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MarioMaker - AS3 Sidescroller Engine
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This is a tile-based engine written in Actionscript 3. It is written to be easily customizable and extendable.
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Current Status
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Pre-Alpha: Currently being developed. Feel free to join in and help out!
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Features
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MarioMaker is being written to create substantial, middle-weight games. It features:
* Object-Oriented engine for easy modifications and additions
* Graphics caching for fast loading
* Visual editor for creating levels
* Working demo of a Mario clone
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To-Do
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- Write documentation for the engine (VERY IMPORTANT!)
- Make sure public interface is easy to use...some parts need to much digging into
- more accurate collision detection
- add a frame counter to test performance
- bigger window
- multidirectional scrolling
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Rudimentary File Structure
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Character.as: the player's character
Scene.as: creates each scene/level
Tile.as: basic functions for each tile. Other tiles
(CoinBlock.as, Goomba.as) inherit from this.
config.xml: tile configuration
main.as: runs the game
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Credits
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MarioMaker copyleft 2010 Aditya Bhargava
wefoundland.com
Licensed under the LGPL.
TweenLite copyright 2010 GreenSock, Inc.
greensock.com
GreenSock terms of use: http://www.greensock.com/terms_of_use.html