Pic of the Week - Week 19



MOAR UNDERGRUND. This is actually a small cavern area that connects to the beach area that was seen in the Demo Version. Just above here is the roots of a tree area!

Sorry to disappoint, but what I meant by that is when you enter that Tree area, you're at the very base of the Tree and so there's a small "room" of with root graphics, and a supply of water underneath them. I'd love to have some kind of "area overlap" like having Tree roots coming out of the ceiling of the underground, but there's just not enough space in the tilesets.

Today I made quite a lot of progress on the overworld. Right now I'm focusing on the top-left corner of the overworld, which contains the Sky and Forest biomes. If progress kept up with the pace I made today- the overworld would be complete within 150 days!

I've refreshed my level designing style a lot since development started. I've taken a less-is-more approach to enemy placement, platforming challenges have become a major focus of gameplay, and I'm handling vertical area designs a lot better than I used to.

I'm currently deciding on making a new gameplay trailer to coincide with E3 2015.

Pic of the Week - Week 20



Mario's found himself right at the base of a tree. I'm running out of things to discuss from the list of screenshots I made a month ago. Next month should have some newer, cooler stuffs to show.



I have been plotting the overworld in a map for convenience, but I'd rather not show it just yet. Completing the overworld is just Phase 1 of this hack's development, so you'll likely get to catch a glimpse of the completed overworld long before the hack released.

So far... 133. My prediction for the finished overworld, not including extra areas... about 1500.

That's-a lot of entrances

I forgot to do Pic of the Week last night, my bad!

Pic of the Week - Week 21



Tree environments aren't just limited to vertical areas- in this case, it's completely horizontal. I was obviously trying to capture the feel of New Super Mario Bros. 2 with these tree segments. You may notice the original New Super Mario Bros. cloud background that was used in over half of the levels in New Super Mario Advance + Take 2- the difference here being, in Super Mario: Endless Earth you'll rarely see it.

I actually had Honeycombs in mind! I just need to make sure that if I import them into the tileset, that I don't lose too much color detail, because that's already an issue with the Tree tileset at the moment.

Also, I just finished the E3 trailer. It will be posted to YouTube two hours prior to the Nintendo Digital Event next week.

I forgot the Pic of the Week again. I hope this'll make up for it:



The Nintendo Digital Event is starting in precisely two hours, so here's a little something to get hyped.

Also, I have Pic of the Week, as usual:

Pic of the Week - Week 22



I took this screenshot just this morning, and moved my next image to next week. I managed to import Honeycombs into the Tree tileset with minimal color loss. I think it looks very nice. Though, imagine my surprise when I played Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii for the first time two days ago to see the exact same thing done two years earlier! I guess I wasn't as original as I thought...