HELLO

author=edchuy
Your game doesn't need to be done for you to (be submitted).

A game can totally be set to "Production". If a game is released when it's in that state, it would be considered an alpha build, or a demo. I guess it depends on how much content exists in the game.

Hi Chad_Sexington?

You are the author of that thief game, right? I remember playing that game a while back.

Welcome to RMN.

EDIT: I can answer question 5. Just remember you are making a Mario game, not an RPG, so do it sparingly and it will be okay.

I think there are maximum stuff as you said, but the max number is large enough to be the least of your concerns.

To make a block, like a speaker, show text you first need to make an event. There a place to type text. Then, when you go to the Blocks area, where you pick the speaker, you will see a place to add events. I forget what the button is called, but it opens a box with several drop boxes. One of them is called "Hit", pull the drop down and pick the event you created with the text. Once you choose that event in the Hit dropdown, the next time you put down that block it will have that attached to it. So you can't put down a speaker on the map, and then attach an event to it. You attach the event first, then place a block.

1) Is there a maximum number of levels you can have in a game?
No. But don't put too many in a single game. Unless they are really small.

2) Is there a maximum size a single level can be?
Yes. Around 1.4 mb. Every tile, no matter what it is, adds a little bit to the .lvl file and at 1.something the file can't be test played. You would need to erase blocks to bring the size down. Make use of the sections. Don't cram too much into a single section because it WILL lag, even on the best PC's. Also, don't put too many NPC's at one time, that causes lag.

If you really need to make a large level, split it into multipe .lvl files and you can use teleports to connect them.

3) Is there a maximum size a world map can be?
Hmm, I don't have much expereince with world map, but it can be pretty big. Keep things compact, because really you can only see a small bit at one time. So having big spaces is pointless. Plus if you make level pathes appears after clearing a level it takes a long time for it become visible 1 tile at a time.

4) Is there a maximum project/file size your game can be?
The whole project, no, because it's just made up of multiple .lvls and 1 world map file. Just the limit on a single .lvl file.

5) Would anybody be interested in a Mario game that a story told in dialogue boxes, bit-by-bit, which would be colored with black humor and becomes increasingly more disturbing? (The story of which you can completely skip if you are uninterested and just avoid hitting the squawk box things.)

I don't mind lots of text in mario games, but I'm the minority. If you do use a lot of text forma single source, don't cram it all into one message box. Use multiple events, with pieces of the text, and use the feature that allows you to string events together to have small text boxes appear one after the other. Might be hard to figure out right away, just gt used to using single event, then start stringing them together.