

Several teasers and videos were posted and a speculated release date of Christmas 2011 was proposed, although this was later pushed towards New Year's Eve 2011, and then postponed further until beta testing had been completed and they were satisfied with the release. The pair frequently created blog posts keeping followers up to date with the latest Mari0 developments, including a month-long screenshot marathon of Mari0 updates. He received creative input from Smolej, the developer and spokesperson of the website. Guégan, the lead programmer of games, began development on this functionality in January 2011. However, after seeing a video on the humor site Dorkly entitled Mario With A Portal Gun, the pair decided that they would add a portal gun as well. Their initial idea was to incorporate the multiplayer gameplay of New Super Mario Bros. From there, Guégan and his friend Sašo Smolej were tasked with finding a purpose for the recreation. He began the project largely as a creative exercise but also in part because he believed similar recreations of the time failed to match the controls of the original game. created by Maurice Guégan in the LÖVE framework. Mari0 began as a recreation of Super Mario Bros. Up to four players can cooperatively play in the game. A level editor, along with different graphic sets and shaders, are provided to create new content. as well as sets of test chambers inspired by Portal 's Aperture Science. The core game uses the level designs from the original Super Mario Bros. This can be used for a number of gameplay options, often using vertical momentum entering one portal to "fling" the Mario character horizontally out of the other portal, but will also affect enemies and other game elements in similar manners.
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The game adds the concept of the "portal gun" from the Portal series the player can click with the mouse device on two separate surfaces on the level to create a portal between them. 2D platform game, where the player controls Mario via the keyboard, running and jumping through levels, avoiding or jumping on enemies to defeat them, while collecting coins to earn points towards their score. The core game of Mari0 plays directly from the 8-bit Super Mario Bros. The title screen of the game with a custom outfit equipped on the player

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An update to the game titled Mari0: Special Edition was planned for release at an unknown date, however it was cancelled in 2015 following technical constraints. It was well-received by critics for its creativity and simplistic concept. The game quickly gained traction through online blogs and news sites, and has been downloaded nearly 1.6 million times.

Wii – however, after they viewed a Dorkly video entitled Mario With A Portal Gun, they settled on the idea of including a portal gun and other elements from the Portal series. The pair's first idea was to implement a four-player multiplayer system similar to the one seen in New Super Mario Bros. It was made with the LÖVE game framework.ĭevelopment began in 2011 as a direct port of the original Super Mario Bros. The game features Mario armed with a " portal gun", the main game mechanic in the Portal series, allowing him to create two inter-spatial portals on 2-dimensional surfaces which can transport himself, enemies and other objects through them. It combines gameplay elements from Nintendo's Super Mario series and Valve's Portal series. Mari0 (pronounced "mari-zero" or "mari-oh") is a 2012 side-scrolling platform video game developed by German indie developer Maurice Guégan with creative input from Sašo Smolej and released onto their website.
