Tips for Creating Levels

Open the Level Builder using the button on the side menu to the right of the main menu. You’ll see a new large menu open up to your left.

In-game instructions are shown in the little menu that opens up by your left feet when you open the Level Builder.

‘Sculpting’

You make a level by Sculpting it. This term comes from the origins of Groove Catcher, the Sculptor music sculpture tool.

Groove Lines are the curvy blue and yellow lines that you follow while you’re playing Groove Catcher.

Beat Cubes are the cubes that you smash to make them blow up.

First - choose a song to work with. If you’ve loaded your own song (see Sideloading, below), then you’ll see it in the list of songs.

Next - to start sculpting, click the ‘Make Section 1’ button on the menu by your left to the left.

Draw a Groove Line - hold down the controller Trigger button on either hand (at the front of the controller) to draw a Groove Line

Drop a Beat Cube - press the Grip Button (on the inside of the controller handle/grip) to drop a Beat Cube wherever your hand is.

Stopping - quickly click the “Pause / In-App Menu” Button (see above) on the left controller. You’ll see a little menu open up to your left. You can jump back to the beginning of the level/song, or back to the spot that you most recently started from.

Catching - you can try what you just made by clicking the ‘Start Catching’ button on the same menu to the left by your feet. When you’re satisfied, create your next Section.

Sections

You can make a level using one or more sections. Each section is simply what’s recorded between each time you hit start and stop. So you can work on a song one part of a time, which makes it MUCH easier to get things how you want them.

I make levels by working the song in short sections. The length of the section depends on how hard it is to get things the way I want them. I keep working on a section and deleting it until I’m happy, then move on to the next section. Scrubbing is your friend - see below.

Deleting the most recent section

This is your friend for making great levels!

You can delete the most recent section you made after you stop recording. Do this by clicking the ‘Delete Section N’ button in the menu (N is the most recent section number you made). Pay attention to what section number you’re deleting - you can see the section numbers that’s shown as a tooltip for each sculp and beat cube. Be careful - there is no undo button to get your section back! And you currently can delete only the most recent section.

Scrubbing

Moving through the level quickly.

You can scrub (move quickly) through your level this way:
1) hold the grip button, and
2) moving the thumbstick fwd/back.

This is VERY helpful. Watch your feet for the song time. When you stop recording, you’ll get brought back to the point in the song where you started recording - this makes it easy to check what you just did. You can scrub while stopped, sculpting or catching.