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What are your guys' opinion on Dancing Blade, Marth/Lucina's Side Special, mainly from a mechanical standpoint

I changed my opinions a bit on wavedashing in platfighters; my original issue was that it felt slapped on at times with no reason for its inclusion, just a crutch to attract the melee fanbase. Wavedashes should be included if they bring something to the table that other movement options don't, such as a need for micromovement. In my game, I am actually testing out how a grounded airdash would feel, and it has a nice wavedash feel, so I am deciding to flesh out that part of the mechanic to make it more good to use. But it's unique since wavedashing, like air dodging, running, and air dashing, costs stamina, meaning if you use too much you get penalized, so its a balancing factor. I think with this nuance, the concept of wavedashing would be distinct from the likes of Melee or Rivals of Aether. What I am trying to say is that add wavedashing if it feels natural with your game's physics.

As annoying as the stun mechanic is in Street Fighter, I like the concept of attacks applying a certain amount of meter onto the opponent, and if it fills all the way, the opponent gets a penalty. In my game, Sigma Busters, I may implement a similar meter, but instead of stunning, filling up the meter forces you to lose a star, which is the resource needed to perform enhanced Special Moves and Hypermax Attacks/Supers. The idea is that the heavier the fighter, the more stun they can sustain, balancing how they are often combo food due to their higher weight. The idea is that you can't just hoard stars, as there is a tangible risk to keeping them, as if you take too much stun, you can lose one of your precious stars. How does that sound?

Honestly, I kinda like Zelda's Lightning Kicks and wish for them to not be removed if she gets a major moveset rework. I always feel Zelda having mixing magic with a monk-like fighting stance fits her general character if we're discussing Zelda as a whole. If we had multiple playable Zeldas at once I would encourage more specific references, but if we only have the one Zelda I would like to keep her greatest hits.

From a vacuum, how would you say Terry's Super Special moves are balanced in Smash, mainly as moves you can't immediately dole out outside of special conditions, if they weren't tied to a pure comeback mechanic and function around a Final Smash Meter esc mechanic or varying lengths, how would you feel if every character would have a move like this?

I may join the Bowser train, he is possibly going to be my new main in Ultimate.

Honestly, this may be just me, but Ganondorf should of had a custom move in Smash 4 where he used his Gerudo Dragon instead of Flame Choke, say what you will about Falcondorf, but the move exists, it's a pretty solid burst movement option on Dorf, and I imagine it wouldn't be difficult to reimplement, plus it harkens back to Melee, which would be a cool reference in my opinion. In fact Custom Moves could have been used to keep some cut Smash moves, Olimar can have either with Winged Pikmin or his Pikmin Chain from Brawl, Captain Falcon could of used his Smash 64 Falcon Punch, Bowser could have kept the Koopa Claw, and so on and so forth. If anything this makes me want to make a creation thread where we remake custom moves for every character in Smash, how would that sound?

Do you think all the claims of Smash Ultimate "dying" is taken way out of proportions. Games become less popular overtime yes, but I feel Smash Ultimate fills it's own niche in the franchise that allows it to keep a unique competitve community.

Hot take, Green Missile is one of the worst designed special moves in the game. All parts of the move are flawed. The misfire mechanic both makes the move capable of random cheese while overshadowing the charging mechanic, but the uncharged version is too laggy to be practical.

If I were to rework the move, I would make it a bit like Giant Punch, in that you can keep the misfire for later should you fully charge the move. However I would add on top of that and allow you to charge the Green Missile a second time, making a super misfire that is extremely powerful, but the charge is more volatile to hold, meaning if you get hit while charged you lose the whole Green Missile, setting you back at square one.

Ngl I might add this move to Sigma Busters, I feel it's too good a concept to not use.

Tell me the logic of calling Captain Falcon's Up Special Falcon Dive and his Side Special Raptor Boost. Raptor Boost sounds more like an Up Special than Falcon Dive IMO, especially in context with how Falcon Dive works in Smash aestetically.

Trying to make a straightforward attack priority system for Sigma Busters. In case your wondering, it just determines what happens when two hitboxes collide at once.

