Can’t wait to play MM8BDM? Well you’ll have to wait a little longer! In the mean time though, we’re doing a little event. Me and the testers are going to be playing through the whole MM8BDM map set (that’s 54 maps!) as a final test run and to record some footage for my next trailer.

That’s not all though. I’ve invited The Shades along for the ride, for showing his interest in the game. He is also going to stream it live, to you guys, so you can see the full game in action! On top of this he is also going to allow users to ask questions via the chat, and allow me to answer them personally. Yes at long last, my horrible voice will be broadcast all over the internet.

The date is set. We will start playing and broadcasting at 9PM GMT (4PM EST) on the 10th of September 2010. So if you’ve got nothing better to do on a Friday night next week, pop online to The Shades’ channel and check out MM8BDM in action before anyone else!

Visit the Shades’ channel on TheGeekFighters.com

Video announcement by The Shades

Multi Tap: Classic Console Showcase is a weekly stream (Saturday nights at 9 PM US Central Standard Time) that aims to show off obscure games from the consoles on display as well as highlight the multiplayer aspects of games you already know and love. It is also our hope that by showing these games you may be encouraged to host gatherings of your own and take a break from online multiplayer through PSN and XBOX Live.

The consoles on display are the Atari 7800, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Sega 32X, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Sega Dreamcast, Sony Playstation 2, and the Nintendo Gamecube. We will hopefully be able to provide an inventory of our games so you can have some idea of our library and what we have played, but please feel free to suggest any and all games so that we may spotlight them for other people to enjoy!

We plan to have a focus or theme to most of our streams. This means we could possibly highlight a certain genre or system as well as have shows with “festive” games when we’re near a holiday. We may also host Ventrilo panels during the stream for a group of guests to hold discussions on certain subjects related to classic gaming (if you feel you would be a good guest on a certain topic, let me know through e-mail). From time to time we may also have prize give aways tied into games we’ll be playing with the audience, so keep your eyes and ears open for those!

Visit the Multi Tap channel

Post on the Multi Tap forum

Using footage from various videos me, Press Start and Fupoo uploaded, Nexus11 has created a trailer for MM8BDM. This isn’t official, but it could have easily been if it wasn’t for a few things I have stashed away for trailer #2. Bravo!

Today we have two videos of more live impressions and thoughts on MM8BDM. One has been out for some time but I probably didn’t highlight it enough. So let’s see what others think of MM8BDM!

Indie Search Light – SGC 2010 Demo

Mark Carr does reviews, previews and other videos based around Indie Games from all over the place. You probably haven’t even heard of some (I know I hadn’t) so be sure to check him out. He was the one who e-mailed me about taking MM8BDM to SGC, so naturally he has something to say about it! Just FYI I’m not in this video because I wasn’t at SGC. MugenMidget has to take credit for the short interview here! Hit the banner to check it out.

Fandom Paradise – MM8BDM Demo feature

The Shades is the creator of Fandom Paradise, which is a show that talks about fan art, fan fiction, fan movies and now (thanks to me I think) fan games! I first encountered The Shades doing a live stream of him playing and talking about the MM8BDM demo, so I got in touch with him and he decided to cover it on Fandom Paradise. I also have a few comments on this video spoken out by The Shades himself. I also plan to work with The Shades in the future for something. More info on that later. Hit the banner to check out the review.

And now for the mandatory update. Been working on something epic that I’ll keep behind the curtain for now, but I’m gonna get the maps done first. There’s only six maps left, which are Yamato Man, Wind Man, Blizzard Man, Flame Man, Plant Man and Mr. X.

It’s time for another status update. What the hell am I doing? Where’s my MM8BDM Cutman?! The questions that need answering will be answered!

Ghouls vs Humans

GVH is still being played, albeit not as much as before. That doesn’t mean the Ghoul party is over though, as I am planning an update very soon. Don’t expect too much with this one though, as it’s mostly just map changes. Of course there will be balance changing (Marine Riotgun and Sjas damage radius, just a heads up!) and some other bug fixes, but for the most part it will be stuff you won’t even notice at first. Expect this to come around very soon.

Speaking of GVH, I have a new add-on in the works. Take a gander at the logo:

Confused? Well, this add-on will change the gameplay quite a bit for TLMS (not so much in Deathmatch). Whether it will take off or not is another story, but I made this to test out morphing in Skulltag. As a result I found a few limitations, some bugs and now GVH:Rainbow Edition happened. If that and the title isn’t enough to tell you what this is about, your final hint is this: It has nothing to do with colours.

Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch

I expect this is what most of you are here for, so here’s a progress update. As you know, all of the Robot Master skins are completed. We have only 8 maps left to make until they’re all finished. After that, there will be some tweaking, quality checking, some extra features (such as the boss battles like you saw in the video of the previous post!) and recording footage for the second trailer. I have a bit of mapper’s block at the minute but rest assured MM8BDM will be finished by the end of the year.

I’m still contemplating whether or not to include my own launcher in the game. Maybe I’ll have one for purely hosting and connecting to an IP, but my dream of getting a list of servers seems to be harder to reach than I thought (if you would like to help with this, drop me a line). I want MM8BDM to be as user friendly as possible, as I know the majority of you don’t want to have the hassle of downloading several different things to play a game. I will try my best to make it idiot-proof, but you may end up having to download DoomSeeker or something to see the servers of other players.

We also have a little event planned for the near future too. The Shades, creator of Fandom Paradise (which MM8DM also got featured on recently!) did a stream on the MM8BDM demo which was pretty entertaining and informative. Which is why I’ve invited the Shades to come along with us on a Mega Marathon to stream action of every single map in the game, as me and the other devs record footage for Trailer #2. (while blasting the crap out of each other). This means that fans eager to see the full version of the game will be able to get a sneak peak at the craziness before the second trailer comes out! Hopefully I’m available to give commentary, but even if I can’t I’m sure The Shades will keep you in the loop of what’s going on. It should be pretty awesome!

I did predict a late August release, but I might have to push that back to September. We’ll see how things go. Big thanks go out to all the fans who checked the demo out and gave me their thoughts. It’ll be worth the wait guys, I promise!

Donations

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