Forum Fighters: Rewritten (Discontinued)

[Watrmeln]

And the fights could be safeguards set up by uiAdapt
Also can someone sketch a ui for swiftstyle

[BSA_15]

@Watrmeln

sketch a ui for swiftstyle

Yeah, I can
Edit: Swiftystyle UI

[KringlePrinkles]

We want the AI to be acting out because of a bug, not because its sentience wants it to be amused itself. The “fighting alternate version of our OCs” idea is interesting, however.

So far our ideas are:

an AI acting out because of a bug in the code

@KringlePrinkles

what if it’s a bug in the uiAdapt, causing it to break upon being released!

a JS library with a malware (maybe because of old age or it being downloaded from an unsafe and unofficial source... or it being "secretly a virus in disguise", to quote BSA_15)

@BSA_15

what if a js package in swiftstyle secretly was a virus in diguise?

a hacker stealing the software

@BSA_15

What if the program gets hacked or something, would that make sense?

An intelligent AI seeking to destroy the software

@butt

Maybe I should just handle some art stuff and I’ll let someone else do the story. Also if anyone’s intrested here’s the second draft if you wanna base it off this

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NNton_BNfjyve6gA9Fe6KjKRG-bm4g64Vl-bAnqPQtc/edit?usp=drivesdk

mlgcoolguys_1's draft (this is also interesting)

@mlgcoolguys_1

You press the play button and you and you are meet with a white screen that slowly fades and reveals the forum fighters cast members all just hanging out , drawing, coding and such.

Baron notices you (looks at the screen) and welcomes you while also introducing you to the rest of the cast that also get about to saying hi
Baron then asks you what why you wanted to be here but… You don’t know why. Baron is confused by this but quickly moves on to show you the propose of the forums, to work together, help each other and such. But while this is all happening Pumpkinhead receives a red coloured alert and asks tryo and H.A to follow him to address the problem.
Baron then moves you to to a stage disigned to look like a new project and (important part coming)quickly draws an asset that looks like a circle with legs and arms, he then askes you what’s your username and now you are controling the circle, baron then teaches you how move and atk and jump, the normal stuff. But suddenly he asks you to stop.

He notices something in the bottom right of the screen… The asset library… It’s looking alittle glitchy… Purple-ish and even… Corrupt.
He takes his attention off of you as slowly walks towards the library and…

STOP!!!
Baron quickly turns around and sees pumpkinhead, tryo and H.A running towards you

If we’re going with mlgcoolguys_1’s idea we might have to write our own parts

@mlgcoolguys_1

(sorry to interrupt myself but i forgot I have to address a number of things)

1. FFw will NOT be a multi-player game due to wick limitations and personal experience of us
2. Instead I propose that it becomes a single-player, adventure fighting game.
3. While we WONT be working on art for a time being when the engine is released, We CAN keep making music of all sorts
4. I’ll keep telling the story but skip out alot of parts because owners of OCs will be writing about themselves needing help from the player
5. @gamer_boi you can assist me in writing occasionally but I think I can handle, on the other hand you could help with the coding once the main engine is completed

We could still use the fictional SwiftStyle Animator mcguffin, as in switch it out with Wick Editor.

[Watrmeln]

What if we combine tryobytes character idea with what we have now so instead of the forum, it’s the actual characters

[gamer_boi]

ooooh our ocs could jump out of our replys and reek havick on the forums destroying replys and messing with what people say. and we have to make a game to trap them and defeat them

[KringlePrinkles]

I’m going to save the previous writing in a different google doc just in case, so I’m going to start writing from where mlgcoolguys_1 left off!

@gamer_boi

ooooh our ocs could jump out of our replys and reek havick on the forums destroying replys and messing with what people say. and we have to make a game to trap them and defeat them

But the plot is the software our OCs are using getting corrupt? I don’t think we’d want out OCs to do that though. Plus I could integrate a “OCs traversing the code and fighting malware” idea

[Watrmeln]

Uh we should not get malware and hackers into this storyline. Keep that to the other one.
How about our ocs have too much fun with the forums so we put them in a fighting game for them to spend their energy
Top 5 get a day on the beach

[KringlePrinkles]

We’re about to make a 2D sidescrolling beat-em-up platformer… and introduce a sudden problem that we want our OCs to solve… because that makes it interesting…

…and you want us to make our OCs… play roughhousing… on a beach?

[Watrmeln]

I feel like this
Sentient Animating software - more story driven
Sentient characters - more fighting/gameplay driven

[MrDashell]

I have an idea you (the player) have to save our OCS cause they got Possessed! and are corrupt each one you save you unlock and can play as them to beat the story mode

[Watrmeln]

Sure, that’s sort of a best-of-both-worlds thing
Imma go to bed now cya tmrw

[KringlePrinkles]

Can’t we have both? I want to take advantage of both the story and the game-engine that Baron, pumpkinhead, and the other programmers are making…

I don’t think we necessarily need a Sentient animation software, but if we can integrate that with our OCs and TyroByte’s story (I think I now understood why mlgcoolguys_1 wants to change his name), we could make it more interesting and add more conflict. Plus all the other ideas won’t go to waste!
Some ideas we can drop out but hey, at least we used and executed most of them!

