After tackling PacMan (I’ve lost the source code, unfortunately) I stepped up to the next level and wrote a Super Mario NES clone. Definitely a big step up from my previous games. This game featured much more demanding character control, a scrollable level, a robust level-editor, better collision detection, a level-flow system, and many more unique actors populating the world.
It’s not finished, and by that I mean there are several features from the original game that are not implemented in my version. However, I feel I’ve learned about all I can from this game. I did find out why the old adage “Composition over Inheritance” exists, as all my characters derive from a single PlatformActor class, so when special functionality was needed for one actor and not the others it became a bit of a mess. Now I know for next time! I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out, though.
You can look at the source code, use the level editor, and play 4 levels of the game by downloading the distributable zip file.
