WIP - Mario Spin off game.

Felt like doing something not related to MS designing now. So, i'm attempting on making my first game, starting from zero. Not really sure if i'll be able to finish it. I'm drawing every single object from the other Mario series and doing a graphic renewal to them, like you can see in the image. It's just a preview, of what i have by now, everything was made in Photoshop as always.

I'm still writting the story for the game. The image you see here is the layout of World 0, it's not World 1 because it's not part of the game, but more like a tutorial before the real story. There will be only 3 stages themed like the old Mario World we are all used to, before the plot starts and the whole universe changes.



The game itself will start when Bowser, while returning to his castle, finds a staff in the middle of the road. With the help of Kamek, he finds out that it belongs to the Underworld Queen. She's actually trapped inside the orb and wants to be freed to use all her power to take revenge with the ones that sealed her up. Finding out that Bowser also wants revenge with Mushroom Kingdom, she makes a pact with him. Him and Kamek will seek for a way to break the seal, in exchange of part of her powers.

She gives Bowser a chance, and allows him to use some of her spells, he destroys the whole Mushroom Kingdom and transforms it into a much darker and evil land. He kidnaps Peach and disappears. Mario is now lost, in an unknown world with much more different and stronger enemies that are fed with the evil powers of the Queen. Bowser, takes Peach alongside Kamek and his army to look for the Wizards that are able to break the seal, while Mario looks for Peach and his friends, and tries to save the Kingdom once more.

As i said, the screenshot only shows a preview of the first 3 stages and the layout, because the whole game will be different from that. I'm still drawing these new enemies, and am going to work on this for these vacations. Since i'm kinda tired at the moment of making those MS related things. :x

I'll update this when i'm done with these things. I'm still doing the basic things, like drawing the items, blocks, tiles, and normal enemies for those 3 stages, that are when Mario's coming back to his house, before the plot happens. :O
Already worked for 5 hours today, hope i can get something new by this week, i'm still 1 month away from my vacations. :o

The Goombas don't look original. More like traces of ones from a Paper Mario game.

But if I'm wrong, disregard me.

Based off them, they are. Although there are a few differences, Paper Mario ones have their mouth slightly open and their eyebrows have a different angle. But yes, mainly for the fact the ones in Mario World don't really look like actual goombas, also, there's no need for them to be original designed in those first 3 stages, seeing that it's just about mentioning the previous games. The original part comes after those 3 stages.

Done these looking at a Goomba picture, they are supposed to look like the ones in Paper Mario because they're just the same Goombas as the other games. They are actually supposed to be like the ones previously seen. :o

Oooooh, I REALLY like this! And I'm an obvious fangirl, so this excites me. :3 The letters and item box at the top are a bit large, though, at least in my opinion. Mushroom could also be a bit more centered in the box, and the shadow beneath it is a bit out of place.

I really love the work done here, though, I'd love to see the original worlds you have planned for this and would love to play it if/when it's done. :>

As a massive paper mario fan I support this.

Do it! I'm excited

Thanks guys :>
This is what i have for the layout of the beginning of the World 1. It's the transition part between World 0 tutorial and the actual game. It get's darker and more evil by advancing the stages. This one is just a part of the first stage, as the second one is a night themed underwater level. Those yellow fruits are supposed to help the player to see a bigger piece of the screen, since it works like the dark levels where you can only see a circle portion of the map. If your yoshi eats those fruits, the circle gets bigger. I'm going to sleep now and continue this by tomorrow, going to add enemies to this stage by tomorrow when i get back from school.



I'll add more details later and fix these things. Since it's not really that good by now. Going to keep working on the storyline too.

Is it standard Mario gameplay? Or slightly altered? (Another skill or two other than fire flowers or etc.)

the night looks awesome o.O

Is it standard Mario gameplay? Or slightly altered? (Another skill or two other than fire flowers or etc.)

