Hello clone
Hello Clone is a term used to identify a fangame as an engine-built game that lacks significant alterations to the base engine's gameplay. While this term is most widely used in regards to fangames that are built off of Hello Mario Engine, it is not uncommon for it to be applied to fangames built off of other engines, such as DragezeeY Engine VII. The music that is included in the engine's source is usually, but not always, swapped out, as that requires minimal effort, and Hello Clones almost always have custom levels built by the engine cloner. This leads to many considering Hello Clones to be merely level packs.
Another common characteristic of Hello Clones is that they use Super Mario Advance 4 or Super Mario All-Stars sprites as the main graphical style. While this is not inherent of Hello Clones, it is the most common practice as those are included in the source of most Mario engines, which in turn is because they are the most ripped and edited Mario sprites. The large volume of Hello Clones has lead to many MFGGers growing sick of the over-used sprites.
Hello Clones rarely gain a positive reception from the MFGG community. However, many other communities have different standards and still regard Hello Clones as a novel idea.
Many fangame developers got into fangame development due to the availability of Hello Engine, many of whom originally knew of its existence from finding Hello Clones.
Hello Clone Examples
Typical Mario Game (Previously Known as Hello Clone)
On August 7th, 2012, Supernova released a short game called Typical Mario Game, which he claimed to be a typical game made with Hello's old SMB game. The first few levels were regarded as generic grassland levels, but the game gradually becomes less similar to a typical Hello clone and adds more gimmicks. One level features a pogo-stick, while another has the player battling a Mario Nazi. The game has gotten positive reception for being much more imaginative than a Hello Clone.
