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My little* son, Jacob, was born on Wednesday, November 21st (almost a week overdue, and induced at that... who knows how long he'd have taken on his own; a procrastinator like his dad)

So that hopefully explains why I've been quiet recently (and not likely to be too active for a little while longer)

I'll post some more details later!

*9lbs 3oz, 21 1/2 inches (so not so "little"... of course, his old man weighed in at 9lbs 12oz, so it must run in the family!)

"There’s a character named Ness who has appeared in the Smash Bros. series up until now"

Up. Until. Now.

: (

So, if I've understood this wording correctly, it sounds like Ness has been completely replaced by Lucas (as opposed to my hope that they'd include both of them, with different move sets)...

Goodbye, my friend...

Alas, this is the first (and hopefully only) disappointing news to come out of the new Smash Bros, so I think I can forgive them...

I guess, though, that aside from some added abilities, some tweaks to the familiar attacks, and a cosmetic change, he's still basically the same fighter Ness was... So as long as his style still feels like Ness', I'll be alright, I hope...

I still wish they'd give us Ness, though... Maybe there's still hope of him being included as an assist trophy or something...

Well, it seems hard to believe that it has already been a year since I put up that download link to a preview copy of what I had done so far... It's also hard to believe that so little has been done since then...lol

But (and even though this post comes late... heck, I didn't even update the hub page until nearly midnight last night, right before work) I've once again put up a preview edition on MM's hub page...

I was hoping to have this update finished by yesterday, but I didn't make it... It's nearly to the point I want it to be, but it still needs a good chunk of work... However, it's playable in the current form, so feel free to check it out and break it in all of the many ways I'm sure it can be broken!

http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/gamemode/various/ various10.html

Holy crap the awesomeness never stops flowing out of this game... I can't wait!

So, work on Murder Mansion continues full bore (well, compared to the last few months of getting nothing accomplished, even the smallest bit of progress looks like I'm racing along...lol), and I was just running a few test rounds, and ended up with the following screenshot to share:



That's me, standing in the rain, in a flash of lightning, next to the pool, with my latest victims resting at the bottom (now that I think about it, I guess they should be floating... oh well, though... I also suppose the blood should have turned the water red, instead of leaving well-defined splatters on the bottom, but oh well again) The shovel I used to kill them was dropped when I slipped on some muddy footprints and/or blood splatters on the deck, and can be seen nearby...

The funny thing about this shot is that both of these men took more than one hit to take down, and both had tried to run away from me, only to fall into the pool, where I finished them off...

Oh yeah, how do you like my snazzy new duds?

Each map will have its own clothing (formalwear in the Mansion, hiking/camping clothes on the Campgrounds map, hospital gowns on the Hospital map, etc.), and the overlays will be colored to match the room you've chosen for that round... You'll notice that the poor fellow closest to me in this shot was my roommate...lol

The AI is still not quite fully functioning, but I'm working on that next...

I'm still developing in 3.5, so the game doesn't yet have any of the 4.0 glitz (speaking of which: holy crap, it's going to look great with transparent darkness effects instead of dithers), but after I get this coming version knocked out, I'm going to move the game into 4.0 for a subsequent update (leaving both available so the few 3.5 holdouts can still enjoy it... Of course, by then, maybe everyone will have already accepted 4.0)

Anyways, back to work!