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Indie Super Mario Title
Press the Buttons has a post about an independently created Mario game which combines elements of Super Mario World and Super Mario Sunshine to create a great 2D gaming experience. From the post: "Equipped with the FLUDD water pack, Mario must collect pieces of a warp pipe, assemble them, and then exterminate the Piranha Plant living inside. FLUDD functions as both a jetpack and a weapon, and when the water supply runs dry Mario must get a refill at the local water hole."
Anyone else working on indie titles based on older games?
I'm working on a Blaster Master title (early in development) based on the first game (since the others sucked). I was just wondering how many people were into this... it's encouraging!
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This should hopefully tide me over until the next 2D Mario game for the DS.
Companies needs to stop turning classics into 3D BS until they have decent reason to do so. ie: Not just taking the 2D gameplay and translating it to 3D.
Before anyone mod's me down. I'm not reffering to Mario 64 as being crap, just the 3D Castlevania's and Contra's.
Chewie does not get a medal. Come on, George. Can a Wookie get a medal?
I prefer
SuperTux. It's not such an obvious rip-off but a nice, relatively original game.
Coming soon... the great new game where Nintendo lawyers jump up and down on the heads of indie developers, while using their "Cease and Desist" orders to make foes flee in terror. Find all the magical writs and win the Super Lawsuit Challenge to collect all the shiny gold coins!
Seriously, people, grow up. Nintendo is not the nice, fluffy "puppies for all" company that they're usually portrayed as on slashdot for some reason. Anybody remember a little title called "Great Giana Sisters" for the C64? To be honest, in this case, Nintendo pretty much have a duty to protect their intellectual property.
Has anyone gotten a joypad to work? If so, which joypad is it?
I am a meat popsicle.
This is a fun little game, but why use Mario when the same thing could have been done without the blaitant infringement? Is the short-lived coverage really worth it?
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I think the fact that this game came out in 2003 means that Nintendo's not going to be siccing any lawyers on the developers just yet.
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
This games quite old... i remember playing it when it was posted on www.uncleclive.co.uk ages ago. It's a mario styled conversion of a very old ZX spectrum game called JetPac by Rare.
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http://www.ultimate-wurlde.com/games/jetpacpack.s
It seems to me that with the focus on higher-resolution, more realistic, 3D graphics that many of the large developers could be failing to capitalize on a reasonably large segment of the gaming population; videogame players that are interested in 2D and simple 3D games. This game made me think of this because, I wonder how much it would have cost Nintendo to develop this game and how many copies that it would have sold.
Let's face it, part of the reason the Gameboy and GBA have sold so many units is because they were the only real portable options but another reason is that people still really enjoy simple 2D games; just look at The Legend of Zelda : Four Swords for the Gamecube, it probably sold millions of copies and cost less than any other modern console Zelda game. Had this Mario game been made by Nintendo they could probably sell over a million copies on a game that cost less than a million dollars to make.
I wonder what is going to happen to all of those 2D GBA developers with the release of the PSP, Nintendo DS and upcoming new Gameboy platform. If any of the console manufactures are smart they should try to attract these developers to produce their games on their system. I know a game that looks like this one may not be as 'sexy' as a Halo, Metroid Prime, or Grand Theft Auto but I would be certain that its bottom line would be far more lucrative than any of those games.
Not necessarily this exact title. But little games like this are what make the possibilities of the Revolution seem very interesting to me. Most little indie games like this aren't very good. But every now and them a real gem comes along. It would be great for those gems to be available for download on a home console simply and affordably. I know I can play in now on my PC. But it would be cool to be able to play it with my family on our TV in the living room. I can't stand it when my kid starts pounding away on my computer.
I swear PowerPoint is going to be the downfall of higher education in western society.
Because there are resources out there where you can download entire sprite sets from games. So if you are a programmer with little to no art skills, your easiest recourse is using ripped graphics. It's dumb, but ...
Quick, somebody tell the guys at Mario Fan Games Galaxy! I'll bet they'll start a web site for this kind of thing!
I just played it a bit and I have to say I'm not impressed. It's nice to see people making games for free but there just really isn't very much to this game. Don't be fooled by the graphics and sound, this plays nothing like a Mario game, basically it's a Jetpac clone with ripped off graphics and sound from Mario. The gameplay is very repetitive and though fun for a few games it quickly loses its charm. There are plenty of better freeware games that don't get slashdotted because they use original ideas. For an example of a very fun original freeware platform game that involves a jetpack check out Cave Story: http://agtp.romhack.net/doukutsu.html
Yeah, it isn't like SG would lie or do some publicity stunt like that to bring in viewers/customers!
No, they wouldn't think of making some shit like this up as an excuse to get their "story" accepted by sites like slashdot!
We should all *trust* porn site runners claim's, just like we all trust spammers and the government.
The gameplay is exactly the same as an old ZX Spectrum game called Jetpac (I believe it was by Ultimate) You had to get grab the bits of the rocket and then drop in the fuel and then you could get in a go to next level, of course you had a jetpac on instead of the water pack. Exactly the same game with different graphics. So not only are the graphics ripped of the gameplay is a complete rip off to.
World 2-1 is way too hard. Anyone get past it? Mario's movement is too damn cumbersome to dodge those flying bastards.
Oh yeah.. next I'd like to see DK get the once over!
Not that yucky 3D shit... just some good old fashioned DK Country... oh yeah gigity gigity!
Check out Super Mario 3 : Mario Forever. It's a clone of the original Super Mario Bros. with a few enhancements. Pretty fun game.
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