so today we got a release date for paper Mario ttyd!!!!(and Luigis mansion 2, but is anyone even gonna buy that game? I don't think so) when the video showed that it would release in may, that got me thinking: we only have one trailer, and it's releasing before the usual Nintendo direct month; its very unlikely of Nintendo to release a game wen we only have a single trailer for it. and then THAT got me thinking; there have been a lot of rumors/leaks of a presentation from Nintendo happening this month, and its supposed to have a bunch of first party announcements considering we have nothing to look forward to from Nintendo (except peach showtime[which already has a demo and a release date] paper Mario and Luigi's mansion [which we just got release dates for] and Pokemon z-a[which is realeasing next year]); the presentation is also rumored to announce a new Nintendo console that'll release next year, which makes sense considering the Nintendo direct intro was changed (which means a new era of Nintendo!).

as you can see there's a pretty big possibility of a Nintendo direct coming this month or next month; its gonna have new trailers for games we already know about, and announcements of a bunch of new first party games. its very unlikely this direct will be bad; we already got a bunch of third party announcements with the partner showcase last month (which was actually a pretty decent presentation, I'm super hyped for epic mickey and South Park and monkey ball),can they really show any more 3rd party stuff at this point? well, maybe; Nintendo make really smart decisions sometimes, and really stupid decisions sometimes. we could go a while without any first party announcements, but imo that's unlikely. I think 3rd party companies don't have anything else to show the public, and Nintendo is our last resort for any switch games.

actually, maybe not; remember how I said the new console is releasing next year? well those are just rumors and leaks, what if we get it THIS year? and the reason we have very little first party announcements is because Nintendo is planning the next presentation with the announcement of the new console and a TON of really big first party launch titles! I could write a whole other blog like this one about the new console, but for now I'll just leave it at this:

are we getting a Nintendo direct soon? based on what I know: yes we will

but that's just a theroy: a GAME theory! THANKS FOR READINGGG!!! (*sigh* I already miss matpat...)

this is the first dev log of a flash game me and my irl friend (imma keep their name anonymous and call them Mario, so whenever I refer to Mario I’m referring to my friend) are working on for flash forward 2024!

so I get onto newgrounds one faithful day and I see Mr fulp’s post about flash forward 2024. I knew I had to participate, especially since first prize was $1k. But I couldn’t do it alone. So I called up Mario telling them about the opportunity, and they agreed to help!

but that’s enough about that, let’s talk about the actual game we’re working on!

we agreed that the idea would be that Mario would go on a deep sea adventure to find Atlantis! We want the games levels to be randomly generated so we could add an “endless” mode. We are thinking 20-30 mini-levels for story mode rn. Once you beat the game you unlock a harder difficulty level for all modes and a speedrun mode.

We originally wanted the game to be a platformer, but I recently found out that it’s not a good idea to make a platformer as your first game. However I did find genres that ARE good for your first game so here are 2 genres/gameplay ideas I cooked up:

1. Shump (aka shoot em up): (inspired by Gradius) Mario will drive a submarine that autoscrolls right. You can shoot projectiles/bullets at enemies, enemies have a chance of dropping special weapons like misslies or lazers or harpoons. It’s not just enemies tho, you’ll have to dodge certain obstacles that your bullets and weapons can’t destroy
2. rougelike (maybe rougelike and rpg mashup): the story is that Mario was diving into an underwater cave that was supposed to lead to Atlantis, but upon entry he gets caved in by rocks! At this point I’m not rly sure what the gameplay will be like, but for now I vision it being similar to Porklike ( a rougelike by Krystman.)

the design of the game could change depending on how much time we’ll have to work on the game, we may release a demo of the game for the jam and then work on the full game. We also want to add a special gimmick to the game that makes it different from others of its kind, but we aren’t sure what that gimmick will be.

so this is the end of this dev log, thx for reading!