Mario and Luigi - SuperCAR Saga, Hahaha, anyway, another dumb idea

[Doc Wario]

Ok, you remember double drag? Yeah, dead. Didn't like the concept that way. You remember Mario Upgrade? Dead also. Gave myself WAY too much to animate, way to much to do in the sense of maps, driving places, blah and blah and way too much.
Ok, Mario & Luigi - SuperCAR (Laughs again) saga. Cars are M&L styled, Upgrades are a lot more customizeable (pronounced "Custo meaze able on purpose), a lot easier for me to animate (Seeing as how I'm not doing open doors, trunks, etc),

gameplay is a lot more basic - race basic races to earn coins, use coins to buy bodykit parts, unlock bodykit parts, Buy Performance Upgrades, Unlock performance upgrades, buy new cars, unlock new cars, and possibly buy and unlock paintjobs, but I'm unclear about that right now.

race characters (in story mode, maybe) to unlock them, race pink slips against them to unlock their special paintjobs (those I'm sure of) and special bodykit parts), and possibly even special cars.

Now for numbers. There are 10 characters (maybe 12, but that depends), and 10 cars (maybe 12). Each car (aside from two, or four, of them) has 8 different parts for each of it's 6 areas (see pic below) - counting one stock part and one character-specific part. 2 of those 2 or 4 exceptions have only 4 parts. Performance upgrades vary by car.

Here's some more numbers. You start with only 2 characters (mario and luigi), 4 cars (the truck shown below is an unlockable), and 4 bodykit parts per area per car. I don't know how many performance packages are available from the start.

I don't know how many courses there would be either - 10, probably, 1 per character. I don't know how much money you'd start with nor how much you'd earn winning.

However, I do know that there would be a lot of unlockables, and that half of the characters would be M&L specific (including fawful), and that probably storymode would include some Cuztom artwork.

I'd only need someone to make them game, er... for me. I'd make all the necessary sprites (or find them, ala M&L things), and artworks and stuff. The game would basically need some character selection screens, some car selection screens, some car modding selection screens, possibly a car garage of some sort but not necessariily of course, and racing depending on car stats, Which I could aid in (looks at Shadz's crew)... I can't remember who did what there, but... (looks at them all)

Oh, the pic below - left to right - cars 1 - 3 and 5 are the 4 cars you start out with. Car 4 is one of the first 4 unlockables. Car 6 is an example of one set of bodykit parts, and car 7 shows how they fit with other parts.

I don't know about rims yet either... btw, does anyone else even have an interest in this sorta stuff, or is it just me?

Dr. Wario

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[Vorxis]

That rocks my soxs Doc Wario. This sound good, I look forward to it.

[DJ Yoshiman]

Ah, yes, Dr. Wario. I love your car sprites.

[Doc Wario]

Good, you two can be the first 2 members of my team. Jolly good.

Dr. Wario

[OmegaK]

sounds awesome doc

[Doc Wario]

Progress is coming along smoothly - I've got the uncolored base models of all 10 cars done. The other 2 I mentioned before will depend on If I want to make them.

Now I only have to split them apart and technically make 62 sprite edits.

Do people wanna help me out on car names? Take a brand name and one of it's car model names, both which have to sound like something mario related, and change them to fit. It'll be fun!

Example - MitsuBOSHI uh... can't think of a good one for Lancer Evo blahblahblah

Or - Aston MARIO ... err... not one for vanquish either.

The cars are a lancer type, a civic hatchback type, an old mustang type, a corvette type, a pickup type, a hotrod type, a lowrider type, a bal air type (more like wario's car with a roof), a escalade type, and a lambroghini/ferrari type. Any good puns will do.

Another thing I considered was using real life photos of streets and such for backgrounds. This seem like a good idea or a bad idea?

Dr. Wario

[ShadowMan]

Now that's a kickass car sprite.

[Boo Mansion]

Sounds awsome Doc!

[DJ Yoshiman]

"Now that's a kickass car sprite."

Actually, there's some more even amazing ones he's done.

[LuigiFan]

very good sprites


hmm


hotrod=fireflower
ferrari=ferroshi

[Draco Icebane]

Red Fireari rofl

[Binky]

My imagination sucks, so oyu won't get any good car-names out of me. But I can say these cars do look good, really good. Maybe not as good as some of your old ones, but those are on the doorstep to godly. I'm awaiting this game. Heck, even a demo just to see the sprites in action.

[Doc Wario]

Hmm... well, it seems now that Yoshiman is my main programming dude, but he won't have to worry about that for like, a month. Which probably means you won't see anything from this game for like, two months. But I will post up some mock shots later on.

After I actually make all of the car sprites, which is beyond human (here's an idea -72 total cars - which are the 10 bases and the 8 per car modification sprite edits - times 10 recolors for every character is 720 - plus a possible special paintjob for every car based on what character drives it specifically - another good 64)
I have to do pictures for the storymode cinemas (about 10) and possibly some other things.

Actually, someone tell me right now - does multimedia fusion's color replacer actually sort of work? Because that would save me, oh, 748 sprite edits I'd have to make in PSP. If it does, that would be really, really good. I'm serious - really really. Yoshiman I believe has MMF, so if it does, that would be really, really, really, r e a l l y good.

EDIT: Here's a teaser pic, showing the interchangability of the parts.

Dr. Wario

This post has been edited by Doc Wario on Jan 4 2005, 01:23 AM

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[Luigifan12]

Mustang, MusTACHE?

[Vorxis]

XD, I'll think of some names, but don't expect much.

[Doc Wario]

Hmm... I have all of the base cars done, and all of the "super secret if you're part of it you know what I mean" things done too... now I gotta make several more secrets, along with some decals and stuff. Then, I got to get ahold of Yoshiman.

I might do some animated cinemas, but only at a resolution of 64 by 48 and then resized 5 times larger. Better than nothing, however.

Dr. Wario

[Nicholas Ainsworth]

Coupe Deville = Koopa Deville

[Draco Icebane]

Lord Mushtang

lmfao

[Luigifan12]

Jaguar- Bowsar?