Petey Piranha, having secured a lucrative contract with Bowser as an arms manufacturer, has repurposed a section of the castle grounds as his R&D laboratory. His assignment is to reverse-engineer and mass-produce his own cultivar of one of Mario's most treasured secret weapons, the Fire Flower. But irrigating plants with a reservoir of magma is producing unexpected results, and now Mario has come to claim all the control specimens in Petey's stash...
QuixoticN is a writer and jazz pianist who reads Shakespeare to his fellow Mario makers to compensate for repeatedly botching their required shell jumps. Since reluctantly suppressing his ideological fervour for humongous marathon levels with no checkpoints, his creations have aimed to deliver clean and spacious layouts full of unconventional interactions, powered by off-screen mechanisms that take aeons longer to debug than construct. With a life in games that began with SMB1, but which always ran along a parallel track of builder extravaganzas from Lode Runner to Warcraft III and beyond, he sees Mario Maker as a terminus, a Gesamtkunstwerk, an end of history.