Even if you haven't played a whole of Super Mario Galaxy by now, I suspect everyone on the internet knows how it works, and that means it's just about time for some fun game analysis. There's discussion of the game's different types of fun, but I'm more interested in the discussion of craftsmanship that starts up on page three. For instance, how often do you think about this when you play a game?
When you jump straight up while riding a train in real life, you do not slam into the back of the train; you land on the same spot as you jumped from. Physicists say that you are in the same inertial frame as the train, meaning that you're moving with it and your walking or jumping is relative to it.
You all know this instinctively and yet almost no platform games know this. ... At long last, Mario Galaxy knows about them too. You can finally jump straight up while riding a moving platform and land on the platform without worrying about it moving out from under your feet.
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