{"id":77906,"date":"2015-06-30T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=77906"},"modified":"2015-06-30T10:40:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T08:40:25","slug":"mario-in-unreal-engine-4-is-gorgeous-colourful-and-what-weve-always-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/77906-mario-in-unreal-engine-4-is-gorgeous-colourful-and-what-weve-always-wanted","title":{"rendered":"Mario in Unreal Engine 4 is gorgeous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developers\u00a0and game tinkerers can do some pretty incredible things with the open-source Unreal Engine, the Unreal Engine 4 in this case, and one guy has put together a somewhat surreal re-imagining of <em>Super Mario 64<\/em> using the powerful graphical engine.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s what high-definition dreams are made of.<\/p>\n<p>Made by aspiring developer\u00a0Aryok Pineral, the pet-project shows the iconic Mario hopping, sliding and running through gorgeous levels in silky-smooth 1080p and 60 fps.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pineral &#8220;all the environment assets were taken from the Unreal marketplace, all the character actions were scripted using blueprints only, all animations were re-created from scratch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The only problem is that Nintendo has a history of shutting down fan-projects that feature its characters due to copyright issues. This was the case with a brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/73805-mario-64-play-it-in-your-browser-now.html\" target=\"_blank\">browser-version of <em>Mario 64<\/em><\/a> created earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we&#8217;ll see what the big &#8216;N&#8217; will do about this one shortly. In the meantime, enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VUKcSiAPJoQ?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Article courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Mario news<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Super Mario 64 speed-run record broken\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63695-super-mario-64-speed-run-record-broken.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Super Mario 64 speed-run record broken<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Mario\u2019s darkest secrets revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/62823-marios-darkest-secrets-revealed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mario\u2019s darkest secrets revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Kid saves family with Mario Kart skills\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57050-kid-saves-family-with-mario-kart-skills.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Kid saves family with Mario Kart skills<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario gets Unreal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":77908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14582,323,13435,14578,1464,2948,4379,14580],"class_list":["post-77906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dev","tag-mario","tag-mario-64","tag-mario-unreal","tag-super-mario","tag-unreal-engine","tag-unreal-engine-4","tag-unreal-mario"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77910,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77906\/revisions\/77910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}