[center][img]http://i.imgur.com/NBTHQQ5.png[/img] The people of the Mushroom Kingdom have finally embraced industrialization, and it is all thanks to everyone's favorite plumber, Luigi! Unfortunately, Luigi's greed got the best of him, and the entire kingdom became shrouded in darkness. The thick smog emanating from Luigi's accomplishments have darkened the once bright and colorful kingdom. It is now up to Mario to try and solve this dilemma! [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfqQ2M1a7Eg[/video] [img]http://hellofangaming.github.io/img/smd.png[/img] [url=http://www.indiedb.com/games/super-mario-dynamo/downloads/super-mario-dynamo]Download[/url][/center]

I was thinking of making Luigi* the boss of my newest SMBX boss rush (the villain in the excuse-plot), lol. You stole my ideas! *Read: it's actually Kamek in disguise and it's Bowser's plot

I haven't played it yet and despite it looking a bit different from your other games it looks a bit offputting. I think these games would catch so much more attention if you went for a more unique graphics other than SMB3 style each time. You have wacky ideas and wacky effects going on, so wacky and detailed environments might just make one of your games a classic that needs to be played. Either way, the gameplay looks interesting and I might check it out later.

"Brobot sprites" Wow will Luigi be fighting me?!? ;) Also does this use the e coins from SME or are those useless like RR and MM?

This level design is extremely hard... Aside from the fact that I can't get past 1-1, my only large issues with the game are the graphics (I'm not a fan of SMB3 graphics), there is no full-screen mode, and that there doesn't seem to be a clear "enemy" here. The intro says that Mario is going off to solve the problem of pollution, probably by finding Luigi. But all the enemies are minions of Bowser. Is the goal of the game to defeat Luigi, or just to talk to him? That sort of vagueness worked in Eclipse, but it doesn't really click with the setting of Dynamo. This next part isn't really an "issue", per say, but the game, though significantly different from other Hello engine games, still has that sort of feel. I am positive that it is largely due to the "mixed" Mario aspects. For instance, the game cuts and pastes different elements from various Mario games without all that much being changed (such as the SMB3 map system, mixed with SMW spin-jumping). Those features mixed with each other are a large part of what makes games feel like they were made with an engine, at least, in my opinion. Just some food for thought.

Hey Hello could you please make a walkthrough of level 8? I've only been able to find the secret exit, and I've been working for 30-45 minutes with no luck. Two compliments I have is that there is indeed at least 1 boss and that it automatically switches you to the right Mario.

Willsaber: You can activate fullscreen mode with the less-than-intuitive combination of Alt-Enter. The graphical bells and whistles are neat, but this is an extremely frustrating game. I couldn't even get past the first level. I don't mind playing challenging games, but the game becomes too hard too fast, and there's some artificial difficulty - for example, in the first part of the first level, there's a section where you bounce across Note Blocks over a very short area. You have to time it perfectly to avoid hitting your head and falling into the pit. And that's the beginning of the game! It's neat that you added wall jumping, but you have to make a quick series of wall jumps with a very tight time limit. You didn't include any way to introduce players to a new gameplay mechanic, instead of hitting them hard and early.

[quote="DJ Coco"]I think these games would catch so much more attention if you went for a more unique graphics other than SMB3 style each time. You have wacky ideas and wacky effects going on, so wacky and detailed environments might just make one of your games a classic that needs to be played.[/quote] There is no other set of sprites with everything I need. [quote="Willsaber"]there is no full-screen mode[/quote] Alt+Enter [quote="TiKi"]Hey Hello could you please make a walkthrough of level 8? I've only been able to find the secret exit, and I've been working for 30-45 minutes with no luck.[/quote] 1) Hit the On/off block to turn it off. 2) Find a pipe that was blocked off that takes you to an area you haven't been to before. 3) Avoid pinball flippers that take you to previous areas. (Go through the one that takes you somewhere new) [quote="VinnyVideo"]Willsaber: You can activate fullscreen mode with the less-than-intuitive combination of Alt-Enter.[/quote] Alt+Enter is definitely more common than F4 outside of GM made games. [quote="VinnyVideo"]I don't mind playing challenging games, but the game becomes too hard too fast[/quote] Except that you have infinite lives and lots of checkpoints to help out. [quote="VinnyVideo"]in the first part of the first level, there's a section where you bounce across Note Blocks over a very short area. You have to time it perfectly to avoid hitting your head and falling into the pit.[/quote] You could duck and not hit your head.

