stamp and Character modes respectively.

Zoom In/Zoom Out: The canvas may be zoomed in to two, four, eight or 16 times the normal size.

Grid Guide: A grid dividing the canvas into 8×8 pixel squares may be displayed.

Time Traveler: Allows undoing and redoing the last action.

Shapes: Allows the drawing of the following shapes: Thin Line, Medium Line, Thick Line, Rectangle (Thin Border), Rectangle (Thick Border), Solid Rectangle, Ellipse (Thin Border), Ellipse (Thick Border), Solid Ellipse.

Picture Stamp: Includes selections of pre-made art. As they differ between each mode, see the listing of available stamps on the appropriate sections forGame MakerMatic Picture Stamps andComic MakerMatic Picture Stamps.

Character Stamp: Includes text characters in five Font Styles, each one with three different sizes. The styles are the following:

• Fun: "A lively and comicalfont style." (This is the previously recurrentWarioWare font)
• Elegant: "A classy and refinedfont style."
• Bold: "A strong, bulkyfont style." (This is the real-life ＤＦＰゴシック体 font)
• Calligraphy: "Afont written by a calligraphy master." (This is the real lifeＤＦＰ行楷書 font)
• Ghostly: "A mysterious and scaryfont style." (This is the real life ＤＦ康印体 font)
• 8-bit: "A pixelizedfont style." (This is the text style commonly seen inFamily Computer andNintendo Entertainment System games)

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  Fun

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  Elegant

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  Bold

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  Calligraphy

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  Ghostly

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  8-Bit

Frame Tool: Allows selecting a rectangular section of the canvas and moving or copying it.

Eraser: Includes eraser versions of the three Pen, the Spray and the Paintbrush (Fill) tools, as well as five erasing effects:

• Total Erase: "You wiped everything clean!"
• Rocket Erase: "Go, go rocket! Erasing from the ground up!"
• Swirl Erase: "Whoa, whoa--I'm swirling away, aaaaaahhh!"
• Fade-Out Erase: "Fading...fast...Erased...into tiny particles..."
• Warp Erase: "I can see through time! AND I'm erasing!

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  Total Erase

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  Rocket Erase

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  Swirl Erase

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  Fade-Out Erase

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  Warp Erase

All non-instant erasing effects can be halted at any point, allowing the player to use them for visual effects instead. This is demonstrated by Penny during the Comic MakerMatic tutorial.

Music editing[edit]

The music editor is found in the Game and Record MakerMatic modes.

The player edits one phrase at a time, which corresponds to the length of a normal microgame. A phrase is divided into two pages: a front page and a back page, each one being four four-beat measures long. It is also comprised of five Tracks corresponding to different voices, the first four suited for melodies, and the last one being used for rhythm, with its own sets of percussion instrument options. The instrument and volume settings are available for each Track independently and affect all notes of that phrase.

Instruments[edit]

Track instruments[edit]

The available instruments for Tracks are:

Instrument Group I: "Common instruments like pianos and flutes."

• Piano: "An instrument anyone should be familiar with."
• Organ: "An instrument often found in churches."
• Harpsichord: "An instrument often used in classical music."
• Melodica: "A keyboard that is blown to produce sound."
• Flute: "A member of the woodwind-instrument family."
• Trumpet: "A brass instrument played with three valves."
• Saxophone: "A woodwind instrument known for jazzy tones."
• Wood Flute: "A woodwind instrument with harmonic tones."

Instrument Group II: "Guitars and other instruments like that."

• Acoustic Guitar: "A guitar suitable for classic or folk tunes."
• Electric Guitar: "A powered guitar for extended rocking."
• Banjo: "A stringed instrument with "twangy" tones."
• Bass: "A stringed instrument used for low notes."
• Violin: "A stringed instrument played using a bow."
• Marimba: "Instrument played by hitting keys with mallets."
• Vibraphone: "Like the marimba but with a metallic sound."
• Timpani: "Big drums that produce a range of sound."

SF: "Futuristic and mysterious sounds."

• Star Drop: "A spacy, ringy-dingy sort of sound."
• UFO: "Ever heard a UFO light up? Sounds like this."
• Alien: "Sounds just like an alien talking."
• Robot: "The electronic voice of a fat robot."
• Rocket: "All systems GO! My rocket sounds like this."
• Moon: "The moon's a comedian; he sounds like this."
• Green Dude: "Stretchy, rubbery green dude. What?"
• Phone Dial: "If you're calling from a touch-tone phone..."

Creatures: "Animal sounds."

• Cat: "Meow, meow? Yep, that's a cat."
• Dog: "Woof, woof. A dog! I'd know it anywhere!"
• Pig: "Sorta nasty pig oink."
• Insects: "A few different insect sounds."
• Frog: "We ALMOST got it to sound just like a frog."
• Yoshi: "Yoshi does indeed make sounds like this."
• Birds: "Some bird sounds. Er...um, 'calls'?"
• Monkeys: "Several very monkeylike animal noises."

