Super Mario Bros. in Crazy Castle, My first Mario fangame! - IN PROGRESS

Hey, guys! This is my first fangame made. I'm still working on it, and I hope to release it without any bugs or problems.

Here's a screenshot:

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NOTE: THE LINK CHANGES FROM TIME TO TIME AS I UPDATE THE GAME.

It features Mario gameplay mixed with a bit of the Crazy Castle concept. If you ever played a Crazy Castle game, you should know what the main challenge was. If not, then I'll just give you a quick summary.

1. You can't jump.
2. Grab 8 keys(but in this case, stars) to be able to exit the level through a door.
3. You have limited items.

There is a story to this game, it's in the game information, soon to be placed in the actual game.

Press F1 for controls and whatnot.
DO NOT PLAY IF YOU DO NOT LIKE PLATFORMERS WHERE YOU ARE UNABLE TO JUMP.

I'm using Darkyoshi's tileset and various people's sprites for this game. I'll probably use other people's tilesets as well.

Enjoy and leave feedback!

This post has been edited by DaggerHog on Mar 8 2009, 02:25 PM

no comments?

Graphics = eww

Otherwise not that bad.

hmm, i guess i'll have to use a different tileset next time.

thanks, though.

I would love to see a unofficial Crazy Castle sequel. Since This is one of my favorite Kemco games/series,

I always wanted to have a Crazy Castle with Sunsoft's Hebereke Series Characters

BTW: Your graphics need improving!

hmm, another person who likes the crazy castle series! glad to see that i'm not the only one who's played it and liked it.

yeah, i'm aware of the graphics. i'll get around to that in the near future.

This post has been edited by DaggerHog on Oct 23 2008, 10:06 PM

A few have already addressed the graphics portion, so there's no need to say it again. But what I can say is that this game has a lot of potential; I tried it out the other day.

Good luck on the final version, TC.

Try to use DarkYoshi's Tilesets. It's cool!

Ooooh, cool game! Well the graphics of it are ok they could be better or more detail into the background, and well
maybe where the lives are placed and their size?!? (they're kinda big) but
other than that it looks like a very promising game! keep it up, and good luck.
Can't wait to see the final version. : P

thanks guys. i'll find darkyoshi's tileset and use it. and i'll do something about the background, as i found it kinda bland as well.

oh, and the lives as in the hearts? should i place them somewhere else or make them smaller?

all right. i started using darkyoshi's tileset and it messed all the tiles in the levels up. i guess it's time for me to fix it...manually.

If they're messed up only because the tiles are in different places on the two tile sheets, you can probably fix this just by rearranging the ones on Darkyoshi's sheet so that the same kinds of pieces are in the same places as on the old sheet.

thanks for the tip, grant, but i've already finished retiling everything from scratch

in which this means it's an update. IMO, it looks much better now. thanks for the suggestion, saturn!

and about grass stage 6, that's supposed to be a boss battle. i'm still stumped on that. any suggestions on what the boss should be?

A Boss for a Grass Stage? Bellsprout? ffffffffff jk. Giant Koopa or Giant Goomba? The Koopa is unique, the Goomba was used only once.

i kind of need a boss that can chase you around the level or something close to that. something like a lakitu.

wait... i just gave myself an idea.

>Giant Koopa
>unique



But yes, something like a Lakitu should be coo'.

Wait -- so are you saying that boss levels are planned? I don't recall the original/"official" Crazy Castle installments having boss battles.

Still, your call on it, TC; it's your game.

My advice is that if you choose a boss version of some ordinary enemy species, you give it some unique characteristics so that it's something more than a "Giant ______." Examples of interesting variation in "enlarged enemy" bosses are Goomboss from SM64DS (wearing king-type clothes and a mustache, unlike normal Goombas), and the Koopa boss in World 1 of Toad Strikes Back (much more muscular etc. than a normal Koopa).

Just doing normal-looking giant enemy bosses is a sign of unoriginality, so my advice is to avoid that.

I don't get how exactly I move

when I press left/right he just faces that way and doesn't actually move

whoops! looks like i made a small mistake when editing the movement. you should be able to move as i just updated the game.

This post has been edited by DaggerHog on Nov 5 2008, 07:17 PM