RobotMonkeyHead
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If you'd like to volunteer to review some Mugen content, add your name to the list of potential Judges by posting here.
If you change your mind later just delete your post. Contributing can earn you Quill Trophies, and help others earn Reviewed Badges. -
Before we activate the trophies for Character Creation, Stage Creation etc, I think an open discussion about the final requirements for each would give us the fairest version possible.
There was actually a small discussion about it a couple years ago where some points worth considering were made.
Part 1
Part 2
Here are where the requirements stand right now, just as a starting point. We can adjust from here as people offer input.
_____/ Character Creator
For a character to be counted as complete, it must have all necessary sprites and states and no major bugs.
Coding, sprites and animations quality must pass community evaluation.Bronze = create 2 complete characters
Silver = create 5 complete characters incorporating at least 3 strikers, and 3 animated hyper finish bgs
Gold = create 10 complete characters at least 4 with 5+ hypers and 5+ specials, and 4 with 3+ intros and win poses
Platinum = create 15 complete characters at least 1 source accurate (or very close), and 1 that clearly shows the refinement of your skills in some way
_____/ Stage Creator
For a stage to be counted as playable, there must be no exposed "background" space, and no major defects with
the edge movement or sliding parallax. The images quality and consistency must also pass community evaluation.Bronze = create 10 playable, animated, multi-layer, stages
Silver = create 25 playable, animated, multi-layer, stages at least 10 with parallax
Gold = create 50 playable, animated, multi-layer, stages at least 20 with super jump and 20 with zoom
Platinum = create 100 playable, animated, multi-layer stages, at least 10 with bg controllers, and 1 that clearly shows the refinement of your skills in some way_____/ Motif Master
For a screen pack to be counted as complete it must have it's own intro, ending, title, select and vs screen.
The screen packs overall quality must also pass community evaluation.Bronze = create 2 complete screen packs
Silver = create 4 complete screen packs at least 1 high res
Gold = create 6 complete screen packs at least 3 with multiple slot options
Platinum = create 8 complete screen packs, at least 2 with custom life bars, and 1 that clearly shows the refinement of your skills in some way -
Where all our Ikemen happens:
http://mugenfreeforall.com/forum/169-ikemen-dojo/
Rodknee runs it, we try to do an Ikemen Tourney once per season. -
Trophy System Soft Opening
Where did those missing clubs wander off to? Seeing as they weren't getting much traffic, I repurposed them. With a little css finessing they've become the core functionality of a trophy system.
Members will be able to earn trophies for various accomplishments, like character creation, write ups in the monthly judgement, and other things.
We're going to start it with a couple of trophies, and if it works out well and people like it, we'll add more as time goes on, likely update the existing imagery etc.
Soft opening is just to make clear that it's in a trial phase, which among other things means its open to suggestion regarding its design, both visually and to some extent functionally.
Nobody has any trophies yet. The first round will be given out to the Character of the Month winner, and to contributors in the Monthly Judgement. Trophies for the Ikemen Dojo will also be made available in the beginning so keep an eye out for the next seasonal Ikemen Tourney. You must have discipline if you're going to win the Golden Dragon, so training should begin as soon as possible.
They first round of trophies will be made available and visible in the [ EVENTS ] section some time this week.
Let us know what you think here, ask questions etc, feedback is soo very much appreciated!
Aaand some teaser pics:
Marble C.ot.M Trophy Golden Dragon Trophy (Ikemen Dojo) Platinum Quill Trophy (for various types of write ups)
UPDATE:The Awards system is now active.
Check out the currently available Awards here. -
Ah, the delights of having earned the Marble Reviewed Badge!
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Talkidy talk talk talk.
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Yerp.
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Enter soapbox left.
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Right here right here.
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Congrats to TotalDramaXtremist, and StrikeFreedomGirl555, our tied first place winners! Each will get 6 months out of the year, so we now have a summer banner and a winter banner. TotalDramaXtremist's is currently up.
Check em out along with all the other entries here!
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In regards to the tie, we decided to rotate the 2 winning banners, giving each 6 months out of each year.
TotalDramaXtremist's will be our winter banner, and StrikeFreedomGirl555's the summer.
Thanks to Rodknee for the idea of rotating em.
To everyone who participated, thank you for putting in the time, effort and patience to make these. You guys definitely made some quality stuff.
Congrats @TotalDramaXtremist and @StrikeFreedomGirl555!!!
New banner's up! -
The authors among authors very own communal area. May the verbose prolix commence!
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The general discourse place!
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Talk spot for talking.
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Gen discourse central.
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The famed general discussion thread.
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The general discourse thread.
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You guessed it.
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We've recently opened up the following new forums on the site. Come check em out!
[ FANFICTION ] ~ Share your fan fiction work! It's in the Galleries section.
http://mugenfreeforall.com/forum/450-fanfiction/
[ COMMISSIONS HUB ] ~ Place to connect people for creative work commissioning.
http://mugenfreeforall.com/forum/453-commissions-hub/
[ EMBASSIES ] ~ For discussing the Mugen community at large on other sites. Admins and Mods from any and all Mugen site's are welcome, and anyone is free to participate.
http://mugenfreeforall.com/forum/440-embassies/
[ MONTHLY JUDGEMENT ] ~ Monthly reviews of Mugen content by a rotating panel of reviewers! In the Events section.
http://mugenfreeforall.com/forum/516-mffa-monthly-judgment/
[ CHARACTER OF THE MONTH ] ~ Yep. Found in the Events section.