Voice: "Human voices."

• Do-Re-Mi Voice: "Do, re, mi... What a cutey!"
• Wah Dude: "This dude likes to sing low 'wah' sounds."
• Opera Man: "An opera singer with a thick beard."
• Soul Girl: "Man, does she have some PIPES!"
• Baby: "It's totally a baby. I swear. Seriously."
• Laughing Men: "Are you ticklish?"
• Kung-Fu Men: "Tough guys, the whole lot of 'em."
• Humming: "This guy's having a great day, every day."

8-Bit: "8-bit-era game sounds."

• Ding-Ding: "A straightforward sound, good for melodies."
• Pong-Pong: "A nice little sound with a nice little echo."
• Fah-Fah: "An organ? A whistle? No one knows."
• Bong-Bong: "A low, slightly electrified sound."
• Bing-Bing: "Sort of human. Sort of electronic. Bing!"
• Ting-Ting: "A high, airy sound. Brrrr, chilly."
• Bling-Bling: "Star pixies falling from space sound like this."
• Boon-Boon: "Boon-boon? Yes, boon-boon. Why?"

Footnotes[edit]

• In the Japanese version, the Robot, Rocket and Moon instruments are instead known as ちゃいろきモノChairokimono ("brown thing"), おしりっぽいものOshirippoimono ("buttock-like guy") and パンツっぽいものPantsuppoimono ("underpants-like guy") respectively.
• In the Japanese version, the Banjo, Marimba and Vibraphone are instead called shamisen, xylophone and glockenspiel, respectively, but their sounds and icons are identical to the international version.
• In the Japanese version, the icon for Kung-Fu Men is.

Rhythm sets[edit]

The available rhythm sets are: Normal Drums, Electric Drums, Samba Drums, Asian Drums, Kitchen Drums, Toy Drums, Beat-Box Drums and 8-Bit Drums.

(Note: Icons are arranged left to right, bottom to top.)

Normal Drums: "Common-use percussion instruments."

Electric Drums: "Powered drums for extended rocking."

Samba Drums: "Drums that will make you want to dance."

Asian Drums: "Drums that offer wild, exotic sounds."

Kitchen Drums: "A set of drums made up of pots and stuff."

Toy Drums: "Drums? No, toys played as drums."

Beat-Box Drums: "Percussive sounds made by people."

8-Bit Drums: "Drum sounds from 8-bit games."

Modes[edit]

Game MakerMatic[edit]

An example of game creation

Allowing the creation ofmicrogames (referred to simply as "games"), this is the most prominent feature of the Super MakerMatic 21. Games are made by creating objects (described by the game as the game's "actors"), writing the behaviour for these objects through Action Instructions or AI, and also creating the background and music. After completed, the game may be shipped off to sell, and the player may play any of their microgames in theD.I.Y. Shop.

Graphics[edit]

All premade palette elements in the Game MakerMatic.

This section contains a Background subsection, where the player may draw or import the background from an existing microgame found in the D.I.Y Shop. Imported backgrounds can be edited normally.

In the Objects subsection, all 15 available object slots are listed. Objects have from one to four "arts" (animations), and each art is comprised from one to four "cels" (frames). The player has 256 available points to be distributed among any number of objects. Each object deducts points from the player's total in a per cel basis. The available cel sizes are 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, or 64×64 pixels, costing one, four, nine, or 16 points respectively, and each object has a fixed cel size, picked when this object is created.

The player may also import objects from games from the D.I.Y. Shop.

When creating an object, the player must choose:

1. a name for the object up to nine characters long. If not inserted, the game generates a name in the patternOBJECTⓃ, whereⓃ is the underscored digit character that would form the first available name in this pattern starting fromOBJECT① up toOBJECT⑮.
2. the size of the object. Once set, the size cannot be changed.
3. a name for the first art up to nine characters long. If not inserted, the game generates the default nameARTⒶ. Following arts created without name input will have their names default to the same format,ARTⓐ, whereⓐ isⒶ,Ⓑ,Ⓒ orⒹ, depending on the first available option.

Apart from the smaller canvas, drawing art for cels works almost exactly like drawing backgrounds, but some exclusive functions for aiding animation and cel handling are available as well.

In the art selection screen, the player may edit an art's name, edit, delete it or import art from another object.

Picture stamps[edit]

Game MakerMatic stamps are divided as follows:

• Landscape: "For applyinglandscape elements."
• Body Parts: "For applying eyes, mouths, etc."
• 8-Bit: "For applying8-bit pixel art."
• D.I.Y.: "For applying your custom-madestamps."

Music[edit]

The music making tool in the Game MakerMatic works as elaborated above, but also includes the Maestro option, which generates a phrase. The creator may request a tune fitting a certain "mood" ("relaxed", "normal" or "frenzied") and "style" ("fun", "sad", "factory", "spicy", "spooky" or "8-bit"), or pick a random setting using the "auto" option.

