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Ideally someone will create a FOSS tileset for it that transparently substitutes for the current Mario set. The gameplay itself seems fine; platformers seem perfectly safe as long as they don't use Mario graphics, and as for the portal mechanic, that has plenty of precedent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_hole


You cannot patent game-play mechanics. But then... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tetris_Company#Legal_enforc...


They would possibly need to redo all the levels too, as they are tile for tile taken from Super Mario Bros.




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