Monday, February 11, 2013



What do you remember of the year 2000? I remember watching Scary Movie and regretting it,  Shouting to Papa Roach on the radiom, and joining an online forume called Scruffy Dragon. Despite what the name might suggest, it was a forum dedicated to M.U.G.E.N. projects. Using a borderline stolen fighting game engine, this  rag tag group of fans where working on a great endeavor: Marvel vs DC.  By coopting the Capcom Sprites for Marvel characters, half of the animation job seems to have been done for them. But to get the DC, other, or the same, sprites had to be altered, in a process called "Frankenspriting." The project continued, with no end in sight.  Years passed. 2 years. 5 years. 10 years. The project moved steadilly, and with ever ambitious choices for it, and terms like "phases" thrown in for good measure. I'd have waited forever for  such a game, and seems I might as well wait forever. I'd read about it, download the stages, but I can't say I'd played Marvel vs DC.

Last year I went on la little  bit about Friendship Is Fighting, the  fan game that carries on into the bizarre phenomenom that  has enraptured thousands of grown ass men to   a show for girls about ponies. Including me, I guess.  Since then  a small beta test has leaked. This also would sometimes happen at Scruffydragons, and the drama would quickly escalate into long threads filled with accusations.But I can say I played FiF, if only against a stationary player 2.

So, here's this: I want to tip my hat to Mane 6, for not taking 10 years to make a fangame. It is to your credit that this game, in the time it's taken, is already ridiculously good. The presentation is great and consitent, the graphics are beautiful and the animations are fluid, and I suspect your levels of dedication are key to this. I don't know how you that last part, though I suspect tracing of actual animations. If a group of dedicated people can get together to create soimething like this, who knows what else could be done?

This is what I had written before I found out Hasbro sent cease and desist orders to Mane 6. I guess, in a way, we all knew this was one of the possibilities. I would recomend continued, secret work on it, followed by a leak. 

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

A small Fighting Female February tribute


As part of my yearly  ritual celebrating the field of fighting game females, here's a homage to the ladies of Konami's fighitng games. The fighting games might have been mostlyy forgetable but...sometimes the women in them wern't! This group is far from definitive, and some series are missing. However, you I crawled out an obscure game boy character into probably her first ever fan art, so forget you! From top left to right!

Nad Jeed from BattleTryst

Anne from Monster Maulers

Marsa from Rakuga kids

 Miyabi from Outburst

Maria from Castlevania Judgement

Fan from Yie Ar Kung Fu

Gaia  from Galactic Warriors

??? from ???( drew and researched this over a year, and I can't remember what  Ms Gi and a red headband is called.)

Chaos/Titi from Martial Champion

Serina from Deadly Arts

Aska from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters

Layla from Dragoon Might