Peach Fangame Idea

If idea posting in Misc. Board is not allowed, please Lock (or Delete) the topic. Otherwise, I think I've seen some idea topics, so it should be fine.

So, I finally am seriously working on my Peach fangame (after realizing I should create my own graphics).

I'd provide some screenshots, but I haven't created enough graphics quite yet for a demo (or even a small scene). I can provide some of the graphics I've created though, if necessary.

Anyways, just some basics about the game:

Story: Peach ends up on an island where fruits are sprites who spread happiness. When Peach arrives, she soon learns from a small fairy that something has caused many of the fruit sprites to turn malicious, infecting anything living with their new dark magics. Peach, with the help of some new transformations, ventures into the island, in order to defeat the source of the magic.

Gameplay: It'll play much like a normal platformer, with the exception that it will have many typical Peach abilities (Umbrella, float, Peach bomber, you name it), along with many other abilities found in her transformations. Basically, her transformations involve her being infused with the power of five fruits (the fruits that weren't infected). Each fruit will have a set of abilities that can help in different situations.

Bosses: are essentially enemies who have been infused with the malicious fruit sprites, causing them to be supercharged. The bosses themselves aren't (for the most part) going to be common enemies you'll often see in most Mario games (eg. I'm not going to do Goomba + Orange. It'll be more like. . . .a Bzzap! (Bee-like enemy from Paper Mario) + Orange, if that makes any sense), so that should hopefully add some originality among the bosses).

Graphics: As said before, I plan on creating my own graphics, simply because I don't want to be limited to sprites made by others (and I'm a terrible sprite editor to begin with, so Drawings/Pixel Art is the next best thing).

I've honestly tried to bottle this idea up but I can't anymore. I'd like to see if my idea is decent enough, or too completely outrageous for anyone to even think about playing it. If it is too outrageous or weird, then please let me know, and provide an opinion on what could be improved. I'm so far only working on Peach art, so I should sill have time to change the idea if necessary.

So yeah. Opinions and maybe some revision if necessary?

Cool story, looking forward to it. Great to see it's not a SMB3 remake!

Sounds great. For once an original fangame.

Sounds pretty cool. I'd play it.

Sounds great! I'd play it.

This.

This gets me more motivated knowing people don't think my idea is crazy.

I'll attempt to have a demo up and running as soon as possible.

Sounds sweet! Nice and original too!

Id play it for sure.

What's so crazy about originality?

I just worry about these kind of things. I've actually prevented myself from creating this topic at least five times after finishing writing it. It's not much of a big deal now.

Can you post just a couple sprites without animations or anything?
I'm interested to see what it looks like.

I don't have much to show, and I don't have time right now to get some more.

Here's what I can show for right now. I'll bring up some other stuff when I have the time.

Peach (She'll have pupils in her eyes in the demo)


Goomba (with a foot at the top. . . .)

The sprites are kinda big and seem in-animative. Will they be able to fit in on the screen?

If I were to make in-animative sprites, then there's really no point in sharing my idea.

I used photoshop to create the sprites (each body part is essentially a different layer), and then I transfer them into MS Paint to built the parts together to form frames of animations. I'm willing to show some if necessary.

They are a bit big (Peach is just under 120 * 250 or something when cropped), but I'm not going to try and fit them on a 320 x 320 screen. I'm using a 640 x 640 screen, and that seems to work fine.

tl;dr

just make it why do you need our approval?

I want to see a general reaction first. Don't want to make something nobody will play, right?

so Peach is like 1/6 of the screen?


That sounds awful. I'd go with 800x600 at least.

Wrong attitude. Make something because it was fun to make. **** the players :]

This post has been edited by MechaBowser on Jan 27 2009, 12:10 AM

More like 1/12, but I guess I could try making the screen bigger. I was worried about making it any bigger, because some computer screens might end up raping the graphics to fit the screen. Then again, that's their problem.

And I'm just pessimistic like that. I'll try to be not-negative next time, possibly.

This sounds like it'll be a good game! Nice job so far; I especially like the story you made.

If only I didn't procrastinate. Then it could hopefully get done faster.