Greetings starmenners.

Names Marshall, I am formerly “dookie” of starmen.net in the old days if anyone remembers me…

anyway, I’ve been developing a fan game for several years basically in secret because I think premature hype can be a detriment to a project…

But I finally emerge from the shadows to present what I’ve got to the Earthbound community.

“EAGLELAND” (working title)

A new adventure set in the Earthbound universe, where a simple camping trip turns into a deadly cat and mouse game with the most powerful man in the free world.

^ (I know the above blurb is pretty vague, but I already showed a TON of screens, I want to keep some element of mystery )

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Anyway, here’s some stuff I WILL tell you guys. I don’t want to recreate Earthbound or a cheap copy of it. I wanted to do something different in the Earthbound Universe. So a big part of the concept behind the game was to inject EB with an element of danger, and tension that I feel it didn’t really have in the original game. Earthbound “Off the Grid”

The party is on the run, framed for crimes they didn’t commit, from the conglomerate mega corporation known as “The Tannenbaum Company.” The richest man in all of Eagleland is out to get you, and you have something of great importance to him. Tannenbaum controls politicians, the police, even the media and will use every resource he has to track you down. SO instead of an innocent romp through playland, going from town to town without a care, the party must trek under overpasses, through the sticks and woods, concealing their identities and always looking over their shoulder, trusting no one, all the meanwhile combating Tannenbaum and trying to clear their once good name. More specifics and better write up to come.

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CAMPING

Instead of Hot Springs ala Mother 3, EAGLELAND has camp sites.



^ the real camp scenes will be more animated and interesting, this was just a mockup

These will be a big part of the story, character interaction, and some cool cutscenes and random events, in addition to allowing you to save your game and heal up. Staying at any big hotel is a not an option; the Tannenbaum Company has eyes everywhere… TIMED HITS Instead of the wacky rythym system in mother 3(which I personally thought was a little hokey), EAGLELAND rips off mario rpg, in the best way possible. Timing your hits will increase damage, it’s also only possible to SMASH when nailing a timed hit. Likewise, if you miss the timed hit, you’ll do lower damage and its possible to miss. BASEBALL ABILITY I’ll get a video of this soon. Its a battle ability for the 1st character, who pitches himself a ball and if you nail the timed hit, it does special conditioned damage (depending on which kind of self-pitch you used). If you miss the timed hit on the baseball you lose your turn though, so it’s a bit of a gamble. NEW GIFTS RED PRESENT – A randomized gift, 1 in 3. One of which may be elusive or super hard to get, while one may be really dumb.

BLACK PRESENT- I thought this one was kind of funny, they’ll be a tag on the gift, forcing you to put one of your own items back in the box, if you want to take the contents. So you’ll need to give something up to get whats inside.

JUMBO PRESENT – Multiple items are inside! Yay!

TINY PRESENT – Another gag one, really. Contents will be like, salt packet. But sometimes valuable accessorys that are also tiny.









shwew.

The game still has a long way to go. Between a full time job and my band, I’;m stretched pretty thin but I’ve continued to plug away at this game, but I’m getting to the point of needing help.

VIDEOS:

So far, we’ve been a team of 3 people, for about 4 or 5 years:

Marshall – Graphics/Coding/Story

Everdredd- Story

Bobby Ghostly. – Original Music

I like to keep it a small tight nit group. I am NOT looking for any help with the story or music.

The main story is finished and is being constantly refined. Wait till you guys hear some of the midis the music guy has created.

I will be releasing more information periodically depending on interest.

It’s been years so I was a little nervous finally putting this out there

Cheers,

Marshall