Importing a phrase from another game or record is possible as well.

Assembly[edit]

Here, the Action Instructions (AI), which are the script components of the game, are created for objects. Each one of the objects created in the Graphics section may be assigned up to five regular AI, being required to be assigned a starting condition (the Start) beforehand.

Once an object's starting condition is created, it is marked with an "AI" icon on its thumbnail, and it is assigned a switch, which is a simpleboolean variable associated with it. The switch can be turned on or off by an action defined in an AI, and its state can be used as a trigger by any other object and required for setting win conditions, making it one of the most fundamental components of the game's scripting system.

Start[edit]

The Start (also referred to as starting condition) defines the initial state of the object and follows the following steps—left to right here—for the object's art, and then for its location:

AI[edit]

The regular AI (numbered ① through ⑤) are comprised of a Trigger and Actions, that is, the events checked for actions to occur, and the resulting actions themselves, respectively.

Triggers[edit]

Up to six members can be added to the Trigger of an AI, and these membersmust all be activated for the trigger to occur. If instead the player wishes to have independent sets of events trigger the same action or actions, separate AI must be used instead.

The available Trigger options are:

Actions[edit]

The available Actions are:

Footnotes[edit]

Win Conditions[edit]

A game can have up to six win conditions, which are labeled Condition① through Condition⑥, and a single win condition can have up to six items, each one being is a simple state check on an object's switch. If all items of a win condition are fulfilled concurrently, the game is won. A win condition is created (or a new item is added to an existing condition) through the following process:

Settings[edit]

The player must title the microgame, and the title may contain up to 12 characters. Pressing the Auto button generates a random name. There are 100 random names total:^[1]

The player can also adjust the microgame time-limit from two options: Normal, the default length, or Long, which is double the length of Normal.

Finish[edit]

Example of game cartridge and its detailed view

Miniature	Detail

For the last step before shipping the game and making it available on the D.I.Y. Shop, the player can choose the cartridge shape and color, select the color and style of the logo on it, decide whether or not to allow downloaders to edit the game themselves, and write the description using up to 36 characters. Unlike records and comics, the logo picked is not seen on the zoomed boxart in the D.I.Y. Shop, only on its icon.

Cartridge	Shape options	Color options
Logo	Logo options	Color options

Record MakerMatic[edit]

The Record MakerMatic.

In this mode, the player can create a piece of music consisting of up to 24 phrases.

Music[edit]

The section where the song is created. The method of music editing works asexplained above. The only exclusive functionality in this mode is the import button, which can be used to import the notes of the equivalent Track in another phrase into the current one.

Outside the phrase editing screen, the following functionalities exist:

Settings[edit]

In this section, the player may change the song title, which again can be up to 12 characters long and can be auto generated using the Auto button.

Finish[edit]

Example of record and its detailed view

Miniature	Detail

For the last step before shipping the game for the D.I.Y. Shop, the player can choose the label shape and color followed by the logo and its color as well, allow or disallow editing for downloads and set the description using up to 36 characters.

Label	Shape options	Color options
Logo	Logo options	Color options

Comic MakerMatic[edit]

The Comic MakerMatic.

The Comic MakerMatic allows the player to make four-panel black-and-white comics.

Drawing[edit]

In this section, each panel can be selected for editing. Drawing works asexplained above, with coloring limited to black and white and different Picture Stamps.

Picture Stamps[edit]

• Word Balloons: "For applying comic-styleword balloons."
• Comic Effects: "For applying comic effects."
• Landscape: "For applyinglandscape elements."
• Wario: "For applying Wario and his friends."
• D.I.Y.: "For applying your custom-madestamps."

Settings[edit]

As it is the case for records, in this section, the player may change the comic title, with the same 12 character maximum length and Auto button for auto title generation.

Finish[edit]

Example of comic book and its detailed view

Miniature	Detail

The player may pick the book color, the logo on the cover and its color as well, allow or disallow editing for downloads and set the description using up to 36 characters.

Book	Color options
Logo	Logo options	Color options

Names in other languages[edit]

Notes[edit]

• On the startup screen of the MakerMatic, the 1 of the 21 "blinks".
• The background of the startup screen is the same as the background of theDS. Also, the buttons are styled like the buttons on the DS startup screen. This makes sense, considering that the MakerMatic is made to resemble a DS.
• If the microgame's name is "Mario Paint", the design creation music will be changed to theMario Paint default background music.
• While designing a record for shipping, the text for the two steps are switched around, with the label design screen reading "Select the color and style of the logo.", and the logo design screen reading "Select the shape and color of the label." This error is present in all the localized versions of the game bar the French version.

References[edit]

• Dr. Crygor's inventions
• WarioWare: D.I.Y.

• Articles under construction
• Articles with unsourced foreign names