2D platforming game information

• Platforming genre description
• History of 2d platforming success extends beyond Mario
• Platforming Games 101: Running, Jumping & More
• Ways to implement enviornments/levels in platforming games

Example platforming games

• N Way of the Ninja
• Knytt
• Fancy Pants Adventure
• Super Mario Crossover Note: this game makes use of copyrighted material
• Lists of popular freeware and browser games from 2006-2009

Misc. platforming videos

• A video of overlapping runs of super mario gameplay (not the original levels)
• Rouge Atom
• Spelunky
• Virtual reality 2D sidescroller

First level 2D platformer gameplay videos

• Super Mario Bros.
• Castlevania
• Mega Man

Super Mario Bros.

Sprites

• Mario Universe
• Mario Mayhem

Sounds

• Mario Mayhem - sound effects
• Mario Mayhem - music
• The Mushroom Kingdom

Research related topics - Infinite Mario and Mario AI

• Playing Infinite Mario: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aoBGpdZoNw
• http://www.ultimatearcade.com/game/infinite-mario
• (seems to be buggy) http://www.mojang.com/notch/mario/
• (seems to be buggy) HTML5: http://www.rawrbitrary.com/arcade/infinite-mario-bros-in-html5/
• Mario AI Championship

Mario Crossover

• Mario Crossover
• Exploding Rabbit - the development team homepage
• Mario Crossover 3.0 trailer

SIGBOVIK (satirical computer science conference) papers

• Generalized Super Mario Bros. is NP-Complete
• learnfun & playfun: A general technique for automating NES games