I gotta get busy!

Get yourself a copy of RPGmaker and give us a KAWAAIIIIIIIIIII~! ^_^;; as FUCK Giant Bomb JRPG with superdeformed chibi Bombers and Dave Lang is the end boss. Call it Jayantu Bombu: Wasabi Sengoku Dave Rangu.

Get on it, I don't have all day.

Oh no...what have I done:

Any format you prefer the art in? .png, .jpg?

I prefer .png if there are any transparencies. Currently changed the flame up icon to the tested flame logo and the kick item into Kick from DiveKick.

Oh man, this looks super rad. Can't wait to try it out!

This could be the Tetris Battle Gaiden of Bomberman clones (TM)

Here's a bomb up icon:

@finaldasa said:

Here's a bomb up icon:

I tried putting it in but it's not the right size for item pickups and it also doesn't appear to have transparencies =P How about trying a cutout of the actual bomb icon on the logo up top left and resizing that sucker?

@fobwashed: It's almost as if I don't know what I'm doing >.> I'll see what I can do.

Unbalanced abilities sounds like Tetris Battle Gaiden, so that should probably be encouraged.

Will this thing have dinosaurs, like Saturn Bomberman?

@zombiepie said:

Oh no...what have I done:

You have opened a portal into the Lang Zone.

@fobwashed: Extending your world record for front page promos it seems.

@bribo said:

Will this thing have dinosaurs, like Saturn Bomberman?

Great! I'll prob stick with the flame I've already got for now tho.

Where'd you grab that skate from?

Here's a super low quality update on progress.

Added animation to characters.

Added variable animation speed that depends on the speed the character is being moved so that things look right when moving faster/slower.

Changed the way bombs are generated in the game so that there is a pool of bombs pulled from rather than a new one created every time one is planted.

Changed the way individual tiles work so that they can detect themselves what is on them (item, bomb, character). This will allow me to allow the flames that exist after the bomb has already gone off to damage characters/bombs etc.

Gonna prob work on kicking and maybe tossing bombs next. Will also need to find some proper pictures of people to plaster onto character bodies.

This is awesome!

If someone wanted to give you a character would you want the head and body separate or just as one thing? Also for sound bytes just an mp3? Or the video it was from

Ideally I'd want the sound bytes as a pre-ripped MP3 or WAV.

As for the characters, I'm open to whatever. For just the head, I'd need a right facing profile, facing down and facing away. This thing is gonna be janky so as long as they're somewhat similar in lighting and reasonably similar in size, I think it'll be fine. Just toss me whatever and I'll use what I can and comment on why I can't use other sections.

Having seen your abilities I'd love to see this as an actual product. I'll pay upwards of $10. I assume the "Bomberman" concept is vague enough that you wouldn't get into trouble?

Please don't let this die on the vine.

I'll at least get this thing playable if not fully featured and cast. Even thought the bomberman concept is something that could prolly be copied without too many problems, I doubt what I'm making would fly considering I'm going to be putting real people into it and whatever other licensed stuff people find for me to throw in. Thanks tho =]

Here's some bomb sliding action.

This is the level of stupidity I'm shooting for. I'll prob redraw the bomberman default body at some point but you get the jist.

Beer should be a pickup in the game. Great work duder! Really looking forward to seeing where this goes.

What effect should picking up beer have?

@fobwashed: Since Lang is the star, my choice would be the bomb power pickup.

After seeing Dave on the GDC show, figured it's the type of joke that would fit in with this.

@pimblycharles: @fobwashed: What about a joke pickup? Something rare that when you walk over it it plays Lang's 'big announcement' quote from GDC or something?

Lang isn't really the star, he's just the first character I put an image into =P

Be afraid of the LangZone, last victims were GB and this community

Doh, just had time to read the entire post. It's a bad habit of mine to jump straight to media when time is limited.

Really like the idea of having all of these well known GB members and friends as playable characters, and having them all have unique aspects in the game.

Alright, made some changes so that I can just slap on pictures of heads. This ought to make it super easy to fill out the roster using just a front, profile and back of head pic.

Also, I can have more than one per side which the game will randomly pluck from =P

@fobwashed said:

@bribo said:

Will this thing have dinosaurs, like Saturn Bomberman?

Great! I'll prob stick with the flame I've already got for now tho.

Where'd you grab that skate from?

That's a Jet Set Radio skate, although now I'm thinking that a bottle of Buckfast might be more apt.

Added sound, scoring, life and some more roster filling.

What a fun idea! Here are some graphics for how I was thinking of the item pick-ups could look:

Gallery

Sorry about the quality, these were kind of a rush job. Anyway, I came up with the idea of having the icon float in place, making it a bit more enticing to grab (even the subtlest of movements is better than no movement at all, I say). Then I thought about times I play Bomberman with others and always someone (including myself) having to ask what a pick-up does. Not wanting to get rid of the symbol representation, I figured giving each item a back design saying clearly what the pick-up gives you could be useful, to which I made the icon spin to show you just that. I then tried to combine the two because why not.

I also came up with a few other ideas that I didn't have time to mock-up such as tiny sparkles coming off of the icon, the icon jumping up and down, giving the face of the icon a sheen, and a few other really minor ones. If you think any of this is cool, Fobwashed, let me know and I could try to crank out the other power-ups in the style(s) you prefer.

