Mario and the Forty Thieves, Minigame competition entry

In this game, you play as a band of forty toads whose mission is to steal as much treasure from Bowser's castle as they can. Naturally, Bowser has stationed many goombas (and, in levels to come, other troops) to protect his treasure, and his magikoopa vigilantes will appear to apprehend any thieves if a goomba should raise the alarm.

This demo contains only five levels. Use the left and right arrow keys to move. Note that toads cannot go past each other, but they can push each other. Use the up arrow key to enter the door and exit the level. Note that when you want a toad to exit, you must make sure that there are no other toads touching the door. If you need any extra toads out, click on the door to summon one. The green arrow indicates which toad you control at the moment. Click on a different one to control that one instead. Press Escape to quit and if fullscreen is annoying you, press F4 to change to window mode.

Now for some in-game screenshots:


To be added: tutorial text.


Because the toads can't jump, they have to rely on conveniently-placed teleporters to get over this obstacle. A teleporter won't work if its corresponding teleporter is blocked.


Goombas only look directly forwards, so if a toad is above or below them, he won't be spotted.


This is what happens when a goomba spots you.

Update 1
- Five more levels
- Tutorial text at the bottom
- Added sound effects
- Fixed a few bugs

This post has been edited by mariobro27 on Jul 30 2009, 03:12 PM

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 fortythievesv1.01.exe

Game Crashes immediately. What did you make this with?

Good, but hard.

Game Maker 7.

Oh, let me guess, you have Vista.

No, I have Windows 7. And Game Maker 7 games should work with Vista and 7. It's just Game Maker 6 that has problems. :\

OK, I've updated the game. If it still keeps crashing, does it come up with any error messages or anything?