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OVERVIEW ~
The purpose of this forum is to connect people offering paid Mugen related creative work, with people seeking to pay for custom Mugen related creative work. For example you might want to pay an experienced sprite artist to make you a custom sprite set. Or you might be willing to create a custom sprite set for the right price. Either way, this is where you find your connection.
Here are some examples of the type of work you could commission here: A custom title screen for your motif, a voice patch for a certain character, original stage music, a sprite set for a new attack for an existing character, a 3,472 character slot select screen or a demo video for your recent project.
DISCLAIMER ~
Any monetary exchanges that take place regarding this work are completely out of our hands. We take no responsibility for deals made or broken.
TAGS ~
Only the following special tags are available on this forum:• Creator Offering Work
• Requesting Creative Work
• Mugen Coder
• Mugen Editor
• Character Creator
• Stage Creator
• Motif Creator
• Spriter
• Animator
• Palette Maker
• Voice Actor
• Videographer• Artist
• Musician
DISCORD ~Some of these tags also exist as roles on our Discord server, independently of how they're used here.
You might find some connections there on the #mugen-requests channel as well.
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I still poke away at it here and there. If I can get to a point where it's ready for the final push I'll update.
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These are lookin reaaaally good! Very nice work fellas.
Just in case anyone happens to want the font from the current banner here it is.
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On 1/9/2019 at 10:48 AM, Ricepigeon said:
Got digital art skills? Want to show them off while contributing to the site? Now's your chance!
Our community, Mugen Free For All, has been around for a very long time, with the earliest iteration of this site dating as far back as late 2007. Our site has undergone some drastic changes since then, but the spirit has always remained the same; and in that timespan, it's come time for another fresh coat of paint, which is where YOU, the community, come in.
We'll be handling this event in a 2-stage process: Submissions & Voting. Submissions must meet the following criteria:
- Dimensions no larger than 1350x160.
- Must be MUGEN or Fighting Game related.
- Nothing R18/NSFW. Try to keep it PG-13 at maximum.
- Must be a static image (no GIF/APNG formats).
The deadline for submissions will be in exactly 2 weeks from today (January 24th, 2019), after which we will hold public voting.
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MUGEN MULTIVERSE DISCUSSION
This thread is for keeping up with Mugen Multiverse's presence in the Mugen community. Anyone is welcome to the discussion, especially admins and moderators from M.M. The goal is to contribute to the overall health of the community, so please keep discourse civil. That doesn't mean you can't express criticism here, just try to refrain from general attacks that have no real purpose. Keep the guidelines in mind, and treat any visiting staff from other forums with the same respect you treat our staff while in the embassies.
Character stage etc creation trophies requirements discussion
in [ STAFF HQ ]
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Darkflare
If we ditch them all but the numbers, I think we'd be rewarding quantity over quality. Which is something plasmoid is also worried about with the current criteria. So I can see ditching all the ones that are currently there, like other people are saying, and yourself in part at least. They do call for a specific type of character, which is shitty. Too rigid. What would be your thoughts on replacing them instead with something a little looser and more refined?
MkTendou
A valid point, I hear that and it's certainly not something I'm interested in doing, pigeonholing creators into creating a certain type of character if they want a trophy. Fuck that. Yea so the requirements (at least for character creation) have to be pulled way back to necessities only. Anything beyond that, the kinds of specifications that would produce a specific type of character, maybe should each have their own trophy (like a capcom style char creation trophy etc). But that's way down the road, so not to get side tracked.
Yes, got it.
PlasmoidThunder
Agreed fully, and already covered why. When I first put the idea out there a couple years ago, I just had numbers for the criteria. People rightly brought up the point that that's again pushing quantity over quality, so I / we took a first shot at drawing up some criteria. But yea looking back like you guys are pointing out they are stiflingly narrow. So then in pulling them back to bare minimum so they interfere with the creative process as little as possible, what would be your recommendations for requirements?
Heard.
HelloMyNameIsAAA
I like your idea of having a "complete character" criteria which applies to all characters submitted (required sprites etc). I'd like to expand it a little further too. As for the number of characters required, I'll lower it a little bit, but I want to keep the platinum trophies really difficult to get, so they're rare. The bronze should be relatively easy, so younger people and beginner creators can at least get themselves a trophy. But if the numbers are lower, I think there should be some kind of extra thing to get a platinum. idk what exactly...
Everyone
I fully agree we should avoid boxing people in creatively. Like at all. It's Mugen. The question then becomes what precisely are the distinguishing characteristics that make for a "good" character in any style? On what basis exactly can this judgement be made?
@HelloMyNameIsAAA I definitely like your idea of having a "complete character" criteria which draws on @MkTendou and @PlasmoidThunder suggestion of just doing required sprites etc. So using that as a starting point, and then adding requirements similar to required sprites and states, while including AAA's other idea of adding a single unique requirement to each trophy, (and lowering the numbers a little) this is what I got so far:
Complete Character
• All required sprites and states
• Palette functions properly
• Sounds are balanced and present where appropriate
• Damage dealt and received is appropriate to the character
• No bugs, debug floods or sprite swaps
Bronze ~ Create 3 complete characters.
Silver ~ Create 5 complete characters. 1 must have an A in either presentation or functionality in the Monthly Judgement.
Gold ~ Create 8 complete characters. Author must have shown great knowledge of MUGEN coding and character balance.
Platinum ~ Create 13 complete characters. 1 of which must act as their Masterwork, which they feel represents the current full extent of their person skill set.