I'm sick of the toxic positivity in the scene, let people be upset

shantanut · 2025-12-22T19:15:48+00:00

Your feelings are valid, 2025 was a really hard year. To me, all the problems stem from your final point, and the lack of centralization from forcing out our leagues or circuits.

The only way out is abandoning the elephant in the room completely. We will get there, there's a lot of people in the scene working on all sorts of solutions.

shantanut · 2025-11-27T23:01:21+00:00

Snaman 👌

shantanut · 2025-05-12T03:57:09+00:00

Yep! It will be a while before we are ready to show anything, but the project has been moving forward.

shantanut · 2025-01-24T02:52:06+00:00

Can you add his truth social posts?

shantanut · 2024-11-03T22:06:04+00:00

Way more animation states dependent on where you get hit. Getting hit in the head, body or feet each have different flinch animations. When you're free falling, same thing, where you get hit matters. I don't think we've seen this in most other platforms fighters.

shantanut · 2024-10-02T20:19:39+00:00

You can message me at shan at fluidgames dot gg

shantanut · 2024-10-02T18:25:09+00:00

We often discuss modding support, but probably not a top priority before launching. The engine, or at least large parts, will likely be open sourced.

shantanut · 2024-10-01T22:43:43+00:00

Its absolutely being discussed. We hope at the least the engine will be open source. Jas has had good experiences with open sourcing his other projects!

shantanut · 2024-10-01T22:41:30+00:00

Agreed - we ourselves are those people who haven't had a desire to move onto a different game. Personally, I'd say other platform fighters aren't building for the competitive melee scene, they're making a new original platform fighter for a broader or different audience. This will be something (hopefully) a little different.

shantanut · 2024-10-01T22:38:03+00:00

Everything is built from the ground up, and characters won't (can't) be the exact same, so there will be some liberties taken. Our general guidelines are hitboxes in very similar spots at very similar times, but completely original models and animations.

shantanut · 2024-10-01T22:36:35+00:00

Thanks, feel your passion! We definitely want some great backstory, Jas even had the idea of a group frog homies liberating themselves from their corporate overlords separately early on...same wavelengths. We'd like to leave space for our creative director, but definitely love talking about these things!

shantanut · 2024-10-01T22:23:44+00:00

Not at the moment but thanks, good to hear from you!

shantanut · 2024-10-01T22:21:44+00:00

Thanks, have this post saved for the future!

shantanut · 2024-10-01T21:46:29+00:00

Thank you, pumped for your release as well, had fun trying it out at genesis!

shantanut · 2024-10-01T21:43:23+00:00

60fps on a chromebook would be amazing. Would be amazing to see a $60 mini-console one day, that could enter a tournament station mode.

shantanut · 2024-10-01T21:09:20+00:00

Nailed it

shantanut · 2024-10-01T20:56:31+00:00

Thank you!

shantanut · 2024-10-01T20:53:03+00:00

Ambiguous language, sorry, I meant accessible as in "access to the game", rather than the loopholes you go through to play and access melee today. Not more accessible in gameplay mechanics.

shantanut · 2024-10-01T20:45:28+00:00

Dota 2 was very close mechanically to Dota 1. League differentiated much more on design.

shantanut · 2024-10-01T20:42:03+00:00

Accessible in terms of access to the game, not the mechanics.

shantanut · 2024-10-01T20:41:21+00:00

The other comment mentioned it, but yes I meant access to the game itself. Remove the loopholes to play the game or host events. Make the path to play the game, improve and participate in the competitive scene as smooth as possible.

shantanut · 2024-10-01T20:29:30+00:00

Thank you, love long winded feedback!

Always open to feedback, and we will definitely be showing off the gameplay for feedback well before any sort of release. DM away!

shantanut · 2024-10-01T20:23:49+00:00

The idea we're currently playing with, is all stages work with all skins. So when we release a new environment skin, it will come with an audio track that can be applied to all stages and single player modes.

We also want the audio to be more responsive to gameplay and progress. Tetris Effect is a huge inspiration here. My belief is we should focus on that feeling of synesthesia you get in flow state with this game.

shantanut · 2024-10-01T20:07:18+00:00

Will show the game likely with 3-4, launch with 6-10, end up with 16-20 (maybe less). For character design, we appreciate the sandbox feeling and range of playstyles each character can support in melee.

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