12-30-2006, 10:08 AM
Here's an interesting free game you might want to check out:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15007
It's a bit of a Super Mario rip-off, with a penguin instead of an italian plumber. It gets a lot of things right, like nice graphics, parallax scrolling, a map screen, and a number of details from the mario games. But to me, it's the
I've thought about the possibility of doing a Mario-type game sometime, although I'd want to make mine a bit more original in certain ways... some of the levels in Tux are almost exact copies of the original Mario. It would be a fun project at least. But I hope to use Torque, and right now Torque doesn't have, built-in, what I need for basic platformers, meaning I'd have to modify the core engine if I were to do a platformer in the near future, which I'd rather not do.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15007
It's a bit of a Super Mario rip-off, with a penguin instead of an italian plumber. It gets a lot of things right, like nice graphics, parallax scrolling, a map screen, and a number of details from the mario games. But to me, it's the
littlethings, like the exact mechanics of how the guy
feelswhen he runs and jumps, that make me like/dislike a game, and I think those mechanics could use some improving. Oh, and a number of the levels are also VERY hard.
I've thought about the possibility of doing a Mario-type game sometime, although I'd want to make mine a bit more original in certain ways... some of the levels in Tux are almost exact copies of the original Mario. It would be a fun project at least. But I hope to use Torque, and right now Torque doesn't have, built-in, what I need for basic platformers, meaning I'd have to modify the core engine if I were to do a platformer in the near future, which I'd rather not do.