IggyHopxD

**IggyHopxD** (Formerly known as IggyKoolPaling) is a Level Palace user from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started playing SMF in 2011, but joined the community officially in 2016.

## Story

IggyHopxD found the original Super Mario Flash in a random game site in 2011, when he was just 7 years old. He started making some levels using the level editor feature, but just for his own fun at the time. He then stopped playing for some months due to him being busy on school and other life issues, but in 2013 he found the website Pouetpu-Games when searching for the game on Google, where he found out about SMF2. However, at the time he didn't have an account, and didn't plan on making one until 2015, when he had the idea to join with an account called "Frantasticool", but after re-thinking it, he decided it would be better to wait some more time, as he was still not ready for the decision.

After a lot of time of thinking and deciding about the topic, along with the making of a lot of scrapped attempts of first-impression levels, in the 4th of January of 2016, he finally made an account on Pouetpu-Games under the name of "IggyKoolPaling", where he posted some of his levels. Those levels weren't anything special for their time, but they got pretty good rates anyways.

One day after he made his PG account, he made a Youtube channel, which was called "IggyKoolPaling SMF" (Now just called IggyHopXD), but only published one video at the time, which was about his first level published on Pouetpu-Games, "Hold Right Land". That was the only video on his channel until March 2020, when he decided to finally give back some life to his channel. Nowadays, he sometimes posts some gaming content on this channel, but he's planning on making more content variation in the future as well.

In April 2016, after a problem in Pouetpu-Games, he and a lot of other users moved to Level Palace, a brand new site, where he decided to change his name to "IggyHopxD", which is the name he uses on most of his online accounts nowadays.

The 22nd of December of 2017, he joined LP's Discord Server, where he used to be really active a lot of the time.

IggyHopxD currently has 100+ friends on LP, and he has got quite a bunch of levels made in SMF1, 2, 3, SMC and their hacks, but he has made a lot more levels than the ones he has published on LP around his SMF/SMC years, including some that weren't published in his profile (As it's the case with some tags he participated in but where posted by other people), some that were from before he realized he could even save levels (Mainly levels from the year range of 2011 to 2015), some that were on PG but never transferred to LP, levels that are to this day still saved but scrapped/unfinished (Which he has showcased already in a few videos on his YouTube channel), and even some levels that were published to LP but were later deleted because of later decisions (For example, levels that didn't get very good rates, levels that were published as a joke, or levels that he wasn't proud of so he decided there was no point in keeping them up anymore).

## Levels, series and projects

IggyHopxD has published 76 levels on Level Palace as of July 3rd, 2022, that vary from very simplistic and straight-forward classic-themed levels to very complicated and puzzle-solving kaizo levels. There are quite a bunch of levels he has made that he's really proud of to this day, which he has listed and linked on a part of his LP profile, which he likes to call "Iggy's Hall of Fame".

He was part of a lot of big tag projects, with the biggest ones he has participated in so far being The Monolith (A 28-user megatag made in 2017 to celebrate 10 years of SMF) and Way to the Independence (A megatag first planned by Parbounli in 2017, which was later cancelled and never finished because of Parbounli leaving the site in 2018, but IggyHopxD later rebranded his own part into an individual level and published it on his profile). However, IggyHopXD is also known for being the leader of a big tag trilogy named by him as "The Lost Trilogy", including the following three big tag levels: The Lost Forest (A 5-user supertag that he started in May 2017 and was finished in January 2018), The Lost Island (A 9-user supertag started by him in June 2018 and finished in December of the same year), and The Lost Escape (A 12-user megatag started in June 2020, finished in late 2021 and finally released in July 2022).

Also, in 2016, he started a project in 2016 called "Super Tagging Bros.", but later renamed to "Super User Bros." because the original title was misleading. Basically, the idea for it was a series where every world was made by a different user. The first 3 worlds were finished by their respective users during 2016 and 2017, but in 2018, the project went on hiatus because of world 4's creator, LazorCozmic5, not finishing his world. Because of this, the project was on pause for 2 years, and in 2020, because of SMF's retirement and the big delay, the project became pointless to continue, and thus IggyHopxD deemed it as a cancelled project.

IggyHopxD has started quite a lot of level series on LP, but to this day none of them were ever finished. Here's a list of them:

* OLD Super Iggy Bros, formerly Super Iggy Bros (SMF2, Started in January 2016 - Cancelled in September 2019 due to no progress on the series being made for almost 2 years)
* Mario's Computer World (SMF2 Windows Edition, Started in March 2017 - Cancelled in July 2017 because of him losing inspiration on the series)
* Super Mario Flash: Remastered! (SMF3, Started in December 2016 - Cancelled in May 2020 because of SMF being retired from LP, lack of inspiration on the series and lots of years without any progress)
* Super Iggy Bros (SMF1 and SMF3, Started in September 2019 - Possibly cancelled due to SMF being retired from LP, lack of motivation and more than a year without any progress)

## Trivia

* IggyHopxD's real name is Francisco.
* IggyHopxD was born on October 19th, 2004.
* IggyHopxD's username is a mix of different things all in one. Iggy comes from Iggy Koopa, one of the Koopalings from Mario games, Hop comes from the name that the previously mentioned Koopaling recieves in the Mario TV cartoon "The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3" while also making a pun on the American music artist Iggy Pop, and the xD (Or XD in his other social media) was just a random thing he thought of. Nowadays, he kind of regrets adding the xD/XD because it seems childish and unprofessional, but he still keeps it in his name because he feels like removing it would make the name lose its unique spark.
* In PG, his Username was IggyKoolPaling. A lot of people though the "L" was a typo, but it was added on purpose to make it sound like the word Cool.
* IggyHopxD originally planned to join the community under the username "Frantasticool", which is a mix between Francisco, fantastic, and cool all at the same time. However, he ultimately chose IggyKoolPaling due to his favorite Mario character being Iggy Koopa.
* He used to be member of the League back in 2016 when it was created by Carlos V; but he was later removed when Orangetack gained the ownership in 2017 because IggyHopxD's average rating and his level making style at the time didn't fit for the League's standards. With his enormous improvements seen through time to this day, he could very well fit in nowadays, but he doesn't want to, not to mention the League isn't that much of an active group anymore.
* He used to be very active on the Level Palace and Super Mario Construct Discord servers, but nowadays is very quiet on them due to some issues regarding the way the community acts on said servers.
* IggyHopxD's other hobbies aside from level creation include: Making videos on YouTube, speedrunning games, doing challenges on games, reading, and writing, among others.
* His favorite videogames are: various games from the Super Mario saga (including unofficial and fanmade games, too), Undertale, and Genshin Impact.
* IggyHopxD is a vegetarian, thus he doesn't eat meat, and is also an animal activist.