Saturday Morning Adventures Developer's Diaries and Teasers

[cranlox]

fx rally turtles!
HERE!
I DIDN'T PUT SOUNDS

[BentonGrey]

Excellent!  It looks great, man!  I can take care of the sound.  I've already got a sound clip for the Transformers one.

[cranlox]

the disk you ordered
here!

[BentonGrey]

Thanks, man!  They work great!

[BentonGrey]

Howdy folks!  This week's developer's diary is going to be a bit different.  So far, I've really been showing off the depth of the mod, doing deep dives with a wide range of characters for one setting, but I've been wanting to show off the breadth of the mod as well.  To that end, I've spent the last week and change working on designing and building a selection of main characters from each setting.  I've put in a ton of work on these guys, not just in the usual design and testing, but also in a lot of custom FX, hunting down sound clips from the shows, and more.

I put in extra work to polish and prepare these characters because I wanted to put together a teaser for the mod to show off something of a proof of concept, and I just finished it.  I'm going to try out the premier function on Youtube, so I'm releasing the video tomorrow at 2:00 Eastern, if anyone wants to drop by my Youtube channel and give it a watch with me.  This may not amount to anything, but I thought it might be fun to try.
https://youtu.be/JRvl5UTY-nQ?si=gyy-XqC73aV5BbHO

I'll be working on the developer's diary itself tomorrow, and I will hopefully have it posted in time to coincide with the video's release.  Cheers!

[BentonGrey]

Well, that took a whole lot longer than I expected!  The new developer's diary is finally finished, and it provides an overview of each of the newly added shows, as well as background on the characters and the usual overview of the design process.

Developer's Diary #5

[oldmanwinters]

Very ambitious!

Make sure you identify Destro by name, as opposed to the C.Commander typo!

[deanjo2000]

Really good read. It's rejuvenated my love for these shows.

[BentonGrey]

Winters, thanks!  Yep, it's a pretty ambitious project.  I'm sure I won't finish everything I have planned this summer, but I'm hoping I can get all the characters designed and implemented, as well as at least a few of the campaigns.

Thanks, Dean!  I'm really glad to hear that!

[WyldFyre]

Really good read. It's rejuvenated my love for these shows.

For me as well. Started watching Thundercats again last night. I plan to revisit He-Man as well. Although I was a little late to the TMNT party, I do remember their early cartoons, and have them on the list as well.
I forgot that Silverhawks was only one season long. I don't think I ever saw the later shows, but I remember that theme song! I'll be getting those again too.

Thanks for this trip down memory lane Benton!

[BentonGrey]

WF, that's really awesome!  I'm delighted that my little project is helping folks (re)discover some of these classic shows!  Definitely check out the 2002 He-Man.  The old one has nostalgia, but the newer one is an improvement in a lot of ways.  As for Silverhawks, it is only one season, but it is the crazy 65 episode season, so it FEELS like a longer-lived show in a lot of ways, though it didn't have the time to really develop.