The developers decided that the extra funds meant that the game needed to get "a bit bigger" than their original pitch. Since then, the developers at Exploding Rabbit have used some of the Kickstarter funds to buy a house in Ohio, move in and develop the game together.Įxploding Rabbit had a meeting about Super Retro Squad this week to "make sure this is the kind of game we want to make," Pavlina said. Super Retro Squad vastly exceeded its $10,000 funding goal and ended the campaign with $53,509. Crossover but with characters and its own score inspired by iconic NES characters. The Kickstarter video describes it as the developer's chance to make an original game based on Super Mario Bros. Super Retro Squad: a new game inspired by old favoritesĪt the same time, Exploding Rabbit has been working on a new game, Super Retro Squad, which was funded through Kickstarter last July. "I just wanted to bring more attention to it because I didn't think a a lot of people knew about it," he said. Pavlina created a level editor, and Exploding Rabbit began recreating the levels to include in Crossover. It wasn't until about three months ago when Exploding Rabbit decided to add Super Mario Bros. If you were running and trying to jump over a pit at that point, there'd be a change, and you'd pretty much just fall in the pit because you can't time it right. Then when the enemy falls in to a pit, the game will speed up. So, if there's an enemy on the screen, the game will be running slow. Another weird problem is that the speed will sometimes change. There's some parts where you have to jump on really small platforms. "The other problem is that the controls are horrible. "It's kind of like Zelda," he said "where, like, if you go to the edge of the screen, it'll scroll over and it'll stay on that screen until you get to the edge again. The first is that the walk-left-to-right platformer's screen doesn't scroll. There are two main problems with Super Mario Bros. "It was just horrible because it's so hard to control." "My whole team played through that game," he said. Special built to run on the Sharp X1, which he described as "the superior version." He found an original version of Super Mario Bros. A forum user sent him a link to a ROM hack of the levels incorporated into an NES version of Super Mario Bros. He learned about Hudson Soft's Super Mario Bros. Crossover and Kickstarter to shack up in the Midwest and build their first original game, Super Retro Squad. "I just kind of always wondered what it would be like if you could play as Link in Super Mario Bros.," Pavlina told Polygon in a recent interview about how the game came to be, its new update and how the eight-person team at Exploding Rabbit used Super Mario Bros. released for two Japanese personal computers in the 80s. Crossover 3.0, which will incorporate levels from a quirky, little-known port of Super Mario Bros. It still has about 10,000 players a day, according to Pavlina.Įarlier this week, Exploding Rabbit released a teaser trailer for Super Mario Bros. remake, players can platform through the Mushroom Kingdom as a number of 8-bit icons like Metroid's Samus Aran, The Legend of Zelda's Link and Mega Man's titular hero. Crossover's conceit was both familiar and novel. Just over three years ago, the studio's founder, Jay Pavlina, released the first game he'd ever worked on. Exploding Rabbit's future is linked to the past.
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