prajwalkrishna / supermario

An implementation of iconic SuperMario Game for Terminal

Python Terminal SuperMario

Coded by: Prajwal Krishna

This README file contains :

1. Information About the Game
2. How to run
3. Controls for game play
4. File structure
5. Requirements

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About The Game

Super Mario Bros is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo. The successor to the 1983 arcade game, Mario Bros., it was released in Japan in 1985 for the Famicom, and in North America and Europe for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985 and 1987 respectively. Players control Mario,they must traverse side-scrolling stages while avoiding hazards such as enemies and pits.

For more information click here.

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Running the program

• First, install all the requirements:
  • pip install -r requirements.txt
• Running the program is easy
  • ./__init__.py
• Zoom in or out for proper viewing refer ground to sizing

NOTE: Python Terminal SuperMario will not run on Windows environments as Windows does not support signal.SIGALRM however the code should run properly on a Cygwin terminal.

Controls

• Controls follow traditional classic titles (w,a,d)
• To quit, press q
• Make sure caps lock is off

Requirements:

• Python3
• Colorama libarary of python3

Features

• 2 different kinds of enemies
• Random generation of background like clouds,mountain and bushes so you never get bored of monotony
• Random ordering of various hurdles
• Implementation of different levels
• Special underwater levels when level_number%3 == 0
• Smart enemy which always tries to follows Mario
• Coins can be collected and can be traded for life
• Colors for characters
• Follow OOP concepts
• Comments are present in code for easy reference

File Structure

• init.py
• people.py
• user.py
• enemy.py
• base.py
• coins.py
• mario.py
• board.py
• status.py
• hurdles.py
• obstacles.py
• background.py
• requirements.txt
• README.md

Note: The development was done on a macOX environment

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Prajwal Krishna Maitin

supermario's Issues

Door of castle should end the level

Right now Mario has to traverse some distance after door of castle for level to change, this should be avoided

Reimplement logic of coin capture

Right now for seeing a capture of coin the function iterates over all set coins and checks whether some matches with Mario or not. This is highly ineffective and needs to be changed.

Make proper ending for the game

Display an end screen which shows all score it with game over message
Call this screen when no life is left

Add a start screen for game

The game does not have a starting screen as of now. I wish that the game has a start screen where controls would be shown rest depends on creativity of person implementing.

Make Shooter mode for mario

When mario gets 2 powerups it begins to shoot , so currently this game does not have that functionality , needs to implemented.

Boss(bigger) enemy does not get killed properly.

The bigger enemy pink with character'B' as identifier when killed leaves some pixels on screen which is not what is expected.