Secret Maryo Chronicles
Encyclopedia
Secret Maryo Chronicles is a free, open source
two-dimensional platform game
. It was developed and is maintained by the Secret Maryo Chronicles development team, led by Florian Richter ("FluXy").
Secret Maryo Chronicles has been described as a Super Mario Bros.
clone by PCtipp. It began as a SourceForge
project in January 2003 and has been expanded up the latest release in 2009. The game is an OpenGL
-based and has an original soundtrack and a built-in game editor. It has been released under the GNU General Public License
, Version 3.
Secret Maryo Chronicles was listed as the number one open source video game by APC in January 2008. Stern
praised the speed of the game and its puzzle solving. The game was named one of the most promising open source games of 2008 by El Heraldo and praised as a well-made non-violent game for children by heute
.
Free and open source software
Free and open-source software or free/libre/open-source software is software that is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code...
two-dimensional platform game
Platform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...
. It was developed and is maintained by the Secret Maryo Chronicles development team, led by Florian Richter ("FluXy").
Secret Maryo Chronicles has been described as a Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros.
is a 1985 platform video game developed by Nintendo, published for the Nintendo Entertainment System as a sequel to the 1983 game Mario Bros. In Super Mario Bros., the player controls Mario as he travels through the Mushroom Kingdom in order to rescue Princess Toadstool from the antagonist...
clone by PCtipp. It began as a SourceForge
SourceForge
SourceForge Enterprise Edition is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of free software / open source software applications .While originally itself...
project in January 2003 and has been expanded up the latest release in 2009. The game is an OpenGL
OpenGL
OpenGL is a standard specification defining a cross-language, cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 2D and 3D computer graphics. The interface consists of over 250 different function calls which can be used to draw complex three-dimensional scenes from simple primitives. OpenGL...
-based and has an original soundtrack and a built-in game editor. It has been released under the GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
, Version 3.
Secret Maryo Chronicles was listed as the number one open source video game by APC in January 2008. Stern
Stern (magazine)
Stern is a weekly news magazine published in Germany. It was founded in 1948 by Henri Nannen, and is currently published by Gruner + Jahr, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann. In the first quarter of 2006, its print run was 1.019 million copies and it reached 7.84 million readers according to...
praised the speed of the game and its puzzle solving. The game was named one of the most promising open source games of 2008 by El Heraldo and praised as a well-made non-violent game for children by heute
Heute
heute is a news show on the German television channel ZDF. The main show is broadcast at 7 PM, or 19:00, consisting of news of the day, weather forecasts and sport...
.