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Super Paper Mario uses an extremely similar engine as Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, which uses a slightly modified version of the Paper Mario 64 engine.

by chc4 7y ago

derefr 7y ago
Intelligent Systems seems to have a good head on their shoulders for code reuse. Enough so that I would suspect that their Fire Emblem and Advance Wars series—when they were releasing concurrently—were the same engine underneath. (Side-note: I've always wondered how the mini-games in IS's WarioWare series work—whether each game is entirely custom code, or whether they've come up with some sort of DSL for specifying reflex games. If the latter, I would bet that that has a decent genealogy too.)
- Andrex 7y ago
  Well, they made a game where you can make your own microgames (D.I.Y.), and I believe an Iwata Asks revealed it was basically a dumbed down version of the internal tools they had been using, at least for the earlier DS WarioWare game (Touched.) Not sure if that quite answers your question, but I would bet it's some kind of DSL interpreted by a microgame engine.
- AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
  Fun Fact: The minigames of the WarioWare series began life in Mario Studio, the 64DD Japan-only sequel to Mario Paint.[0][1] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Artist#Polygon_Studio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Artist#Polygon_Studio [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FoB3n1kxrY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FoB3n1kxrY
hitekker 7y ago
Super Paper Mario's movement felt quite similar to Thousand Year Door, which was to its detriment as the former was a platformer and the second was an RPG.
- zapzupnz 7y ago
  > The former was a platformer-RPG FTFY. I don't think the RPG elements of SPM should be ignored; the game plays very differently to any of the other Mario platformers. It may not be to everyone's tastes but to simplify the matter for the sake of a quick jab is hugely unfair, especially given it has one of the most touching stories in the Paper Mario canon.

Super Paper Mario uses an extremely similar engine as Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, which uses a slightly modified version of the Paper Mario 64 engine.

by chc4 7y ago

Super Paper Mario uses an extremely similar engine as Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, which uses a slightly modified version of the Paper Mario 64 engine.

derefr 7y ago

Intelligent Systems seems to have a good head on their shoulders for code reuse. Enough so that I would suspect that their Fire Emblem and Advance Wars series—when they were releasing concurrently—were the same engine underneath. (Side-note: I've always wondered how the mini-games in IS's WarioWare series work—whether each game is entirely custom code, or whether they've come up with some sort of DSL for specifying reflex games. If the latter, I would bet that that has a decent genealogy too.)

Andrex 7y ago
Well, they made a game where you can make your own microgames (D.I.Y.), and I believe an Iwata Asks revealed it was basically a dumbed down version of the internal tools they had been using, at least for the earlier DS WarioWare game (Touched.) Not sure if that quite answers your question, but I would bet it's some kind of DSL interpreted by a microgame engine.
AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
Fun Fact: The minigames of the WarioWare series began life in Mario Studio, the 64DD Japan-only sequel to Mario Paint.[0][1] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Artist#Polygon_Studio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Artist#Polygon_Studio [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FoB3n1kxrY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FoB3n1kxrY

hitekker 7y ago

Super Paper Mario's movement felt quite similar to Thousand Year Door, which was to its detriment as the former was a platformer and the second was an RPG.

zapzupnz 7y ago
> The former was a platformer-RPG FTFY. I don't think the RPG elements of SPM should be ignored; the game plays very differently to any of the other Mario platformers. It may not be to everyone's tastes but to simplify the matter for the sake of a quick jab is hugely unfair, especially given it has one of the most touching stories in the Paper Mario canon.