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TragicManner:

I’ve been toying with the idea of making a Unity project that comes with a lot of the code, systems, scenes and prefabs necessary to making a Mother-Style game. I don’t know if I’m going to put the time in or not, but it does seem like something that could build up a bit more activity at FG&P and give people a better starting point for Mother fangames.

But to me, Unity would be the place to build it in. Unity has a free version that allows people to create, distribute, and play the games without having to pay a penny. Unity is a powerful engine in its own right and allows for limitless flexibility and custom systems, and C# is great to use. Having all the building blocks in place and then using them to build out something new would be pretty cool. Just imagine having the components already there (like with PKHack) but not having any of the limitations, basically. Might be worth putting together, but again, I haven’t figured out if I can put in the time.

Actually I have a similar idea I’ve already started on, it’s called “Openbound” (oxymoron on purpose) and it’s on GitHub but I haven’t committed anything yet. It’s going to be an open-source Earthbound engine in C++. It would have all the features built-in to the engine: movement and collision, npcs, text/scripts, inventory, shops, battles etc. and come with useful programs such as a map editor and a script editor (which I’ve already made). And, I’ve had experience making a C++ game engine from scratch before, which I used to make a multiplayer game. I just hope if I actually get far enough into it to actually commit it on GitHub and post it here, that at least some amount of people here could make use of it or contribute to it.

Should I use mother 3’s spriting style in my game, or one reminiscent of mother 4? Mother 3’s is easy to do and looks pretty good aesthetically, but Mother 4’s style looks a lot cleaner, and a lot better than mother 3’s, but takes a long time to make.

Maybe I shold’ve been more specific. This is a fan game, not an original work. If thats what you’re thinking.

If you want a better idea of what I’m talking about, here are some pictures

I’m taking a liking to the mother 3 style and I’m using that one. Thanks for the help

I have an idea for a game. So it’s a kind of sequel to the classic cliché adventure, where a hero saves the world. That’s happened and now, years have been and gone. This hero’s tale has become nothing more than a legend. Out of the ashes of this tale, a golden age of invention has arrived. In less than 50 years, humanity has advanced to the point where space travel has become commonplace and there are colonies on Mars. There are resource links between planets and human augmentation is a commercial thing, although it’s a bit of a hot button issue. Robots live among humans and everything is a bit sci-fi really. You are a pilot on a spice freighter that links Earth to Mars, who is working one day when the ship is raided by a gang, who are looking for a shipment of portanium, a radioactive and illegal crystal. You are taken hostage until another crew member reveals the location of the portanium. The pirates take the portanium and take their leave. As they do, you hear a bang and see a blight flash. The next thing you know you awake and see the crew member who was involved with the portanium tending to your wounds. He tells you that he was the one who smuggled the portanium on, unbeknownst to the rest of the crew. He also mentions that the portanium must’ve reacted to something on the ship and exploded. He said the ship crashed on the Moon and that you and him are the only surviving crew members. This begins this next great adventure.

The game’s name is Once Upon A Time and so far, I have the intro and main menu done!

I got a weird idea for a game after playing undertale….
I’ve always been a fan of rail shooters, you know the type, get a ship or a plane or something and shoot and scroll. All day long.
I also like RPG games. Sadly, you don’t see a lot of decent mixing between the two genres. Here’s where my idea came into play.
Have the game start out as a rail shooter, play like normal, picking up items as the story progresses, but depending on how you play and what you do, pick up different items. At one point in the game, the game will switch from a top view rail shooter to a side view, showing a path down into the earth. Since you’re in a motor vehicle of some sort, you can go down. If you have a specific item obtained earlier in the game, instead of going down, you can use it and hover over the entrance and just get to the other side and continue above ground. This is where it gets wacky.
After doing that, you stop playing it as a rail shooter. You get out of the vehicle and your crew of non playable characters from before now become your fighting teammates in a RPG style adventure, reminiscent of the original Star Ocean or Tales of games.
New paths and gameplay open up depending on what you did during the rail shooter portion.
You can still play the rail shooter for a full game, but you don’t experience the true fun until you get creative.

Mutoh:

Ezrius:

You actually go through towns avoiding angry townsfolk loyal to the princess and pissed you’re a “traitor”.

TRAITOR!

Don’t mind me, I really like your idea. I don’t think I have ever seen this kind of plot before, specially in a game, it feels like there’s plenty to exploit in there.

That was my first thought too. WHIPTYWHIPTYWHIPTY

I got a game idea that’s been in my head for a while, and considering how niche the subject matter is, I wouldn’t be surprised if I would be the only one here who would go through with this project. I already posted this on the PK Hack Brainstorming thread, but considering this doesn’t need to be tied to a ROM hack, I decided to edit the original post to add it here as well.

