Fall Guys Season 4 out next week with build-it-yourself Creative mode

eurogamer.net:

Fall Guys is back with a new season of stuff next Wednesday, 10th May, but there's a major new addition this time around, with developer Mediatonic having just unveiled a build-it-yourself Creative mode, giving players the tools to construct and share their own levels.

Creative mode functions pretty much as you'd expect, offering what looks to be an intuitive, fully featured construction toolkit available directly in-game. Mediatonic demoed the new mode in today's reveal livestream, explaining that, at launch, players will be able to build Races levels using either Fall Guys' original or new digital themes — with additional themes, round types, obstacles, and music set to be added in future updates.

After budding stage makers have selected their round type and theme, Creative mode then whisks them into a new building view, where they can call up a list of available objects, grouped by category, including obstacles, decorations, and more.

There looks to be a fairly robust set of tools for actual object placement, including rotation, snapping, and even a multi-select tool, enabling builders to copy groups of objects to be pasted elsewhere. Mediatonic says «most» objects include adjustable properties — so you can change an item's colour, change the number of doors, pick a conveyer belt's direction and so on — with the key restriction coming from the building «budget». Essentially, this places a limit on how much you can place in a level, with different objects having different «costs».

Beyond that, the only stipulations when creating levels are they have a start, end, and checkpoints — as indicated by an onscreen building checklist — and must be possible to complete. As such, once you've finished your layout, you'll be