Mario Fan Games Galaxy

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Mario Fan Games Galaxy is a freeware website that focuses on creating parodies and tributes for the official Super Mario Bros. series. The site is founded by the currently dormant Thunder Dragon, who still appears on occasion.

Content

A plethora of multimedia applications and resources is available for a variety of purposes, although the site retains its strong titular focus on fangames.

History

The main site began under Thunder's Dragon's personal development name, Bowser Technologies, which did not hold a particular focus on Mario fangaming -- indeed, Mega Man, Sonic, and Doom also made their appearances -- but still contained relevant material. Guests would communicate through the comments section of the Guestbook, before replacing this feature with an EZBoard forum.

Due to the site's generalised content, it was soon morphed into Mario Fan Games Galaxy, with the EZBoard forums replaced accordingly.


Site Interface

Main article: Taloncrossing SMS

Taloncrossing SMS is the GUI developed by Retriever II through which users may submit, view, and download content on MFGG. This software is also used on Metroid: Fan Mission, assumedly with permission.

It is the successor to several moderately successful former interfaces for the site and has been met with generally positive review.

Before Taloncrossing SMS, the site has ...


Editor's note: Below are snippets of the article before my revision that pertain to the history of the site's interface. Please incorporate this as well as your own remembrance into the article -- thank you in advance

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.

See Also

External Links

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