NgMario

I don't get it. The GitHub byline proclaims, "Learn AngularJS playing Super Mario Brothers". So I wondered if this would be yet another browser implementation of Mario, this time using AngularJS in some fashion? Or perhaps it would be like "vim-adventures.com", where you learn Vim editor commands by using them to play a video game?

It's neither. This seems to be nothing more than a very primitive PowerPoint slide deck, with slide transitions activated as you progress through an unrelated video game. The "Mario" hook is meaningless clickbait.

Moreover, this will almost certainly receive a DMCA takedown within the next couple of days. It seems buggy to boot... stomping on the first turtle brought up slides, and no keypress closes the slides and returns to the game.

You know you cant just steal assets from a commercial game and post it on github right? afaik github may not only close that repo but also close your account. Not worth the risk if you built any kind of social identity around your github account.

Nice idea, but there's a bug. Using the cursor keys controls both Mario and the camera, so for example when I press the right cursor key sometimes Mario moves, sometimes the camera moves. Of course the correct behaviour is for the cursor keys to only control Mario, and the camera position to be determined by Mario's position on screen. I'm using Firefox 32.0.3 (i.e. the latest stable build).

The level itself seems to scroll while I move with the arrow keys. Bug?

Also, given the outcome of the HTML5 Mario[1], I have my doubts this will stay up long. Pretty cool though!

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2796627

I thought this was satire-- a statement about advertisement-funded games and the way they afflict us in our modern times.

I was about to come over here and say "ha ha, nice work guys" before I read the comments and realized that the pop-ups were not ads, but were in fact supposed to be teaching me something.

Still, though, nice satire.

I literally can't get past the first two goombas because shit keeps popping up and capturing my keypresses. "HOW TO STRUCTURE AN APP?" HOPE YOU WEREN'T PLANNING ON PRESSING ANY OTHER KEYS FOR A FEW SECONDS LOL

This is blatant abuse of Mario, their copyrighted assets, etc. I approve of it being reported to NOA. Additionally, who exactly is going to play this?

It doesn't use Mario in any meaningful way to help teach anything.

Mario teaches typing; that was cool. That was also approved and endorsed by Nintendo.

Get a life and create your own game instead of ripping off others.

This may seem harsh, but such blatant abuse of law does not belong on github nor on hacker news. Not only that, I'd be willing to bet this is a fork of the Mario games that were long ago taken off the web for similarly illegality.

Came to play and "learn" > left annoyed as f