Super Mega Engine

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Super Mega Engine - Open-source Classic Megaman engine for Game Maker Studio!

Run the HTML5 DEMO inside your browser!

Download the Windows DEMO (EXE).

Download GameMaker Studio 1.4.

This is a fork of Mega Engine 1.3 for GM Studio by WreckingPrograms, intended to improve the code and incorporate contributions from users.

The engine has several features, including:

• 60 FPS Classic Mega Man gameplay
• Flexibility in adding or changing content in the engine
• Accurate movement, physics, object interaction and more
• Sliding and buster charging (can be disabled with ease)
• Collision with solids, jumpthrough solids, ladders, spikes and water
• A “section system” as present in the Classic titles, including proper screen transitions
• Several built-in special weapons, with flexibility in adding new ones or changing existing ones
• Built-in enemies, as well as flexibility in adding your own
• Various example gimmicks included in the engine, and flexibility in adding your own
• An example Robot Master with full AI, and flexibility to add your own bosses
• A customizable title screen, stage select, boss introduction screen, weapon get screen, game over screen and pause screen
• E-Tanks, M-Tanks, health drops, weapon drops and extra lives
• Fully functional checkpoints

The following features are exclusive of the Super Mega Engine fork:

• More flexibility in adding or changing content in the engine (code is more modular and less coupled; configurations are more accessible)
• More built-in enemies
• More gimmicks and effects, like wind, screen shake and flash and, optionally, allows moving platforms to persist on screen transitions (like MM5/MM9 bubbles)
• Vertical boss doors
• Automatically adds boss names to the stage select screen
• Adds W-Tanks, screws and a fully functional shop (optional) with some built-in items, like the energy balancer, shock guard and guard power up
• Modular and event-driven weapons and projectiles system
• Fortress system, including drag & drop placement of paths and dots
• Automatic collision objects placement according to tiles
• Mini bosses
• Enemy weak spots
• Multiple characters system (Proto Man built-in)
• Keyboard / Gamepad config (desktop only)
• Game saving / loading system
• Password system
• Intro stage support
• Dialog text system
• HTML5 support (if you have the GM exporter, you can generate a browser version of your game, like the HTML5 demo available here)
• Gamepad support (desktop only)
• No FMOD (sound library) dependency
• More bug fixes, even in relation to the latest versions of the original project
• Maintained by the community
• Cons: GM Studio 1.4.1760 only.

Open Mega Engine playthrough video
(Super Mega Engine playthrough coming soon)

Mega Engine 1.0 playthrough video

Tutorial

Wiki

F.A.Q.

Guidelines for Contribution

How To

Goals

• Ideally, the engine should be an empty game, and levels, weapons and bosses (from examples or created by the user) should be added by the user according to his individual game
• It should be possible to replicate any of the 8-bit MM games with the engine