My idea: brilliant or junk worthy?

[Zephyrspark 9]

This is probably a stupid and dangerous idea. I KNOW it's a stupid and dangerous idea. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if this thread got taken down or something... but I really need to get this off my chest so I'm just going to say it right now.

 

I want to finish the game Fighting is Magic.

 

Yea a lot of you guys think I'm crazy now. You're probably thinking something along the lines of "this guy is insane. It will never work." But please just hear me out. At least try and understand.

 

First off, if you don't know what Fighting is Magic is, it was a My Little Pony fanmade game that had a street fighter theme to it. It got a LOT of attention. However, the Mane 6 dev team (the people who were working on it) recieved a Cease and Desist order from Hasbro meaning they could no longer work on it. The game stopped development just before Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were released as playable characters. As you can very well imagine since I mentioned it got a lot of attention, there were many complaints and many negative reactions. People wanted that game to be finished, myself included. Now, at first, I wasn't too affected by the news. My reaction was something like "Ah well. That sucks. Guess it's not going to be finished." But over time... it kinda grew on me. It bugged me more and more that it was stuck incomplete, especially after seeing so many negative reactions to the C+D order. There is an existing version of it, like I implied, but it's incomplete. It only has 4 playable characters. Which brings me to today.

 

I want to finish what the Mane 6 team started. Not for my own satisfaction (although I will admit, it does play a good role for my desires), not to say "screw you" to Hasbro, but because so many people wanted to play the full verion of this game. Though... I'm going to need a vast amount of help. I don't think I'm actually going to be able to do this myself- actually, I KNOWI won't. For two reasons. One, I lack a good computer to even think about doing something like this, and two... I have zero knowledge on coding at all.

 

I shall now repeat the comment I bet you guys are thinking by now. "This guy is insane. It will never work." It probably won't. At least not for me. Even if you guys can't supply the help for me, specifically, to finish it, I ask that someone else do so instead of me. This game had incredible potential and I would really hate for something like that to remain unfinished.

 

Thank you for hearing my completely rediculous and impossible request.

[Twilight Circuits 603]

There isn't much in my power to do anything to help you at this point in time. Maybe in the future when things look brighter, I'll pull this idea from the backburner. Sorry pony, that's all I can do for you.

[InfinityWhale 771]

It's a great idea - so great that there's actually a group out to do it right now!

 

They're on the 4chan board /mlp/, and they've got a pretty good process going. If you are interested, I would suggest you turn on your hateshields and delve into the forum FOR GREAT JUSTICE.

[Zephyrspark 9]

It's a great idea - so great that there's actually a group out to do it right now!

 

They're on the 4chan board /mlp/, and they've got a pretty good process going. If you are interested, I would suggest you turn on your hateshields and delve into the forum FOR GREAT JUSTICE.

Nu uh. Seriously? Please tell me that you're not kidding around here... do you think you can link me to a thread or something like that? I'm kinda finding that a bit hard to believe. No offense to you, it's just earliar today, when I was so set on finishing it, I learned that it was going to be exponentially harder than I thought.

There isn't much in my power to do anything to help you at this point in time. Maybe in the future when things look brighter, I'll pull this idea from the backburner. Sorry pony, that's all I can do for you.

I came in here thinking my idea was a longshot anyway. You don't have anything to appologise for.

Edited July 9, 2013 by Zephyrspark

[InfinityWhale 771]

I found it off of a Tumblr post, and I apologize, but I can't find the link! But I promise it is legitimate: I even downloaded their pre-alpha build. It's being done very surreptitiously to avoid a deadly C&D letter.

[Ihei 713]

This sounds like a great idea: that game was amazing, but how are you going to pull it off? Hasbro might say that you are subject to copyright.. Good luck.

[Armin 168]

You make it sound like you're gonna assassinate the sender of the cease and desist letter, not finish off the game. Lauren Faust is working with the Mane 6 group to create a version with characters that aren't copyrighted, so there's no need.

[Silent Saturn 34]

You know I'm the same way about good games that never get finished. It drives me right up the wall and you're right, FIM has a lot of potential. I'm like you where I don't have the necessary skills that are needed to complete a job this big. Cripes I could barely understand turing (or however you spell that) and it's archaic compared to coding of today.

 

I can both sympathize and empathize with you on this hun. I hope someday FIM does get finished but for now, we have to make do with what we have.

 

 

-hugs-

[Dowlphin 463]

I wanted to post links that would make you very happy, but that kind of response is just to concise to be allowed due to the minimum character rule that is still in place, and since I can't tnink of anything to add to those links that wouldn't be considere filler, I'll just send you a PM with them.

[techno915 408]

i really want this fighting is magic thing to become a download or online thing. i want to play it so badly! but yeah, great idea.

[Rockymoo 2,137]

I WOULD say it's a great idea and that you should go balls to the wall with it, but reading over your post... Are you sure it's legal to keep working on it? It sounds like the game's already in pretty dangerous waters with Hasbro as it is.

[Denim&Venöm 19,365]

Go for it. Maybe you'll make some innovations that Mane6 could only have dreamed of. It'll take much longer, and a considerable mount of resources, but as long as you keep the product out of the reach of the public eye, and once your done, distribute it all across the web in a way that doesn't link back to you or your dev mates, you'll make your dream, and ours, a reality. And there isn't a thing Hasbro could do about it (well, except apologize).