Your Fighting Game

[GrooveMan.exe]

it can't be based off of existing video game characters.

Lawl, fuck that.

Copy/Pasted from PixelCore:

I've been playing a lot of fighters lately, and the ones that I've liked the most have been the high-energy, silly, and easy to pick up ones - mostly the Vs. Capcom games, but also Pocket Fighter and Custom Beat Battle Draglade.

And although I've had no experience actually playing MUGEN or similar custom content engines, I like the whole 'recogniseable characters beating the shit out of eachother' angle. Although at the same time, it feels a bit lame if the crossover characters in question have nothing in common with eachother.

I remember once on tSR where I joked about a Jet Set Radio X TWEWY fighter, where all the playable characters are from bright urban fantasy settings; and in retrospect, that would be a pretty fun concept to sprite for, if not make in its own right.

And then came the daydreaming over what characters to include. In order to keep a theme (and avoid the 'why would these characters even meet' clusterfuck) they all ended up being teenage (or otherwise manchildren), from or exclusively set in an urban setting, and not especially serious. Not using the main characters from those games sounded like a good idea too. I thought of

Joshua (The World Ends with You)
Gum (Jet Set Radio)
Travis Touchdown [although Shinobu might be better] (No More Heroes)
Roxas [Casual Clothes] (Kingdom Hearts)
Yosuke (Persona 4)
Con Smith (Killer 7)
Li'l Slugger (Paranoia Agent)

I was tempted to include that Ninja kid from Garou: Mark of Wolves, but I figured taking someone already in a fighting game would be cheating.

As for the mechanics, I liked how Garou let you set an area of your HP where you can pull of a specific special, in addition to having a traditional specials system. Individual chatacters would probably have their own mechanics gimmick to ad a bit more depth to a simpler combat system (e.g. Roxas can air-dash a la Guilty Gear, Yosuke can use his Persona, Jiraya in a similar way to a JoJo Bizarre Adventure fighter, etc.)

The sprite style? Hmm, nothing too large or complex, more Street Fighter Alpha than KoF 12, and maybe going easy on the frame count. Bright, Showy colours would be the order of the day, with the proportions and characteristics of the characters played up. Not so much to the degree of Pocket Fighter, but cartoony nonetheless.