To the thread,
We will be doing the alternate costumes within the Direct but we will be greatly redoing the entire process. In fact, we will be going back and looking at the alternate costumes that we previously submitted and holding a discussion regarding them to see if they actually make sense to keep or to discard for another pair. We hope to make the process streamlined and effective. I previously considered removing all four alt costumes per character but I decided to uphold my promise to include four new ones per character. That being said, we will be going back to the 64 and Melee characters to see if the recolors we submitted actually hold water or not. This is especially true for cases such as Yoshi's alt of Yoshi (especially if we don't include Geno) and other similar factors.
From Brawl outwards, we will be doing it here in the thread save for, perhaps, using things like GoogleForms or Strawpoll for easier polling. In addition, we intend to include the newcomers. I made alt costumes for Isaac, Bandana Dee, Waluigi, and Crash but none for the other characters which I believe are on the wikia or, if not, I can add them up. For that reason, we will also be holding submission and voting periods for alternate costumes for our newcomers.
Finally, and this probably the most controversial of the whole thing, we are regulating the alternate costumes to downloadable content. The general idea is that there will alts available for players to download which adds the alternate costumes. Generally speaking, recolor swaps will be far cheaper than full costumes. Each one can be purchased separately or purchased within a bundle. The bundle has yet to decided but something like "Melee Characters", "Metroid characters" or "villains". They will obviously be themed. With that being said, there is a chance that not all of the character's alt costumes can be purchased at one time but that can be up for discussion. The reason I decided on this is, because, I doubt we will be able to roll these out by the time this project launches which probably will be around August or September. Our in-game date is November 27th if I recall. In order to give us more time to work on launch content, I decided to regulate these to DLC bundles. We will be working on these sporadically throughout the summer and probably do 2-4 characters at a time to maximize time and efficiency.
We are open to suggestions, comments, and any discussion regarding the process of alt costumes. You can expect the first alternate costume discussion to happen.....
Right about now!
Since we just revealed
DJ Octavio, I think now is an excellent time to open up discussions about alternate costumes for the Boss!
We will be discussing alternate costumes before moving to Submissions in about 5 hours. We want to encourage people to continue discussion of the alternate costumes for DJ Octavio during the submission period because this helps with quality control as, in the past, we have had some zany ideas for alt costumes for characters. We want to ensure that these alts make sense rather than what seems fun, silly, or strange.
- Following this, we will enter into a voting phase if we get 13 or more submissions.
- If we only get 12, we will tentatively accept them and will go under review with the Leadership team. I don't foresee this being an issue unless, like, if Octorok managed to make it past the quality control as a DJ Octavio alt and managed to secure enough votes/get through by default. I can see the Leadership Team vetoing it then.
- If we get below 12, then the Leadership Team will fill in the rest.
We will also decide which alt costumes will be regulated to the DLC updates as well during this time.
So let's work on our first alternate costume discussion for
DJ Octavio! When discussing, please highlight possible alternate costumes that would work and what source they are drawn from. What wouldn't work as a costume? If you have a question regarding something you plan to submit, now is the time! Would references to Splatoon baddies be better or, perhaps, colors that reference living octopi or, perhaps, colors that are attributed to music.
For those wondering what the requirements for submissions...
DO NOT SUBMIT YET! THIS IS INCLUDED TO HELP PREPARE! GET A SUBMISSION READY IN 5 HOURS
1)
Image (to help better visualize. A recolor made by a participant would be even better)
2)
Color (Green, Red, Yellow)
3)
Class (Color Swap or Alternate Costume aka Skin)
4)
Source (What is the source of the recolor or costume?)
5)
Reason (Try to justify why this would be a skin to add. This would be very helpful for a submission that is potentially problematic.)
