I see someone visited Ancestry.com! 

Buzzsaw Starfish sounds more badass.  Whirlpool Starfish is more watery with the spin thing included.

I'll be happy to check your privilege to stay at the mauling tent Winged Warrior.  Oh look!  There's your name, right at the top of the list!  Go right on in!  *putts in with tomatoe stick*

Enjoy!

Yep!

You keep improving on the boobs.  Keep up the good work.

Thought you'd get a kick out of this Snare...

I am not an easy man to bribe.

The seedy part...

Yes.  It's exactly like that.

I don't know, there are some great games, but there is literally no future for Mega Man.  It's kind of like "here is some delicious food, oh and then you can never eat again".

No need to take turns.  You can both go to the mauling tent together!  Aren't you lucky?

...that's not what I meant.

I would hope he made it farther with his girlfriend than you...

You just earned a "get out of the mauling tent" ticket.  Excellent job!

Snare, I already get to do that here.  WITH YOU.

Don't forget Concerto, White Shadow.

Blue Man Group Man?  That doesn't make a lick of sense, son.

...looks like I'll be planting a garden in the mauling tent after all.

Mole, Planty.  It's spelled Mole.

Rap Man!

I pitched this one in a chat stream a few weeks back...

Munition Mallard.  Maverick Hunter designed to look comically absurd to throw off his opponents.  Cartoonishly silly in a Donald/Daffy Duck sense, he uses high explosives and high caliber cannons to demolish his foes.  Unfortunately, his appearance also draws scorn and mockery from his fellow hunters, earning him the nick name "Demolition Duck".  The endless mockery and lack of respect from anyone eventually driving him to become a Maverick... where upon he still receives no respect at all.

That's kind of the point...

Congress Man beats Gold Man.

Those were the days...

"For sale: Japanese text English version of MN9 Artbook, super rare!!!  $1035.35"

They were awful in the first go.  I was really struggling with it.  I'm still not 100% happy with it, but I'm at the limit of my skills.  Plus I don't want things to get TOO busy, like the later games became.  I liked the simpler look of the first 4 games.  It's a tough tightrope to balance.

Punch Man's stage has had some significant changes to it as well.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k6ccnp9zeah14ad/Dice%20Man%20Stage%20v03.png?dl=0

Mchat is a chat program that lets you use avatars of your favorite^TM Mega Man characters to have fun^TM conversations!  I thought you were familiar with this one...

They sent you the wrong language art book?  Damn, just when you think the fail is done, they're like "nope more fail!".

Game maker is buggy as hell on my computer when I use it as well (to the point it just doesn't work anymore, hence the pause on work on the project).  I've done quite a bit of improvement on things since, so I'm actually rather embarrassed by how bad some of the stuff in this testing build is.

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Here's Quake Man.  His ball and chain crusher can cause major damage.  He can also grab the chain on his head and pull it off to double wield for double damage!  His heavy body and weighted feet cause major ground displacement as well.  His weapon, the Lead Foot, can crush enemies below Mega Man as well as cause shock waves that go to the left and right when he lands.

Go back to bed Snare.

Don't drink the Kool-Aid^TM Mikero.

Really, folks who do 2D games in 3D should be beat with with a sack of skunks.

He's right you know.

You can't see it in that angle, but his helmet is a backwards cap too.

Most of the Robot Masters are the same ones from the post I made years back, with the exception of Dusk Man being replaced by Quake Man.

Sorry to hear your locked into a tablet Snare.  I'll post some more stuff tonight so you can see it.

Something went horribly HORRIBLY wrong with the last thread.  So let's try again.

So, this project has come to a screeching hault as all my assets have stopped working (ie game maker).  I'm not giving up on it, but I can't do any more work on it and it's well beyond my skill set at this point.

HOWEVER!  I was able to get it this far into some testing, so I thought I'd share it so folks can get a taste of what's to come (someday).

This is a VEEEEEERY Alpha build, used to test layout and jumps and what not, so a LOT of it has some problem areas (that I've fixed since on the maps, but not been able to update).  The music is not final (it's clearly placeholder).  There are no animated tiles/backgrounds.  There are no enemies.  Boss doors don't work.  But you get a feeling for where it's going, and I think it has a solid Mega Man feel to it, despite my poor art skills (I've done pretty much all the art on this myself).  And by art I mean sprites.  Art I did NOT do would be the revision for Beat Man (Included below!).  Looks pretty fly eh?  EH?!

So, enjoy.  Or not.  I don't care!  I'll also share some other stuff in the thread.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9o1r6q83xrdc4j4/MMEMTest10.rar?dl=0

Also, below is an example of changes from this testing build, with Dice Man's current stage after new tile/art modifications and stage layout changes.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k6ccnp9zeah14ad/Dice%20Man%20Stage%20v03.png?dl=0

My coat isn't shiny.

That's like trying to bribe a guard with a piece of toilet paper with poop on it.  Why would you think that is ok?

That's more M, mu, mu, maverick?!?!

3D "2D" games are #####.  The camera angle is always wonky and it never feels as tight as a good actual made in 2D 2D game.

Are you trying to bribe me?

You can say Reploid here.  We're not afraid of them.

The CONCEPT of MN9 was good.  The designs aren't that bad either all in all.  It was a solid Mega Man clone in concept.  Execution ##### the bed though, sadly.

Game making in general has gotten canceriously bad in the last half decade.  But why would people try anymore when you can do cheap ass free to play style mobile games and make more than you ever do on a real game with real effort?

Haven't you heard Mikero?  You're suppose to SWITCH to the PS5!  Ah ha ha ha ha!  Or whatever.  I'm hoping we get some good Switch definitive versions of stuff next year.  I already prerecord the Axiom Verge collector's edition for Switch (has the game ost with it!).  I just love being able to dock it or take it with me.  I'll probably always go Switch over PS4 if given the choice.

That was directed at you planty.  Or should I say, FERTILIZER!

This isn't reddit...

You remember just fine.  Zero and ZX were horse #####.

To the mauling tent you go!

The games are just kind of bad, but the level design and power switching are horribly done as well, which piles up to make a bad game.

That's not how that works.  Roll is for cute, not murder.

You guys can stop pretending to be retarded.  OH WAIT...