Project M: (Super Smash Bros Brawl Mod to make it into a good game.)

[Llama Juice]

Sup dudes. Hey there! I joined this mod team over a year ago and we've been working on this mod for Smash Bros Brawl on the Wii. It basically takes Brawl and then rebalances the entire thing to be a lot more competitively focused, drawing from Melee as the main design inspiration for the balance.

There are tournaments all over the country for this game, with people flying all over the place to compete. Our previous release of version 3.02 got roughly 875,000 downloads from our website, and the "new" version (3.5) released in September is sitting at 421,000 downloads currently.

We recently announced version 3.6, which will address a few small balance issues and add some new content to the game.

Here's a trailer for it.



I'm an environment artist for the team. In the trailer there you can see the environments that I contributed to the game. I made the Metal Cavern HD stage, the Bowser's Castle stage, and the Peach's Castle HD stage along with some other things here and there.

If you enjoy smash bros and have access to a Wii, a copy of Brawl, and a 2 GB SD card you can download and play this. Or you can pirate shit and just hack your Wii (it's stupid easy. All you need is an SD card and the internet.)

I dunno, I figured I should share this with my modacity bros. I lived here for so long that it seems odd to not check in after a while.

Hope ya'll are doing well.

[STLRamsFan]

Great stuff man! Really enjoy the work done with this mod, just makes things that more fun when it comes to smash. Here's a suggestion for you guys though: Master Chief skin on Snake. Make it happen!

[n00b1n8R]

please buff marth I don't want to have to get good

(I love PM it's the most popular smash in my neck of the woods and we have 40man tournaments every month)

[Ryx]

A friend showed me his "brawl with the pokemon all seperate" and I ended up playing this, it was fun as fuck!

I still like my pokemon to switch out though

[n00b1n8R]

Yo Llama what does the text say in the top right of Bowser's Castle

[Llama Juice]

Here's a timelapse of that stage being created btw. :P

http://gfycat.com/BeautifulMiniatureHamster

Here's a timelapse of Peach's Castle being constructed as well if you're into that sort of thing.

http://gfycat.com/UnimportantGrippingHippopotamus

[thehoodedsmack]

My friends love this mod. Keep up the great work.

[n00b1n8R]

;_;

[Llama Juice]

You have no idea.

The news broke internally while I was helping set up a 80 man 3 day tournament for the game. I was surrounded by all these people who had traveled so far to come and play and compete all weekend. Eventually I got knocked out of bracket and my buddy came up and said "Don't worry man, there'll always be more tournaments."

I had to walk away so they wouldn't see me cry.

It's been an insanely hard week for everyone on the dev team, but the outpouring praise and support from the community (hidden among all the bullshit) has helped a ton. Even just typing this has me welling up a bit.

I went back and watched a few live reaction trailers to our mod. Stuff like this. When Bowser's Castle gets revealed... the dude loses his shit and that's one of the coolest things in the world as a content creator to see. Being able to see people this passionate about what you do is incredibly fulfilling... and to lose that is crushing.


All of that being said, I do feel like the community will actually grow from this. With the meta being able to stabilize and develop will help bring some Melee players back over. Plus, we had some insane exposure the other day, with our news hitting #1 and #6 on /r/all on reddit. We've seen a decent growth of new people asking how to pick up the game and stuff... so I don't see this as an end to the game, as much as a new beginning. The mod community is going to go nuts with mods like PM Legacy and such, and so it'll be interesting to see how this all blows over.


To the few of you here who played and enjoyed the game while we were in development, I can't thank you enough for your support. This whole experience has been absolutely wonderful, and I'm so glad that I got to be a part of this wonderful team.

[n00b1n8R]

I can see the argument for a 3.65 patch but I really don't see the value in adding anything after that. The new characters are sooo far below the standard of the current cast that adding them would be an insult to the insane quality standards held by the PMDT (besides Delfino Secret, holey shit that stage was ugly).

I wish we got a Bowsers Castle Tournament Edition though. It's so pretty, I wish I could actually stand to play on it :v