Super Mario Bros. Crossover is an amazing game that allows you to play through the original Super Mario Bros. with one of several NES heroes, such as Mega Man, Simon Belmont, Samus, Ryu Hayabusa, and others. As fun as it is, its nature doesn't leave developer Exploding Rabbit many options for making money.

To that end, Exploding Rabbit is working on an original title called Super Retro Squad, using the knowledge gleaned from Super Mario Bros. Crossover. In a way, Super Retro Squad will be sort of like a re-skinned version of Super Mario Bros. Crossover, featuring characters directly inspired by their NES counterparts. It's not a straight-up copy, though, as the characters will have additional abilities that can be upgraded, music and art will be wholly original, and so on.

To ensure that Super Retro Squad is a success, Exploding Rabbit is asking fans to donate to a Kickstarter fund. With just shy of a month left, the team is already nearly halfway to its $10,000 goal. The game will appear on PC, Mac, and Linux machines, with the possibility of expansion to Apple and Android devices down the road.

We already know these guys can make a solid game, so there's no harm in giving 'em a leg up for what's sure to be another fun piece of software.

Super Retro Squad [Kickstarter via Nubuwo]

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qlum

I really hate calling it pc mac and linux, as macs can run linux and windows, pc's can run linux, windows, osx (via hackentosh). Macs themselves are pc's despite being rather locked down. Also linux is rather unspecific, as linux comes in many flavors, from android to servers. Just saying desktop linux is better fit here as that specifies it to about what runs it, sure you can say linux in short but that wouldn't cut it. Just say OSX,Windows,Desktop linux. instead. Especially the pc part is very much a bad statment as all 3 run on pc, are pc, are just different operating systems on pc.

Fyrebrand

Mario Crossover is awesome, and not just for the surface-level "lol this game has lots of Nintendo dudes" idea. This really accurately captured the control and "physics" of each character, and obviously thought a lot about the rules of just how those characters would react when crashed against the circumstances of Super Mario Bros. enemies and obstacles.

The new sprites look pretty cool, if you ask me, and I can't wait to see what sort of new level design he invents for this new game. The prospect of making an original game for each character, down the line, is really exciting.

SignumCross

@RockWallofMight359
Someone didn't read the article.

@Ursu

Dragoonkin

@Ursu The Binding of Isaac is a Flash game I've spent forty-six hours playing. Lots of other people have spent hundreds on it.

The development environment isn't necessarily indicative of a game's quality.

Epic-Kx

TIME HATERS.

BoomingEchoes

"As fun as it is, its nature doesn't leave developer Exploding Rabbit many options for making money."

I'm for this project, I really am, but isn't the above quote really their own damn fault though? Don't make a free flash game and then get (if they even are) all pissy that it doesn't make you money.

I don't know.. That just rubbed me the wrong way.. Its like a farmer saying "You know.. I keep milking the cow everyday and giving it out to the people.. But I'm poor."

MissingNumbers

@BoomingEchoes
It was a statement, not a complaint.

Steviedoors

@TheLupineOne The fact that you are disdainful of crowd funding being a successful means of creating games is disturbing to me. Would you rather it was in the hands of publishers like EA? Sure, not every game on Kickstarter is gonna be good but anyone who has respect for the gaming medium and doesn't want to see it run into the ground by greedy, soulless fat cats surely sees how good things like Kickstarter are for the future of the industry.