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Mario Editing for the Romantic Nerd:
Using gold coins, the text had to be fairly large. As a consequence, you won't be able to see the full message in screenshots, only parts of the words. It gives you an idea, though.
As you can see, the level has been edited to contain a clue. In this case, the message reads, "A car will pick you up at 7:00." As your date runs along the level, they can read their instructions. In this case, my message was to look in a certain location in the house for the next clue, ultimately ending in with a message saying to dress nicely and to expect to be picked up at 7:00, but you can be as creative as you like.
I choose the Yellow Block level for a number of reasons. First, it's easy to get to. Even inexperienced players can complete the one level required to reach it, and once beaten it makes all the subsequent levels easier (beating this level makes little yellow blocks with power-ups appear throughout the rest of the game.)
I then modified a second level, and presented this map as a later clue:
By carefully selecting which maps I used, I could control how long it took for the clues to be found, a valuable tool when planning an intricate scavenger hunt. While I used Mario as only one clue in a long line of clues, I could easily have used many levels to create a scavenger hunt with many clues, all based around the game.
With map editors available for other games, too, such as Metroid, Harvest Moon, and Zelda, you can feel free to branch into other genres to make things more interesting.
But let's take a look at exactly how I modified Super Mario World, in case you were interested in giving it a shot for yourself.
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