The goal

Figure out how to create a basic 2D rigid-body physics engine and work with HTML canvas & animation to emulate a popular game. It works! Play it here in your browser.

What works

• Basic physics engine. Collision detection and restitution (detecting is the easy part, figuring out what to do next, less so.) Not-MarioⓇ can climb walls at the moment which he probably shouldn’t be able to.
• Rendering physics-enabled entities on a HTML canvas.
• Basic artwork (not my own.)
• Parse and rendering a world of objects. Would be nice to be able to describe levels more succinctly, have larger than 1x1 objects, and pass props to objects.
• Scrolling the viewport based on progress and skipping rendering out-of-viewport models. Not-MarioⓇ is a bit jittery when forcing scrolling (too much Red Bull?)

What needs to be done

• Make interactable blocks interactable (I think there are coins in this game).
• Make player character power-up-able.
• Add enemies (scary) and interctions between multiple characters (including killing the player).
• Revoke the Not-MarioⓇ immortality dd the possiblility for the player character to die.
• Finish textures and graphics, including more sprites for player character (he should be able to look left, to start).
• Add a win state (yay).
• Add a way of playing on mobile?
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