10/6/08- TWD's Agenda For the Day- A Preview of MUGEN MONDAYS (And Other More Important Items)

Thank you Wikipedia for a great description of this wonderful thing called Mugen!!!

M.U.G.E.N is a freeware 2D fighting game engine designed by Elecbyte, written in C with the Allegro library. The engine was originally released in July 17, 1999. Beta versions of it were made to work on DOS, Linux and Windows platforms, distributed through their website. The engine allows users to insert created characters, background stages, and other game objects through interpreted text files, graphics, and sound compilations to create a functioning fighting game similar to commercial games. While the engine is set up primarily for fighting game development, several other game types have been developed using it, including shooter and platform style games. Officially, Elecbyte claims to have forgotten what the acronym M.U.G.E.N stood for, but the readme documentation states that its meaning referred to the days when the engine was meant to emulate shooting games as opposed to fighting games.

For those wgo don't know, this is a little discussion of how tremendous this program is:
Mugen can allow any fight of any video or cartoon character to happen by just simply drawing the character into the system. Now the process is much easier than that last paragraph indicated, for "drawing" the chacareter into the system doesn't mean that you technically draw (though I haven't done it myself), but it does mean you have to select the character and put some work into implementing either him or her into the game.

Now that character could range from Mario to Buzz Lightyear, Bugs Bunny to even Tom Hawks. (Yes, Tom Hawks as well.)

In fact, here is an example of MUGEN's standout quality. In the Youtube video below, here is a three way battle off between Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin, and Fred Flintstone. Street Fighter, Mortal Combart and even Marvel vs Capcom having nothing on this zanny, capricious and fun "fighting game", especially when you see this battle.


MUGEN Mondays, the latest staple of the TWD family.

The Night Schedule is in the Comments Section, as travling back from my wonderful sister's wedding has been the reason why the site has been slow today. But make no mistake, we are working hard to provide the best for you at The Whole Delivery.