DAY 22
Week 3 Reflection
Today is actually pretty late. I uh, I have no excuse, I just wasn't feeling very motivated to post this earlier. But I am a lot more energized currently, and since this is the transition into Week 4, I don't want to delay this any longer. Let's get this bread!
Alright, so, first things first: Strawpoll results.
Both of my costumes for
Optimus Prime and
Megatron will be used. This should complete the costume line-up from Week 3, and I'll be adding them into the front page post soon.
As for Baroness, the results of the poll were... a tie!
I feel as if I should mention I accidentally voted yes instead of no without looking (like an idiot) and couldn't change the vote. And now we are here. A little awkward.
I could flip a coin, but...
there are going to be more chances for Baroness in the future, and including her too early into the roster could create a lot of discouragement between some users who want to see other roster additions. So, as of now, my verdict is that Baroness will
not join the roster at this time. I hope this is the best outcome for those currently involved.
That should be about it. Now, onward to the new votes, because boy are they interesting.
NEW VOTES
Alright everyone. Big vote up ahead, because we are now at the Assist phase of content in this game!
So, for our Assist nominations:
Very large selection so far, and I'm liking most of the ideas here.
I don't plan on having assist jobs as frequently I will for items and stages, and we only have about 20-25 slots for assists exclusive characters, so this will
not be a ranked vote, but a
Yes/No vote similar to the Items.
And, this is going to be the most important thing to remember: This job is for
assist-exclusive characters, as in,
not playable. Any characters that win this vote will not be eligible for the
base game playable roster (Anything after that can be discussed). Let this influence your vote however you see fit. For me:
Pinkie Pie: N
Trailcutter: Y
Grimlock: N
Doggie: Y
Sorry! Pawn: Y
Spike: Y
Stretch: Y
Ratchet: Y
And, of course, the WotC Stage round is officially closed!
For our stage selection, our nominations are:
Just to increase the nominations list, I brought back Qwerty's nomination of the Tomb of Horrors from before. This gives us a perfectly even number of 6, and it's perfect because only half of them will be making it onto the stage list!
This will be ranked voting, as usual, so: Vote your top 3, and you can't put your own in first!
- Menzoberranzon
- Tomb of Horrors
- Magic Lands
I will be saving the Story Mode discussion for it's job in Week 4, so for those wondering about that, it's still going to happen, just a little later as I want to get the more important content in first.
NEW JOBS
We are back to the usual open discussions. I'm gonna be honest but I stumbled a little as Week 3 got into it's second half, with too many jobs being left open and such, though I think they ended for the better anyway. But I always like to keep this as an open discussion, so here we go.
Job: Write a CHARACTER REVEAL TRAILER
Returning back to the reveal trailers, I think it's best to continue on with a simple character reveal. To recap, the first reveal trailer revealed:
- Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Snake Eyes, Tommy Oliver, Rita Repulsa, Mr. Monopoly, Mr. Potato Head and Drizzt Do'Urden as the first 10 fighters.
- The Toybox, Monopoly Board, Cybertron, Command Center, Statue of Liberty, Candyland and Battleship as stages
- The Hasbro Boy as the game's mascot
- A quick glimpse of the movesets
- A quick glimpse of super moves
For this reveal trailer, you can pick up to
1 to 2 new characters and reveal them however you please; the rest of the content is entirely up to you!
Open Discussion: How do you feel about this third week?
Were the jobs I put out up to your particular taste? Do you think the activity and submissions in this thread are going at a steady pace? How do you feel about what's been done so far overall, in terms of how I'm running the thread and if you would like it to change? This is fairly straightforward; Any thoughts you have at all, you can put them out now.
Open Discussion: How are the additions to the roster?
A bit of a slowdown on the new characters front, but we are officially
halfway through the roster, so this was a little necessary in my opinion. But, we did get some major additions down:
3 new characters were added in the form of
Play-Doh, Lord Licorice, and
Scarlett. How do you feel about these 3 and the character rounds I held this week overall?
That's about it for this week. Again, sorry for the lateness but I didn't want to rush this write-up. I'll definitely try to put in the effort to make sure Week 4 is up to par with Weeks 1 and 2.
Tomorrow's job is going to require a little bit more research ahead of time, so I'm going to let you all know now:
Obscure Characters is happening tomorrow, at 9-10 AM, so get started early while you still can!