Minigame Competition #52, The curse of the... Boo Mansion

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It's Halloweeeeeeeen folks, and the Creepy Steeple is in need of humans... TO MAKE FANGAMES ABOUT IT.

SO.

The competition theme is Boo Mansion. ACK I AM SO SCARED, you'll say. Well, YOU SHOULD BE! The horror has no end! There are many ways to do this - either like the famous fangames Mario's Mansion... or like the even more famous official game Luigi's Mansion. Or the unknown Wario's Mansion. Err were was I...? AAH A GHOST

The competition ends the 21th of November. THERE WILL BE NO EXTENSIONS! Oh my god I am so scared what will I do without an extension (you'll lose).

Bring in the haunts, bring in the horrors, bring in the mansions. Have fun and remember the deadline!

PEEKABOO

Hmmm... I kinda wanna enter, but my programming skills are very limited.

Seems like nobody will be in the Halloween spirit three weeks from now, this probably would have been better leading up to Halloween than after. Whatever.

Also, does the theme mean that it just has to have an element of Halloween (ghosts, haunted houses, skeletons, etc) or is there a certain game series I've never heard of called boo mansion?

just keep the focus on a Boo-filled Mansion.

Excellent, just as I finish making some cool lighting/particle engines in GM I get to use them.

Thinking of maybe making a Fatal Frame type game... But we'll see.

EDIT: Or I could program for Shyguy, hit me up with a PM if you have any ideas Shy because I'm down for that as well.

This post has been edited by Keyser Soze on Oct 31 2009, 02:26 PM

I'll probably get overambitious and can it, but if not, I think I have a splendid idea for this one! Any rules on frightful things like violence, though? I'd normally stay away from that kinda thing anymore, especially for a Mario fangame, but I want to try my best at a game that's actually kinda scary, hopefully for reasons other than Mario waking up out of nowhere going WAAHLHOOWLBLEHGH! Then again, it might be a fun challenge to make a "clean" game that'd hopefully be creepier than just Luigi's Mansion.

Hopefully I won't start a cool idea and engine, then give up half-way to play New Super Mario Brothers.

I'd say violence and actually being scary would be a welcome and different addition to the happy go lucky theme you usually see in Mario games.

any scare elements are welcome

I have an idea for this

But I doubt I'll win.

Oooh, interesting comp this time.

I've got a wonderful idea for this, but I might need some spriting help to give feeling to it, though. If anyone wants to team up, PM me.

I'm entering this one,

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This post has been edited by Sergeant DeeY on Oct 31 2009, 03:31 PM

Goddamn, if his had started yesterday, I could have just edited the graphics on my Halloween Minigame.

But ****, one day out.

Slight chance of me entering, but don't expect anything.

YESS!! OH GOD YES! FAVORITE HOLIDAY EVER!!!!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!

*calms down* Definitely entering......mmm, booze...uh, I mean Boos....

Anyone ever played Ghost Master?

Basically that's what I'm making here.

3 or 4 classes of Boos with different abilities to deploy, and you use them to scare Luigi as he wanders around the mansion looking for Mario.

I'm pretty sure previous work isn't allowed.

Previous snippets and such is allowed, but not entire projects.

They're particle engines I made, single scripts, if we couldn't use things like that then Mecha wouldn't be allowed to use MechaSource to code his games, because he built the engine previous to the contest.

The rule is only prohibiting GAMES that have been previously worked on, not scripts and whatnot.

Progress on my entry

I'm so in this one

Darn it now I have to get a new tile set and backgrounds

feel like I've seen that before