The Quest of the Dark Stars (New)

[TheNightingale]

I made this logo in SMBX editor lol

About:
I sincerely don't like how I don't have any episode released and this is my 5th project thread. But this project is not too ambitious, this time I decided not to plan a huge episode that I would never finish. Oh, I also feel I'm making progress faster!

So, everything was going good with TQOTDS (short for the project name) until my computer broke last year. This month I got it fixed with some specs upgraded, but I lost all of my previous files, so I'm restarting this project with some new ideas and a smaller size planned. (also, even if my computer was upgraded, it's still too old so I can't play SMBX2 properly yet, so this project is being developed in SMBX 1.3 at the moment)

In this episode you can play any level in the order you want (they are still numbered as a suggested order to play them, but it's your choice) and travel though the worlds easily through a warp zone present in every world. You have to collect all the dark stars to be able to play the three last levels in the lava world. You will find a dark star exit at the end of every level outside of the lava and the star worlds (in this last one, there are random levels which aren't required to complete in order to beat the episode).

You won't find any powerups here, but mushrooms. In this game you can only play as small Mario or big Mario.

Plot:
At 4:00 in the morning, a really loud and strange noise coming from the Mushroom Castle wakes up everyone in the kingdom. People goes forward to the castle to see what happened and then they see everything dark inside. One of the toads went ahead and told everything to Mario and Luigi, then they opened the castle and noticed what happened: someone kidnapped Peach and stole the castle stars. However, nobody had a clue what did that darkness inside of the castle come from, until Mario found a letter in the floor saying "I kidnapped Peach and took the stars, I scattered them around the world! You will need to collect all of them if you want to get to my castle and save Peach, and if you ever try to find them, they will harm every human who touches them! You can't stop me! - Dark Bowser". Everyone in the kingdom got surprised and scared after hearing this. It's up to Mario and Luigi to save the kingdom. They must collect the stars and defeat Dark Bowser before something bad happens to anyone!

Worlds:
- Mushroom Meadows (Grass/Plains). Includes Peach's castle, 3 levels, a toad house and a warp zone.
- Dangerous Desert (Desert/Dunes). Includes 3 levels, a toad house and a warp zone.
- Coconut Coast (Beach/Water). Includes 3 levels, a toad house and a warp zone.
- Ghostly Groove (Forest/Woods). Includes 3 levels, a toad house and a warp zone.
- Slippery Snowland (Snow/Ice). Includes 3 levels, a toad house and a warp zone.
- Strawberry Skyland (Clouds/Sky). Includes 3 levels, a toad house and a warp zone.
- Volcanic Valley (Lava/Darkland). Includes a level, Dark Bowser Jr's tower, Dark Bowser's castle, a toad house and a warp zone.
- Starry Spaceland (Special World). Includes 7 levels and a warp zone.

In the special world, I will include some good single levels I have made. Also, you will need to collect 20 stars in order to unlock said world in the warp zones.

Progress:
- Mushroom Meadows: 60%
- Dangerous Desert: 20%
- Coconut Coast: 20%
- Ghostly Groove: 20%
- Slippery Snowland: 20%
- Strawberry Skyland: 20%
- Volcanic Valley: 20%
- Starry Spaceland: 16%
- TOTAL:


Screenshots:

Spoiler: show

Don't mind the misplaced bridge path there lol

Credits:
- The vast majority of custom stuff in this episode is made by PROX, AirShip and Valtteri, so I want to thank them for making amazing stuff!

If you like this project, put the logo in your signature to show everyone your support. Thanks for reading!

[Emral]

Best of luck with this!
Since episodes generally take a long time, perhaps you should try to use git to ensure that even if you lose some data locally it's all backed up. It's always comforting to know when you lose 5 months of work from your hard drive because of some malfunction, that all that effort is still easily accessible.

[Cedur]

What happened to / what's happening with all the levels from earlier projects you disbanded? Do they still exist, considering the various times your PC broke?

[TheNightingale]

What happened to / what's happening with all the levels from earlier projects you disbanded? Do they still exist, considering the various times your PC broke?

From my very first project from Septermber 2018, they don't. From Rosalina's Satellite, they exist somewhere in the cloud (just not the entire progress, only a few levels), but they are outdated and bad-designed, anyway I will see if I take them back someday. From the 38A collab, I don't have the levels I made and I dunno if people who contributed (just liked 3 people) still has their levels there, but I'm definitely not coming back to that project, I won't even get up to 10 submissions. The previous files of this project are lost.

I also know where to find those levels from Jump up super star! which was mainly by ThePieSkyHigh, but he's no longer here so I might make a very small episode with existing stuff (idk when)

Best of luck with this!
Since episodes generally take a long time, perhaps you should try to use git to ensure that even if you lose some data locally it's all backed up. It's always comforting to know when you lose 5 months of work from your hard drive because of some malfunction, that all that effort is still easily accessible.

Thank you. I will check that out.