Tiny Mario

About

Super Mario Bros. is a 1985 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the NES, directed by Shigeru Miyamoto, in which players guide Mario (or Luigi) through the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue Princess Toadstool from King Koopa. Tiny Mario is a browser-based reimagining of Super Mario Bros. as a minimalist side-scroller rendered entirely in Unicode Braille characters within a tiny 4x100-pixel scene styled after a browser's address bar. It runs with no build step and requires only a modern browser.

How it differs from the original

Unlike the original, everything is rendered in text (Unicode Braille) at address-bar scale, the player can move in all directions including down through pipes into an underground section, and the game currently has only one level rather than multiple worlds.

Getting started

Play directly in the browser at the project's site, or clone the repo and open its page in a modern browser with no build step required; move with A/D or the arrow keys, jump with W, Space, or the up arrow, and use the on-screen D-pad on mobile.

History

It's the author's second small experiment in this minimalist text-rendered format, following an earlier project called Tiny Horse.

Known issues & limitations

• content: Currently contains only one level.

Additional notes

Feature

A URL-style HUD row mirrors the game's state as an address-bar string, shown automatically on Safari and mobile and toggleable elsewhere.