A Mario fangame! It's a fangame! With Mario!

[Zero Kirby]

Everything looks great! Just wondering how you are progressing?

Quite slowly, actually. Soundfonting the MIDIs in a manner where they don't sound bad is a little more difficult than I thought (the pan flute has been getting quite the workout let me tell you what since it sounds nice just about everywhere so far) and I can't find MIDIs of every song I want. So I'm probably going to use the soundfonted MIDIs for the world map/level music and such and use game soundtracks for boss fights, the title screen, and the like - basically "impressive" moments (hey I think my title screen is impressive thank you very much)

If you'd like to see "progress" on the soundtrack, here you go:


The idea is that the farther you are in the level, the more instruments play. Not sure how I'll pull that off but I like the idea so if I can make it work I will. If I can't, I won't. Simple as that.

(The "time-up speed-up" is done in-engine with FMOD, and sounds vaguely the same as it does in the video (which was done in Audacity!). 33% faster with a pitch increase. So I've definitely made THAT work.)

Oh, and here's a redone version of the Map Screen (now with 100% more inspired by Yoshi's Island)


Naturally as you progress through the game the music fills out more and more. I always like that in games and is one of the many reasons I love Yoshi's Island.

If I ever released a soundtrack (which I won't because none of the music's mine) I'd call it something like "Super Pan Flute Classic: Return of the Revenge of the Pan Flute's Revenging Returning 2 Revenge Reloading Revenge"

I've also been trying to work out an Options Menu! Hooray, gonna get that shit done mmhmm. Basically it's still going to work like what I posted on it earlier but between coding it and working on music, it's going fairly slowly. Once I'm done with that I'll finish Boost Mario and then the rest of Mario's powerups before I move on to making enemies, and THEN there's still the matter of finding sprites for the various worlds and levels I want to do, and don't even get me started on boss fights. Ugh. I've been planning a requests topic for a while but I want to make sure I know what I'm asking for and that I can do it, first.

To be honest, a lot of my ideas are kind of big and I'm not entirely sure I'd be able to pull them all off - which is why I'm trying to refrain from sharing them so I don't disappoint anyone but myself. But at the same time I really want to bounce them off someone so I can get feedback as to whether or not they're actually good. Eh. Whatever. The lamentations of an artist.

I always love hearing feedback of whatever I have posted though, so fire away!