Mushroom Kingdom Hearts -in progress

Since getting RPG Maker 2003 for my PC, I've been thinking about creating my own fan made version of what I think 'Mushroom Kingdom Hearts' would be like by using sprites & backgrounds from different games. I know where to find a bunch of character sprites, but the only problem I have atmo is trying to figure out which 'Nintendo' hud worlds that Sora, Luigi, & Mario would go to. I've also never seen any kind of ships in the Mushroom Kingdom 'world' so I'd have to explain in game that Dr E Gadd is the one who'd come up with the spaceship that they would fly to other worlds on. I'll be the one to create the story, & then design which worlds the characters could go to, along with if I wanted to swap characters out as they tend to in the KH series or not.

It's probably going to take me a year or more to make this game. So first I plan to fetch sprites for this game as well as edit ones for characters I plan to add into the game, along with backgrounds. I also will use this thread to show what all I'm up to, updates & what not. Yes I know this is going to be a HUGE project since I'm the one who's going to be doing the bulk of the game's production. I also may take some breaks from it & thus why it'll probably take a bit longer then some people might like. Thus I can understand how after some time some might get impatient with this whole process.

Any who, first I'm going to start off easy fetching sprites of the main characters:

Sora:

Mario:

Luigi:

Ok, so far I've got Sora, Mario & Luigi. Next I need to find Princess Peach's castle, since usually most Mario & Luigi games start at the castle or show a scene leading the bro's to head off to the castle anyway.

Peach's castle:

So I figure I'll start the game with Mario & Luigi at home:

Mario & Luigi's house:

When -BOOM-  their home shakes! And Toad runs in to all frazzled! "Oh no! We're under attack!" To hide under Luigi's bed.

Toad:

The player can then play as Mario & Luigi, the player can't leave from the house until they find Toad & get him to come out from hiding under Luigi's bed. (xD)

..Any who before I get too much further into the story; I kind of need to figure out what worlds I want the player to be able to visit during the game. For now I'm going to use the gba worlds as a base for how many worlds could possibly be visited:


Hmm... Looks to me like I need a main world as 'home base' something along the lines of Traverse Town, but I'm wanting to change that up for my fan game. It also looks to me like I'm going to need at least 12 worlds from the Nintendo universe as worlds. I would like to have 3 game worlds that aren't related to Nintendo for plot reasons.  

So far I've been thinking along the lines of the following 'worlds': 1) Metroid, 2) Legend of Zelda, 3) Fire Emblem, 4) Paper Mario, 5) Pokemon, 6) Animal Crossing, 7) Smash Bros Coliseum, 8) Nintendo Land [works like the main hud world like Twilight Town does in the KH series I figure -this may change thou.], 9) Golden Sun, [-The rest are worlds I need for plot reasons:] 10) Broken World, 11) Hollow Bastion, & 12) World that Never Could Be.

I'm going to take some time to build the story & what not. But I will post an update as soon as I've gotten the story for the game done. I'll only post graphics I find here, since I want the story to be something that is experienced when playing the game. ^_^

Sounds like you're really planning to put in a lot of effort for this, so I hope it pays off in the end! Your ideas sound pretty cool, you're definitely going to need more sprites than what you have so far though. xD But obviously you know that. I'm really excited to see the end product and I'm cheering you on!

Yea, I know but I don't want to get too ahead of myself by not making the plot first & then I figure after that I can go fetching sprites, & backgrounds. I'm going to be making a few new character sprites for the story, more so since the villain isn't going to be standard Bowser fair as he has been lately in the M&L RPG games.

Sprites I've found so far:
Princess Peach
Prof E Gadd
Bowser
Starlow
Zero Suit Samus
Samus in her suit (plus her ship)

Geno:

So the game will be using things from Superstar Saga and other GBA games? I like the ideas behind the game and I can't wait to see where it goes from here.

Yea, basically. It's easier for me to add in the sprites from the gba games & Sora looks better as a gba sprite next to the gba versions of Mario & Luigi.

But, any way this is going to be a pretty long process since I have to create the story as well as the flow of the game, some new characters, as well as a some new 'worlds' graphics for the places I have planned for the characters to visit.

Is the top spritesheet for Geno actually from a game? Because I definitely don't remember that at all. But it looks oddly really good.

Zero Revolution wrote:Is the top sprite sheet for Geno actually from a game? Because I definitely don't remember that at all. But it looks oddly really good.

No, it's a fan made sprite of the character. Still yea, it's one of my favorite sprites that I've found for Geno by far.