Here's your chance to get involved in being part of NintendoAGE's first whole of community homebrew release!

After discussing the NAGE Hunt cart with Tusky and realising how much fun he's been having with it, we've decided to release the game to the community as a hollow shell of a game ready to be rethemed and reimagined by members of NA!

That's right, while it wouldn't be right to release the one of a kind rom won by UncleTusk in the great NAGE Hunt '09, we are looking for creative geniuses to come up with a new theme, music and graphics for the game and release it for everyone What I'm imagining is anyone who contributes an idea that makes it into the final release will get their names in the credits and if it ends up on a cartridge, all proceeds will go to NA.

Here's the original in action to get a feel for the general gameplay:





What we need:

• Music
• Background graphics
  
• Characters/explodables graphics
  

Theme

It has been decided that we will aim to get this rethemed for Halloween this year, as of writing, just over 2 weeks away!


Music

Use famitracker to produce some new music, aim for something spooky!!


Background

In the original this is the background picture and includes the island, water, flag and text (basically anything that doesn't blow up). NES background colour restrictions apply, however ideas are welcome in any form. Probably looking for a graveyard, or haunted house looking scene!


Characters/explodables

All the characters in the game were implemented using sprites, the different sizes are shown below. In the above examples these could be redrawn as buildings, aliens, cars, fish or any combination you can think of

• 2 more 16x32 characters - ghosts, ghouls, witches, demons?
  
• 1 32x32 (aka UncleTusk) - maybe a ghoulish UncleTusk?
  
• 1 16x16 (Shark) - maybe a ghost?
  
• 1 16x16 (2 frame animation bird) - maybe a bat?
  
• 1 8x8 (bird dropping) - guano?
  

Completed

• 1 16x16 2 frame animation (crab substitute) - Mr. Gimmick
  

• 2 16x32 characters - Mr. Gimmick

So is this supposed to be an actual platformer type game, or just another silly/fun little point scoring game like the NAge Hunt one?

This sounds awesome! Time to put my thinking cap on.

Gameplay will remain pretty much as it is, but the idea is to redesign the look and feel of the game based on new graphics and music.

Kaboom 8.

(the 8 is for 8-bit, and also a joke since there was never a sequel but it's one of the most-mentioned games that never saw another release)

I don't think I can add much for design, but I have no problem helping with assembly of the carts if the proceeds are going to NA.

This is a really cool project James, can't wait to see how it comes out

Have my avatar flying over some hellish area bombing demons or gremlins.


EDIT to add:

Or use Daedalus in a Greek/Minoan setting dropping rocks on little minotaurs.

Or make it a porno title. Porno titles always sell well That way you don't have to change the white globs dropping out of the sky.

Beat-em-and-eat-em-NES!

Forum Troll Hunt.
NA Forum Troll Hunt
NAGE Forum Troll Hunt
you have your regular members that you dont Smite then you have the "trolls" that you have to drop a Ban-bomb on the bomb could be a version of what the actual banned Icon is

Space Star-Babes (outer space porno)

Very Hot Shots (on the sun, in space)

NGD's Revenge

^ ewwww

however a kaboom port of sorts to the NES would be the shit, especially if you could get it to work with the arkanoid controller

Hmmm, I think we should try and keep the theme a bit cleaner...I'll update the first post with a list of ideas raised so far tonight and once we get a few more I'll set up a vote to see what's most popular.

I'd definately be willing to create a port of Kaboom as a side project if someone was to provide me with an Arkanoid controller

with the troll hunt idea you could have levels like we have sub forums so for instance the first level would be the introduce yourself section and the boss could be Joel. from the epic stickied post... or seths sac I'll leave that on the cutting room floor maybe lol but to defeat the boss maybe you'd have to drop say 3 banned bombs on him/her/it

second level Auction Spotlight and the boss could be say Dutch

third level Buy/ sell / trade then the boss would be Nofriendo because of his stunt with the demo unit

etc etc you get the idea

There was an old game I used to play when I first got a computer back in the 90's called Ganja Farmer, this game was so much fun and very addicting. Maybe a remake of that. Check it out I'm sure its still on the net somewhere.

I'm Currently working on a 'Zombie Bomber' theme where you drop bombs on a zombie infested city or something like that. The crab will be replaced by a walking hand, the NA members replaced by zombies, the seagul will be a helicopter or something, and not sure on the shark yet...

So essentially it would be a simple graphics swap as everything will be approximately the same size sprites. Heres 3 of the sprites I've made so far.

           

I'm going to work on some more sprites and a background soon. After I make this one I also plan to create an outer space graphics set, or maybe a castle / dragon theme

Cool, getting a few good ideas here now

Hey, it would be awesome if this song I made gets in the game. Here's the link to the page to download it: http://famitracker.shoodot.net/fo...

It's kinda catchy!

I like Gimmick's zombie-themed stuff.

Make it a NintendoAGE Halloween 2009 release!

What about using NA's mascot and build the theme around him.  He could be flying overhead fantasy/mythical monsters and dropping keys on them in a castle setting maybe.  Might not be as cool as zombies, but just throwing an idea out there.

That might be cool actually

I think you should make me a giant and I can pick up all of you up over my head and splatter you into ngd;s gaint nes hahahah

Well I had a go at composing some music for it, I didn't know how to use that Famitracker program though so I've just done it as a .midi for now. Not sure if it's any good or if it will fit with the game, but it's my first time writing music for a game. It's pretty basic right now but more stuff could be added to it.

I thought of a name nintendoage rampage