Advanced Mario Bros., LOOK MOM GENERIC TITLE

With Phage making the graphics, and me making the game itself, this is BOUND to be good.

Currently it's at an engine test state, and new things will be added as Phage makes them.


But for now: a basic engine test with basic movement, Goombas, and one-way platforms.
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Z runs, X jumps. You can duck, too. Jump while ducking on a one-way platform to go down through it.

This post has been edited by MegaTailzChao on Nov 24 2007, 04:13 PM

That was really good, great job!

This post has been edited by King Razz on Nov 12 2007, 03:43 PM

that looks beautiful

i swear that is like super pretty.

havn't downloaded cuz my macintosh can't play them fangames. Might download one when it is prettier.

I just hope te game plays as good as it looks.

needs some more work good luck on it

This is a very good solid engine. I noticed how theres no health, but you probably knew that. Can't wait to see how this turns out.

There's no health because I'm not sure how it's going to look because Phage hasn't made it yet!

What part of it needs more work? Please explain.

You can move left and right on the go-through platforms while holding down.
Otherwise it's awesome.

Ooo, I like this movement smoothness! Very nice.

Uhm.

While ducking on the jump-throughs, I found I could move around.

I even could move off them and glide on the solid ground.

Other than that pretty cool.

Make it so he slides if you're running and then you suddenly duck.

He does, it's just barely noticeable.

Yeah I think I've already fixed that and next engine test it won't be there.

But thanks.

A bit glitchy, but still good overall.


-Mario sometimes gets stuck on the upper corners of blocks when falling down and toward them. If you're using solid objects, I might know somewhat why this is happening, and it's one of the reasons I don't use solid objects in my games.

-Mario sometimes falls downward through the jump-through floors after falling from high up, like when he jumps to the left against the big wall of blocks above the floor on the right of the "underground passage", and then falls down to the floor.

-For some reason when you make Mario duck while he's moving to the right, but still keep holding the right arrow, Mario slides at a constant speed while he's ducking. This has nothing specifically to do with jump-through floors.

-You might want to double-check the collisions of those Goombas with Mario, because I could have sworn I got hit several times when it looked like I jumped on them fairly. (I might have been moving fast at the times when that appeared to happen.)


Other suggestions:

-The collisions could use improvement, since he often doesn't actually touch the blocks, and he usually can't fit vertically through 1-block-wide spaces (and I don't think he can fit horizontally through 1-block-tall spaces even when ducking, either). I don't think Mario's mask size is causing that. I'm guessing it might have to do with either the use of solid objects, or lack of code to make Mario "scoot up" to walls and ceilings when he collides with them, or both.

-Perhaps Mario should start coming right back down when he hits his head on a block from below. Right now he can kind of slide along ceilings for a brief moment when he does a running jump up against them, and move horizontally in the air briefly if he comes out from under them just after hitting them.

-The friction could probably be decreased so that Mario slides a little bit more and can't change direction quite so instantly.


By the way, I love those graphics.

This post has been edited by Grant on Nov 13 2007, 12:19 AM

-Yeah I noticed that a little bit earlier. Don't blame solid objects, solid objects have nothing to do with it. Will fix.

-Yeah I thought I fixed that too but apparently not. God damn.

-Oops.

-You might have been too low to be at a point that the game will recognize as an attack.



-Yeah ducking won't get you anywhere because Mario doesn't slide far enough for it to be useful at all so it's kinda just...There.

-Yeah I noticed that too and it's fixed right now. Not in the current test though.

-However, if the friction goes anywhere below 1 then Mario gets all scrunched up and I'd rather have high friction then a scrunched-up Mario.



Also thanks, Phage made the graphics.

One problem I've been running into: Sometimes I can make it so that no collisions occur with the goombas except when I jump on them. It might have to do with the timer to turn off invincibilty; just look into it pls :[

Also I wanna see Koopas.

This post has been edited by Bacteriophage on Nov 13 2007, 01:34 AM

Excellent engine. And it may just be me, but it seems that you haven't given mario a collision mask.

i think u should make the engine look more better and smoother and add luigi into it

... And no ideas on making it "more better and smoother?"

Also Luigi is an unnessessary extra to most engines.

Yeah I've been trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong but I can't figure it out. :[

Also Koopas will come when they're finished. >:[

Better? Smoother? Do you even know what you're talking about at this point?

And there is no Luigi sprite yet so no.

When Phage-brand laziness subsides you'll have this

Mega, you had hours to work on this on Friday, DIDN'T YOU