Listing your cancelled Fan Games

[DJ Coco]

Interesting topic.
I have lots of cancelled games, or games that are on hold. When it comes to fangames, all of them are cancelled as I have moved on from making games I cannot truly call my own.
Some ideas from them might come to fruition in my indie games at some point in the future. We'll see.

Super Mario Blackout
It was meant to be a 2D sequel to Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine. A power outage would occur in Mushroom City and Mario would have to find electricity sprites to restore the power. It was a bit of an ambitious project; the scope was eventually scaled down from what I had originally envisioned but I lacked the motivation to really want to finish this project regardless. Only a demo ever came out of it; none of the worlds had ever been designed. The finale would have Mario chase down Bowser's starship to a power plant on the moon. Since Mario went to the moon in Super Mario Odyssey too when it came out, that was the nail in the coffin for that concept.

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Super Mario Adventure / The SMB5 Project
A game that was intended to be a true sequel to Super Mario World. Chaoxys would have been its spriter. It featured an original flying power-up, the Owl suit, and would have Mario explore a new mysterious island. Unfortunately nothing besides an engine test ever came out of it either. Programmatically it was more advanced than the Game Maker Mario engines at its time, as it already featured jump-through slopes when most Mario fangames didn't yet. I was quite proud of that.

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Luigi's Adventure: Fairytale of Crystallica
A game inspired by Super Luigi Dreams. Luigi would go off on a solo adventure after having been separated from Mario during a fight with Bowser, and explore a new world where he could find elemental gemstones and use their power. I made the environmental graphics myself for this game. Alas, another game that never got beyond the engine test phase.

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Mario Kart: Speed Strife Deluxe
An enhanced version of Mario Kart: Speed Strife that would feature multiplayer and battle mode. Only a battle stage had been designed for it before it was cancelled due to wanting to move on from Game Maker, and the mixed reception the game got.

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