{"id":1753,"date":"2010-05-07T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T17:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/2010\/05\/07\/if-super-mario-bros-was-made-in-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-05-07T10:18:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T17:18:27","slug":"if-super-mario-bros-was-made-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/07\/if-super-mario-bros-was-made-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"If Super Mario Bros. Was Made in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5531665\/if-super-mario-bros-was-made-in-2010\" target=\"_blank\">Zack Hiwiller<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Using eight images, game designer Zack Hiwiller shows us what Super Mario Bros. might look like, if it was made with modern sensibilities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author&#8217;s Note<\/strong>: While this post is meant to be humorous, it isn&#8217;t meant to be humorous at the expense of my fellow designers. I know we all try to do what is best for our games, so don&#8217;t take offense guys! It&#8217;s just pining for a simpler time\u2026<\/p>\n<p>If Mario was first designed in 2010, he&#8217;d probably have to adopt some of our modern trends.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_MsZb8mYFoCs\/S-RHuirnLFI\/AAAAAAAAJbc\/amnIBfrBoWY\/s800\/500x_step1.jpg\" alt=\"If Super Mario Bros. Was Made in 2010\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_MsZb8mYFoCs\/S-RHvGOULLI\/AAAAAAAAJbg\/eGF84ubOPeM\/s800\/500x_step2.jpg\" alt=\"If Super Mario Bros. Was Made in 2010\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thirty minutes later\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_MsZb8mYFoCs\/S-RHvLvwnRI\/AAAAAAAAJbk\/yY2xXc0jOBU\/s800\/500x_step3.jpg\" alt=\"If Super Mario Bros. Was Made in 2010\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_MsZb8mYFoCs\/S-RHvxE7iXI\/AAAAAAAAJbo\/Xn-OxVXnwww\/s800\/500x_step5.jpg\" alt=\"If Super Mario Bros. Was Made in 2010\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_MsZb8mYFoCs\/S-RHwC9f1lI\/AAAAAAAAJbs\/147PkFCHlwE\/s800\/500x_step6.jpg\" alt=\"If Super Mario Bros. Was Made in 2010\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_MsZb8mYFoCs\/S-RIC10IvwI\/AAAAAAAAJbw\/-oR6RBFtMKY\/s800\/500x_step7.jpg\" alt=\"If Super Mario Bros. Was Made in 2010\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maybe this warp pipe is safe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_MsZb8mYFoCs\/S-RIDGmHC0I\/AAAAAAAAJb0\/crzJGYUsZB0\/s800\/500x_step8.jpg\" alt=\"If Super Mario Bros. Was Made in 2010\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_MsZb8mYFoCs\/S-RIDMjaZ0I\/AAAAAAAAJb4\/xFQYp67dwdc\/s800\/500x_step9.jpg\" alt=\"If Super Mario Bros. Was Made in 2010\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Damnit.<\/p>\n<p>Zack Hiwiller is a professional game designer living in New York City. He writes about games and the industry on his blog (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiwiller.com\/\">http:\/\/www.hiwiller.com<\/a>) when the server isn&#8217;t a smoldering mess. If you are a board game publisher, contact him. He&#8217;s got some prototypes to show&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Zack Hiwiller Using eight images, game designer Zack Hiwiller shows us what Super Mario Bros. might look like, if it was made with modern sensibilities. Author&#8217;s Note: While this post is meant to be humorous, it isn&#8217;t meant to be humorous at the expense of my fellow designers. I know we all try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}