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Why on Earth would you create the level like this instead of using something like Tiled[1]? Pretty much everything you can make a game with has support for TMX tilemaps, and if not making basic support yourself shouldn't be too hard either, and ultimately way less effort.
https://github.com/justinmeister/Mario-Level-1/blob/master/d... Why on Earth would you create the level like this instead of using something like Tiled[1]? Pretty much everything you can make a game with has support for TMX tilemaps, and if not making basic support yourself shouldn't be too hard either, and ultimately way less effort. [1] http://www.mapeditor.org/
DMCA takedown in 3, 2, 1... Still a cool project anyway.
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>So you took a game that used to take a few dozen KB of memory and an 8-bit CPU running at less than 2MHz, and turned it into one requiring many orders of magnitude more memory and CPU speed? That's what I thought too. Not sure why it's getting as much attention. Maybe because it's the combination of Python and Super Mario. A very popular language combined with a very popular game and a breeze of nostalgia. However i…
Going the opposite direction would be much more deserving IMHO; e.g. trying to fit a Flappy Birds clone in a few hundred bytes or something like that.
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>So you took a game that used to take a few dozen KB of memory and an 8-bit CPU running at less than 2MHz, and turned it into one requiring many orders of magnitude more memory and CPU speed? That's what I thought too. Not sure why it's getting as much attention. Maybe because it's the combination of Python and Super Mario. A very popular language combined with a very popular game and a breeze of nostalgia. However i…
Going the opposite direction would be much more deserving IMHO; e.g. trying to fit a Flappy Birds clone in a few hundred bytes or something like that.
http://js1k.com/2014-dragons/demo/1659
I'm defining a few as 10 :P
it might just be an out of sync screen recording, but it seems to me like there is an input lag.
does that huge lag bother anyone? it might just be an out of sync screen recording, but it seems to me like there is an input lag.
Edit: After having watched the video, it appears to be out of sync and dropping frames.
So you took a game that used to take a few dozen KB of memory and an 8-bit CPU running at less than 2MHz, and turned it into one requiring many orders of magnitude more memory and CPU speed? I'm impressively disturbed.
It's a shame that you're getting voted down for making a very valid and truthful comment. It really isn't impressive when we see 1980s-era games recreated in JavaScript, for example, and the same should be true when dealing with Python. That's not to say that this effort lacks value. The author likely enjoyed working on it, and maybe learned something while working on it, too. It could be a useful reference work for…
To answer a few questions:
1) DMCA/Copyright: I have no idea the legal grounds for this sort of project. There is an Javascript/HTML5 version of Mario that is much better and more complete than mine and it still exists on Github. If I get a takedown notice, I suppose the only people who lose out are people other than me who want to check it out. I'm not too concerned either way, to be honest.
2) Memory / CPU issues: Anyone concerned about these issues wouldn't make a game in Python and Pygame. I'm just a hobbyist who enjoys the language and the particular library I used.
3) Audio Latency: That is purely from the screen recording. There is no latency when you play it on your machine (to my knowledge).
4) Purpose of this project: I have been programming for 7 months, 2 of which I spent on this project. I never expected this project to get this much attention, but I suppose the cross-over appeal of Python and Mario is quite high. Fundamentally this was a learning activity to create something I thought was cool. Like I explained here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBbzYKMfx5Y , I knew basically nothing about making a platformer before this project. I still have a lot to learn.
Neat project! You should to tutorials - it's a great learning example