Ultimate Universe (CANCELLED (as you expected most likely))

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*logo coming soon*

NOTES

Ultimate Universe is Kep's eighth attempt to create a project. This is basically a galaxy-like game in 2D, and while this idea is not innovative, I'm going to make it innovative by adding new power-ups, more secrets, a better galaxy variety, and new gimmicks. Anyhow, something I should add is that this episode will not support multi-player mode. This episode will also have prankster comets and challenges. Each galaxy will have three stars, EXCEPT a certain special galaxy which will have five stars for a good reason. If you're interested to know, each galaxy will be extremely short, but there will be a lot of them (a tiny bit more than thirty excluding the Hub, title screen, outro, and into. So this is like quantity of quality, and even though that's not a good thing, if I aim for quality over quantity I always end up cancelling my episodes. Therefore, I need to stick to something else. For another note, I plan to kind of rush this episode due to me having some kind of (should I call it disease, disability, or none of the above?) that prevents me from sticking to one thing that long. Fortunately, though, there is going to be advanced testing by not only me, but Darkonius Mavakar who applied to be a beta tester about ten minutes after the creation of this thread. Anyway, please check this thread back for updates, and until July 1st I will be quite inactive (I'm going on vacation for a week and I have no access to the computer at all, and I'm going to have company for a week at my house after that but I will still be on the forums). Enjoy the rest of the thread.

STORY/PLOT
(Take note there is going to be an intro in the game itself that also covers the plot, so don't feel like to have to read this of for the game to make sense.)

Mario decided to go to the beach, and then he went down a pipe. Ardent to see what's in it, he then went down it, came back out and there was a red switch. He hit it. Out of nowhere, a voice said, "Stupid fool, always falling for my tricks". After this disembodied voice smoke, a door appeared. He went in it, and when he came out, he was in a spaceship. Mysteriously, Peach, Rosalina, and all of the Toads were already on this ship. However, none of them want to tell Mario why they're here, but they all seem to know.

WARNING: This episode has a really unpredictable and dark ending. No, not the dark like pitch black, but dark like sad, brutal, and scary. I'm pretty sure everyone can handle that, though.

INTRO/OUTRO/HUB
I am going to make a custom intro and outro for this game. (The outro is the credits, the intro is the game select.)

The Hub is going to be the spaceship. Very similar to New Super Mario Galaxy X, you roam around this spaceship and go to worlds one, two, three, four, five, and six.

GALAXIES
Levels in green means complete, levels in blue means started, levels in purple mean the level is being tested, and red means a level has not been started.

WORLD 1 (Five galaxies)
Planetary Prairie Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 0.9878 (SUNSET/GRASS)
Bullet Bill Beach Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 1.2149 (BEACH/BAY/WATER)
Clustered Clouds Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 1.2287 (CLOUDS)
Stern Cavern Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL 1.8916 (CAVERN)
Epic Express Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL 2.9452 (CLOUDS/TRAIN)

WORLD 2 (Four galaxies)
Deep Cheep Sea Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 2.6457 (SEA/UNDERWATER)
Bland Wasteland Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 2.7987 (BLAND)
Drenched Dangerous Dunes Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 3.0176 (DESERT/DUNES)
Crumbly Sea Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 3.9452 (CLIFF/UNDERWATER)

WORLD 3 (Six galaxies)
Beehive Dive Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 3.9627 (BEEHIVE)
Down Deep Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 4.5374 (UNDERGROUND)
Miraculous Mountain Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 4.5762 (MOUNTAIN)
Pier Pandemonium Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 4.7563 (PIER/BEACH/WATER)
Colossal Fossil Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 5.1296 (MOUNTAIN/CLIFF)
Airy Armada Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 5.4963 (SKY/AIRSHIP)

WORLD 4 (Four galaxies)
Autumn Aroma Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 5.9856 (FOREST)
Frigid Frost Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 6.4849 (FROST/ICE)
Lending Laboratory DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 7.0349 (LABORATY)
Fool Carnival Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 7.9845 (CARNIVAL)

WORLD 5 (Five galaxies)
Tick Tock Electric Shock Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 7.5731 (CARNIVAL/FAIR)
Fumy Frost Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 7.9875 (LAVA/ICE)
Ghostly Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 8.0059 (GHOSTS)
Prodigious Pyramid Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 8.9785 (PYRAMID)
Tricky Temple Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 9.4690 (TEMPLE)

WORLD 6 (Seven galaxies)
Crazy Cascade Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 9.2863 (WATERFALL)
Melody Mayhem Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 9.5784 (MUSICAL)
Poison Pond Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 9.6903 (POISON/POND)
Vile Volcano Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 9.7439 (LAVA)
Ghostly Galleon Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 9.9786 (SHIP/GHOSTS)
Forlorn Fort Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 9.9875 (FORTRESS/CASTLE)
Sundown Space Galaxy DIFFICULTY LEVEL - 9.9998 (SPACE)

WORLD 7 (2 levels)
*I will not spoil these two special levels you unlock by obtaining every single star in the game so far*

Music Uses
*currently unavailable*

Demos
There will be no demos, but the following galaxies will get released to the Levels board once they are finished:

Planetary Prairie Galaxy
Crumbly Sea Galaxy
Autumn Aroma Galaxy
Tick Tock Electric Shock Galaxy
Fumy Frost Galaxy
Prodigious Pyramid Galaxy
Vile Volcano Galaxy

Screenshots

Screens for Planetary Prairie Galaxy (OLD):

Spoiler: show

Screens for Bullet Bill Beach Galaxy (NEW 8/9/14):

Spoiler: show

Screens for Main Hub/Spaceship (NEW 8/9/14):

Spoiler: show

Credits
*currently unavailable*

Release Date
TBA 2015 or 2016

Beta Tester
Darkonius Mavakar

Latest News/Updates
AUGUST 9TH 2014: New screens of the Main Hub and Bullet Bill Beach Galaxy!
AUGUST 9TH 2014: Bullet Bill Beach Galaxy restarted! Also, Bullet Bill Beach Galaxy's name was originally Bullet Bill Beach Bay Galaxy, but it got changed to Bullet Bill Beach Galaxy!
AUGUST 10TH 2014: Mirror Manor Galaxy was replaced with Lending Laboratory Galaxy!

