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Monster Boy Announced
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Ghost_Messiah
Member
Screens looks gorgeous as usual. Really appreciate the super increased frequency of updates (awesome idea!) and so excited to see the game becoming better and better.
You have a day one purchase coming from me. Hope Monster Boy sells millions and you produce a long-running series. Excellent work.
You have a day one purchase coming from me. Hope Monster Boy sells millions and you produce a long-running series. Excellent work.
FDG Thomas
Neo Member
Thanks a lot GM and Fou-Lu <3 We hope for good sales too so we can continue the series!
Hello FDG Thomas!
Amazing work on the game! I've been following it silently for a while. It's absolutely beautiful!
How is it working on this game from a cross-platform development standpoint? You'll definitely find an audience all around on all systems for it, I guess I'm always just curious to hear about insights into the development process for games coming out on so many different platforms! Is it challenging, or are most tools fairly standard that it makes the process easy? Any interesting stories in working with any of the companies for this game so far (Microsoft, Valve, Sony, Nintendo, etc.)?
Also, will you be putting up a new trailer for Gamescom 2017 to put on the main page? I know the current one is only about a year old, but hey, anymore I get to see the better, haha!
I can definitely see why it's so hard to pick your five favorite images! I've got my personal top five, but hopefully people will go to your Facebook page and see them all!
Keep up the great work!
Amazing work on the game! I've been following it silently for a while. It's absolutely beautiful!
How is it working on this game from a cross-platform development standpoint? You'll definitely find an audience all around on all systems for it, I guess I'm always just curious to hear about insights into the development process for games coming out on so many different platforms! Is it challenging, or are most tools fairly standard that it makes the process easy? Any interesting stories in working with any of the companies for this game so far (Microsoft, Valve, Sony, Nintendo, etc.)?
Also, will you be putting up a new trailer for Gamescom 2017 to put on the main page? I know the current one is only about a year old, but hey, anymore I get to see the better, haha!
I can definitely see why it's so hard to pick your five favorite images! I've got my personal top five, but hopefully people will go to your Facebook page and see them all!
Keep up the great work!
Ghost_Messiah
Member
Thank you too for the lovely response Thomas! Your ideas for Monster Boy, like spending the time to iterate the game significantly and make it much better, a "must have" as you said on the development blog, along with the idea to post frequent updates and participate here are all awesome - you clearly care about this game. Sounds like it's a labour of love.
There's still a lot of excitement and anticipation surrounding Monster Boy. Everyone was enamoured with it when it was announced and the final product is shaping up to be amazing, so I genuinely hope you sell millions and that leads to Monster Boy 2 and beyond. You have a purchase here from me along with the same from many other people on NeoGAF.
Good luck with the rest of development and I can't wait to play your game.
FDG Thomas
Neo Member
Thanks a lot! ^^
We made our own tools and game engine so we could optimize it perfectly to go with our needs. This helps us to achieve great performance on all platforms. With the PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch we're lucky to have powerful target devices so it's actually a lot of fun to work on the game and keep improving it.
We're still too busy with the game so we didn't work on another trailer for Gamescom. The next trailer needs to be perfect and requires our full attention so we take our time.
Thank you Ghost Messiah!
FDG Thomas
Neo Member
I posted something new in our blog today: sharing info about the auto-map feature of Monster Boy:
http://www.monsterboy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/27-Big-Game,-Big-Map!.html
http://www.monsterboy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/27-Big-Game,-Big-Map!.html
Ghost_Messiah
Member
Looking awesome as always Thomas! Really appreciate the increased frequency of updates!
But this is the million dollar question right here. Will the game be releasing this year?
But this is the million dollar question right here. Will the game be releasing this year?
That looks like a pretty big map! Should Hollow Knight be worried?
Can't wait to play this..
Renna Hazel
Member
Game looks great, but I'm so ready for a release date at this point. Really hope it didn't slip into next year, this is my most wanted digital game for 2017.
Ghost_Messiah
Member
Seconded. This along with Sonic Mania are my most anticipated releases of the year, so I'd love for this to still be coming in 2017.
Guess we're waiting on an update from Thomas?
Renna Hazel
Member
It is Switch bound. Footage from the Switch version was posted above if you wanna take a look.
bumpkin
Member
Sweeeeeeeeet. Looking good so far!
Here's a decent length demo of the game on Switch from Gamescon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYNfU0QW_2w
ENJOY!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYNfU0QW_2w
ENJOY!!!
Thanks for sharing! Will look at this during my lunch.
Ghost_Messiah
Member
Hmm. So small update on the development blog. Someone posted a comment complaining about the repeated delays and Thomas responded:
Guess that finally confirms the game is 2018. Hopefully early 2018. Happy to wait if they're focused on producing a fantastic game.
Guess that finally confirms the game is 2018. Hopefully early 2018. Happy to wait if they're focused on producing a fantastic game.
