The map was like 4 choordinates. I imagined them like 4 “Cell Games” platforms, connected together by little sidewalks.
It had abridged versions of: races, moveset, items, etc. Players spawned in, and duked it out to be the last man standing. It also had a system of gaining powerlevel, training, etc. But at any time, players at the same location at you could be attacked at any time. There was a weird way to learn special moves. You could buy an item at any time. You’d gain money by bounties, or finding the money somehow amongst the brawl.
It didn’t use the traditional “fight by chat” mechanic we use in the main planet mado game. If you wanted to kick the saiyan across from you, that’d be basically your email.
…I had as much fun playing that, as the larger planet mado game. THAT WAS FUN!!
Ah, yes. Originally it was going to be an all-out brawl in 1 location, which still would have been cool, but giving it 4 spaces to move around in gave it more of that PM feel and allowed for “mini battles” to occur. If I remember right, the toughest part was when one pplayer attacked but the other was moving around the map.
I keep tempting myself to spin this up, but have held off for a number of reasons. One of those; you not being around to chat with about it. Always felt like this needed your permission.
The battle royale always seemed like an excellent ‘testing’ environment for new mechanics, rules, etc to be added to the main game.
That would be prety cool! Nah bro, you don’t ever need any permission. It’s people like you that have kept PM alive over the years, paying respect to the past but keeping things moving forward and alive (revived?).
I could dust off some of the old code I had put together for handling a BR. With Reno’s blessing, I might consider moving onwards with this.
The goal is to give the player something to do in between emails, appart from the main game.
Reno, do you have any of that old BR code/web saved? I remember it was an abridged ruleset. It would be awesome to operate off the real thing, instead of my 20+ year old memory.
Unfortunately nothing saved. Unless the old sites are still up, but I think at some point Mado hosted the site for me from planetmado.com instead of using the original angelfire one.
Just make some shit up man, lol. I think I had to tweak some of the races starting PL’s or moves for balance. It’s all for fun and can always be adjusted based on feedback.
