I won’t say no to an out-of-the-blue update to this three-year-old, free, Mario-themed FPS demo
The phrase “Super Mario FPS” conjures up a certain image for me: a custom Counter-Strike: Source gun game map maybe, or a really edgy Doom WAD like the so-rad-they-took-it-down Bikini Bottom Massacre (opens in new tab). Something in the spirit of, ahem, “tribal” tattoo Mario (opens in new tab), basically. Developer Sean Noonan’s Super 1-1 (opens in new tab), on the other hand, is more of a wholesome, good-hearted take on the concept.
We first reported (opens in new tab) on Noonan’s concept back in 2019, and the developer gave it a full release early the next year. Nintendo’s crack legal division seemed to give it a stay of execution, and that looked like the end of things until just this week. On March 11, Noonan published an update to Super 1-1 that adds new collectibles, back-end tweaks, and rendering updates. The full changes are listed here:
- Updated project from 4.26 to 4.27
- Significant project cleanup
- Added some new coin locations
- Updated all models, animations, textures, effects and materials
- Added foliage in the form of grass tufts, small rocks and other small details
- New and improved water (!)
- New and improved sky (!)
- Fixed numerous LOD’s
- Fixed a bunch of shadow issues
- Fixed depth of field
- General performance improvements
- Improved character controls
- Additional game options
- Added mouse control to in-game menus
- Made trees “fun”
[Editor’s note: they have eyes that turn to follow the player as they pass now]
