I know development has been a bit quiet the last few weeks. In order to get back into the swing of things I created a few items from Smb2. I have another WIP I'm also creating I'll unveil later.

SMB2 Cherries: Slightly altered from their Smb2 form, collecting 20 of these will produce a starman. A bit steeper than the 5 count from Smb2 but in MKF cherry count carries over between both screens and stages. Also the cherry spawned Starman has a normal MKF invinciblity time limit. not the painfully short Smb2 limit:



POW blocks have been given their proper crushed animation:



Shell grass: Turtle shells can sometime be pulled out of grass stalks. After first throw they take on the properties of a normal MKF shell weapon. One point of interest is you don't need to be able to stomp to get grass shell:




Smb2 Mushroom: The ultimate moderate power up. Picking one of these up gives characters like the Mario bros the equivilant to recieving 2 Super Mushrooms. Other characters get a similar moderate boost. HP characters recover 2 HP. Arthur gets his armor back and a moon shield. Sonic and Tails get a ring boost. Etc etc:

Nice Obreck nice.

Take your time I know it's busy up there at this time of year and what you did is fantastic.

Keep up the good work.

Awesome progress Obreck! This oughta make the Subcon Panic stages more nostalgic!

Pretty darn cool Obreck. Keep up the good work!

Wow, Obie, you really outdid yourself! The addition of these items should make all the difference in later versions!

Sounds great Obreck, but don't you think a 20 count for the cherries is a little too steep even with the carry over and longer starman invincibility time? I would think that a count of 10 would be sufficient to balance things out, but the decision is yours of course.

Wow nice dude! It's good to see some more smb2 items make it in the game.

Good job.

Woah...I'm lovin the nostagia here

Any other "grass" items planned? Guns? Potions? That rocket ship?

And does the starman appear a la SMB2? or will it just spawn where the HUD is (kinda like in SML2, but with gravity and bouncing)

Question: When you get the 20th cherry, where on the screen the starman appears?

Answering some questions:

The cherry Starman appears like it did in SMB2. It appears at the bottom in one of the screen corners, then begin zig zagging to the top, unaffected by solid objects.

The 20 cherry requirement is intended to make the feature a bit more unpredictable. You might go through a stage or 2 before collecting cherries enough to enjoy that temporary free ride. A gold cherry worth 5 might be made for the stage designers' convience.

Sweet. And I second Psychopath's grass rocketship request.

Nice work obreck! I also see that you've begun work on the rupees.

This is cool and all but sometimes I worry that the game will become too packed full of stuff 0_o.

I definitely like the cherry usage. Good job on adding that. (Zigzagging, TehSyncMan. Obreck said so four replies above you.) I'm much more intrigued by the subcon mushrooms, though.

QUOTE (theused @ Jan 24 2009, 09:06 AM)

This is cool and all but sometimes I worry that the game will become too packed full of stuff 0_o.