This year we'll finally hit the mark, it'll finally be 10 whole years since I started developing MUGEN content and posting in this lovely forum.
For those of you who don't know who I am: I developed several techniques, solutions and systems for MUGEN throughout the years, some of them widely adopted due to their portability, performance and ease of use.
I also had the pleasure of being an administrator for this forum, a founding member of the site known as TrinityMUGEN and a rather lazy moderator for the now resting RandomSelect. I've worked alongside many prolific coders, helped in the development of several projects and guided new coders as they learned their way through the engine.
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You can find some of my recent MUGEN work here.-
Some of my old and unreleased work here.Most of my free time is spent playing and competing in local fighting game gatherings and crashing some of TheBrett's streams occasionally, so you may also know me from my fighting game shenanigans.
In any case, I've already "quit MUGEN" in 3 different occasions and for very diverse reasons (haven't we all?) so at this point even mentioning the phrase is a joke. This time around I'm not typing a quitting post, I'm looking to complete some great projects and have fun with the community once more like in the good old days.
The rules for the coding challenge will be as follows: as soon as I start a new WIP you can enter the coding challenge for that session by following these guidelines:
- You must program a character that appears in one of the source games as the ones I'm converting from OR program a character with a similar gameplay style or design.
- Accuracy (if you're doing a conversion) is important.
- Team efforts are encouraged.
- You can't submit a character you already coded.
- Re-read these rules as many times as possible, be creative.
During each programming session I will invite (as in publicly call out) one expert coder of the field I'm working on (SNK, Capcom, Anime, other) to enter the challenge. It is then up to the community to decide if they should help this expert clear the challenge or enter the contest by themselves.
