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Whoops. It would help if I actually posted the roster, huh? :P

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tPjypTfvO2ZqeTOorXzruK7d zsYpzYjbvYWJQv4N8mA/edit

Everyone on the team, please look at the current team-member roster:

We're gonna need to start breaking down into teams. :) So folks, the easiest way to communicate is via Skype. Mine is Greyhawk241.

It's time to boot this project into PHASE 1.

Thank you all.

Everyone, PLEASE LOOK AT THIS!!!!!!

SkullzNHero makes some very good points! :)

At 4/30/13 02:15 AM, Antiskill wrote: This is cool. Can't wait to start sketching out ideas.
Whats happening so far in terms of who's doing what?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tPjypTfvO2ZqeTOorXzruK7d zsYpzYjbvYWJQv4N8mA/edit

This should give ya a good idea on who's assigned to do what. :)

At 4/30/13 01:34 AM, pooterjon wrote:

At 4/29/13 09:01 PM, greyhawk241 wrote: Hey there folks here's a quick team- roster update:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tPjypTfvO2ZqeTOorXzruK7d zsYpzYjbvYWJQv4N8mA/edit

I hope you are all doing well. :)

You can add me as a voice actor. Should be fun!

You've got it! Welcome to the team!

Here's a quick promotional video in honor of all of you fine folks. From beginning to end, this project is nothing without you guys! :3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiD5gmZTMRs

Hey there folks here's a quick team- roster update:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tPjypTfvO2ZqeTOorXzruK7d zsYpzYjbvYWJQv4N8mA/edit

I hope you are all doing well. :)

At 4/29/13 04:45 PM, Chongo wrote: If Egoraptor becomes a playable character, his hypercombo should be to leave the arena and make Game Grumps.

Hahahaha, BRILLIANT!

I do not use APFG, but Flash. As for your question, yes, but it's not going to be fully 3D but an image, of course. Also, will it be a platformer or a beat'em'up style (See my sig)?

It shall be neither good sir, but more akin to this:

http://youtu.be/wneMdNs6yNs

At 4/29/13 01:49 PM, GhostWriterNext wrote: I was wondering what do you think of the game engine I am using for APFG http://mlpforums.com/topic/49011-awesome-pony-fighting-game/
the APFG Game Engine https://github.com/jubilee145/APFG it is made from scratch

It's a very nice engine, though I wonder, could we use it to make a fighter that had 2-d characters on 3-d backgrounds?

Hey there folks, a quick update. The initial launch of this game has a set-in-stone character roster count. 30 fighters (15 Users, 15 Corrupted). This way our roster is large, but do-able. Anywho, I had a recent discussion with one of our team members, and his questions really helped to flesh out the final product.

1-"Will there be a free roam aspect, with exploration and hidden items and such."

Being that this is a 1v1, 2v2, or 3v3 fighting game (primarily) it is more likely that we will indeed have that as a side thing, in story mode.

2- "Will there be side quests for the player where they can gain new skills, equipment etc."
Yes, there will be a challenge mode of sorts (Ala Super Smash Bros Melee/Brawl. Do X in X amount of time, do X under certain conditions, etc.)! This will unlock alt. costumes, hidden stages, and all sorts of good thangs!

3- "Will there be monsters or will it be solely human character Vs. Human character."

The roster of fighters are all humans (well, humanoid at least, Think Guilty Gear or Blaz Blue for Inspiration). However, there shall be monsters/demons/all sorts of hellish beings known as "Corrupted" in Story mode.

4- "How sick and twisted can I make their back stories (One character I wrote is a victim of abuse and escapes to the game as an outlet to their pain)."

That is an excellent concept, and should ABSOLUTELY make it into the final product!!!!!!! Perhaps as a member on the side of the Corrupted? Also, we're going for a hard-T rating (mainly so that we can sell to a wider audience). We can definitely push the boundaries with a mature storyline, but as for shit-tons of gore, leave that to Mortal Kombat. :P

5- "Will the game have it's own story inside the story for our game, like we have the story where the trolls attack, but will the game that Tom developed have it's own story."
Yes indeed, the game is the very world that gets corrupted in the first place, and is what drags all of our fighters in.

6- "Character customization (This is less of a question pertaining to the game, I'm just curious). How big will the customization aspect be? Like character clothing, skills etc."

After talking it over with one of my animators recently, it's become clear that building a separate Character Custimization tool would be a HUGE pain. Instead, we are going to have the artists that want to add characters animate it themselves, and then we will smooth-out, and polish it, and get it working in our final product. :)
As for skills, the more you use a character, the more of their skills you unlock. Alt. costumes and the like shall all be designed by us.