In terms of other ideas, I think it would be cool if the screen would jolt and shake a bit every time a bomb explodes and even more so when a chain reaction happens. I believe general motion and movement to just about anything is able to add a lot (if my icons didn't tell you that already). The motion may become a bit distracting (and not possible maybe? I don't really know anything about coding), but if this game is going to be over-the-top, this feels like the right touch to give it that even more over-the-topness.

I also intend to try my hand at ripping some sound clips of the duders as well as make a body for them. Hopefully I can get back to you with something soon.

In any case, awesome work so far, Fobwashed! Can't wait for the finished product.

@rjpelonia said:

What a fun idea! Here are some graphics for how I was thinking of the item pick-ups could look:

Gallery

Sorry about the quality, these were kind of a rush job. Anyway, I came up with the idea of having the icon float in place, making it a bit more enticing to grab (even the subtlest of movements is better than no movement at all, I say). Then I thought about times I play Bomberman with others and always someone (including myself) having to ask what a pick-up does. Not wanting to get rid of the symbol representation, I figured giving each item a back design saying clearly what the pick-up gives you could be useful, to which I made the icon spin to show you just that. I then tried to combine the two because why not.

I also came up with a few other ideas that I didn't have time to mock-up such as tiny sparkles coming off of the icon, the icon jumping up and down, giving the face of the icon a sheen, and a few other really minor ones. If you think any of this is cool, Fobwashed, let me know and I could try to crank out the other power-ups in the style(s) you prefer.

In terms of other ideas, I think it would be cool if the screen would jolt and shake a bit every time a bomb explodes and even more so when a chain reaction happens. I believe general motion and movement to just about anything is able to add a lot (if my icons didn't tell you that already). The motion may become a bit distracting (and not possible maybe? I don't really know anything about coding), but if this game is going to be over-the-top, this feels like the right touch to give it that even more over-the-topness.

I also intend to try my hand at ripping some sound clips of the duders as well as make a body for them. Hopefully I can get back to you with something soon.

In any case, awesome work so far, Fobwashed! Can't wait for the finished product.

The icon stuff sounds fairly reasonable. The best way to streamline the idea of animation and sheen as well as unifying them with a consistant back design would be to have an image of a blank back. I could then in-game, draw the back, then draw the item design on top of the back then finally draw the animated transparent sheen on the front of both. Go ahead and shoot me a back design if you wanna take a better crack at it.

What I need right now

are sound bytes. Sounds of anyone and everyone saying shit they might say when getting damaged or taunting or whatever.

I've added super bars that charge up 2 levels.

Wait.. why is Max Temkin up there?

Not too sure -_-;; Needed a quick 4. You're super arty, if you've got some time, think you could whip up a bg or something? =D

@bribo Any chance I could get those item icons without the shadows? I put in some item float and having a shadow exist on the icon itself makes it look like it's moving up and down in the level instead of up and down in the air.

BomberDuder X Rival Bombs

Here you go:

@bribo said:

Here you go:

Thanks a bunch =]

@fobwashed: I could try, what size would the BG be and should I acknowledge the black squares?

Also I think it's obvious that John Drake should leave fizzing Diet Coke's

Currently I'm working at 1050x900 resolution. This is pretty much what I'll be sticking with I think.

The black squares and the grey squares are just placeholders. Grey being breakable tiles and black being unbreakable. The tiles themselves are 64x64. If you want to take a shot at making some tiles, that'd be hottness too. I can have as many different types of tiles as people are willing to make. I think ideally I'd like a texture for the entire floor area with the breakable and unbreakable tiles placed on top of it. Pretty much I can work around whatever you give me tho I'm sure. The blue area is currently just straight up blank. If you wanna take a crack at that area that'd be cool as well. On this play screen, I think all I've really got to add information wise are some pips for how many rounds have been won per player. If you've got any thoughts on any other part, shoot em over =]

Here's a look at an implemented "power"

Klepek's lvl 1 is an invisible bomb and his lvl 2 is an AOE fear.

Super hard to test anything really w/only the one player (me).

@fobwashed: Ahoy, Do you need menu art/assets? If you need to see my stuff, I did the Scoops & the Wolf cover art and you can find more junk (shameless plug) here.

You're currently working at 1050x900 resolution, yes?

Okay, I definitely need to contribute to this madness.

I'd love if this turned into some Frog Fractions / #IDARB nonsense along the way.

The specific tile sizes for stuff are listed in the OP, the window size of the game itself I'm currently using is a strange 1050x900. I'll take whatever I can get and put in anything that makes sense! Doesn't mean what you get me has to make sense, just like, if it can work in the game =P

The crazier the better =] Though it's local multiplayer only....

Character select screen is pretty much done. It just needs sounds =]

Combined the select to gameplay. Added some temp music.

Still need sounds duders! Send me your clips!

I'm surprised it took this long for someone to finally make a Giantbomb themed Bomberman clone. Making it for PAX is ingenious. Bomberman is nothing without real local people to play it with. I tried my hand at making one a long time ago, but nothing came of it. :( Best of luck with it!

No time like the present to bring it back. GB Bomberman clone triple threat!

Planning on lugging around my laptop to play all those local multiplayer games that I can't play at home =P

Mr Will Smith was kind enough to show me the back of his head on his daily speluky stream =]

Tada~

So that's like, 2 down, 8 to go?

I'm catching up, @fobwashed. Just put out a test build with bomb kicking and some sound/music. The gameplay gap narrows!

Hey mr. Wash !
I have been working on some characters and ideas of my own lately, and just saw this post. You think you can use something like this ?
I only have what you see in the image as of now, but i guess i could try to make additions if you want any art.