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Thanks for taking the time to read this thread!

[FanofSMBX]

How will you add new powerups?
Also I think the orange part in the screen with the sledge bro looks bland. How about the SMB3 background tile BGOs?

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How will you add new powerups?

I worded that confusingly. I meant that I'd replace default powerups with other power-ups.

Also I think the orange part in the screen with the sledge bro looks bland. How about the SMB3 background tile BGOs?

Erm... that is a boss. I think adding vegetation would be a bit awkward to have in a boss stage, right? I, however, will consider adding some more lamps and pillars.

Thanks for the comment.

[FanofSMBX]

I meant, the orange wall looks bland. How about using the metal wall BGOs (like the one that is also the Battle SMB3 background)?

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I meant, the orange wall looks bland. How about using the metal wall BGOs (like the one that is also the Battle SMB3 background)?

Oh, sorry for misunderstanding you. I can consider that.

[Darkonius Mavakar]

this is waaaaaay better than NSMGX, i approve this.

and because of that, i'll be beta tester.

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this is waaaaaay better than NSMGX, i approve this.

and because of that, i'll be beta tester.

Thanks for applying, I frankly didn't expect to have someone willing to be a beta tester about ten minutes after I created this thread. In other words, you're accepted onto the team since I already know you're a great designer. And whether this is relevant or not, I have WinRAR now, so if you can't for whatever reason get .zips to work I will be happy to change the format to .RAR when I give you the download to the first world.

[Darkonius Mavakar]

this is waaaaaay better than NSMGX, i approve this.

and because of that, i'll be beta tester.

Thanks for applying, I frankly didn't expect to have someone willing to be a beta tester about ten minutes after I created this thread. In other words, you're accepted onto the team since I already know you're a great designer. And whether this is relevant or not, I have WinRAR now, so if you can't for whatever reason get .zips to work I will be happy to change the format to .RAR when I give you the download to the first world.

i accept every kind of file ever made.
so rar and zip are fine

[zlaker]

Whoa! A NEW GALAXY GAME?! SMG3 CONFIRMED!!!!!
The screens looks pretty good, I like the sunset screenshots. Can I be a beta tester?

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Whoa! A NEW GALAXY GAME?! SMG3 CONFIRMED!!!!!
The screens looks pretty good, I like the sunset screenshots. Can I be a beta tester?

Oh, sorry. I'm only accepting one beta tester; I specified that earlier in this thread (after Darkonius applied, I deleted the entire paragraph about beta testing info in the original thread). Otherwise, thanks for the nice and encouraging words!

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VERY MINOR UPDATE: Massive Microscopic Galaxy has been replaced with Beehive Dive Galaxy.

[SuperMario7]

Looks great so far! Nice design and graphics and stuff. I'm looking forward to seeing more of this.

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Looks great so far! Nice design and graphics and stuff. I'm looking forward to seeing more of this.

Thank you for your kind words of encouragement. I'm planning to post a screen or two of Bullet Bill Beach Bay Galaxy sometime today.

[ElTipsta]

These screens look good, though what happened to your last project?

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These screens look good, though what happened to your last project?

I doubt Shadow Star: Secrets of the Realm is going to be continued.

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Here are three new screenshots for Bullet Bill Beach Bay galaxy.

Spoiler: show

Please don't complain about there not being any Bullet Bills yet. They are for the second mission. These are all screenshots for the first mission.

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This is going to on hiatus until the end of 2014 due to me wanting to make a mini-episode I have in mind.

Until then, folks!

[Shinbison-Kof]

Good project, i like the screens, the design seem good and fun to play, the graphics is nice. Has parts what is tight, maybe is bad or not in the gameplay. Good job , i hope more this!

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So, I'm not entirely sure if Ultimate Universe is going to be successful at the moment due to lack of ideas and innovation, but that does NOT mean I will never go back to it (so Darkonius, don't get disappointed: I WILL get back into it even if it's 2017) as I certainly will get some inspiration for it again soon, hopefully. Anyway, I would like to get some ideas/recommendations/questions. Here is some info:

Name: Boo's Ultimate Triumph
Levels: 42 (This amount COULD decrease but I doubt it will increase)
Level style: SMB3 styled, short levels with (hopefully) superb quality
Worlds: 6 (7 counting the special world)
World Styles: Grass/Garden/Jungle/Autumn, Cave/Grotto/Mushrooms, Beach/Water/Stormy, Sky/Cliff/Airship, Space/Moon/Rainbow, Ghost House/Haunt/Spooky/Mansion/Puzzle, Special/Crown/Master/Secret
Plot: Luigi gets kidnapped by Boo. Mario and Peach are on a mission to save him. (In the project thread, this plot WILL be expanded to something more interesting/intricate.)

I am open to recommendations/questions/ideas.

NOTE: I will NOT be using LunaDLL, FanofSMBX.

[HenryRichard]

You should shorten it to about 10 levels (something like the princess cliche) and make 4 of them, this way if you lose interest, we'll at least have something. Other than that, sounds kinda cool. But don't restrict yourself to SMB3, in my opinion it gets boring after a while.