As I promised earlier in the week, here's the latest Lex Luthor update. He has all the following updates over the alpha release from last January:

- 27 Sep 2008: Beta 1b
- fixed bug in Failsafe Emission
- added air version of Failsafe Emission (& you can can combo into it!)
- lots of minor bugfixes and combo tweaks throughout
- added Special: Tyrant Drill
- added shocked, frozen special anims

- 25 Sep 2008: Beta 1
- tweaked Special: Stiletto Blade (it's now an expansion-type move, for one thing)
- added Special: Electrified Armor
- added Hyper: Failsafe Emission
- added Hyper: Nanite Swarm
- added fwd/back dashes
- added new sound effects, voices, and effect sparks

All in all, he's a much more solid character than he was before: 4 specials, 2 hypers, pretty decent AI, etc. Still quite a bit more we plan to do with him before he's done, but I felt like I needed to get him out there for all y'all to start playing with. Enjoy, post any feedback/ bug reports here at the ScruffyDragon forum.

What're you waiting for? Go grab Lex Luthor Beta 1b here!
(Will be uploaded to the ScruffyDragon portal later)

I just sent out the beta invitations to my testers and ScruffyDragon teammates to get final feedback before this weekend's release. Looks like he'll have 3 specials, 2 hypers, and various other smaller tweaks & enhancements over the January 4th alpha release. Stay tuned for the release announcement later this week! :)

So the past few days I've been inspired to, if not finish Lex Luthor, at least make a more well-rounded beta fit for public consumption. To that end I've been adding several new moves and tweaking old ones (as I mentioned a few weeks ago), adding sound effects to various movements (e.g. the intro), double-checking clsn boxes, and adding most of his missing sparks and animations: tonight I added the various dust & hitspark effects my characters all use, plus a new forward dash, boot jet sparks on jump & superjump, a lose pose... basically lots of little stuff. Plus this new hyper:


So what's left? Well, you can always check his page at our team's WikiDragon site. The "what's left" entry over there, which I just updated, lists these things I still want to do before the beta release:
* still needs a hyper portrait! :(
* backward dash
* Special: Energy Shield
* a few more sound effects

Yeah, that's it. :) I've still got quite a bit I want to add to the final version, but this beta is LEAGUES ahead of the first one I released earlier this year. My beta testers will be getting it later this week, so a public release may drop as early as this weekend.

So, over on the shiny new WikiDragon portion of the ScruffyDragon site, I put up a request for help with Lex Luthor, and a brief sketch of a few of the moves I had in mind. Within a week, I had two awesome submissions from two very talented spriters and friends, which tonight I've coded into the character. I have a few more tweaks to make, then I'll turn him loose as Beta 2.
First, thanks to Tenchimuyo4ever, Lex now has a supercool "Electrified Armor" anti-air move (the Stiletto Blade special, his old anti-air, has been changed to an expansion-type move like Wolverine's Berzerker Barrage):


Second, courtesy of Kojunho89, is a new hyper which I'm calling "Failsafe Emission." Think of it as Chun-Li's Kikkosho hyper from the Versus series, but in midair. ;)


So, kudos and thanks to both these great guys. Look for more soon!

Okay, so we've successfully made the move from Utah to Virginia, and things are beginning to calm down a bit, so it's back to MUGEN work for me. Daraku over at the ScruffyDragon forums offered to help me finish Elektra, and produced a sweet ninja star throwing anim... so I coded it up tonight:


More soon.

Yeah, it's been a while since I posted something. Larramones, my partner in crime on Sinestro, had a hard drive failure and lost a bunch of work. But he's back at it now, and has sent me a new kick, and a new guard:


I'm also adding the "Needle Storm" hyper I prototyped for him as part of Parasite's "Sinestro" power set:


Oh, and I'm getting ready to move my family over 2000 miles cross-country next week. So expect updates to be pretty thin on the ground for the next little while.

So, now that school's out for a little while I've been working more on Parasite, and I finally got around to making him an intro and a couple of winposes:



I've also been adding power sets; the first public release looks like it's going to have 40 or so different power profiles. That makes for a LOT of preview images, so I've updated his WIP page to use mouseover javascript instead of trying to cram them all onto a single page; mouseover the power icon for the power set you want to see (note that they're not all implemented yet)