12-15-2017, 11:48 PM
I've got a few up my sleeve as well. I don't really have many cancelled games, but I've got a few that have been postponed and IHDK when I'll do them.
- Flame the Dragon (To be re-titled; Postponed indefinitely) - I made a thread for this back on the old forums. A sidescroller adventure game where you played as the title character Flame Sanders, an anthropomorphic dragon. At the time it was a Zelda-inspired fangame at heart, but it was being rushed and I wasn't happy with it. I put it on hold way back in 2010 and haven't done much with it since. I have assembled newer and better ideas over the years. The gameplay I had in mind became a mixture of a sidescroller with exploration, RPG, and hack-n-slash elements, and the story evolved into something a little more grand than my initial ideas. While there hasn't been any codework on the game since 2010, I did update the character sprites, redid designs, and updated the palette to be more colorful. The cute character designs and the bright colorful palette were to stand out in contrast to the game's story, which grows darker as the it progresses.
- Super Mario Bros: Odyssey (On hiatus; To be ren-titled; chapter system scrapped) - I began work on what would eventually become SMB:O way back in 2009 when I was fooling around with the Super Mario Fusion Engine and contributing to said project. After adding a number of features and changing a lot of stuff, I decided to essentially re-tell the stories from Super Mario Bros 1, 2, and 3, World as I had interpreted them as a child, and then a final chapter where the Wario Bros joined the team. After finishing chapter 1, I almost immediately began work on chapter 2. Progress was going great - such to the extent that I even made a video showing the prologue of the chapter - but I eventually realized just how ambitious the project was. I chose to put the project on indefinite hiatus, and scrapped the chapter system, and whenever I pick up the project again, it will essentially be what I had envisioned for the final chapter, with changes of course so as to avoid sounding odd without the other chapters. The title will also be changed, seeing as how there's now an official game called Super Mario Odyssey lol
- Youtube Poop-inspired joke Zelda game (Cancelled) - As it says, this project was to be a joke game starring Link who was teleported to a bizarre dimension by Ganon and needed to find a way back. This dimension was a Youtube Poop-themed world where Link would team up with King Harkinian and Morshu to fight against enemies such as Mario's Head, Mama Luigi, I.M. Meen, and CDI-Ganon, among other CDI characters. The game featured several unique death animations and the boss battle with Mario's Head hosted a one-hit kill move which would cause a re-creation (with edits) of different Mario Head animations from Mario Teaches Typing and would cause the screen to shake violently and rapidly invert and change colors for a second or two before Link either exploded, turned into Ganon's Face, or some other bizarre thing, and in the Mama Luigi boss battle he could summon CDI Luigi to throw different types of spaghetti at you, some of which did damage, and others had effects such as speeding the game up or making Link really floaty. In the end the game was scrapped due to a loss of interest, though the thought of it still makes me giggle