My current idea is that hitboxes go from 0 to 10, jabs are priority 1 to 3 depending on the character, and slower jabs often have priority over faster ones. Characters with higher priority attacks always phase through the attacks of those with lower priority, meaning they don't get damaged. If the priority is equal, then the character with the higher percent has priority, as a bit of a minor comeback mechanic, though since it is a niche interaction it won't change anything major. When two aerial hitboxes collide, both characters will be damaged and sent back a set knockback, with the damage they take is an average of the two attacks. Finally, projectiles have their own priority system, where higher-priority projectiles will go through lower-priority ones, while certain physical attacks have properties that determine whether they remove or reflect projectiles. To be honest, I don't know if this is too complicated, especially since priority will only be determined if the hitboxes collide on the same frame, but it could have some unique applications. Anyways to improve this system in your eyes?

I want to tell you that right now, as of this post, its 11:11 PM on November 11th.

An aspect of DLC I don't see people talk about is the DLC for stuff you can get in game legitimately but after you complete a difficult challenge, stuff like Torchwood and RoboGoat for Garden Warfare 2, Wortox in Don't Starve Together, and the Heroes in Bloons BT6, you can get them legitimately for free but it's time commitment, but you can also pay for them to bypass the challenge. How does people like this DLC structure, i feel it's harmless and gives people options since you can get the stuff for free legitimately, you just need to go through some hoops. But I want to know what you guys think of this niche practice?

In a general projectile rating, how would you rate Dr. Mario's pill, like how good is it in a vacuum and why is it good/bad, I want to dive into a move like this for one of my characters in my platfighter

To me the most important part of a multi-player game isn't the sheer amount of players playing it at a time, but rather the amount of players playing after the initial drop off. It's one thing to have a massive player count, but keeping a consistant level of players, even when it's not at it's peak, means their is a consistant audience for the game

Does a character with a really really REALLY good horizontal recovery make up for a potentially poor vertical recovery. Are there examples of competively viable Smash characters with such a trait, is it a good healthy way to balance characters?

I programmed autocancelling into my game Sigma Busters, not that difficult actually, just need to set up a few timers and such, but still I programmed one of the magic Smash words.

Honestly, Smash Stick would be seen as a more adopted option if you could disable Smash Attacks with tilt inputs; that way you can have reliable tilt attacks and easier-to-access smash attacks on one button layout, and not be super species with your tilt inputs so you can get to use the actual tilt attacks. Would you say that if Smash Stick allowed you to disable Smash Attacks through the tilt buttons, would it be used more?

Rivals of Aether 1 players, how do you feel about the mechanic of walking through fighters rather than pushing them like the Smash Bros. Do you think that this changes any interaction? I am wondering since I am considering how collision works when two players walk into each other, and I feel Rivals collision system would be better to implement for my game.

My game Sigma Busters is probably the only game where something like Big Battlefield is a competitvly legal stage. I say this since characters have a lot of movement options, so stages are naturally bigger to compensate. I don't know the general reception of such a change in feel, but I feel it would add a nice new style of platform fighter, which has been my goal since the beginning.

In an ideal world, how would you want directional influence to work in a platform fighter to make it balanced for both parties? I ask this since I heard there are some complaints of how Smash's directional influence is jank, and I want to know if that's true.

What colors go well with a banana yellow coat?

Is there a free, no subscription website where I can sharpen my png images to make them less blurry

Homelander in OU, clapped by Omni-Man
Homelander in UU - clapped by Metro Man
Homelander in RU - clapped by Spongebob
Homelander in NU - clapped by Sporticus
Okay, Homelander dropped to PU, a tier where the power level is so low that Waspinator is a meta threat. From an objectionable standpoint, who will win, Waspinator of Homelander?

I always wonder, with Meta Knight in Brawl always being called for bans, I never see and discussion on what would happen if he was banned, how would the meta shift now that matchups he otherwise oppress are gone, like would any mid-tier be higher tiered now, I am curious

I'm debating if I should change the grab mechanic in my game Sigma Busters. More specifically I'm more open to each character having a different style of grab to reflect their alien physique. Aremi, my main character, being the basic shoto/Mario-esc character would have the standard 4-directional grab. LAMBDA, a character relying on brute strength would only have a back and forward throw, but they can charge their throw to make it both more powerful and launch farther. Weevle, being a grappler rushdown hybrid, would instead have an 8-direction grab. This is just testing the waters, but I want to know if it's a good idea?

Bruh wouldn't it of been super funny if there was a Wario and Waluigi DLC in Mario + Rabbids and the weapons they would wield would be Wario with a machine gun and Waluigi a bat, and they are basically accidental gangsters as they are on the run from the bad guys for stealing a precious artifact. I just think the image of Wario with a machine gun is the funniest thing that could feasibly happen in the Mario franchise, because what other weapon would he wield, and no brass knuckles wouldn't count because that would be Daisy's thing.

