beat 'em up!!

[Crappy Blue Luigi]

update time!

first off, the creator of gatsby the crab has left my life as well as this project, so gatsby won't be a playable character anymore, or otherwise featured in this game or my other projects. as such, if you have the support button for bmup in your signature, i humbly request that you replace it with this one with gatsby's spot taken by spiny.



alright, with that out of the way, let's get to the good stuff.


we have a new addition to the roster! ... at the cost of an existing character. virt dropped his human self-insert for trollerskates to add more diversity to the character selection. this isn't much of a loss, since virt hadn't developed his character within the game's mechanics yet, so all that was cut was one sprite. virt also made portraits for trollerskates, which you can find here.


aki's sprite was given a minor makeover by me on a spur of the moment. i did it to make her sprite better match the way she draws herself--examples here and here. i sent it to her earlier and she animated it like so:

pretty good for someone who only started working with pixels a couple of months ago!
i simplified her frames and messed with the arm motion, fixing shape consistency errors in the process.

she liked my edit, so this might be her final idle unless she has some changes she wants to make or she wants to try editing her original animation herself with this as a reference.


every character has four "variations"--default costume, default palette; alternate costume, default palette; default costume, alternate palette; and alternate costume, alternate palette. in the case of crappy, he appears as both blue crapsman and crappy blue luigi. i'm slowly working on editing crappy's existing animations into his alternate costume:



here's gsgal's alternate costume.


dev's sprite has seen a minor change in order to make this little-mac-inspired alternate palette work.

that's all i've got to post. i know a couple of members on here have done some wip work recently, but since it's not finalized stuff, i won't post it. they're welcome to if they'd like, though!