Mweeheehee! Remember how I've been going on about making a Smash Brothers game? Well I haven't just been waxing the fantastic all this time, I've been programming! From these labors are some pictures of my fruits! (Note: DeviantArt typically frowns upon people taking pictures of their fruits and posting them)

Here are three screenshots, yes screenshots of the game up and running, of what I've gotten done and working nicely so far!

First we've got the lead-in to the title screen. This is a little animated opening sequence (not too fancy, mind you) that gives a little backstory to the general Story Mode's plot, flashes you the title, then shows you a few shots from further on in the storymode. The stars in the background twinkle past and pompous orchestral music blasts through it all.

Past the lead-in and the title-screen, we've got the Main Menu! That works too! You've got all of your modes in there, Story Mode, VS. Mode, and Classic Mode give you your fancy storyline, your standard free for alls, and your gauntlet style battles up the roster at random. The selection icons are all twirling, and those franchise icons on the right side actually move about, vanishing and reappearing as they go.

Aaah, one of the more complicated bits, the Custom Music menu screen. Right now I've only got the bare bones of levels working and they're rather ugly at the moment, but here's this. I've got the Animal Crossing level selected, and the game displays all the mp3s in that particular level's files, and you can then scroll the values up and down to change the odds that the song appears. Drop in a new song, and it will pop up in here too. The sliders all have the same value because I've only got one song in the folder at the moment, but generally you could have as many songs as you like and go up and down the list. Those cards on the left of the music selection screen are also used for the level selection later, since I couldn't do a simple menu with tiles because of the addable levels, it's possible to have 500 billion million levels, so I used the cards letting you quickly flip through all the levels you've got.


So there it is, Smash Brothers: Fisticuffs, the first screenshots! Also: Tea Confirmed.