Phantasm: Road to Ruin is my JRPG fangame idea based off of the cult followed Phantasm film series that would be a Mother/Earthbound themed RPG since the first couple entries in each respective series share enough themes to make it appropriate. In this game, you play as Mikey and Reggie from the Phantasm films, in an alternate timeline to the events of Phantasm II through IV. Road to Ruin’s plot begins right where the original film leaves off in 1980, with a 13-year-old Mike Pearson explaining his dream of the Tall Man, and Reggie telling him it never happened. Reggie then tells Mike to pack for a road trip so they can have a “change of scenery”. As Mike begins to pack, he sees the tall figure from his dreams stand behind him, and gets ambushed by the Tall Man’s dwarven minions.

Reggie successfully dispatches of the dwarves and rescues Mike by blowing up the house using his gas range, barely eluding the Tall Man in the process. Due to the jump from the second story, and Mike already sustaining injuries from the ambush, Mike is left in a comatose state. Once the Tall Man leaves in his hearse, Reggie brings Mike to the hospital and waits for his recovery. During this time, Reg reluctantly accepts the Tall Man’s existence and decides that he will focus on bringing an end to him once and for all.

A year passes, and Mike (now 14) awakens from his coma to find Reggie there waiting. They talk about everything that has happened up to this point, with Reggie explaining that their lanky, grave-robbing adversary had gone east to desecrate more cemeteries and towns to build his army. Mike then tells Reg about these dreamlike visions he’s been getting. They’re focused around the Tall Man, himself and a mysterious girl his age by the name of Elizabeth. Once Reggie gets Mike released from the hospital, the two decide to outfit themselves with equipment from the hardware and gun shops in town during the night and follow the trail of empty graves east in the Hemicuda.

The game follows Mike and Reggie as they follow the path of destruction laid out by the Tall Man. Along the way, familiar allies from the films join your cause including Elizabeth (Phantasm II) and Rocky (Phantasm III), as well as new compatriots who join you in your campaign to stop the mysterious and seemingly immortal Tall Man and his army of minions, living or otherwise.

Mike and Elizabeth would be the Ness/Ninten and Paula/Ana analogues due to them also having PSI powers. Reggie would be the Jeff/Lloyd of the party due to his inventive nature (Reggie created the monster slaying 4-barreled shotgun in Phantasm 2), and Rocky would be the Poo/Teddy of the party due to her army training and self-defense skills. The party’s main arsenal of weapons would include 9mm handguns, 4-barreled shotguns, flamethrowers and nun-chucks (yes, all from the films).

Most of the enemies you’d face in the game would be the monsters from the films: the aforementioned dwarves, the silver and golden spheres, the gravers, the morticians, the zombies and the body horror monstrosities that made sparse appearances throughout all four films released thus far. The big baddie you’ll be facing off at the top will be the Lord of the Dead himself, the Tall Man. In order to keep the enemy types a bit fresher, some human and animal enemies will be added on top of that since strife isn’t exclusive to the protagonists and antagonists.

I have some plot points for the game already thought out, including some scenes from later on in the game and potentially the last scene after the final boss. Considering the last Phantasm film, Ravager, is supposed to be released later on this year, this is a project I’m hoping someone who’s as big of a “Phan” of this series as myself has some interest in taking on.

I’ve got a game I’m working on in RPG Maker VX Ace that takes place a good amount after EarthBound, but WAAAY before Mother 3. I’ve got character designs, character names, place names, and the name of the game. But other than that, I’ve got Items, PSI abilities, and weapon names down. I just started working on the game. I’ll reveal the name of it once I’m done with
the first town+boss.
Edit: Forgot to mention I’ve got Enemy names down. Now I just gotta think up a plot.

^That sounds like something I would buy!

I’m not amazing at drawing so I could only offer support as a last resort.

But if you do get this moving then I’d like to see Giegue or Giygas, because it could be one of those really hard cards to get out on the field, and there is suspense when you realize someone is trying to play him.

Bump.
Okay, so I was thinking about Mothertale, a Mother 3/Undertale crossover, when a thought came to me.
“What if we made Undertale more like Earthbound?”
Since then, I’ve been working on ideas for an Undertale redesign.
What I have come up with:

• the game’s name
• what the battle system will look like (displayed in the concept art)
• the names and personalities of two new characters added to the story (displayed in the concept art)
• why each character will join Frisk’s party
• how each party member will play (Frisk is Ness, Serena is Paula, Joey is Jeff, Monster Kid is Poo)
• some of the weapons each character gets
• the morality system (Pacifist and neutral have become good and bad endings, Genocide has been removed due to the inability to kill characters)
• most of the changes in story that would be needed to make the plot run smooth (LV, EXP, & MAGIC = Level, experience points(xp.), and PSI; Giygas’ influence over monsters causing the war; etc.)

