Mario is Missing!

[DustyPorViva]

Not really, he just found Graal! Seriously, I pity him now.

Anyways, what's the point of this post? To advertise a little side project I've decided to undertake for fun. The project is to clone Mario to the best of my ability. This will include making the physics accurate and the controls natural. I've spent a lot of time crunching numbers and running comparative tests against Mario to come up with gameplay that feels and plays faithfully to Mario. The goal is to make playing this feel like you're playing a Mario game. I'm doing this because I can honestly say I've yet to see any Mario clone/fangame ever, even outside of Graal, feel like an actual Mario game.

Oh yes. This is all in GS1, and will be a completely offline project. In the end I will take it, zip it up and upload it for people to play with. I don't think I will make an actual game with it. Chances are I will make a couple maps that showcases the reproduction and gameplay in lots of ways. Also, another reason this is offline is because I intend to rip and steal the hell out of Mario, thus I want to avoid any legal problems. Every time I try to do something like this I end up not being able to fulfill the graphical needs(especially sprites), and thus the whole project falls apart. Now it will hopefully feel AND look like Mario.

Where am I at right now? I think I'm pretty much done with the controls and physics, and now to add more interesting things like springs, boxes, powerups, enemies, stomping enemies...