Recently I was shown a StarCraft map resembling the classic Mario Bros. game. I thought it was a pretty cool map, but unfortunately, my friend encouraged me to create a better version. "What should be improved?" Longer game, not a race against the screen, being able to jump anywhere, and sound effects. Seeing how all of these ideas were feasible, I decided to make the map.

Super Mario SC



Concept:
You are Mario. Your goal? Grab several coins and reach the end of the level. To grab a coin, you simply run up to it and touch it. Of course, if it's in the air or a difficult spot, you'll have to jump and maneuver to safely claim it. There are three forces of evil trying to stop you: a time limit, baddies, and gravity.

Gameplay:
You don't select Mario directly. Instead, you have a Terran Dropship Barracks with two units, a Siege Tank and an Archon a Firebat and Ghost (There you go, Viet), named used to "Change Direction" and "Jump" respectively. Mario is constantly walking; you can only control the direction in which he moves. The jump feature seems pretty self-explanatory, so I'll leave that to your mind. You must grab all of the coins to open the end of the level. There are also 1-ups to grab on each level, so be sure to hunt those down.

When a player dies, it goes to the next player. When a player beats a level, it goes to the next player. Why, you ask? Because people don't want to watch a professional beat all of the levels. The level timer has plenty of time to grab everything and reach the end of the level is you don't lallygag; its main purpose is to kill Mario when someone keeps trying to go for a hard-to-reach 1-up, or if someone deselects their Dropship Barracks and did not hotkey it. There's also a short timer to start the level which serves as an anti-idle trigger.

*** Disclaimer: All coins and 1-ups are possible to grab without dying ***



And for those of you who are technically interested:


(If you want me to elaborate on any of those, I will. This map was protected with GUEdit, so you can unprotect it and retain location/trigger names if you feel like having a look.)

On a final note, if someone does accidentally deselect the Barracks, it is possible to hold down the spacebar and reselect it. In other words, if someone deselects the Barracks and tries hard enough, the players won't have to wait for the timer to hit 0.


Updated the map to 1.2. Changes:

- Fixed a Display Text bug
- Fixed a missing roof on level 6
- Optimized jumping to prevent accidental double-jumps

1.1 Changes:

- Button system swapped to Barracks
- Goombas swapped to High Templars
- Removed cooldown / Enabled spam for buttons
- Removed a bonus life on level 5 because I felt like it
- Changed various strings respective to the above mentioned changes.

Download Page: Super Mario SC 1.2

Post has been edited 16 time(s), last time on Apr 1 2013, 2:02 am by Roy.

very cool, gj

I think this is a truly well done map.
I think you have done an amazing job... and also have wasted much of your time...

it is entirely not your fault, but this just doesn't work in SC... it was so frustrating as dropping the units takes a long time to detect.. the lag in between just kills the gameplay.. :S...

I didn't get very far in the game.. but I would recommend 3 lives at start.. or maybe you can have 5 lives for start, and a maximum of 5 players, each player sharing the same stock of lives.... this'd make the game more replayable....

As for the goombas... i think High templars would've worked better also... as it'd be slower and ezier to get... and they should spawn elsewhere and then walk towards you without patrolling back.. like in real super mario XD...

lol if u add koopas then you're amazing.. but seriously that's unecessary....
Platformer games just don't fit in an RTS game. No matter how good your triggering is. I think you did a great job, and your triggering is superb. It's just that this type of map won't work on SC.

I'd suggest a build units system for controls instead of the dropship system. Give the player a Stargate (and a Pylon), make Arbiters cost 2 minerals and Carriers cost 3 minerals, give both a 1-second build time, and disable Corsairs and Scouts. Give the player three minerals at the game start. Then, if the player has 1 mineral (which means they built an Arbiter), then switch directions. If they have 0 minerals (which means they built a Carrier), then trigger the jumping.

Also, you could use a Scourge for the jumping: Create scourge, order it to move upwards, Move the rine to the scourge. (Sorry if you're already doing this, I can't check atm. [I'm in Florida and don't have access to SC.])

Looks good, but if you could change the name slightly that would be great...probably a minor thing but I already have a 1.3 meg map called Super Mario RPG downloaded a while back from somewhere. Anyway it's pretty good as well and if you have the exact same name as another good map then someone is going to lose one of those maps at some point due to it :-/.

Dropship systems for reaction purposes are the worst. Direction detectoin, unit building, or anything else would have been better.

D'oh! I took a poll between ignorant friends, and they chose the Dropship over a building.

It sounds like this is worth reworking, then; I'll wait a little while for more feedback before I change the map.

Uh, would that map by chance be named "Super Mario RPG.scx" ? This is "Super Mario SC.scx" and as you can see, those two names are slightly different.

Whoops, yea it was... I guess I misread the name of your map . Anyway glad to hear it won't be causing anything to over-write :-).

Ya trying to do quick maneuvers is difficult so timing is key. Really fun tho actually, I impressed a bunch of my friends by showing them this map. Good work, I say its worth retriggering if you're still going to.

This map is jesus-in-a-pouch.

Hahaa I tried this and I got addicted and laughed the whole game.
Game rocks :].

Scarabs would make better coins, thery're golden.

You can also walk through them, making them ideal in every way. However, they're high maintenance. I can't imagine keeping 100 scarabs in individual places for the duration of the map. Perhaps it's not as hard as I think (move trigger works on them) but I am a lazy man who's running low on locations.

If you switch systems, Instead of a stargate or gateway, I recommend a barracks, it has FG which are right next to eachother and are in the corrosponding directions, I'd also think you could make the terrain more eye pleasing, maybe switch to jungle and put in water or grass. I've always wanted to make a platformer, I even started one but bailed. It's a fun map, I think you did good on it.

Lol damn it Roy, good map but I told you to use a building instead of a dropship, but you never listen to me T_T

You're a flip-flopper, Just like John Kerry!

I'll remake the order system and see if I can use scarabs.

Edit: Forget the scarabs...

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Apr 22 2009, 2:13 am by Roy. Reason: They explode...

You lying Roy! You never asked me that cause I certainly do not remember at all asking for a dropship, or bunker for the commands, nor a mutalisk. T_T

Well, we could argue about credibility of words, Leon, but I'd rather hear some constructive feedback.

Updated the map to 1.1. Changes:

- Button system swapped to Barracks
- Goombas swapped to High Templars
- Removed cooldown / Enabled spam for buttons
- Removed a bonus life on level 5 because I felt like it
- Changed various strings respective to the above mentioned changes.




Please let me know if there's a bug. I only quickly transferred information and ran a few brief tests. There are likely glitches created by these changes, but I did not find any immediate problems.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Apr 22 2009, 3:17 am by Roy.

Very fun! Good job, Roy.

Updated the map to 1.2. Changes:

- Fixed a Display Text bug
- Fixed a missing roof on level 6
- Optimized jumping to prevent accidental double-jumps

Download link was updated in the first post.