[quote="Hello"][quote="DJ Coco"]I think these games would catch so much more attention if you went for a more unique graphics other than SMB3 style each time. You have wacky ideas and wacky effects going on, so wacky and detailed environments might just make one of your games a classic that needs to be played.[/quote] There is no other set of sprites with everything I need. [quote="VinnyVideo"]Willsaber: You can activate fullscreen mode with the less-than-intuitive combination of Alt-Enter.[/quote] Alt+Enter is definitely more common than F4 outside of GM made games. [quote="VinnyVideo"]I don't mind playing challenging games, but the game becomes too hard too fast[/quote] Except that you have infinite lives and lots of checkpoints to help out. [quote="VinnyVideo"]in the first part of the first level, there's a section where you bounce across Note Blocks over a very short area. You have to time it perfectly to avoid hitting your head and falling into the pit.[/quote] You could duck and not hit your head.[/quote] [spoiler]If you can't get all the sprites you need, then there are really three options. 1) You use a style that does have all the sprite you need (like SMAS). 2) You pick a more unique style and limit yourself to only using what pre-made sprites that style offers. 3) You pick a more unique style, and modify or create your own sprites to match that style. Nobody is going to appreciate reusing the sprites that have been done to death. The same things that make them great to use ALSO make them lackluster. Very few people complain about a lack of features, especially if the sprites make up for it. Mit's Big Five Oh style has a lot of pre-made sprites, and it wouldn't be that hard to edit sprites into that style.[/spoiler] [spoiler]Alt+Enter is, indeed, more common outside of Gamemaker games, but... this is a Gamemaker game. What's even more common though, and is very intuitive no matter what platform it is, is having it changeable in the options.[/spoiler] [spoiler]While the infinite lives and large amount of checkpoints did help it a great deal, there is absolutely no replacement for good level design. Games that are brutally hard consistently tend to grab the player's attention for awhile, and even though the game is designed to where they can keep on trying an obstacle very quickly after failing to beat it, they will get bored or frustrated soon enough. It doesn't matter how many features you add ON TOP of it (aside from, perhaps, implementing some sort of item alike that of a White Tenooki Leaf), the level design just won't be fun.[/spoiler] [spoiler]Forcing the player to duck at a place like that, especially on the first level, is not a great design decision. Honestly, that level feels like part of a Special World, where the levels are designed with the exact purpose of frustrating the player with artificial difficulty.[/spoiler]

WS you were right to leave, this game gets hard. You often need to take it slow. Also: the "back to the last beat level" thing flushed my Rotten Graveyard checkpoint by accident. I'd prefer it if you just went back to the same level you're on.

Beat it! Has anyone else? I have: [spoiler]all levels but 4 and 5 beaten All palaces except red pushed Flower, Luigi (what a role model), and Peach e coins[/spoiler] I may post my thoughts later. I will say that I'm glad there's bosses this time.

I would probably find this game much more enjoyable if it wasn't so hard... like wow! The first level is really difficult, especially for a first level. Other than that, I do like the storyline, though I think you could have done more with it. Now I've only played the first level, so I don't really know if the plot evolves more after that, but it seems like everything is explained in a scrolling text, and then you just kind of get repeats of that through the dialogue with the toads (meaning they don't really tell you anything you didn't learn from the text). The dialogue is also really awkward at many points.

[ispoiler]oh. You'll need to get at least 2 or 3 switch palaces to win the game. Fair warning.[/ispoiler]

[quote="Hello"]There is no other set of sprites with everything I need.[/quote]You might be able to request some assets you need. There's a lot of sheets out there - I'm pretty sure you can find replacements for a lot of things that would fit and bring a lot of freshness to the game. [quote="VinnyVideo"]Willsaber: You can activate fullscreen mode with the less-than-intuitive combination of Alt-Enter.[/quote]I assume you never played a game outside of Game Maker games before, because pretty much [i]every[/i] game uses Alt+Enter for toggling fullscreen.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/hYbsC1I.png[/img] I guess no one noticed this

Nice find, I want to check that out too. [quote="Hello"]You could duck and not hit your head.[/quote] While jumping I guess. That can be called an expert trick, I think.

In the tree stage, one can flip a shell underneath a 2 block high space. I got 1 million points!

[quote="TiKi"]In the tree stage, one can flip a shell underneath a 2 block high space. I got 1 million points![/quote] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AdAxF-uVgc&list=UUAhf1HnjK6IyqdmK7hJj-Pw#t=1284]Too late...[/url]

Actually I think I got it around that date.

Beaten it with all the 7 eCoins.