No, I have not done any development of the game as I have little to no experience in it. However, I have thought about how I might go about starting it. I'd start with one character at a time in a special area to test all of the overworld mechanics. The battle mechanics would then be tested separately, and after establishing both of them, figure out how to combine them for the complete gameplay.

As you can see, I have gone into very intricate detail on the writing, the art, and how to go about starting development. The only thing stopping me from putting this together would be the absence of a team. If you know of anyone that might be interested in helping me get started, feel free to tell them about this (I have a Discord account). I won't be in school much longer, and then I'll have much more free time to learn how to put this idea into binary.

BTW, here's a plan I put together for what the path through the Toadwood Forest might look like:

(04-12-2020, 04:24 PM)JaberandCamgar Wrote: I started working on a pixel art Mario head to practice. If both of us can create sprites, the game could be developed quicker. But since we're only working on sprites, I have no animations to showcase yet. Here's a screenshot:

(06-15-2019, 10:28 PM)JaberandCamgar Wrote:

This could technically be classified as the first sprite concept for my game. I wanted to try to visualize what color my friendly Shroob would be, so I came up with this 3DS style color palette today along with a generic Shroob for comparison (taken from ML3DX on The Spriter's Resource). I had already decided that he would have green eyes as opposed to red as all the other members of his alien race . . . similar to the difference between the Lakitus from Super Mario World versus the Lakitu Referee in Super Mario Kart, which had the same difference.

As I had mentioned, this unusual Shroob would play an important part in my story's plot, as it would be Shroob technology that would allow real Luigi to enter the Dream World (and even if Dreamy Luigi could enter Subspace, he does not have Thunderhand like real Luigi does, and would not be able to do any of the puzzles inside that require it) and his expertise on this technology would be invaluable to the team. I have even given him an emotional scene not long before they head off into the Toadwood Forest:

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After Mario and company returned from the Dream Portal, Dreambert explained the situation to the rest of the party. "So it looks like we are going to have to return to the Toadwood Forest and find this research. I would be quite surprised if it actually works." Peach looked concerned.
"But Dreambert," she said. "All the Shroob technology runs on vim. Mario and Luigi can certainly tell you how terrible that was."
"I remember reading about it," Toadette added. "It was horrible! The trees would catch unsuspecting Toads and start sucking the life out of them. And if they themselves didn't get caught directly like Toadiko, the Shroob Saucers would abduct Toads from all around and bring them to the forest and entrap them themselves! I'm glad I wasn't around to see it; it was before my time. Are you sure we can't find some other way to get into the Dream World?" She looked over at Charlie.
The Shroob hung his head down and sighed. "Yes . . . it was despicable. But as E. Gadd had said earlier, I had no power whatsoever to change it. I was seen as a freak for my compassion towards your people, but they still kept me on their team for my expertise, and because they knew I couldn't do anything about it. And look at where their aggressiveness got them! The Princess Shroob Sisters, my colleagues, all the Shrooboids and Shrooblets and other Shroobkind, all the mushrooms, every last semblance of my people - all gone; eradicated; whipped off the face of the earth . . . all except me. And why? Because I have this thing called compassion! Something no other Shroob I knew ever seemed to understand." The party saw tears starting to form in his eyes. And them the most unusual thing happened: Toadette walked up to the Shroob - and gave him a hug!
"Aww! How touching!" Peach thought to herself. "How unexpected, too!"
***

Happiness is loving your enemies!

(04-12-2020, 05:53 PM)Evan.F Wrote:

I went ahead and edited the Mario sprite a little, using hues and other details.
What do you think? (also the colours on the Original are accidently the ones on the new sprite).

• I appreciate your efforts, but the sprite you created does not fit the Mario & Luigi style. Eyes are always black with no iris, and the "M" and "L" of the Brothers' respective caps are not shown in the sprites. In addition, the eyes shouldn't extend above the rim of Mario's Cap nor his ears extended so much. I'm not trying to tell you that your art is bad . . . it just doesn't fit the art style present in the series. To get an idea, you can look at the sprites from Bowser's Inside Story: (https://www.spriters-resource.com/ds_dsi/marioandluigi3/).
  

First of all, I thought it would be an interesting challenge to come up with the sprites myself. @Ostrich101 is using custom-made sprites in his fangame Super Mario Generations. I also feel like I'd be picking a fight with Nintendo if they saw me making a big, well-made, fan game like Super Mario 63 using their copyrighted sprite sheets (and while that game does use the Superstar Saga sprites, there are custom made Superstar Saga style F.L.U.D.D. sprites as well . . . it's not entirely ripped content).

I would also have to create lots and lots of additional sprite pieces that Nintendo hasn't created yet. There would have to be a series of sprites depicting Princess Peach's memory surge; the action of Mario throwing Cappy, along with him − as well as Luigi, Peach, and Toadette if applicable − capturing something in the overworld; I'd have to have Luigi's static electricity extension of his Thunderhand laid out; sprites of Wingo, Dino Piranha, Daisy, the Broodals, and Wart among many, many others; and . . . 

Spoiler

Toadette laying her life down in an effort to take Wart out with her spore counters then eating him after being resurrected by the Legendary.

There's a TON of stuff here that I've been thoroughly putting together . . . yet I still don't have anyone to help me begin programming anything. Sometimes I wish I could contact Nintendo . . . but I'd like to be able to translate my message into Japanese and put together a portfolio of the details of my idea and maybe some of my artwork as well. I have an idea laid out on how I might be able to get their attention, and I think they'd be impressed by the amount of thought and Super Mario knowledge that went into it − but translation would have to be my first step.

Maybe I'm not being assertive enough . . .

(09-12-2020, 04:25 AM)friendlinzh Wrote: what software/engine will the game be made with?