Sigma Busters development story.
Looked at various fighters from various franchises, specifically of the heavyweight archetype, as references for my own game. I've been developing a concept for a female heavyweight fighter since I like my roster to have unique "alien" concepts and that one is something I haven't seen other plat-fighters accomplish. Looking at the Smash Bros roster, I notice a running theme with heavies is that they are related to royalty in some way, Bowser, Ganondorf, Krool, and Dedede, taking the concept of large and in charge and running with it. So I decided that for my female heavyweight fighter, I will also make her a royalty-themed character, mixing the reality of Peach and Daisy with the frame and power of Krool or Dedede. There were some odd design challenges to make a working concept, I felt an insect theme would work best, but I originally didn't want to do a classic queen bee, but rather a wasp or mole cricket of all things. I felt this made her concept too complicated, so after some discussion with Kirbeh I decided that the bee concept is a time-honored classic, bees are cool for moveset potential anyway so even if the direction is cliched, I can do something cool with it. Right now I have a unique semi-zoner heavy of sorts, who uses honey to slow down opponents to help patch the main weakness of heavies, approaching tools while mixing in some Krool and Dedede esc attacks to complete the picture. Her name is Vespa by the way.

The message is to think fighters through, take a core concept and build upon it to make something unique. How does the concept I show to you guys shape up?

Is there a character from a fighting game, not just from Smash Bros, that has a well functioning, well-balanced, and excellent kit, but the top tiers are so broken in their jankiness from their broken strats that it devalues the balanced characters, making them bottom tier trash despite their good kit. Some notable examples and why the way they are maybe?

Honestly I'll say it upfront, AI isn't the issue, it's the grifters who abuse it that are the issues. AI is best used in my eyes as an aide, not replacing the work but rather optimize what you already have. Stuff like suggesting to put a comma in one place, making math equations out of certain scenarios, stuff like that is fine to use AI in my opinion, the issue is grifters abusing it at the expense of workers, it should just be an assistant, not a replacement

I wonder if instead of menus, for my platform fighter, all gameplay selections are done via a hub world. A major plot point of my game revolves around a singular ship overlooking the galaxy, so I am picturing this massive interconnected hub that acts as a lobby for all the modes of the game. Maybe something like Rayman Legends or Pizza Tower, a playground where you can test all the character's moves in a safe environment while you travel through and pick your mode of choice. There could even be changes to the hub to reflect special events like holidays. How does that sound to you guys, would it sound fun?

Do people like Smash Run just becuase of all the references in battling iconic enemies in gaming, or is it becuase of the gameplay and the untapped potential that gameplay could bring. I'm thinking this question when designing the basics of my take on Smash Run for Sigma Busters, where its an endless score attack mode, but the twist is you have to choose when to end on your own terms, since if you die your score will be set to 0. The logic is that it separates the good and great players, a good player can get far, but a great player can decide when to stop and cash the full bounty.

I am fascinated by just how WRONG this theme song is for Transformers Generation 2. The first line seems to imply some so bad its good rap, before it just devolves into non sequiturs and random bits of exposition. Fascinating, isn't it?

Didn't know I could do this, but you can program godot so that when you press certain buttons, it takes you to a website outside the program. So I added a button on the main menu that takes the player to my Discord server for the game, cool huh?

I got this scene in my head for some reason, and I thought it was funny, do you think that's a symptom of brainrot

I wasn't kidding when I said more than 2000 employees had their information leaked, though it was mainly contractors who worked for GameFreak, luckily it seems GameFreak is trying to help them.

With how big the Pokemon leaks are, I think it should come to you guys attention that more than 2500 GameFreak employees got their personal data leaked, I feel that is no laughing matter and is one of the few times I support Nintendo seeking out legal action

I wonder if my struggles with game design is due to some combination of laziness, general confusion, or some sort of internal inadequacy that I can't identify. I admit I am more of a writer than game designer, but I feel like I have the capabilities to make a good game, I just have been having these lingering struggles that I can't just get past. I don't want to disappoint people or lead on the people who have been helping me into nothingness. I don't want to be a pariah or something like that. I just want to prove to you guys that I can make something special, but I always have anxiety if the work I am doing is not good enough, or is not going by quickly. Thoughts like that eat at my mind, and I don't want to be seen as a hated figure on the internet for lying to you guys. My game isn't cancelled or anything, I have just been having lasting issues and this is something I have to fix myself.

GameFreak's staff got their group chats leaked huh?