Mario Fan Games Galaxy
Mario Fan Games Galaxy is a website that focuses on creating parodies and tributes for the official Super Mario Bros. series. Various resources are available for anyone who wishes to make a fangame of their own. This site is founded by Thunder Dragon whom, while not as active as he used to be, still visits occasionally. Originally the site was just a huge, single-page database layout, with each game, lib or how-to listed on a single page. After a while, this became a huge strain on people with slow internet connections. Eventually, Kritter offered to re-design the site from the ground up, creating sections and categories, to help people both find what they needed easier, and to reduce the load times and general "poor layout" of the site itself. These sections include things such as "hand made" or "ripped" sprites, and in which are more categories such as "Enemies", "friends" and "backgrounds," to name a few. It is this site design that has since stuck around, to MFGG today, and while the system may have been improved since the transition from HTML to PHP, the basic layout of the site remains the same as it was, and the graphics originally created by Kritter all those years ago are still in use today as the main site. When MFGG 2.0 was released, skins for the site itself were made as well.
As for the games on the site itself, much like fanart and fanfiction, these games are made for fun. No further profit is made from them.
The main site has a little-known feature to host high scores for fangames, though currently this can only be done with TGF 1 and 2, MMF 1.5 and 2, and related. Retriever II has released an "engine" for the aforementioned programs to use for this purpose, along with a PHP driver to allow users to host high scores on their own site. Fangames are registered to the service via an identifier and passcode, both of which need to be added to the application. Scores are encrypted based on the ID and passcode, to prevent cheating.
