Super Mumtaz Bros. 1.04
Super Mumtaz Bros. 1.04
In Super Mumtaz Bros. you join the titular plumbing brothers on their mission to rescue Princess Sana from... chickens?
•Hunt down radioactive chickens by using the Geiger counter!
•Break pipes!
•Repair pipes!
•Run around!
•Climb!
•Platform action!
•Discover secrets!
•Collect trophies!
•No jumping!*
Super Mumtaz Bros. is a highly realistic plumbing simulator that was made in Pico-8 for Toy Box Jam 2 from 18th December 2020 to 3rd January 2020.
Tips
Ali can find chickens stuck in pipes using his Geiger counter. He can then stomp on pipes to get the chickens out.
Bilal can spend money to place new pipes. You'll need to find money to pay for pipes.
The Geiger counter clicks more the closer you are to a chicken. The rings turn orange when you're really close. Stomp the pipe when you're in the right spot!
You can't jump*. So use the terrain to your advantage!
Development
I worked on this steadily over the (initial) two weeks of the jam. Sticking to daily updates on Twitter forced me to stick to developing it on time. The initial mechanics and mechanics were based on Nerdy Teachers' excellent platformer tutorial series on YouTube.
My airy fairy arty farty Peter-Molydeux-style ideagimmick for this game was 'a platformer game where you can't jump'. Well, turns out you can (sort of) jump, but it's about as useful as jumping is in real life. Also, I thought it would be funny to make a Mario game where you actually have to do some plumbing.
Trivia
Mumtaz Brother is a real shop in the town where I grew up. The shop owners are a little eccentric; besides plumbing and D.I.Y. supplies they have at various times also sold groceries, rented out Bollywood videos, you name it. They expanded their business by opening a second plumbers merchants... next door to their original shop. If you can't find something in one shop, 'try next next door.'
Version history
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