Well, I hope that clears up a great deal for yeah, have a fantastic day!

At 4/29/13 01:08 PM, Chongo wrote: I'm still in for the project, but I'm gonna go ahead and help out a bit by saying a few things. It's good to have motivation to get it done, but read this and tell me if somethings wrong.

"Hey guys! I've got an idea and I want it to be amazing. I can do writing and supply ideas and be the director. Here are the requirements:

Free-flowing combos
Detailed animation
Large Character Roster
Ludicrous Hyper-combos
Amazing soundtrack
Infinite Replay value
Engrossing Story-line"

See the problem? If not, the problem is, you're asking for a lot.
Having free-flowing combos is difficult. Being creative enough to invent hypercombos can be hard. Detailed animation is pretty tough. And with a huge roster, it's even tougher. And you're not contributing much to it aside from "directing". I'm still on the team, but I've worked with teams like this in the past and it did not end well.

I hope this doesnt end the same.

You make an excellent point good sir. Perhaps I let my excitement get the better of me. What I meant by "Free-flowing" combat, was simply that I'd love to be able to have at least a few characters whose combos can cancel out into one another.

By "Ludicrous Hyper-Combos" I simply meant that every character should have one-or-two good ol' fashioned flashy moves, ya dig?

Other than that, thank you for your input, and have a great day.

Oh and, I feel your pain man, I've been on plenty of projects that have fallen through....However, I've also been a part of plenty that were a success! :D With you, and the rest of this epic crews help, we shall pull off a MAJOR success story!

Roster update. We've added a programmer.:)

Wow you guys, thank you so freakin' much for all of the support! Two of you cool cats have now joined the official roster! :)

Hey there all of you awesome people. Please remember to pm me about joining the official team only if you are 100% COMMITTED TO SEEING THIS PROJECT THROUGH FROM BEGINNING TO END! I will update the roster accordingly. :)

At 4/29/13 12:14 AM, greyhawk241 wrote: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tPjypTfvO2ZqeTOorXzruK7d zsYpzYjbvYWJQv4N8mA/edit?usp=sharing

Here ya go folks, the official google doc! :)

Make that google drive.*

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tPjypTfvO2ZqeTOorXzruK7d zsYpzYjbvYWJQv4N8mA/edit?usp=sharing

Here ya go folks, the official google doc! :)

Hey guys, check it out! Some official art-work for NewGrounds Rebellion! This should give you a good feel for the tone of it. >:)

At 4/28/13 09:59 PM, Chongo wrote:

At 4/28/13 09:47 PM, greyhawk241 wrote:

At 4/28/13 09:39 PM, skullzNHERO wrote: You said we would only be allowed to make 2 characters, so can that be an original, and a God (Tank Man)?

That's 2 plus a god character. :) So just to clarify

One User (good)

One Corrupted (Bad)

One God/Celeb

I hope that clears things up for you guys.

While I am up for that, I just want to remind you that, especially for the programmers and animators and anyone else depending on who's involved, putting in a lot of characters is going to be a LOT of work, especially if you want each character to be have individual attacks and not be just different skins of the same character.

Excellent point. How about being able to submit 3 characters, but only one is omitted in? (There will be a custom character creation tool anyway).

At 4/28/13 09:39 PM, skullzNHERO wrote: You said we would only be allowed to make 2 characters, so can that be an original, and a God (Tank Man)?

That's 2 plus a god character. :) So just to clarify

One User (good)

One Corrupted (Bad)

One God/Celeb

I hope that clears things up for you guys.

At 4/28/13 09:26 PM, Chongo wrote: I say that we should have it so that the main characters (The good guys) are NG celebrities of sorts, like for instance RicePirate, EgoRaptor, SpazKid, Oney, Emrox, those sort of guys, or at least characters by them like Pico or the Starbarians. We can design their characters as the good guys and make OC's as the bad guys.

I definitely like your idea! I've been getting so many requests to do this kind of thing, that it sounds like it'll become a concrete plan. Another concrete thing is that when you are using a custom User character, you can select one of the Celeb characters as a assist/god of sorts, granting you boons mid fight.

Alright, I'm slowly but surely building up the official roster of people helping out on this project. Check out these awesome mutha fuckas! Have a great day folks. :)

On the roster:

http://greyhawk241.newgrounds.com (myself)

http://skullznhero.newgrounds.com (SkullzNhero)

Alright ladies and gents, you've all been terrific. I'm pleased to announce that with all of your help, I've come down with a solid gameplay type. Please watch this video for reference purposes:

http://youtu.be/wneMdNs6yNs

I'd really love it to play quite a bit like this. :)

Thank you to all of you. Composers, pm me your music submissions please. Also, as you have all stated, I will need a roster of those names that are 100% ON BOARD WITH THIS! If you will stick with it to the end, go ahead and add yourself, and I will post an updated roster.

