Facebook engineers’ next hack: a Super Mario Maker level

Nintendo’s fall sensation Super Mario Maker will get a software update next month, and among the improvements will be a new level designed by two Facebook engineers. This inclusion is thanks to a new feature called Event Courses that features partner creators from outside Nintendo — Facebook is the first with a corporate relatinship to the gaming company to participate.

Called “Ship Love”, the course was conceived at an August hackathon event at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. While the overall goal was to develop the official level for Super Mario Maker, only one team would get theirs in the game. Engineers Doug Strait and Roy McElmurry presented their level to a panel of judges from Nintendo and Facebook, including Bill Trinen, Krysta Yang, Rachel Kroll, Ime Archibong, and Scott Moffitt.