[Watrmeln]

What if we make both a story mode and a pvp mode like the original ff?
That way we
A: get to use our story and ideas
And B: don’t have to completely rework the engine and stray too far from the og forum fighters

[gamer_boi]

@MrDashell’s idea was good lets do that

[KringlePrinkles]

To quote TyroByte:

@mlgcoolguys_1

1. FFw will NOT be a multi-player game due to wick limitations and personal experience of us
2. Instead I propose that it becomes a single-player, adventure fighting game.

We have limitations that our programmers unfortunately experienced, and sometimes reworks from scratch are necessary to make things cleaner. I’m sorry but I don’t think I could agree with your idea.

[MrDashell]

so maybe you can only fight bots do missions and story mode

[Watrmeln]

We should get the devs in on this tomorrow, i gotta sleep

[KringlePrinkles]

I’ll just make a poll for our main Plot of the story and I will quote my original post for reference (and ease of access):

@KringlePrinkles

We want the AI to be acting out because of a bug, not because its sentience wants it to be amused itself. The “fighting alternate version of our OCs” idea is interesting, however.

So far our ideas are:

an AI acting out because of a bug in the code

@KringlePrinkles

what if it’s a bug in the uiAdapt, causing it to break upon being released!

a JS library with a malware (maybe because of old age or it being downloaded from an unsafe and unofficial source... or it being "secretly a virus in disguise", to quote BSA_15)

@BSA_15

what if a js package in swiftstyle secretly was a virus in diguise?

a hacker stealing the software

@BSA_15

What if the program gets hacked or something, would that make sense?

An intelligent AI seeking to destroy the software

@butt

Maybe I should just handle some art stuff and I’ll let someone else do the story. Also if anyone’s intrested here’s the second draft if you wanna base it off this

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NNton_BNfjyve6gA9Fe6KjKRG-bm4g64Vl-bAnqPQtc/edit?usp=drivesdk

mlgcoolguys_1's draft (this is also interesting)

@mlgcoolguys_1

You press the play button and you and you are meet with a white screen that slowly fades and reveals the forum fighters cast members all just hanging out , drawing, coding and such.

Baron notices you (looks at the screen) and welcomes you while also introducing you to the rest of the cast that also get about to saying hi
Baron then asks you what why you wanted to be here but… You don’t know why. Baron is confused by this but quickly moves on to show you the propose of the forums, to work together, help each other and such. But while this is all happening Pumpkinhead receives a red coloured alert and asks tryo and H.A to follow him to address the problem.
Baron then moves you to to a stage disigned to look like a new project and (important part coming)quickly draws an asset that looks like a circle with legs and arms, he then askes you what’s your username and now you are controling the circle, baron then teaches you how move and atk and jump, the normal stuff. But suddenly he asks you to stop.

He notices something in the bottom right of the screen… The asset library… It’s looking alittle glitchy… Purple-ish and even… Corrupt.
He takes his attention off of you as slowly walks towards the library and…

STOP!!!
Baron quickly turns around and sees pumpkinhead, tryo and H.A running towards you

If we’re going with mlgcoolguys_1’s idea we might have to write our own parts

@mlgcoolguys_1

(sorry to interrupt myself but i forgot I have to address a number of things)

1. FFw will NOT be a multi-player game due to wick limitations and personal experience of us
2. Instead I propose that it becomes a single-player, adventure fighting game.
3. While we WONT be working on art for a time being when the engine is released, We CAN keep making music of all sorts
4. I’ll keep telling the story but skip out alot of parts because owners of OCs will be writing about themselves needing help from the player
5. @gamer_boi you can assist me in writing occasionally but I think I can handle, on the other hand you could help with the coding once the main engine is completed

We could still use the fictional SwiftStyle Animator mcguffin, as in switch it out with Wick Editor.

So far I think i have found 3 important details needed for the main plot:

1. Basing of TyroByte’s story, at the start of the game our OCs are making a project
2. There is a problem that broke our fictional software, SwiftStyle Animator, and that must be addressed; we have some ideas for it but I’m unsure which one all of us agree on
3. The problem must fix the software

Now what I want to know is what the problem SHOULD be. We can mix and mash some ideas so that they can connect, but we all must agree on the cause of the software breaking.

So vote:

• a feature in the software, the AI of uiAdapt, has a bug that needs to be fixed, because the AI is unkowingly breaking SwiftStyle Animator
• a hacker stole the software and changed it to his/her liking, and got cocky. So they decided to mess with our OCs by having them play in a digital arena with him/her
• a JS Library has malware, due to it being either a virus in disguise and downloaded from an unsafe source. This caused it to be gamified and is slowly corrupting SwiftStyle Animator
• some nutcase unleashed an AI that targeted SwiftStyle Animator as its first target

All of these problems will involve our OCs fighting through a barrage of malware/attacks/viruses, whatever they are, and fixing the problem at the end, allowing the devs of SwiftStyle Animator to patch it! Just vote on which problem is the best in your opinions.

[KringlePrinkles]

We’re still using TyroByte’s story, but I just wanted all of your opinions on what could be a good problem for our characters to tackle. If you all have a better idea, help yourself and post here

[pumpkinhead]

um, where do the character clips come from? (sorry it’s been a while, i was also working on something else simultaneously)

this is the code related to getting the character clips

i don’t know what it’s doing, doesn’t help that it’s not commented at all. i kinda want the character clips so i can add a frame for the placeholder attack. @BaronAWC if you coded this please tell me where the character clips are. actually i don’t think you programmed this, i don’t think you use UpperCamelCase for argument names.