Level Maker is a platformer-creation game for iOS and Android that allows users to build, play, and share custom levels.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire Level Maker for the creative freedom of its drag-and-drop editor, but the lack of cloud-save and persistent publishing bugs prevent them from building a lasting community.
For Casual gamers and creative users interested in building and sharing classic-style platformer levels.
What does it look like?
Key features
Drag-and-drop interface for placing blocks, items, enemies, and characters to build custom platformer stages.
Access to a repository of user-created levels with sorting for likes and comments.
Curated selection of levels created by the development team.
How much does it cost?
Monetization relies on ad-supported free access, with IAP availability indicated in store metadata.
Velocity
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Level Maker maintains an active development cadence, shipping two updates within a two-week window. The development trend is stable, alternating between feature-rich content drops and maintenance-focused bug fixes. Recent updates have prioritized expanding the game's creative toolkit with new build blocks, power-ups, and character variety, alongside improvements to social and moderation tools. The developer remains engaged with the community, explicitly crediting users for contributions in the release notes.
Who built it?
Vorun Kreal
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What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews mixed. Users appreciate creative freedom provided by the level editor allows players to design complex custom stages and the inclusion of diverse building blocks and color customization options supports unique aesthetic designs. On the flip side, players report being unable to publish levels due to false-positive proxy or VPN error messages.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
Weekly average review rating
What users say, by theme
- Creative freedom provided by the level editor allows players to design complex custom stages
- The inclusion of diverse building blocks and color customization options supports unique aesthetic designs
- Players report being unable to publish levels due to false-positive proxy or VPN error messages
63 of 99 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Mixed overall
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Competitive landscape for Level Maker
How's the Games market?
Level Maker maintains a presence in the casual games category with a 4.2 rating on Android. The disparity between its creative utility and the technical instability of the latest version limits its ability to scale beyond a niche user base.
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Key takeaways for Level Maker
Where is it heading?
The casual creation market is consolidating, and Level Maker's inability to resolve core publishing bugs leaves it vulnerable to churn. Technical stability is now the primary lever for retention, as the current friction in the user-generated content loop prevents the app from scaling its community.
- Persistent publishing errors in the latest version prevent content creation, which directly reduces the volume of new levels available for the community.
- The lack of moderation tools exposes younger users to toxic content, which increases the risk of platform-level policy enforcement actions.
The SWOT
- Flexible drag-and-drop editor allows for complex, non-linear stage design
- Implementing a reporting mechanism would mitigate community toxicity and improve retention
Next best moves
Ship cloud-save functionality because it is the top-requested feature to prevent progress loss → reduce churn
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Level Maker's lack of moderation is not just a safety risk…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The report identifies a shift in user priorities toward technical reliability, specifically the need for cloud-save functionality to prevent data loss, which now outweighs previous concerns regarding progression gating.
Bottom line
Level Maker provides a high-utility editor that retains creative users, but persistent publishing bugs and the lack of cloud-save functionality drive churn, so the team must prioritize technical stability over new content to stabilize the user base.
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