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@ bbodine61: I’d be more then happy to help with this project, as it’s… acctually very similar to an idea i had of my own. Right down to the Time-Paradox element. XD I can help out with Music, and maybe a little bit of Dialouge/Scripting here and there. I’d say i could help in the way of art, but i’m really not all that good in the art department. As the attatchments in my previous post ought to demonstrate, heh.

Basically, this is a crossover game of all the Mother series. All I have at the moment is my mind, my art, and my hopes. So to make this work I ask you to join too! =D

The type of game is a fighter with major RPG elements. I’ll go into further detail shortly.

The way the game plays basically goes like this. Your character walks about the map like you’d expect in an EarthBound game. A foe spots you and runs towards you like you’d expect in an EarthBound game. The screen goes black as the encounter diddy plays then… bam, you are suddenly in a fighting game, but the rules of EarthBound still apply. No, this isn’t just a Street Fighter with EarthBound characters.

First off, the stage you fight in is like in EarthBound. Just a kalidoscope of colors in the background. Your health and PP is displayed on the bottom left corner of the screen(And is the classic health and PP meter in EarthBound). To the right of it is the command list, usually the options here are Bash, PSI, Goods, Run. How does this work? Okay, your controling your character with the directional buttons so it’s preoccupied. Theres a “select” button that automatically changes the selected option to the one below it(You have Bash selected, hit the “select” button then you have PSI selected).

Bash- Keeping Bash selected means that everytime you hit the(oh we’ll just call it the A button) A button, you’ll perform a physical attack… like in a regular fighting game. You will perform combos and the such.

PSI- Selecting PSI and pressin A will quickly open a small menu. Here you’ll choose which PSI ability to perform. Hit the select button till the PSI move you wish to perform is selected, then hit A to perform it. B is used to exit out of the PSI menu.

Goods- Like the PSI command, Goods opens a menu up of the goods you brought into battle(I’ll explain that later) Select an item and hit A to use it.

Run- In over your head? Or is this battle just not worth your time? Then run away. Select the Run option to bring up a small meter. The more you hit A the faster the meter fills. When full, you succesfully cancel the battle and return to the map screen. You wont be able to move while filling the meter and will be open to attack. If hit with a powerful enough attack, the meter will dissapear and you will be forced to return to battle or try again.

Prebattle arrangment- When you encounter an enemy a menu will come up that will allow to set up certain things for the battle. You have a large inventory to put things you find on your journey in, but only 4 items are allowed in your Goods command in a battle. 4 per character I should say. Choose wisely. If you have more than 4 characters in your party, you’ll also have to choose which 4 characters join the fight.

Tag Team- EarthBound isn’t EarthBound without friends joining the battle. This game will run on a 4-man tag team system. Switch out your characters to which you’ll think is more suited for the foe you face. Everyone gets a peice of the experiance points when you fell an enemy, but the more action a character sees the more experiance they get.

Announcment box- To keep an EarthBound feeling to it, though I think it has been keeping it well so far in my mind, the top of the screen has a text box saying whats going on. When someone lands an attack it says how much damage has been dealt, ect.

Offensive PSI attacks- Using PK thunder doesn’t let you control a bolt of psyco-kenetic lightning I’m afraid. Of coarse theres allways the elemental damage to think about, and different type attacks do different amounts of damage depending on who your facing, but how they differ the most is how to dodge them, this is a fighting game after all.
*PK Fire- Character shoot forward a ball of fire. Opposing character can jump over it or duck under it to dodge it.
*PK Thunder- A bolt of lightning comes down from above where the target is standing. They’ll have to quickly step right or left to avoid being hit.
*PK Freeze- Sharp ice juts out from the ground under the enemy. Jumping or moving to the right or left alone wont help since thy’ll just land right back onto it if they just jump, and would still get hit by it if they move to the right or left since it is somewhat wide. They’ll have to jump over to another spot quickly if they don’t like the cold.

Status PSI- Since this is a fighting game too, I figure it wouldn’t be right if you could effect your enemys’ status, like lowering their defense or offense. So the status PSI is only for self use, increasing your offense for only a little while, etc.

Equiping- Like in most RPGs, you can equip weapons and gear to characters to raise there offense, defense, and other things.

That’s the jist of it. For obvious reasons I didn’t touch up on anything story wise. If you’d like to work on this project just message me.

What ever works best is fine with me lol. I’m willing to settle with minor changes to make things easy/possible.

Glad to see enthusiasm for this project. I’ll make sure when I actually get a team going we wont slack in any way!

Oh you won’t have to worry about that. Dissidia: EarthBound will have a balance alright, and characters out the wa-zoo!

I really like the idea, but I’m a bit skeptical.

it would take a really good team and even then you have some issues like…

First off would it be 3-D or sprited?

So what do you need in terms of staff?

Your other “idea topic” got moved here… didn’t you learn from that?

As cool as this idea might be it’s still just an idea and until it’s becoming a game it’s against the rules to warrant a topic of its own.

(my edit button wont work and I don’t know how that line of Zs got there)

There are certain guidelines for a thread.
As for not editing bbodine61, I like the z’s there. It gives it a French accent.

