"Why, hello there. I'm Demo, and I seem to have somehow ended up here while on my way to the grocery store... Has anyone seen any vegetables nearby?"
"That guy? He's one of the Charlies, the ones who rule this land. Due to an unfortunate incident involving gravity, they don't seem to like me very much."
"So there seems to be some veggies around here, after all. I'd better collect them."
"Building bridges is almost as fun as watching paint dry. I'd know, I've been doing that all the time ever since winter hit and the grass stopped growing."
"That creature is a Yoshi. Most of them are pretty friendly, but this particular one seems to have joined the ranks of the Charlies. Stupid freakin' horse.
"Nice hat. Mind giving it to me?"
"Building a fortress out of ropes and mushroom stems? Remind me to never hire those Charlies as construction workers."
"I guess this is what you would call a chocolate level?"
"Just slidin' down some hills, killin' some dudes."
"Hey! Who stole all the colours?"
"PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC"
"Hmm... To press, or not to press..."
"...you'd better work on that disguise a bit more, ghost guy. You won't get me off guard that easily."
"Brr... This is getting kind of cold. I wish I'd brought some more clothes than this dress..."
"This thing'd better not sink..."
"I smell a puzzle."
"That, as the old proverb says, was a demo."
A Super Mario Thing is a collaboration hack, organized by me and worked on by various members of the raocow.com forums. It started out as a simple "ohey let's all create something for raocow to play", but is now aspiring to the title of a counterpart to the VIP series. And that, in turn, means going all out with allowing custom stuff and general ASMwork *coughASMWCPcough*, as well as creating as many global graphics swaps as possible.
As for release date, we are aiming for the project to be finished before the end of the year. We only have four more normal levels and the final castle left to finish before the testing phase. However, the hack won't be released to the public until raocow have finished the original playthrough of it, to make sure that it will be done completely blind.