Super Mario Bros: Shine Pursuit, Shine Collecting Game

But seeing the same sprites time and time again makes them lose their luster and they no longer look good.

Here's the thing about developing games for ANY audience at all, whether that be 4 or 5 people in a group, or a million gamers around the world:


You're trying to please them, not yourself.

...No, it doesn't. It makes the game a lot less Mario-ish, and how could that make the game better? The map screen may look very SMB3-like and classic, but the music makes the experience seem almost not like SMB3 at all, and halfway not like Mario.

Yeah, non-Mario music can be a good thing in fangames, but the claim that non-Mario music makes them better than Mario music does is, well, absurd - especially if the music in question comes from a game as radically different from Mario as Sonic 360 is.

This post has been edited by Grant on Aug 27 2007, 08:52 PM

But the music fits it well, for this game at least, besides its better hen the same little songs right?
Well maybe not make it better though...

I'll give you some credit for adding a gimmick, but regardless, change the sprites. Please.

PLEASE =(

I agree with debug mode.

Like dj yoshiman said, you're trying to please the public, not yourself, and if you're trying to please yourself rather than the public then don't submit your games!!!
You don't have to change them into NSMB, i think changing them into m&l:ss will do wonders.

a tip which has been mentioned before: your releasing a platformer every weak, meanin g you don't update the engine to often. Try to make a new far superior engine. It'll take a while, but then you'll have platformer that people will love to play

This post has been edited by esteban on Aug 28 2007, 04:40 AM

mlss looks worse in my opinion in a platform game.

I can't imagine how you think the music fits at all. No offense meant, but Waligie's music hardly fit the game worse than this game's music fits it. How does exciting, fast-paced rock music fit a SMB3-style map screen? :S

At least the "same little songs" would be Mario-ish.

But meh, I'll drop the music argument. It's probably pointless anyway.


As for the graphics, I honestly don't see why some people are complaining so much about them. They don't bug me. It would be nice if Hello used different graphics for different games, but using the same ones isn't that big of a deal, especially when he uses varying tilesets. As I'm sure you guys can see, in this game he used different recolors of Black Squirrel's tileset, which is a good thing, and which gave the game some interesting graphical variety.

And yeah, M&L:SS graphics aren't the best for platformer games; keeping the SMB3 ones would probably be preferable. Though to be honest, I'm personally not a big fan of M&L graphics in general.

Could you please use different mario and enimie sprites? There kinda repetitive now.

The game itself is fairly enjoyable, and it's pretty challenging.
And I found this glitch where if you get a mushroom from reserve as small mario, and the cielings above you, mario gets stuck.
You should add a level restart button.

Well it was my opiniun... besides it fits with games name.

@Firestar" Just press down to get off the ceiling.

This post has been edited by Thunder Bro on Aug 28 2007, 10:32 PM

It's most definitely not pointless. Music is the integral part of what helps emit what emotions you want from the game and get a general feeling atmosphere. If a certain music doesn't seem to fit the game, then it's most likely the case that it doesn't.


I'd like to say that the music, as much as you tried getting the hard-core, fast-pased feel across with it, Hello... it doesn't quite work with this game. It feels like random music tracks that were added in, when music should feel like it was specifically meant to be the game, almost as if the music was created only for that game. You could have used some Mario remixes, instead, or original music that fit the style of the current action of the screen.

Trust me, this is talking from several years of experience in music.

Ah. I thought it was pointless because I didn't think he was going to listen to me, and the argument was going on and on. But yes, you have a point.

@Thunder Bro: I realize it's your opinion, but I don't see how the music fits the name either.

Oh.



well okay then

To be more specific, I didn't think TB was going to listen to me, but come to think of it I don't really expect Hello to consider changing the music just because of what I'm saying either, so....

I don't expect him to change the music, either. I just hope that he learns for the future.

The operational phrase there was "almost never".

Whoops, I just now noticed this.

Hello, my good man, the save feature doesn't work. A save file gets created when I say "Yes" to the question that asks me if I want to save, but whenever I select "Load" on the title screen, a buzz sounds. And the save file is indeed in the same folder as the game.

Please, listen to what everyone is sayong. Change the sprites!

Sayong. Isn't that a korean name? Someone at my school had that name.

Also: Hello, all your games look the same to me.