MiniLD #2 – The Wizard
Way back in July I wrote this simplified Super Mario Brothers 3 game for the Mini Ludum Dare (a 48 hour mini-competition) that month. The theme of the competition was a game based on a movie. The movie that I picked was “The Wizard,” which is a movie about some kids who hitchhike across several states playing Nintendo games — so this would have been a video game about a movie about video games.
Originally I was going to have elements from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Double Dragon (both also featured in the movie) all tied together with an arcade style game where you control Jimmy and play these mini-games against people. I figured if I made the Super Mario Brothers 3 part (which is the final showdown against Lucas) then I could easily adapt that to make the other parts.
All-in-all it was a little over ambitious, but I think I could have possibly pulled it off if I actually had two full days. That saturday I went to watch a movie with friends, so I really only had one of the two days to work with. I am, however, still very satisified with how much was accomplished in such a short amount of time.
Arrow Keys makes mario run, ‘x’ key makes him jump.
Download “The Wizard – The Game.”
Tags: Competitions, Game Dev, ludum dare, minild, pygame, python
October 28th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Cool!!! I never knew you did this. I hope to try and download this and test it out. I would have liked to see the elements you talked about included but it will be fun to see what you did with the time that you had. Thanks for sharing.