Update: New Bowser Sprites

It's been a while, but I've been hard at work mostly during this time. We just finished up going to Bowser's Castle for a special reason and we are still on 5th sage. I just wanted to make another update about Bowser and clarify some things.

We are chaning Bowser's In Battle Sprites. I'm sure most of you know that Mario & Luigi RPG 3!! was just realeased in Japan and there are new Bowser battle sprites. We will be switching to those now for Bowser. He orignally had battle sprites from superstar saga but they look too different from Bowser's world sprites. Bowser's world sprites will remain an edit from Mario: PIT. Only his battle sprites are being changed. The PIT sprites and these new battle sprites look very similar so it's not worth the work to also change his world spirtes, and it is a lot of work.

So for anyone who thought it was weird how Bowser looked different in the world and battle scenes, you can relax now. These new sprites should make Bowser's moves look a lot better. We'll probably show pics or a video once we finish changing him.

Progress Report

Back again with a little progress update. We've been doing a lot of work recently on Mario.

-We just finished the fourth sage. Game time now isn't accurate because of the amount of areas and sidequests we plan to add between the Sages. I, C-Divison, am programming the Main Story straight through and then we will go back and add all we intend to.

-Mario's suits' abilities are now all completed. There are seven suits for Mario and Luigi with mostly 2 extra skills. That equals a lot of long battle animations but it looks good. Luigi still has two more suits that need the skills to be made. Mr. L and Poltergust 3000 :).

-The battle system is complete and lacking only specific monster skills.

-Badges are complete.

-Earlier scenes of the game have been revamped to match the quality of the later scenes we've made. (Almost all the scenes shown demo are now at least a little better.)

-Surfing, Submarine, etc. Minigames have been completed and implemented to the Main story.

-Mario should be released at the very latest in summer. We should hopefully have it finished before then though.


These are some of the main points that we've done on Mario these past couple of months and it's coming along nicely. Any questions or concerns will be greatly appreciated.

5000 Hits! Break is Over!

Half of 10,000 sounds pretty good to me. U-Division is still in another league when it comes to number of website hits though.

Anyway, now that the break is over I can get back to work again. Things are coming along fine and hopefully there can be another Mario demo soon. Keep your fingers crossed.

Thanksgiving Over

So since Thanksgiving was last week, I didn't get much work done, but now it's over and I can refocus my time on rpg making. Mario is still coming along very well and making good progress. If there are any questions, feel free to ask.

Mario RPG:SS's Incredible Progress

U Division here.

Mario's coming along really well right now. The demo showed off the first "Adventure," but now we are in the middle of Adventure 4 (aka, the third Sage) story wise. The game slows down and developes after the first Sage, so the game is easily 6 times as long if you already know what to do. It'll be even longer for first timers and if you stop for side-quests. But we haven't only been progressing the main plotline, we've added and reworked other features as well.


Updated/New Game Features:

• Power Suits- Like in the Mario Platformers, equipping these gives your characters a new special skill only usable by that suit. There are 8 suits for each character, with 2 being unique to that specific person. Each suit has at least two extra special skills.
  
• Pentagles (Star Pieces)- This mysteriously growing fragments can be found throughout the world. Use them to unlock Extra features.
• Interactive Maps/Puzzles- Hammer, Jumping, and upgrades to both will be essential to some of the puzzle solving in the game.

Updated/New Game Elements:

• Public Transportation- Throughout Mario's quest, he'll board the flying Voom Shroom, the Cactus Kingdom Ferry, traverse the Intercontinetal Pipe System, a trans-desert Wiggler Bus, and more!
• Mini-Games- Super Mario Bros. EX, Super Mario's Pipe Panic, Yoshi's Eggventure, the Yoshi Races, Yahoo Surfing, and more to come!
  

New Mario Video!!

Fresh off of my computer and onto Youtube, we just made a Scene Preview video for Mario. This is basically showing some scenes that mostly weren't in the demo. Enjoy!

Mario: Seven Sages DEMO v 1.0!

It's here! This will give the first playable demo of what is to come.

Click HERE to download

Features:
-One "Adventure"
-Partial Custom Menu implementation
-Complete Battle System (DBS modification)
This demo shows off some of the basic features and story of the game.