Super Smash Brothers Style Graal Server

[excaliber7388]

Most of the things I'd make would be out of the metroid universe. Basically, the time period, some of the weapons and abilities, and the control design would be the same. It's better on a controller, so there'd be some modifications.
But yeah, that would be a really cool server I'd make it if a) I had the cash and b) There were some good Mac dev tools

[excaliber7388]

Obviously, you didn't do anything with it, because something original would be on the hosted list, at least.

[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

Obviously, you didn't do anything with it, because something original would be on the hosted list, at least.

If you were referring to what I said, no, I didn't. I scripted it for Raelyn who never did anything with it.

http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...ad.php?t=65539

[excaliber7388]

Should have done something with that

[Crono]

I don't see why you guys are complaining about FPS and the actual amount of time you have to do stuff, it doesn't change the fact that you can make a SSBish kind of server and do it well if everything is well planned out in advance.

I think it's that last bit (well planed out in advance) coupled with quality manpower that's the biggest challenge on this game

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Crono

I don't see why you guys are complaining about FPS and the actual amount of time you have to do stuff, it doesn't change the fact that you can make a SSBish kind of server and do it well if everything is well planned out in advance.

I think it's that last bit (well planed out in advance) coupled with quality manpower that's the biggest challenge on this game

It's important to a game like Smash Bros...

I just think if this were to be attempted, it would be half-assed and a complete mockery of Smash Bros... and I'd end up just popping in the real game and playing anyways.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

It's important to a game like Smash Bros...

It's important for any fighting game.

I just think if this were to be attempted, it would be half-assed and a complete mockery of Smash Bros... and I'd end up just popping in the real game and playing anyways.

Not really, I'm sure you can have work arounds. What in particular is the problem?

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Crono

It's important for any fighting game.



Not really, I'm sure you can have work arounds. What in particular is the problem?

I already posted... can't you imagine the amount of work(years and years of PROFESSIONAL) that goes into developing these attack sets for each character... balancing them out, developing them, fleshing them out? Then there's the characters themselves... Graal doesn't have any notable characters, let alone ~20 to use... and there are hardly any differences between them all. I mean, we could make up characters but it wouldn't be the same.

I don't even think another company could pull it off with millions of dollars, let alone some random people on Graal. I just think it would be a waste of time and productivity.

[Crono]

I'm not trying to pretend that Graalians will be able to practically pull such a project off, I'm saying it's still technically feasible. It would never be as thorough and polished as a professional game, but it still very possible to create such a server and have it be somewhat successful (on Graal standards I'd say a steady playerbase of around 40 would be somewhat successful). I suppose it's something that's best left as a theory, but with the right team and masterminds behind it, it could very well be pulled off.

Characters aren't really an issue. The original SSB had 8 characters plus 4 unlockables. Jigglypuff was useless and Luigi was almost Mario's clone save a few powerhits and slight differences. I'm sure we could come up with atleast 5 characters.

I mean you have:

The mighty all show no go warrior from GK.



The possibly metro Zone posterboy.


The rough I GREW UP IN THE HOOD yet whiter than a ghost gangster from Era.


This is actually a real screenshot from the screenshot gallery, LOL

Fung Si Yan hailing from the lands of Classic.



The all text magician from Valikorlia.



Secret characters could be...
Pluffy
A monkey character from Delteria
A human character from Bomy Island
A bomy from Bomy Island

[DustyPorViva]

The original SSB had 8 characters. That was a long time go... people are unhappy that Brawl had like ONLY 32 characters or something.

Not to mention this is only, so you have to have even more variety, or else people will get bored quick. The original did okay for 8 characters because it was new, and you really only played with a couple other people.


As for being technically possible... perhaps it is... but I highly doubt anyone will ever execute it well enough to be played. It is something best left as a theory.

[Crono]

Does it really matter how long ago it was? It had 12 in total including the secret characters. Regardless of that small amount of characters, I still find it enjoyable. You could have each character be customizable in terms of looks and use the servers they're from to determine how they play.

As for being technically possible... perhaps it is... but I highly doubt anyone will ever execute it well enough to be played. It is something best left as a theory.

Agreed.

[Demisis_P2P]

You wouldn't even need pre-set characters.
Just continue to let players make and customize their own character, since thats one of Graal's biggest "features", lol.

Everyone could just start off with melee attacks, a few empty pre-set combo slots (Like down, down, forward, punch; back, down, left, punch; etc. which is really more like a platform-fighter than SSB anyway) and 2 weapon slots. And then they can buy, train or unlock the combos and weapons to put into those slots.

I don't think frames per second will matter, loooool.

The hardest part would be making a lobby/matchmaking service.

[excaliber7388]

Secret character: Moonie.
One hit KP for al characters: Banhammer
With specials such as delete posts (would remove a players kills)

[excaliber7388]

Any chance the fps on graal would ever improve?

[zokemon]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

Any chance the fps on graal would ever improve?

Nope. That would require changing the sleep time between script calls and would mess up a bunch of scripts, I imagine at least. Even if it did work though, it would lag like all get out. Imagine changing the fps to 50. That would mean you could have a timeout divisible by 0.02. That would make Graal lag quite a bit on slower computers (a major portion of Graal's playerbase).

Originally Posted by xXziroXx

I beat you too it by a couple of years.

Actually, I made it about 4 - 5 years ago .

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

Obviously, you didn't do anything with it, because something original would be on the hosted list, at least.

Originality requires being on the hosted list?