I was contacted by a producer who contacted Elecbyte and bought a licensed version of Mugen from them

You can send pms now, your account was unverified.

Before I toss money on this, because I want to, I would really like to see documented proof that this is in fact possible. ut sounds sketchy if there was a middleman involved and you never got into contact with elecbyte themselves, who have been MIA for the better part of a year. I didn't even know they sold licensed versions of the engine. If that were the case why was this not a publicly available option to the rest of us

Additionally, I've noticed in the video that you're using a lot of assets from commercial games (including frankenspriting), which could cause some legal issues. I would recommend re-tracing your own sprite-sheets so that you don't have to start completely from scratch. That'll hopefully help you keep a unified art-style as well. Your own style is honesly way more interesting than that the one shown in the video (which is good looking in its own right)

All of you guys are right. I hope you'll be able to contact Elecbyte very soon to confirm that what I said about our license is true. Mugen is something that I love, I don't wanna stole nothing from it.

if you're gonna ask for money on this then why not go for a proprietary engine to develop your game? or make your own? there's lots of engines out there that bypass all of mugen's limitations, especially the online multiplayer limitation.
you seem like a trusted user, but contracting Elecbyte is just too hard to believe.

Yeah, I didn't want to be a party pooper so I avoided the thread for a while but I would seriously check things out there and see if everything's truly alright. I remember when I was contacted by a guy who supposedly had the rights to a Breakers remake a while ago. I got the fuck out of the deal as soon as I found out how little idea the guy had about... Well, pretty much anything. It was a legal disaster waiting to happen.

I'm sorry it had to be this way man, but it was all easily avoided.

Hello everyone. My name is Jeremy Patterson. Yes we are working with Elecbyte and they will hopefully be able to make another announcement on their official website once it is back up and running. Keep in mind that they are still in retirement and working on other projects at this time. Myself, Aiduzzi and the other members did not create this project to scam anyone. We just wanted to bring a new fighting game to the lovers of the genre. We thought that the mugenguild community would welcome such project with open arms. I will answer anyone's questions by pm to this account concerning this project, my relationship with Elecbyte and my past work with Visco on their ports of Breakers Revenge. I will answer as best as I can as long as the subject matter does not violate any non disclosure agreements between myself and Elecbyte. Also, if you message me I will chat with you by Skype if you have that capability. I have already chatted with a few members of this forum by Skype. Thank you for your time. This will be my last public message. Thank you.

"We thought that the mugenguild community would welcome such project with open arms."

I stand by everything I have said here.
You guys have much to learn and to prove if you intend to ask for that much on a crowd funding campaign. No one knows you all, you never released any games, doesn't have your resumes there, nothing.
How do you expect to people to give you money with those credentials? The age of easy money for game development projects on crowd funding platforms died in 2011.

Bea said, May 05, 2016, 12:28:58 am

I stand by everything I have said here.
You guys have much to learn and to prove if you intend to ask for that much on a crowd funding campaign. No one knows you all, you never released any games, doesn't have your resumes there, nothing.
How do you expect to people to give you money with those credentials? The age of easy money for game development projects on crowd funding platforms died in 2011.

Bea, let me say that I don't understand your point of view which I think is wrong. The problem here is not that, as you said, this game is trying to make "easy money" , the problem is that this game has never got off the ground!. And that's not because people don't like this game (and if you don't like it, I don't have nothing against you) but because the debate was just on "what was stolen". As I said, we made mistakes, but even if are Naughty Dogs and you're going to build a crowdfunding campaign for Uncharted 4, you'll get nothing if all people don't talk of the gameplay but only that the engine was stolen and Nathan Drake's left hands is stolen from MGS Big Boss! You can seems professional as you want, but if people don't speak of your game, you'll never have a chance even if your C.V. is full of successes! 

P.S. Do you really think that our presentation video is extremely amateurish?  Everyone who saw it (included some professial videogames    journalists) said that it is awesome! 

oh yeah fei long's chest on that old man and freeman from garou on the ring girl, they did sorta stick out like a sore thump.
he said he will revise them didn't he?

i think it should've had an introduction by the team or a voice over. you should've emphasized that the game needs funding in it, otherwise people will watch it and say "cool" and just click away.
 

I see you are just ignoring people answeirng your questions now, so I guess a blind eye to the issues raised it is.