Skullgirls~

Hecatom · April 18, 2011, 3:57am

pic courtesy of TeeJay on dustloop

Jamp · April 18, 2011, 5:14am

Peacock looks swell, she must look awesome in motion.

thats_mind_games · April 18, 2011, 5:27am

this games going to own i hope it actually comes out in summer

Ragnorok64 · April 18, 2011, 7:27am

I hope it comes out with all the planned characters more than I hope it makes the Summer release date. I’m kinda concerned that there used to be more characters shown on the game’s website.

CX805 · April 18, 2011, 8:11am

Looks legit. Had a blast when I played this at SCR.

T37_Rampage · April 18, 2011, 8:41am

Don’t know how many there were before but there’s three shown and five “?” spots. 8 characters at release is fine with me. I remember Mike Z saying that they were planning DLC characters as well if I’m not mistaken.

Ragnorok64 · April 18, 2011, 9:25am

I’m just hoping they finish all 8 characters before launch. I though I they had pic of all 8 or something, before hand with them now only showing 3 i wonder if they anticipate not being able to finish them all for a summer release.

Edit: I dunno, maybe they didn’t have all 8 shown, though some Google-Fu turns up the concept art for all of them. http://skullgirls.livejournal.com/7736.html

Anemone · April 19, 2011, 6:17am

Gamasutra - News - Interview: An Upstart Fighting Game Developer’s Radical Re-Think

An interesting tid-bit:

You talk about fairly advanced mechanics, but you also are talking about accessibility. How do you balance the game to accommodate advanced mechanics and maintain accessibility?

MZ: So one of the easier accessibility examples I can give you is with our character Cerebella. She’s a grappler; grapplers normally have 360 input [Ed note: meaning a full circle with the joystick or D-pad] commands and whatever. So we have a throw input already, so if she had a command throw, instead of being a 360 motion and throw, it’s just fireball and throw. Instead of a 360 motion and punch, it’s just a fireball and throw.

Basically our approach is make it easier to do the things that you want with a character, rather than making into a single button for a special move or whatever. And that also changes game balance.

Also this
http://www.skullgirls.com/blog/2011/04/19/on-animation-in-skullgirls

Ragnorok64 · April 19, 2011, 6:49am

I wonder how much this game will cost at release. As an unknown fighter that’s DLC only it can’t be too expensive but if each characters is averaging 1300 frames of hand drawn animation I can’t see how this would be cheap to produce.

Missing_Person · April 19, 2011, 7:06am

I’m expecting 1200MSP/$15.

Signed,
Everybody

Hecatom · April 19, 2011, 8:16am

the game would be between 14.99 to 29.99 considering other games that are on the psn

at least is what i think

Sensei_Rouzu · April 19, 2011, 11:30pm

That website is interesting there are a few more characters on there than what was on the site at first. At first it was the main girl, Cerebella, M Fortune, Squiggly, Umbrella, Parasoul, Painwheel, and Peacock. Now I see n Annie, Marie, Valentine, Corkscrew, No Evil, Venus, Violet, Gigan.

Out of those I don’t want 2 see:
Gigan
Venus

I want to see:
No Evil
Valentine
Violet

Indifferent to:
Annie
Marie
Corkscrew

Anemone · April 20, 2011, 12:04am

Shit I would buy Annie DLC haha. Adorable.

Jamp · April 20, 2011, 1:23am

I hope the bosses will be playable, I love Bloody Marie’s design.

Also, that extra characters concept art looks amazing. Hopefully those will show up in the final game, whether in the initial roster os as DLC.

thats_mind_games · April 20, 2011, 1:43am

all the character designs look cool especially cerebella shes super cool

Anotak · April 20, 2011, 2:10am

i would drop extra money for valentine and annie dlc

Anemone · April 20, 2011, 5:33am

Hey there’s some update designs for these two.
http://pub.tenkuu.net/Images/091116_lj_post/skullgirls/090418_venus04_lines.jpg
http://pub.tenkuu.net/Images/091116_lj_post/skullgirls/090902_dviolet01c.jpg

Browse his blog man, it’s full of design sketches and such.

Jamp · April 20, 2011, 5:37am

Venus just went from meh to OMG PUT HER IN.

Anemone · April 20, 2011, 5:51am

That wasn’t even the best picture either haha.

http://pub.tenkuu.net/Images/2009/pchat_22_venus_color.jpg

I thought I already knew what this game was going to look like, but after seeing all of these sketches, I think I have LESS of an idea of who anyone but Valentine and the initial roster is going to be.

thats_mind_games · April 20, 2011, 5:52am

these own