Baby Mario Bros, FIRE FLOWER AND STAR SHOOTER NOW IN GAME

Hey there, MFGG. This is a little project I started last night called "Baby Mario Bros". It's your typical Mario platformer, but with the baby versions of all your favorite characters! The demo only has 1-level. Tell me what you think!

Controls
Arrow Key: Move
Shift/Z/Space: Jump
Enter: Pause
F1: View Credits
F4: Full Screen

UPDATED(9/28/09)
Added Fire Flower
Changed HUD
Fixed music glitch
Added Star Shooter(Not in current demo; Screenshots below)



Download Demo Here

This post has been edited by WolfSkull on Sep 28 2009, 06:50 PM

Cool, the plot is reasonable and the graphics are nice.

Thanks! What do you think of the gameplay?

Gameplay seems pretty straight forward, but maybe implement a few unique elements? Like, perhaps add Yoshi and make him hidden in certain stages? Do you plan on adding some of the other babies?

Yes, but remember: this is only the first level. Later levels will have power ups, more enemies, a few secrets here and there, baby versions of characters like Peach, Bowser, Yoshi, ect. and baby bosses.(Bosses from other Mario games, but baby-fied) Also, Baby Luigi will be playable, and will have his differences in gameplay.

This post has been edited by WolfSkull on Sep 27 2009, 06:18 PM

The only complaints here are that some of the graphics don't look too good, specifically the tileset, it's very outdated. The HUD text is also a bit of an eyesore, and the lifebar could use a bit of touching up. Everything else is pretty good. Touch up a little and this could be a pretty good game.

Thanks for the reply!

Cool, what sort of power-ups do you plan on adding?

Power-Ups that will hopefully find their way into the game: Fire Flower, Star Shooter(Like Fire Flower, but more powerful), Growth and Mini Mushrooms(Grow and Shrink character size).

Coolness =D I have an idea for the Gorw Shroom: Instead of growing in size, how about it causes the babies to briefly 'grow up'. They'd be in their adult forms for a small amount, allowing them to utilize their adult abilities (A.I, Mario would shoot fireballs, Peach could hover, Luigi could Super Jump, etc.)

I'm already putting a fire flower in the game, and I'm programming Luigi to make him jump higher normally. And Mario and Luigi are the only playable characters. The others like Baby Peach make appearances as NPCs.

Hm, okay. Well, it still looks like a pretty cool game. Can't wait to see more

pretty cool, please make more soon.

I'm planning on updating this tomorrow after school.

I found a bug:

If you die the first time, the whole music plays a little quicklier until you close the game.

Update: Changed HUD, added Fire Flower, changed music glitch. Let me know what you think. (Download is also on first post.)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/orlqqs

Well, All i can say is that you weren't the first to think on something like that.
But at least you had the time to take it out of the blueprints and make at least a demo.
I remember I did a different plot, but all the characthers would be baby, nonethless. But your game looks pretty good, anyway.

Thanks, glad you like it.

EDIT: Star Shooter is now implemented in the game. However, it's not in the demo, since I think it's pretty redundant to update with just that one small update. Here are some screens of the Star Shooter in action.


This post has been edited by WolfSkull on Sep 28 2009, 06:47 PM

The yellow font in the HUD is kind of hard to read.

What do you think of the gameplay?