Whew, I’m noticing that Brainstorm central is sort of an unintentional “Idea graveyard.” lol

Still accepting messages from anybody willing to help out with my project! =D

I sent a PM to you, let me know if you get it.

Looking forward to it! =D

That sounds great! I’ll make sure to check up on them later. Another PM sent, just a few details on music that isn’t theme songs or battle music. Level BGM, that sort of thing. Not much detail though, I’d hate to smother lol

I’m downloading it now.

My internet is being somewhat stubborn today so it’ll take longer than usual, but I’ll give my feedback as soon as I can!

Ok, update time! Managed to get Hothead finished (and reletivly quick, too!). It’s not all that grand, but, hey, it’s still got the desired effect. I also switched the drumloops in one of the sections around, having the softer loop playing for fully organ section, and the heavier loop playing for the guitar/ organ chrods combo.

I also finished the song for Final Starman, ‘Father of the Stars’, which is partially inspired by the “Battle Against a Machine” song in Earthbound, as some parts more obviously display then others. The idea i was going for was for something that sounded eerie, but not overly eerie, nor downright disturbing, as well as sounding very futuristic, or otherwordly. I toyed around with slight rhythm changes here and there, alongside the constant sound of the drums changing. Took at stab at creating melody that sounded almost machine like. And i couldn’t resist the slightly cheesy sounding “Creepy” synth effect.
And, because the vocal clip is acctually SUPPOSED to sound barely intelligable, i’ll tell you what it says. It’s not my voice, by the by; It’s a vocal clip that was in the program i use’s library, and i HAD to use it:
“We come from a different place. [long pause] A place were time. [shorter pause] Is irrelivant.”

If you’re wondering why both just cut off suddenly, it’s because they’re supposed to loop at that point. I just figured i’d clarify, in case that confused anyone. All of the music will be cut like this, rather then having me loop the song in the program itself.

In any case, Enjoy!

I’m glad that you think highly of both songs! Hopefully i’ll have some new material finished for you by tomorow.

I’ll see what i can do, but i’m not making any promises on that one. I’ll get back to you on it.

In some ways. that could be a good thing. The fact that we have time to design, write and compose for the game before the engine is being developed. I dunno, if i was making a game (And god knows i’ve got idea’s), i’d more then likely do it like that. Something about it is just easier to me.

And i’d like to try and get as much of the Dissidia: Earthbound stuff out of the way first, ‘cus i’m still technicly a composer for Earthbound 3. Seeing as i still need to practice a bit on what exactly EBZero2008 wants out of me, it’s a bit easier to work on this, as i have a bit more creative freedom. Not that i’m complaining, mind.
I also find that i tend to compose more for projects that i feel more “connected” too, if you get me.

I had this idea of an EarthBound game. It would be for the original GameBoy with monochrome colors and graphics and the main character would be a boy named Jacob. He lives in the Mediterranean coast of Posh`e and he lives the life of a chef and he cooks food for people. He’s happily serving everyone until one day a strange cloaked person came in and he orders a pasta and he puts strange ingredients in it. The person eats it and he goes crazy and he blames it on Jacob and then Jacob lost his job as a chief after that event leaving him jobless. The cloaked person then takes over the restaurant and makes it his base. Several days later Jacob wakes up to find aliens and robots causing ruckus over the city and he gets dressed and takes his prized knife with him for safety. His girlfriend Kristen stops him from proceeding any further and tells him whats going on and Jacob insists her that he must investigate what is going on and she eventually let him pass.

That would be the beginning of the game. The characters he would eventually meet up with are two girls and one boy. Tina who was trained as a ninja by her grandparents and is determined to use her skills for good of humankind, Lily the singer who is part of a band called C.B.T.S (Calm before the Storm) but got separated from them in a certain incident and is on a journey to get back to them, and Westley the prophet who excels in magic and has been training in the arts of PSI ever since the Trauma he experienced as a little boy, He lost his family by a mysterious person who also used PSI.

It wouldn’t play on the site, so I’m downloading the mp3 now. I’ll be giving my feedback shortly

Sorry; Been ill for the last couple of days, so i haven’t been able to do much.

Glad to hear you think so. I was worried that i’d strayed to far from music that fit EB characters, heh. ^^;

Nope! Contrary to popular belief, you aren’t limited to Earthbound fangames here. You can make any game you like.

The name of the forum really means “games and programs made by Earthbound fans” but that doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as nicely.

You may ask for help in the Work for Hire topic.

Okay, so like many others on this site, I’ve had ideas for a MOTHER 4. I’d love to make them into a fangame, but I don’t have RPG maker, cannot make music, cannot sprite that well, pretty much can’t do anything at all. So if you’d really like to help (which I doubt you’ll want to :p) I’m just throwing that out there (which probably wasn’t a good idea) but I’ll still try.

If you want me to go on about what happens next (I won’t reveal too much), then I will. I unfortunatley don’t have the character’s art from lack of a scanner but I’ll try and take some pictures with my phone. And if this doesn’t take off then it’ll probably become a fanfic.

err… that link links to “http.com”