Kain-Nosgoth
Member
they updated the character design! Personally i dig it, but it's really different now, guess the promotional art of the game will change too?
i'm just worried that they seem a little bit too big, not sure if it will go well with the level design
i'm just worried that they seem a little bit too big, not sure if it will go well with the level design
eso76
Member
they updated the character design! Personally i dig it, but it's really different now, guess the promotional art of the game will change too?
i'm just worried that they seem a little bit too big, not sure if it will go well with the level design
what, another redesign ?
I like that personally, but man this will take them a long time
Ghost_Messiah
Member
It's cool to see a long-awaited new update but TBH I prefer the original sprite based pixel designs. It feels like they're over iterating the art when they don't need to resulting in diminishing returns and in this instance a downgrade. It's cool they're going in to overdrive and polishing the game to the nth degree but this is one change that didn't need to happen IMO.
Thomas has confirmed Monster Boy is a 2018 game so hopefully it's set to release early in the year.
Thomas has confirmed Monster Boy is a 2018 game so hopefully it's set to release early in the year.
Wow those silhouettes are a big improvement.they updated the character design! Personally i dig it, but it's really different now, guess the promotional art of the game will change too?
i'm just worried that they seem a little bit too big, not sure if it will go well with the level design
thechristoph
Sir!
I'll hold out hope for the rest of the cast, but the new hero looks like a very bland anime character. Blandime, if you will.
He's Ryu from BoFIII! Even turns into a dragon.
gunstarhero
Member
Another redesign?!?
I'm getting worried.
Still looking forward to finally playing this though.
I'm getting worried.
Still looking forward to finally playing this though.
FDG Thomas
Neo Member
Hi Everyone,
we also wrote a blog post about the new hand-drawn style, please check it out
http://www.monsterboy.com/blog
The process is already going for a while and we have different people working on the animation and coloring while others keep improving the rest. Development staff is 15 people now as we really want to finish this game someday
With the new changes we're going to reach a proper character consistency starting with artwork, ingame sprites and cutscenes. At the same time each transformation gets a new level of depth by the use of unique animation and proportion which feels just great. Feedback on the new style is mostly amazing so far - just wait until you see the rest. Please look forward to it ^_^ cheers!
we also wrote a blog post about the new hand-drawn style, please check it out
http://www.monsterboy.com/blog
The process is already going for a while and we have different people working on the animation and coloring while others keep improving the rest. Development staff is 15 people now as we really want to finish this game someday
With the new changes we're going to reach a proper character consistency starting with artwork, ingame sprites and cutscenes. At the same time each transformation gets a new level of depth by the use of unique animation and proportion which feels just great. Feedback on the new style is mostly amazing so far - just wait until you see the rest. Please look forward to it ^_^ cheers!
Sir_Crocodile
Member
they updated the character design! Personally i dig it, but it's really different now, guess the promotional art of the game will change too?
i'm just worried that they seem a little bit too big, not sure if it will go well with the level design
Looks good. Will have to see it in motion of course.
FDG Thomas
Neo Member
Sounds good then! Looking forward to see the rest of the characters.
they updated the character design! Personally i dig it, but it's really different now, guess the promotional art of the game will change too?
i'm just worried that they seem a little bit too big, not sure if it will go well with the level design
No need to worry. The new sprites are probably bigger on their presentation poster to put the emphasis on the new design but they should scale the same in the game.
Much, much better IMO. They finally nailed it.they updated the character design! Personally i dig it, but it's really different now, guess the promotional art of the game will change too?
i'm just worried that they seem a little bit too big, not sure if it will go well with the level design
moltonasty
Member
I didn't mind the old design, but gotta say the new style does look more appealing so far.
FDG Thomas
Neo Member
Which one of the new character designs should we reveal next time ? Anyone here who wants to vote ? ^_^
JinjoUnchained
Member
Excellent, can't wait to see the animations! I think this new version is the most faithful to the old Monster World.
The different versions of the human form, dating back to 2014::
I prefer the penultimate sprite. The earlier ones are too basic and boring while the last one looks too much like your prototypical Clip Art.
I want to see the lion.
Ghost_Messiah
Member
A hundred percent this. I love their focus on iterating and improving the game and seeing it evolve over time has been wonderful (the recent environmental art transformation was fantastic) but ultimately this feels like a change for the worse. I think they had his look nailed with the penultimate sprite too and this feels like one particular change that didn't need to be made.
The older sprite had character and charm whilst this new one looks generic and doesn't echo the spirit of Monster World.
We'll see how the game evolves from here but I'd much prefer it if they went back to their earlier work on this one.
Kain-Nosgoth
Member
yup, want to see the lion too
Sir_Crocodile
Member
I like it personally, but then my favourite art has always been:
kaos.
Member
they updated the character design! Personally i dig it, but it's really different now, guess the promotional art of the game will change too?
i'm just worried that they seem a little bit too big, not sure if it will go well with the level design
I prefer the old style, am I the only one?
I skipped dragon's trap remake because of its design, imho monster boy style was the perfect compromise between modern flash-like cartoon games and the old wonder boy style, but now...