I might think about it later. Currently, i'm working more on the graphics, and story before going to the real game. As i said, this is going to take some months to be done, what i thought off was something like Mario World, but with skills, instead of just jumping around and fireballs. Punches, Hammer smashes maybe, i'm still needing to get used to such things since i'm not really much experienced with the game building process, but with the graphical part. I'd add a touch of RPG games in it, like some cutscenes when you get into some part of the game, and maybe character switching like in Super Paper Mario Advance.

After i'm done with graphics and storyline, i'll try to see on how i can make these things come out of paper. :S

've been working on the graphic aspect for a lot of time these days. Took me two days, approximately 10 hours to make the world map of World-1, i tried to do my best there, although i was very tired in the end of the interface process. Sorry for any mistakes, gotta try to improve when i get to work with such things by the next weeks, or months.

Thought about the game gender, and was thinking of a mix between Paper Mario and it's RPG aspect, and Mario World and it's adventure aspect. I wanted the game to have a lot of story, and that's what i'm working on right now, but also wanted it to be as fun as the classic games. The map shows some things i'm trying to do, such as those exclamation marks in the heads of the characters and their locations, that will change or disapear when the story has nothing to do with them. More details when i get done and have more ideas.



The map structure and objects were totally drew by hand, so, it won't look that great since i'm not really experienced with digitalizing something that hasn't been in paper. :X
Done in Photoshop CS3, as always.

Wow. That looks so legit. Great work as always anselm!

pineapple that looks amazing. Want to play

Looks awesome! aslemn!

OH MY GOD this is amazing. Shame you can't really sell it as it'd break copyright laws, but wow, this beats out a vast majority of Mario games.

But jesus christ...this is amazing. Did you actually plan the whole storyline out yet?

I'd also like to see a Portal gun in at least one "Easter Bunny" level or something. If it's too hard to implement don't bother, but it'll be neat lol.

this beats out a vast majority of Mario games.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

I hate to be a stick in the mud when it comes to someone's creativity, but isn't that a big claim to be making right now? So far we've only seen the backgrounds.

Yeah. Literally everything else is, at the very least, inspired by paper mario. It looks good but that's because Paper Mario looks good.

Looks good, man. Keep it up!

Can't wait to see this materialized.

One of the new characters i made for that game. This one is, alongside Mario and his friends, one of the main characters. She's involved with the main plot. Her kingdom, is the land of the Dark Witch, who invaded her castle and kidnapped her parents, before finally getting in charge of the kingdom, her parents used a spell to seal her inside her staff, and then they escaped, she demanded her minions to rule the land, but in the middle of the war, she ended up falling from the floating land into the road of Mushroom Kingdom.

Resting on the land for a lot, she's found by Bowser, who was returning from the last battle with Mario, after being beaten up. He founds the staff, and meets the witch. She wants a pact, she can make his wish come true, by giving him some of her powers for him to get strong enough to kidnap princess peach and rule the land he lives on, but he must, alongside Kamek, search for a way to break the seal, which can only be broke by a member of the royal family, in case, Emily.

She's the only survivor of her kingdom, and before leaving, while her parents sacrifice themselves to cast the spell, she's told to run away and leave her home. She ends up wandering, and finds Mario while he was looking for Bowser, to bring Peach back.

Suddenly, Bowser destroys the kingdom with his new powers, and transforms it into a much darker land, she asks for Mario's help and joins him to look for his love. Mario now has to find all his friends in such a strange world, and bring peace once again.

She's the main character of the game. And will go through a huge personality change in a moment, and her look will change, too. Her parents sacrificed themselves, and now are in the prison of the witch's castle. They refuse to help the minions to free their lost queen, but they have a plan. The little princess would never let her parents to be hurt, and she's the key they're all looking for.

This is how she looks like. Sorry for any mistakes, took like 4 hours.



Though she looks more like a character of a Rubber Mario game than a Paper Mario + Mario World game. :X

She's awesomeee!

Her name shall be, Plum!