New Super Mario Land demo, First MFGG demo of a game I'm making

I decided to try to make a game, but I'm using UM's engine because I can't program worth crap, so I decided to use his engine.

Story, copied from in game, but it's in the game because I want the game to have a story, and not just be another platformer with no story.

Long long ago....when the Game Boy was new to the world, a game was created, and was called Super Mario Land. Super Mario Land was a popular Game Boy game, and was loved by many people. After Super Mario Land, there was Super Mario Land 2, in which Mario returned to Nintendo's popular portable. After that, Super Mario Land, was no more, instead, the consoles got platforming attention, and as the years continued, Mario got new abilities, and he must use them to fight the evil Bowser in....*goes to title screen*

I really don't have a good title screen, and I don't have screenshots, but I'll have to get the screenshots, and get a better title screen tomorrow, as I didn't have enough time today, and I wanted to release this demo before I go. If there's any glitches or problems, please say so, and if you know how, please tell me how to fix them. And constructive criticism is NEEDED, I don't care how mean it will sound, I need constructive criticism so I can fix this game's problems tomorrow. And....good night!

game link, demo 1.0

That plot honestly makes no sense.

Mostly everything looks fine, technical-wise.

The design, however, is too harsh. For one, there are too many hard enemies--the first platform itself is way too congested. If the Hammer Bro jumps over the koopa shell, you're done for, and the monty moles are too fast. Restricting it to one or two goombas on that first platform would be fine, especially given it's the first stage of the game.
The other main problem in design are the blind leaps of faith. Far too often will the next platform be out of view because they're too low. When I can't see the next platform, I assume that below me is a bottomless pit. Then I have to run and jump and hope I land on something. Forcing your players to have that sort of hope is not good.

Keep it up, though, it was quite fun.

I personally love games made with UM's engine, but if it is called New Super Mario Land, I think SML2 sprites would make more sense.

Its kinda glitchy.
1) The lives
2) The Cannon Pipe
3) The Flagpole

Well its good but its glitchy as I said.

Unexpected error when running this game.

Honestly, someone has to make sprites that match that background tiles.

It was horrid starting out with a hammer bro. I almost reached -24 lives before I got past him (she? it?). But good game.

En español: Yo he jugado el demo y yo podía jugar con vidas negativas.

In English: I have played the demo and I could play with negative lifes.

EDIT: Welcome Carl.

This post has been edited by Alba Garcia Clerigues on May 1 2007, 06:22 AM

Thanks guys, but I do not know how to fix the cannon or the flagpole (yet). I'll start fixing some problems (and adding more levels and crap) now.

edit: ALSO, I made a new plot, I'll be replacing the plot while I'm at it too.

edit2: I probably won't use SML2 sprites in this game, because of the new plot I plan on having.

This post has been edited by Bigbowsa on May 1 2007, 06:59 PM

You don't know how to use UM's engine do you?

1. You can't have a title screen, or you will start out with -1 lives (happened to me)
2. The object "collision block" is used only for the TOP of solid platforms. Use solid blocks for the sides.
3. When you make the castle in tiles, the 1st half is to be placed in layer 1, the second half is to be placed in layer -1000.
4. This is not at all relevant to SML. And as Kenny said, you should change the sprites and maybe the music. Different enemies would be nice as well.

That is all

Looks like you just threw stuff together for the first level.

This post has been edited by Firestar on May 2 2007, 03:46 PM

I really don't have an idea, but I will change the title, I was planning on a SML game, but this has nothing to do with SML.

This post has been edited by Bigbowsa on May 4 2007, 08:03 PM

Yay for Windows Vista for not being able to run this game.

But man, I was about to use the title "New Super Mario Land."
*shrugs*

Meh, go ahead, I'm thinking of a new title.

edit: I'm going to work on it now, I've got a lot of stuff to fix.

This post has been edited by Bigbowsa on May 4 2007, 08:13 PM