[Ermac210]

Hi guys! A friend and I are working in a Rockman X project using based on an open source prototype gamemaker engine made by TonyJih & BrosBM. It had many bugs and a lot of features were lost but day by day we've been working to fix glitches and add some features (heart tanks, energy tanks, power ups, enemies behaviors, pause menu, etc...). There's a long way yet to left the engine 100% accurate to the original SNES game (yep, we're doing this project based in the SNES style, both in sprites as engine behavior).

We want to do a prequel of the original Rockman X game and told about Zero origins, the beginning of the Maverick Hunters and the days where Sigma was the leader of the hunters. One of our biggest goals is to have a playable Sigma along with some brand new mavericks. In addition, we have developed the background plot of each one of those enemies so everyone has a reason to be in the game.

Nowadays, we're a bit stuck because we need spriters, specially to do a playable Sigma and neither me nor me friend have the skills to do a pixel-art sprites as this game demands.

So, if someone is interested in this project all help will be well received (as spriter, level designer, or what you think it could be useful), and if one of you guys have a cool name for this project let us know ;) .

btw, here are some screenshots of the engine running. You can see some enemies working, the energy tanks and heart tanks ;) ~ the storm eagle boss came with the engine, so we're basing on it to do the other future mavericks ;)


Shield reflecting shots.


a Met, with some test stage props


more mets, X with shadow-effect dash


more enemies, the 8bit panda came with the engine


more enemies...


boss fight


a w.i.p. pause menu with the energy tanks working (they get fulfilled as long as you pick up life items)

Greetings!

[Metal X]

Hello Ermac! Welcome to the forums.

This is an awesome idea for a project! I definitely look forward to following it's progress.

I myself am unfortunately not gifted in the arts of spriting or game-making or anything cool like that, but I DO write music and fanfiction myself, so if there are any musical or plot ideas needed, that is something to keep in mind. I'd definitely be willing to help out and see something like this take off and become playable some day.


I have one criticism for now. About X's Shadow effect dash. I think it looks awesome, but if it's supposed to be Pre-X1, shouldn't X not be able to dash yet??

Other than that. I'm stoked to see what else you guys do with this! And again. Welcome to MMX9.com

[Craven]

Hello, I'm the friend Ermac was talking about (Did I spell it right? xD). Thanks Metal Man for your enthusiasm, we are hard working on this project that is some kind of childhood dream.

About the dashing, it was part of the engine and we tought about deactivating it... but suddenly we discover how hard is playing a dynamic game like Mega Man X without the dashing so... we have a surprise in the future about that, I don't want to disclose that information yet But relax, we considered that

[Metal X]

Well...

If I may,

Considering that this is like.... a bridge from the Classic to the X series... (am I correct on that?), some of the stages could be more Classic MM formatted. With not as many huge gaps and stuff, but also being a little more challenging, giving X a need to use his wall-jump without looking like a total cheapo.

Hmm... about that dash. I wonder what you're planning on doing to make it make sense. Maybe it's a gained power or something... That's the only thing I can think of. But I'll wait. =] You definitely don't need to disclose anything you're not ready to. I'm a very patient person when it comes to things like this. I look forward to following this thing and seeing where it goes.

And welcome to the forums Craven.

[Craven]

Thanks for the welcome ;) But I must clarify something. This game doesn't pretend to be a bridge between the two series, but an introduction of the origin of the maverick hunters. If we set this in the North American timeline, this game take place months after the first maverick malfunctions.

[Vaankar]

Hey there! What you guys are doing here is absolutely interesting if it ever sees the light. I would really love to see this complete and playable, and you definitively need lots of help.

[kokocipher]

I've been wanting to make a game with a playable Sigma. In fact, I have already made a theme for him

[Craven]

kokocipher, on 05 March 2012 - 04:46 PM, said:

I've been wanting to make a game with a playable Sigma. In fact, I have already made a theme for him

It's a pretty good song. I saw in your youtube account that you have a Newgrounds account. Do you pretend to make that game in flash? Maybe we can search/share a spriter and the sigma's sprites (we need the Sigma from X1 )

[kokocipher]

I sort of gave up on that project because making sigma sprite sheet plus a solid MMX engine on MMF2 was just too difficult. But if you have a solid MMX engine, I'd be happy to help out.

