Post subject: FF6-like twitch-online-multiplayer retro-fangame
Aran_Jaeger
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I just thought I'd make a topic in here about a free to play fangame which has been worked on over multiple months by Lioran, a friend of mine, in case some people here might be interested in this. The fangame is a browser game (works best with Chrome, but others work too) in the spirit of mainly FF6, although it contains a broad mix of game elements (such as graphics & tilesets used for the world design; sound effects & battle- and background-musics; characters & monsters, together with items, trading and abilities; area themes for dungeons;...) from other games such as Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Breath of Fire 2, Lufia 2, Brain Lord, and Illusion of Gaia. The game is set up as multiplayer online game (accessible 24/7) that's connected with twitch (one logs in with a twitch name and is once given a 4 digit code to be entered in a channel that's specifically made for the game ( https://www.twitch.tv/chatthemmo ) for confirmation to get started, and doesn't even have to download anything). Every player controls 1 character (e.g. Shadow from FF6 as 1 of 30+ chars distributed over 4 char classes, but one can change the character to others as often as one wants in the game) each with an own ability set that's growing at higher and higher levels, and further into the game, one's supposed to team up with friends/other players, or how ever one wants, into (temporary) parties of up to 4 members to battle through dungeons and their bosses. There's many differently rare items in the game that can be acquired, and even ''pvp'' matches are implemented for fun. If you are interested in what this game is like, here's a link to it: http://chatthemmo.servegame.com/ (And the game really isn't so demanding execution-wise and works on phones aswell, so it's easy to play alongside watching streams >_>.)
collect, analyse, categorise. "Mathematics - When tool-assisted skills are just not enough" ;) Don't want to be taking up so much space adding to posts, but might be worth mentioning and letting others know for what games 1) already some TAS work has been done (ordered in decreasing amount, relative to a game completion) by me and 2) I am (in decreasing order) planning/considering to TAS them. Those would majorly be SNES games (if not, it will be indicated in the list) I'm focusing on. 1) Spanky's Quest; On the Ball/Cameltry; Musya; Super R-Type; Plok; Sutte Hakkun; The Wizard of Oz; Battletoads Doubledragon; Super Ghouls'n Ghosts; Firepower 2000; Brain Lord; Warios Woods; Super Turrican; The Humans. 2) Secret Command (SEGA); Star Force (NES); Hyperzone; Aladdin; R-Type 3; Power Blade 2 (NES); Super Turrican 2; First Samurai. (last updated: 18.03.2018)
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Tried it but doesn't works, the right side frame which would have the twitch chat, tries to load "https://www.twitch.tv/chatthemmo/chat" but fails (Chrome: www.twitch.tv refused to connect.). I see that the mentioned link works in new page, redirecting to "https://www.twitch.tv/popout/chatthemmo/chat". Also I don't really understand why it requires/based on top of Twitch chat (yes I see there are buffs and others and "ability to play while watching streams" which would also apply if this wouldn't based on the chat itself... ?!).
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Aran_Jaeger
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Yes the screen on the right side currently is off. It might get back later again, but it isn't so important, since the chat from the ''chatthemmo'' twitch stream page works aswell for the game (the screen on the right would just be a copy of exactly that integrated into that window). The game was longer ago meant to be something that people could do alongside a stream, and twitch chats provide a good environment for communication for the purpose of the game, but the stream part isn't relevant anymore, so it is the game on its own, but just bound to twitch chat at this point.
collect, analyse, categorise. "Mathematics - When tool-assisted skills are just not enough" ;) Don't want to be taking up so much space adding to posts, but might be worth mentioning and letting others know for what games 1) already some TAS work has been done (ordered in decreasing amount, relative to a game completion) by me and 2) I am (in decreasing order) planning/considering to TAS them. Those would majorly be SNES games (if not, it will be indicated in the list) I'm focusing on. 1) Spanky's Quest; On the Ball/Cameltry; Musya; Super R-Type; Plok; Sutte Hakkun; The Wizard of Oz; Battletoads Doubledragon; Super Ghouls'n Ghosts; Firepower 2000; Brain Lord; Warios Woods; Super Turrican; The Humans. 2) Secret Command (SEGA); Star Force (NES); Hyperzone; Aladdin; R-Type 3; Power Blade 2 (NES); Super Turrican 2; First Samurai. (last updated: 18.03.2018)
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I played this for a little bit, good nostalgia kick. Seemed really grindy though, and I didn't like the idea of not being able to choose your class. (Luckily my character started as a Tank-Healer, which seems ideal)
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Actually, with a recent update one now can ''collect'' more and more characters and switch between any of them in a controlled way basically at any point once acquired which improves the game further, makes it more complete I think, with a character class tree, that looks about like this:
collect, analyse, categorise. "Mathematics - When tool-assisted skills are just not enough" ;) Don't want to be taking up so much space adding to posts, but might be worth mentioning and letting others know for what games 1) already some TAS work has been done (ordered in decreasing amount, relative to a game completion) by me and 2) I am (in decreasing order) planning/considering to TAS them. Those would majorly be SNES games (if not, it will be indicated in the list) I'm focusing on. 1) Spanky's Quest; On the Ball/Cameltry; Musya; Super R-Type; Plok; Sutte Hakkun; The Wizard of Oz; Battletoads Doubledragon; Super Ghouls'n Ghosts; Firepower 2000; Brain Lord; Warios Woods; Super Turrican; The Humans. 2) Secret Command (SEGA); Star Force (NES); Hyperzone; Aladdin; R-Type 3; Power Blade 2 (NES); Super Turrican 2; First Samurai. (last updated: 18.03.2018)