Other than that, now you know:

1on1 fighter

Free-flowing combos

Detailed animation

Large Character Roster

Ludicrous Hyper-combos

Amazing soundtrack

Infinite Replay value

Engrossing Story-line

When all is said and done, this will be a game that people will want to play time and time again! :D Let's do it folks, let's bring this dream to life!

I'm absolutely thrilled that this is taking off so much! :D I am a shit drawer, but lemme tell ya, I've done some polling, and it sounds like everyone is digging an almost "Guilty Gear" vibe, with items, hyper combos, and environmental hazards thrown in for good measure.

Character customization is certainly a must, as many of you have mentioned. Just to clear things up though, ONLY TWO CHARACTER SUBMISSIONS CAN BE EXCEPTED PER USER (for the initial cast). Otherwise the roster would be ridiculous! :O

Also, I agree with Himynameisjacob, we shall definitely have some well known characters, however I was more thinking these character would be more like gods (ala assist trophies in SSBB). The difference here being the more you used them in battle, the better those boons you got from them would become.

None of the above. I have three primary suggestions.

The first is this, potentially with some differing backgrounds for levels.

The second is a platformer, in which you combat different users as you go. Of course, it wouldn't rely too heavily on the actual platforms except for combat dexterity, but it would give it a slight adventure feel.

Lastly, a turn-based rpg style of game. Sort of like the Epic Battle Fantasy series, in which you travel to each area defeating new foes.
This, of course, would be a much larger project, so it may not be so feasible. Still, it would be a lot of fun.

These are all excellent ideas! I honestly think that a combination of the 3 would be pretty awesome:

Have the characters battling chumps like those, but with interactive environments (ala super smash bros.)

The platforms could be used to get from place-to-place, with many varying properties.

Lastly, for an rpg feel, leveling-up and combo-unlocking.

It all sounds very daunting, but with a big enough team, I guarantee we can pull it off! :)

I love these responses and enthusiasm. You guys are great! So, new question:

As far as styles of fighters go (1-1, smash bros style, Marvel versus Capcom style, Guilty Gear style, etc.) what format would you like to see this in. Please post below.

At 4/24/13 02:05 AM, BlackStarMeister wrote:

At 4/24/13 01:56 AM, greyhawk241 wrote:

At 4/24/13 01:51 AM, BlackStarMeister wrote: Shut up and take my money!!!

Hahaha, what do ya think, wanna help out? :)

Most def

Awesome!

Also, go ahead and start submitting character designs. Let us know a bit about them, whose side they are ultimately choosing to fight for "Users" or "The Corrupted" (another name for trolls), and why. You can submit only up to two characters, but you are more than welcome to design costume variants.

Above all else, have fun.

At 4/24/13 01:51 AM, BlackStarMeister wrote: Shut up and take my money!!!

Hahaha, what do ya think, wanna help out? :)

Hey there ladies and gents. I've been throwing this idea around for a while now, but I really wanna bring it to light for all of you cool cats.

After talking, and collaborating on here (newgrounds) for quite some time, I've really loved how diverse and talented the vast majority of you are, and I thought that would translate very well over to a fighting game.

But not just any kind of fighter, ya see. All of the characters would be designed by us, voiced by us, and have fighting styles that represent each user in question.

The Name of the project shall be "New Grounds Rebellion" or NG Rebellion for short.

The story goes a little something like this.....

The regular users of New Grounds are having a good time, uploading content and just chilling, when a mass-influx of trolls come in, and start down-voting, and clogging up the site in general. Tom Fulp is too busy to deal with all of 'em, so he holds a Mass Tournament to find the best fighter to help bring down the horde.

Now, being that this is the realm of New Grounds, there are some who join the down-voters, as they offer more pay/promise fortunes untold/etc. These new-found alliances cause even more problems for the regular users, and an all out war occurs.

Blood will be shed, lines will be crossed, and no one shall be spared when the users rise-up in......

NEW GROUNDS REBELLION.

I just made up that story on the fly, but the general idea of a NG fighter in that format I really want to see come to light.

So folks, this is a call to arms. We need any and all talent. Fellow Writers, Voice Actors, Programmers, Animators, Composers, everybody. If you have even the slightest interest, come join the team. One thing though, we shall work on this until it is a fully realized, polished game.

It will most certainly take lots of effort. But hey, fortune favors the bold!