[Vaankar]

I may have someone that is interested in helping in design too, though I need to ask her well because what she is currently studying is 3d modeling and such, and I dont know how useful she may serve to a snes game

[Ermac210]

Hey kokocipher, that's a cool Sigma theme (I'll do it some arranges in some parts, for my own taste, but it's cool anyways :D)

The music is a really important game aspect to help the to transmit some feelings in key parts in the game (The final boss battle, for example, or even the intro stage of Sigma).

Btw, when we started this project I tried to do some Sigma sprites... I couldn't do make anything usable, but I noticed some things.


What about a navigator? I know in the first three games of X's series there wasn't anyone but maybe it could be useful to help with the story we want tell (as this game isn't official and acts like a link to Maverick Hunter X and the original X1 game, or just because people could be "lost" blablabla) ~ maybe an option to get a "passive" navigator who only talks you about the plot and let you play in peace :D (I hate Alia when she interrupts me in middle of a jump)

oh, and thanks for the welcome! to everyone~
see ya!

[Ziber]

the sprites of sigma's are very nice

[Craven]

Thanks metalman, kokocipher and vankar; we absolutely accept your help (personally, i'm pretty interested on vankar's work because he used SNES soundfonts). I don't know, do you want to start with something? ;) (in other words, how can we start?)

[Metal X]

I dunno. I'm kinda swamped with music projects myself. But if there's anything you guys need or want or whatever, this has my support.

[Craven]

I know that you are the one who leads the anime fan script project, so I think that you know some details of the X series. What do you think? We must respect for the stroyline the American MMX manual? (where the creation of the Hunters was just 4 months before the Day of Sigma). We are doing that, but sometimes it feels weird, I don't know.

[kokocipher]

Dug out some of my old music files today and rearranged this one with Blitz's Megaman X soundfont, let me know what you think.


Do any of you guys use any instant messengers?

[Craven]

kokocipher, on 06 March 2012 - 10:04 AM, said:

Dug out some of my old music files today and rearranged this one with Blitz's Megaman X soundfont, let me know what you think.


Do any of you guys use any instant messengers?

Wow, that's..that's pretty impressive :o. I don't know what Ermac will think, but I really liked it. And yes, I have MSN and Gtalk, Ermac doesn't use them too much (I must phone call him most of the time xD). I'll send you a PM (and to anyone who want to work with us ;) )

[Metal X]

Craven, on 06 March 2012 - 05:02 AM, said:

I know that you are the one who leads the anime fan script project, so I think that you know some details of the X series. What do you think? We must respect for the stroyline the American MMX manual? (where the creation of the Hunters was just 4 months before the Day of Sigma). We are doing that, but sometimes it feels weird, I don't know.

That's completely up to you.

I personally have no problem with the Americanized localization of the X1 Manual with the dates and stuff. Other people on here swear that the localization is a bastardized version and should never be used, but in all honesty, outside of certain plot implications in X2, I don't see a big difference.

Yeah, I've done a LOT of research on the MMX timeline of things to figure out when certain things took place, both inside and outside of the games.
It's funny that you mention my Fanscript actually. Within the first few episodes to set up my Pre-X1 storyline, I used the U.S. Manual and Yoshiro Iwamoto's Manga as a really good source for inspiration. Then I used the MHX OVA to lead in to the first game and what-not.

I would definitely consort to those sources, regarding a Pre-X1 plot.
PM me sometime if you want to talk about it more.

P.S. EDIT: Kococipher, I really like ur song.
How did you get that sound font. If I'm ever gonna do VG music, I need that.

This post has been edited by Metal Man X: 06 March 2012 - 09:09 PM

[Craven]

Metal Man X, on 06 March 2012 - 08:57 PM, said:

I would definitely consort to those sources, regarding a Pre-X1 plot.
PM me sometime if you want to talk about it more.

Thanks :D. Probably I'll do it soon, but our first goal now is getting a spriter for the sigma spritesheet. Having it or not will set the future of the project (if we don't have sigma spritesheet, we will need to rethink all of this)

[Vaankar]

Im up for the team, Craven, and for your fortune (probably), I also know spanish. I do need to state some facts, however. I will PM you, dont worry, wont be demands nor anything.