Important announcement and Poll

Sorry that I'm a little late to the party, but I wanted to get my 2 cents in as well! I've been subscribed to you for a while, and while some other 100 people have proabably already said, I really play the game for the sprites and their actions and the DDC endings more than anything else. I like that there are so many characters to choose from, but at the same time, I really only like a select few of them (Link, Cloud, Sora, Leon to name a few) the rest are great to look at too though. While I haven't played your other game that you made, I'm sure that it's awesome, as you're one of the only artist that I know of that actually took the time to make a quality yaoi game that's not just a cheap knockoff of someone else's art being animated. In the end though, I love all of your content, and wouldn't mind so much if you slowed down on making the Mugen sprites, so long as the ones that you were making were the more popular ones.

Ebony A Burton

Well, one of the things I'd like to try is to make OCs but heavily based on existing characters. For example, if I wanted to add Link, I'd give him something like a red tunic, change his name a little, keep the personality and alter some of his design a little. My goal would be to make the character recognizable at a glance but it wouldn't actually be him. If people really don't like this I could go back to doing licensed characters, but if possible I think it would be good to move a little away from that. This wasn't planned at first but it ended up being the case after discussing possibilities with others about the game xP.

Redflash

I'm mixed on this - on one hand, I really love some of the sprite animations you've created for Mugen (Link and Cloud in particular are great), but at the same time, as others have said, I'm mostly playing Mugen to see the sprites, more than playing the game itself (I don't normally play fighting games). It sounds though, from your other comment, that a new game would also remove the licensed characters?

Sean

Yup, exactly this. I'd usually put it on Auto-Battle unless I wanted to test a specific move. @Redflash when you do create another game for the sprites, please add a Gallery View of sorts. :]

Shilou

Yep, in Pal I try to make the characters look more mature if they look too young (like Megaman and Lan) but for the new game, I have some actual plans to not use characters I could have doubts about and I actually have some special plans about characters where I may not use actual franchise characters but rather characters based on other already exising characters (Example, if I want to do Natsu, then I'd make a character based on his appearance, not on the actual Natsu) this would give me more freedom and also avoid any legal trouble I could have over things like that :P

Redflash

Hey, I subscribed this month for access to your MUGEN content, but had to unsubscribe when I realized a large part of the characters there are ambiguously aged (Naruto, Sawada, and Kamijo, among others). I like your work with the obviously 18+ characters, and I would like to resubscribe if you could make it a commitment to not use ambiguously aged characters. I'm sure others feel uncomfortable with this as well. Could I take a post like this as your commitment to not use ambiguously aged characters in your work?

ncognizant

Sorry about that but I hope you'll enjoy the new game :). I've enjoyed working on mugen for the time I did but I want to move on to the next step now ;)

Redflash

Most likely not because it will have new characters, but I might reuse some of them as templates at first because creating the base for the game will take the bulk of my time at first.

Redflash

Looks like I'm the minority but I'll really miss your MUGEN content since TheBlueKim is gone. Still, you alone created quite the bit of content and did more than your share at keeping 18+ MUGEN alive. Even if you quit it for the new game, I'd be grateful for what you've done.

harle

Will the animations currently in Mugen get moved over to said new game?

I really do not care about Mugen the fighting game. To me, it is simply a medium to view the sprite content. If I ever do "play" Mugen, it is an auto battle so that the NPCs can trigger various animations without my input. If there was some sort of Theater Mode where I can easily view the sprite work, I would play that over the actual fighting game any day.

Mi

Personally, I've loved the sprites in MUGEN, but never cared for the actual game. I just think the engine itself is a bit clunky at this point. Also, again personally, I liked the more 'mature' versions. Everything that you covered in this post I'm 100% on board with. Glad you are trying to get our input on this decision. :] <3

Shilou

Definitely DDC as the main character game. I would be happy to see what new stuff you come up with :)

NoxVentus