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- - - - We also note that a large number of platformer games allow for the player to control the arc of the jump based on how long they hold the jump button – in this work, Super Mario Bros., Metroid, and Mega Man all allow for this. http://www.exag.gamesbyangelina.org/papers/EXAG_2020_paper_11.pdf
        
        many games have different physics models when the player is falling in their jump versus when they are in the rising portion of their jump – e.g., in Super Mario Bros. gravity can more than double when the player is falling. As such, we learn a separate gravity value for the rising and falling portions of a jump.
      - In this game, the player must deftly manipulate the
        controller in order to move his game avatar (Mario) through each level without error. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/48851822.pdf
  - - - The placement of enemies in the Mario levels is certainly important to the challenge dynamics. Though our difficulty metric does not explicitly refer to enemies, we are able to capture this information by internally representing each enemy as a small gap in the level. Essentially, the enemies are considered to be as difficult as a small jump between platforms. Since enemies must generally be avoided or defeated through jumping, this technique serves as a rough approximation for the challenge a player faces when encountering an enemy. https://axon.cs.byu.edu/~dan/673/papers/sorenson.pdf
    - - This hardness proof also works for levels of constant height, which is a property shared by most Super Mario Bros. games; for example, even the very flexible Super Mario Maker allows levels of height only double that of the screen, or 27 blocks, the same as Super Mario Bros. 3, and about double that of Super Mario Bros.
        
        PSPACE-hardness of SMB-general To finalize our construction, we make sure to give Mario enough time to complete the level (provided that it is feasible), by setting the timer to some linear function of the configuration space’s size.
  - - - As for the relationship between predicted frustration and challenge, the correlation analysis showed that when optimizing predicted frustration, less challenging levels are generated for the two agents. However, predicted challenge and frustration were found to be strongly positively correlated when evolving challenging levels for the two agents.
  - - - The NES controller is very simple, with only 8 buttons. Up, down, left, right, start, select, A and B. And even then, of the eight inputs on the NES controller, Super Mario Bros. only uses 3 of them, welcoming the player with a friendly and simple-looking interface to use. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/easy-to-learn-hard-to-master
- - - - Player could run out of time and lose a life.
        
        There is a time limit for each level and if the level is not completed when the timer runs out, Mario also loses a life and the level is restarted. https://dspace.cuni.cz/bitstream/handle/20.500.11956/127957/130308526.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
  - - - Errors without punishment
        
        Sometimes the player needs to get hit to be smaller so they can fit through gaps in the level.
        
        The small Mario more or less got the familiar Mario Bros. powers: bop platforms from below; modest jump height and distance; one hit and you die. The bigger Mario, then, got an enhanced power set: bigger jumps, the ability to survive a blow, and the ability to smash right through some Breakout tiles. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/console/analysis-from-i-donkey-kong-i-to-i-super-mario-bros-i---the-inexorable-rise-of-miyamoto
        
        Older NES players likely remember the fabled Minus World, a "secret" level discovered accidentally by players who used a quirk of the game's collision detection to slide through a wall at the end of World 1-2 and "trick" the Warp Zone into transporting Mario to World -1. Nintendo Power confirmed the trick in its third issue and tantalized readers with "an endless water world from which no one has ever escaped." In reality, the looping Minus World proved more punishment than reward, but it prompted players to wonder whether Team Mario had tucked away other hidden levels. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-long-shadow-of-i-super-mario-bros-i-
        
        There is a hidden feature in Super Mario Bros called "warp". It’s a teleportation zone that allows a player who reaches here to skip certain stages
        https://openreview.net/forum?id=T5bLw0jDe7Q
  - - - Makes sequences short and direct
        
        ingrained
        
        logical
        
        obvious
        
        Straightfowrad level designs
        
        https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-holy-trinity-of-level-design-types-a-back-to-basics-analysis In 1985 Super Mario Bros introduced the second Level-design type: the 2D-scrolling one. The levels in Super Mario Bros. actually seem more like several single screens pasted together.
        
        A scene consists of 14 vertical slices padded with three floor slices surrounding the scene, as shown in Figure 2. This padding is necessary to ensure that there is a safe area where Mario starts and finishes the level. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3321707.3321849
        
        What can be seen right away is the secret levels that can be found only through exploration. As can be seen, a person can run through the level, following a linear narrative arc: Start running, don't die, and try again to save Princess Toadstool, otherwise known as Princess Peach, from the evil clutches of Bowser. https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=UxUaCAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR3&dq=Vs.+Super+Mario+Bros&ots=3jMyrMHtgQ&sig=cvH6_Y3YdUiiqQ7R2DoamW3YDOQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Vs.%20Super%20Mario%20Bros&f=false PAGE38
        
        Perhaps the manner in which the Super Mario player learns to think is better conceived as an irreducible complex of locations, scenarios and types of action. http://www.gamestudies.org/0102/newman/ by James Newman 2002
        
        While Mario presents straightforward challenges that require raw dexterity https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/48851822.pdf
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