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Super Mario World (1990)

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You know, it's amazing how much progress I make when I have an actual decent engine. Boilerplate stuff may suck, but it's worth it when you get to the real content! Anyways, I've been adjusting the camera for multiplayer. I realized when playing in co-op that vertical sections are a lot more difficult with two players, so I bit the bullet and added a proper NSMB style zoom effect to the camera.

This was both easier and harder to implement than it seems. As it turns out, the zooming effect in NSMB is based on tiers. It only zooms out when the players are a certain distance from each other, and when it does zoom out, it zooms out to a specific size (1.5x I think) and does so slowly. I suspect this is so there isn't too much camera motion going on, so the players don't get thrown off.
Copying this was surprisingly easy, though I'd still like to adjust it a bit. As you can see, this also kinda breaks the vertical section, which is a bit too small for the full camera now. That should be an easy fix though; I just have to move everything over a bit and maybe throw in some more camera blockers to center the camera properly.

More to come on this soon!

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