What I’m still thinking about:

• the locations of the returning ‘Your Sanctuaries’
• the location of the ‘guard’ command during battles
• whether you can kill bosses or not (some characters are willing to die in battle, and would continue fighting past their “was tamed” messages)

So, what do you guys think? Would an Undertale redesign be interesting to you?

EDIT: I love how I just got ignored xD

I’ve been thinking of game mechanics because I’ve also been considering making one of my stories a game (which is probably never going to happen since I lack any skill in programming/coding other than some simple html stuff)

One of them went like this:

So, you’re at a boss, and you strike them so that they’re at a sliver of their health. Then a thing pops up that says “Strike the finishing blow?”. You have the choice of killing the boss(es) by saying yes, or keeping them alive if you say no. Depending on which bosses you keep alive, different events happen within the game. Some bosses might not be redeemable though… It really depends on how many enemies you’ve killed in their area. I was thinking every boss had their own branch of loyal minions. So if you kill enemies in, let’s say the first area of the game, it wouldn’t affect the boss in the second area, and so forth.

This sounds pretty cool. Would love to see this evolve into something big!

LukerGamerz:

This sounds pretty cool. Would love to see this evolve into something big!

Thanks! Maybe if I get a game maker, someday this could be a real thing. For now I’d have to stick with making comics and such, haha :v

And that sounds like a pretty cool idea Lochy!

That sounds so awesome i would really like to see that coming into reality.

By the way speaking of games that will revolutionize the gaming industry, i might have an idea of what kind of battle system my original game, which is called “World of Doug: Trouble In Bushmarsh”, would be like. the battle system would look like your average everyday pixelated final fantasy kind of battle system, but this time the background during battle can move whenever something big is happening during battle. (e.g. an explosion causes all of the party members to be sent flying causing the background to scroll either left or right depends on which battle layout there is, for an example, a back attack)

Sorry that i kinda rambled too much, i was dying to get this off my chest.

Are you talking about his RPG Maker XP Kit? Capn Muffin hasn’t been particularly active for a few months now, but the last update was a while back. Until we hear otherwise it’s likely the project is on hold.

For some weird reason, I think that a Text-only RPG online game would be awesome. With Dark Souls-esque matchmaking.

Like, you could name your character, name their weapons and moves, and choose what is said when a move is done. (I.E. Giantdad swung his Zweihander and it bursted into flames! 500 dmg!) 3v3 matchmaking could be really cool too. Sound effects and a few colored text effects (Like a new line of text flashing yellow if it is dealing lightning dmg.) would be another cool touch.

^Wow, thanks! This will really help me into the right direction.

The reason I wanted a text only game is for a Giyg-esque surprise fight that no one is expecting. Breaking the boundaries the player expected of the game they are currently playing.

I’ve come up with an idea for a fan-sequel for Mother 3.

It takes place throughout the Mother series worlds,America,Eagleland,the Knowhere Islands,and Erukota(The world of EarthBound 3).It follows the story of Castiel(or Cass),Victoria,Clark,and Jack as they travel all over the world searching for the spirits of the protagonists of the Mother series.They also battle an army of robotic beings led by Jason,a descendant of Maria,who’s main goal is to reawaken the evil spirit Giygas from the dead,as he is convinced it is his destiny to do so.Cass lives as an ordinary boy with psychic powers in the small town of Mayville in Erukota,Victoria lives as the daughter of a famous actor in Ellay in America,Clark is a brilliant inventor from the city of Luminous in Eagleland,and Jack is a cyborg controlled by Jason but wants to be free of his clutches.This is the story of EarthBound 3.

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thanks

Nobody Checks this page very often.

thanks guys pls no more topic about this

R.I.P. Project M. I very much appreciate all the effort and hard work you guys have done…

I don’t know about you, but I find it taboo when a Street Fighter or some other grown-up is going around beating up little kids. At least they’re not realistic. I’d like to read/see a list of which characters replace which characters. Not to mention all the work it would require to edit/replace the character models, and to verify them for glitches. But if you really insist, here’s a small list of replacements I could think of, from the top of my head:

If I had an idea to share, I’d make sure that I can easily make it into reality, progress, or a collaboration.