The Official CFP News-Thread!, World Map is here

[Guinea]

Welcome, members of MFGG!

The organisation team of the 2nd CFP welcomes you to this project which will hopefully be finished in the end!


We will start off with the two graphics topics, one for Finished and one for WIP graphics.
Be sure to read the rules and to NOT CONFUSE THOSE TWO TOPICS WITH EACH OTHER!

-> If you are a spriter, that means you can now start to work!

-> If you are waiting for the engine, I hope I can get it ready for tomorrow.

-> If you make sounds and music, just wait a while, those topics will follow soon!

-> Also, our first !Discussion! topic will deal with some enemies, mainly the Wario Land ones.



Oh and did I mention a surprise in the CountDown topic?
I think I did!
But it's not yet the time to tell you!
Stay tuned!


Until the next update, have fun!

~ Guinea and Dex

[Guinea]

Ok for those who have not yet seen the topic in the News board:

We have a deadline for the Demo Release:
October 21, 2008
That's the date NCFC begins, and by that I want us to release a playable Demo of the game.

Everyone ok with that? I hope so, because there is no way back!
You have 2 months! GO GO!

[Guinea]

This is the plot we have so far.
The rough setup that is mentioned here is set in stone, don't come up with ideas contradicting all of this. Slight changes are still possible, though.

> Bowser and Captain Syrup team up.
The reason behind this is the following: Syrup has plans and Bowser has the means to create a machine/tool that transforms stuff into gold. Let's call it the "MIDAS MACHINE" for now.
So Bowser helps Syrup to build the machine if he can use it to change his enemies (Mario and Luigi) into gold.
Syrup can keep all the golden statues that result from the previous action.

> The experiment fails
On testing out the thing, Bowser finds out that there's an error: the "Midas Machine" doesn't work on Mario and Luigi (aka humans) but only on mushrooms. But that's fine aswell. Being unable to use Mushrooms (since they have all turned into golden versions of themselves which can obviously not be eaten), they shouldn't be able to defeat Bowser this time.

> Mario and Luigi embark on a journey
Of course, Bowser tries to fix his machine, so the Bros. need to stop him.
On their way they also plan to pick up the golden mushroom statues to later restore them.
The golden mushrooms will be the special collectables that will lead to unlockables later. There will be one or three in each level to find. (besides reaching the goal(s) of the level)

> The Wario Bros. embark on a journey, too!
Where there's gold, there's Wario. And this time he takes his brother along to get the shrooms.

> First boss fight:
If you started the game as the Mario Bros., you fight against Syrup first.
If you started as the Wario Bros., you fight Bowser first.
Since they find out that their arch enemies united, the four bros. also unite after they meet in world 2.

> Final Boss fight:
In the end, we fight against Bowser AND Syrup as a team.

> Final Final Boss fight:
Mario and Luigi want to restore the golden mushrooms, but Wario and Waluigi want to keep the gold for themselves.
You fight as the brother you have finished the previous Final Boss fight as and pull up against the respective other brothers team.

> Rewards:
Depending on the amount of golden mushrooms you collected, you get extras unlocked. (e.g. new playable characters, one of which is yet secret though and you'll never guess him anyway. But this doesn't matter now.)
When you won as either Wario or Waluigi, you will get an amazing castle (on which you spend all your golden shrooms).
When you won as either Mario or Luigi, you get an amazing cake (which is made out of the restored shrooms).


Since this is decided, Bowser and Syrup are now available in >The List of sprites.

[Guinea]

We have come up with a name for the CFP game!

Mushroom Patrol: The Midas Machine

[Guinea]

The World Map


A rough sketch of the world map.

In the beginning the player can choose to start as either the Mario Bros. or the Wario Bros.
When the player begins as ML, we start off in the Mushroom Kingdom in the south-west.
Otherwise WW start in the Desert/Ruins World eastern of the Mushroom Kingdom.

After these first worlds, the brothers meet and unite.
From here on, we can choose between four ways:
back to the Mushroom Kingdom, back to the Desert, off to the Ice World or off to the Jungle.
The Iceworld leads to the Ghost House and the Jungle leads to the Ocean which leads to Industry-spoiled Yoshi's Island.
From the top of Yoshi's Island we can reach the Sky World where Bowser and Syrup's lair is located.

What's more is that in all of the worlds you can reach from the crossing between IceWorld, MK, Desert and Jungle you have to collect artifacts that you can win from a boss battle or something.
Those are required to either reach the final world or to fight the Midas Machine.

Several levels will have different exits that open new paths.
Some paths are only reachable with one brother's ability.


A bit more detail about the Worlds:
The mushroom Kingdom includes Grass/Forest levels, Sewers levels, Underground portions, Toad Town and Peach's Castle.

The desert includes the desert and ruins.

The Ice World includes a lot of Ice.

The Ghost House includes various ghostly stuff. Furthermore, Luigi might get to play this on his own for first run through. (keep in mind that Luigi alone can only walk certain paths, so don't worry that you won't get to play as the other Bros. in the ghost house)

The Jungle includes everything that a Jungle has to offer: swamps, jungle, big trees ...

The Ocean is split in two parts: One is above the surface, one below.
Mario and Wario will take the top route while Waluigi and Luigi will go for the underwater route. They were split in those teams because of an accident.

Yoshi's Island is half spoiled by industry (since the Midas Machine is located directly above it). It includes all kinds of levels plus industry spoiled versions with poisenous swamps/rivers etc.

The Sky includes sky levels, Syrup and Bowsers lair and other bossish stuff.

For more details, we need concept artists.
Draw your concepts and post them in the Concept Art topic. ^-^