The Simpsons

[nsw25]

Hi guys just wanted to let you all know my next project is one that people have been wanting in Openbor... A Simpsons game ! now that ive discovered the MUGEN ripping feature in OpenBor stats i am using some of the simpsons, futurama and Family guy sprites to make a great game with awesome graphics and one that pays homage to the original arcade classic. its a pretty big project and alot of work but should be fun when its done

The story synopsis is Aliens invade springfield and abduct most of the town, its up to Homer to stop them. The aliens send out robots from the future (bender lol) and other enemies to assit them, but in the end it will be revealed the true master mind behind it all is Peter Griffin who wants to be top dog in the animated tv stakes

What do you guys think ?

Also if other people want to help make characters or scripts or something thatd be good, could be a group project... or im happy to do it all myself.

Ive started already and will have some screen shots up soon

[Bloodbane]

 Hmmm... I wonder why only Homer is playable?

 Also would this be similar to Simpson's arcade?

[nsw25]

Hmmm... I wonder why only Homer is playable?

 Also would this be similar to Simpson's arcade?

will be homer at first then other characters will be unlocked... Or if i get on a roll i may add more playable characters from the get go.

Yeah want it to have some levels of old simpsons arcade, but story, levels and enemies wont be anything like original plus will have cool moves. I will have some of the sounds and some of the levels put in it for nostalgia, have to tweak them to scale them right, got some from the simpsons demo on OpenBor from ages ago, been fixing those to make doors bigger and levels taller for the video resolution and chars im using


one thing i need help on is understanding how to place enemies on levels properly, i keep fiddling with it but sometimes they fall from the sky and other times the map wont gpo further and they groups keep coming at same spot and dont go further along the map.

[nsw25]

if someone could look at the attached level file and explain what im doing wrong itd be great

FYI level is 4000x293

heres the level file im testing on. Issues im having

too many enemies on screen at once
level doesnt have enemies to beat up then move across screen before next wave

want to beat up small groups and slowly work way to end, read the manual couple of times and thought i got the hang of it... but was wrong

[NickyP]

now that ive discovered the MUGEN ripping feature in OpenBor stats

Whoa wait, what? Openborstats does that? What does it do, like, rip sprites with offsets? If so.... God, that would just save SO much time...! Now I have to look into that!

Oh yeah, uh, good luck on your project by the way. 

[nsw25]

now that ive discovered the MUGEN ripping feature in OpenBor stats

Whoa wait, what? Openborstats does that? What does it do, like, rip sprites with offsets? If so.... God, that would just save SO much time...! Now I have to look into that!

Oh yeah, uh, good luck on your project by the way. 

Yup with offsets

Hey can you help me out and look at the level file above, im doing something wrong cos enemies come in huge swarms and level doesnt move forward sometimes and other times lets me run across whole level before stopping and making me fight waves...

since i cant work it out ive had to resort to copying other pre existing level files and tweaking them, would really like to know how to do them right from scratch.

[nsw25]

Heres some screenshots of my mod thats in development being played on PSP

[Die_In_Fire]

what happened with evil dead mod?

[trebean]

Bender should instead be a secret unlockable character, you can edit his sprite though to make him look less like Bender and more Generic Robot Minion like though

[nsw25]

what happened with evil dead mod?

my evil dead mod is done for now. Im waiting for more feedback, reviews etc then ill do a sequel or add more to it.

[Die_In_Fire]

what happened with evil dead mod?

my evil dead mod is done for now. Im waiting for more feedback, reviews etc then ill do a sequel or add more to it.

but did you add the extra sprites for Ash?? You asked lot of stuff to apply to that mod, lot of your questions were answered, before waiting more feedback you should work on that part first.

about the Simpsons mod, it looks pretty good. But if you don't correct the stuff on Evil Dead mod, you are likely to repeat the mistakes. Hope I can be prove wrong tough.

Edit: it's good as you are making new enemies for the Simpsons mod, if you see something works fine, you can add or alter something on the Evil Dead mod. So take the positive things you accomplish on Simpsons to then apply to Evil Dead mod.

[nsw25]

what happened with evil dead mod?

my evil dead mod is done for now. Im waiting for more feedback, reviews etc then ill do a sequel or add more to it.

but did you add the extra sprites for Ash?? You asked lot of stuff to apply to that mod, lot of your questions were answered, before waiting more feedback you should work on that part first.

about the Simpsons mod, it looks pretty good. But if you don't correct the stuff on Evil Dead mod, you are likely to repeat the mistakes. Hope I can be prove wrong tough.

Edit: it's good as you are making new enemies for the Simpsons mod, if you see something works fine, you can add or alter something on the Evil Dead mod. So take the positive things you accomplish on Simpsons to then apply to Evil Dead mod.

yeah lots of questions were answered for evil dead mod which i used to improve that game alot. Im happy with how it is now, there were a few other questions i asked that werent answered due to being 'too complicated' or 'requiring scripting' so ill see if i can learn and impliment some new stuff in this simpsons game then ill add those type of things to my next evil dead game.

I have all of ashs sprites but cant mix his existing sprites with the new sprites, need to redo him all from scratch just to get a few more animations i wanted so ill leave that work for a sequel game, practicing my new character making from scratch with these MUGEN chars and as i get faster and better ill return to Ash (may do a freddy vs jason vs ash game or something cool once i eventually get enough skills)

[nsw25]

Bender should instead be a secret unlockable character, you can edit his sprite though to make him look less like Bender and more Generic Robot Minion like though

yeah i have done 3 remaps for kang and will do 3 remaps for Bender (saving his original colour for a playable version) each remap has different moves and fighting style to keep it fresh

may set the game up like a treehouse of horror episode, where each stage represents a new mini story- but they all have a tie in plot where the real protagonists are Family guy chars which slowly reveal themselves through levels.

if anyone wants to help me making levels or help add scripting etc thatd be great- i can send what ive got so far to anyone keen to help out

[NickyP]

Hey can you help me out and look at the level file above, im doing something wrong cos enemies come in huge swarms and level doesnt move forward sometimes and other times lets me run across whole level before stopping and making me fight waves..

From what I'm seeing you're making one little noob mistake (which I made years ago); you aren't using waits, and when you do, they aren't in pairs. The wait command in a level should be used like so..

wait
at 400

spawn dude
coords 100 100
at 400

wait
at 400

When you put the same wait at the beginning and end of an enemy group, that's how the engine splits it up into segments.

Also, your enemy placement is way off. You had enemies placed at 0 after spawning enemies at 200... something which throws the engine way out of whack. In fact, you seem to do that all over the place in the level... Remember that the at command in levels is supposed to be the point in the stage at which the player will be. Enemies spawned at 400 will come on the screen when the player walks 400 pixels forward from the starting point. If you want enemies to be placed towards the edge of the screen or so, you do that with the coords command, not the at command.

I've fixed your level01.txt and attached it, take a look to see if you understand the difference. Note that I didn't change the coords, just the waits and ats.

[nedflandeurse]

Very good idea to use these different sprites.
Is Warner from mugen) aware of this project?

Also, I hope you'll have some big ennemies to be used with these big homer sprites.
Good luck.

Very promising.