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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.
That would require skills. Also it's not "fun". It's not "fun" to be caring about optimizations or type-safety or general correctness and elegance.
But it is fun. It's called "working for hack value"!
Personally, I prefer mari0. It's mario with a portal gun. It's written in Lua using LÖVE, it's really cool. http://stabyourself.net/mari0/ https://love2d.org/
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This may qualify as fair use, and in any case it's not like this is going to jeopardize sales of the 29 year-old Super Mario Bros or any of it's derivatives.
If your position is "may", you're on shaky legal ground at best. Regardless, he would be forced to shutter his side project with a CnD, since I doubt he's willing to go to court.
So I created this project (I just found out this morning someone posted it here). 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 chec…
I don't know how anyone could watch the vid and be so cynical about the choice of game, language or library. It's a clear example of autodidactic exploration.
Have you seen the portal gun mario? [1] (I hadn't until five minutes ago; link stolen from a comment down the page here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7284719 )
Might be interesting to think of different and/or bizarre ways you could potentially alter the game mechanics as you go along to create a new experience. I like those kinds of exercises because they help me think about structuring things in a decoupled way so I can arbitrarily modify part of the mechanics without having to rewrite everything. Might be a cool/informative exercise if you keep playing with the game.
Either, cool project.
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Also the palette shifting that they used to get different colors out of the same assets.
Why do you want to see these things? These are adaptations to the platform that the original game was developed on (and its limitations). What would be the purpose of reproducing those limitations in a new implementation for a completely different platform?