Hey look! Fan submissions!
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Now that my goofy intro is out of the way, it’s time for more fan submissions! This time around we’ve got a bit of everything! Some jams from VdGamer, some lovely pictures of Chase from Mothergamemaser and rib78, some enemy concepts from scytheholder, MegalucasmodelML, and rib78. We’ve also got some nice area-type concepts from Fandangox and MalixDexide. And last but certainly not least, some excellent NPC dialogue from steinmitz. Keep up the wonderful work everybody!
Alien Battle – By VdGamer
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I have high hope for this song. I tried to keep an Earthbound feel to it. Tell me what you think and use it however you would like.
Bass Battle – By VdGamer
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I’m not sure what battle scenarios await but I hope this helps.
Desert Battle – By VdGamer
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We all know our hero would be in trouble without awesome music to fight to.
Zombie Battle – By VdGamer
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Can you think of a mother game without Zombies? Neither can I. I tried to give this one a dark feeling to it.
Chase vs. A snake – By Mothergamemaster
After a fearsome battle with a snake…
Fan art – By rib78
Just a little picture of Chase I drew in my spare time.
Drug Store, Mother 3 Style – By Fandangox
This one of the many Mother 3 “styled@ Earthbound locations I had been doing for a demo. I actually finished most of the city, but the file size was to big to submit…
Bakery and Burger Shop – By Fandangox
Its now the turn of the Burger Shop and the Bakery. This are kept mostly simplistic to avoid changing much detail with the original Earthbound ones.
Alpha Mail – By scytheholder
Basically a giant envelope with Alpha on it
Evil Lampshade – By scytheholder
I didn’t really think of a name for this thing, but it’s an evil lamp-monster-thing.
Mad Hammer – By scytheholder
Another lack of humor name… If I had more jokes to turn into monsters, it would be funnier… I think… WiddaHamma!
Memory Room – By MalixDexide
An idea for a Memory Room that is unlocked after completion of the game. Disks are found at random locations
Weather Conditions – By MalixDexide
Idea for weather conditions for Mother 4
Enemy ideas – By MegalucasmodelML
This are writen Ideas I made about one boss and
one enemy
Enemy:Giant Clock – By rib78
an enemy I thought of for later on in the game. I think it is quite cool.
Susie – By rib78
an idea for a temporery party member
Shooting the Breeze with NPC’s – By steinmitz
NPC text
And that’s a wrap! Thanks for your submissions everyone. 
January 11th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Favorite Song: Alien Battle
Some of those NPC lines were pretty funny. Some of the weather conditions were also kind of interesting.
Updates seem more frequent now.
January 11th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
That actually finishes off the last of the fan submissions, but as long as they keep coming in, I’ll keep doing features.
We do also have a small update in the tubes. Let’s hope it doesn’t lose its way; there are a lot of tubes down there.
January 11th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Have you considered perhaps a room at the completion of the game where we would be able to hear all the music that doesn’t end up making the cut?
I think that’d be pretty neat
January 11th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Ha. That weather conditions bit seems eerily like a system we ARE thinking about implementing.
January 11th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
I think you should add it Zephys, the more detail the better.
It’d be awesome to know that each and every time you play the game they’ll always be a subtle difference from your last play-though.
January 12th, 2010 at 9:37 am
Ha ha. The more shots in the dark we make, the closer we get to hitting the target.
January 12th, 2010 at 10:46 am
Well if you want artificial weather than there ya go.
I don’t know why I added the “Armageddon” part. Maybe a, “End of the world” instance maybe.
January 12th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
The weather system looks like a great idea!
January 13th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
That memory room sounds really neat! I really love it when there are optional bosses or boss runs
January 16th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Greats Songs! I like the Alien Battle, Bass Battle and Zombie Battle.
Congratulations! This game would the succesfully!
Good Lucky Folks! ^^
January 18th, 2010 at 1:04 am
OH PLEASE DON’T USE GARAGEBAND LOOP MUSIC IN THIS GAME!
January 18th, 2010 at 3:00 am
Don’t worry, these are only songs that fans have made. We aren’t using them in the game. (However, we’ll let you know if we ever do.) We have a pair of very competent musicians composing our music, so rest assured that our music is much much more than GarageBand loops.
January 18th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
sorry, my comment was a little harsh im not saying these are bad at all. these all sound very well composed and have the mother feel to them. sorry if anyone took my comment offensively.
January 18th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Hey guys! awesome submissions as always! I loved the memory room idea!
You know, I submitted a piece of art a long time ago, and maybe I didn’t properly send it? because I didn’t find it in none of the two submissions delivery thingies. If you didn’t get it, I would gladly send it over again. Just in case, it was an aquarella painted pic of Ness, Lucas and Chase. Welcome MOTHER 4 was the name I think?
I really would thank you if you received it and post it somewhere, since it took a lot of my time to do it.
SK
January 18th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Oh yes. We got that one, however it may have gotten lost while I was doing some revamps to the submission program. I’ll be sure to include it in the next update. It’s really quite a nice piece.
If anyone wants to take a look, you can find it here:
http://mother4.dcmsoftware.net/fan-subs/?user=127
Thanks for letting me know I missed it! Sorry about that!
January 19th, 2010 at 12:00 am
interesting i like some of the text of the npc’s in the “shooting the breeze with the npc’s” post
January 20th, 2010 at 10:25 am
Do you not accept pictures with writing next to them?
January 20th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
Depends on the what the writing and the picture are. If you follow the guidelines on the submit page, you should be good to go.
January 22nd, 2010 at 5:58 pm
I just noticed that in the Wii game “A Boy And His Blob”, the main character has a strong resemblance to Chase! Just pointing that out there heheh.
(seriously, give him a stripy shirt and voila!) http://img2.immage.de/edit_3011cbaboyandhisblob.jpg
Is it simply coincidence or…?
January 29th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
Do you accept character designs for semi-main characters and/or people you see around?
January 29th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
Yeah we’ll accept pretty much anything that’s Mother 4 related as long as you put noticeable effort into it. So go for it! (Also check the guidelines on the submit page)
January 30th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
I know nothing about the story but if I just make characters, might you have use for them as side characters and main characters?
Ill take a look.
Thank you.
January 30th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Could I get the dimensions of the sprites so I know how much detail I can put into them?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
There isn’t a set size limit on the sprites, but Chase’s sprite is generally 17 x 25 pixels. (Varies for animations, etc.) So you could increase/decrease the height by a few pixels for tall or short characters, or widen it for wider characters, etc.
And yes it’s possible that we could use them as NPCs, that depends on the style you choose, and how well it fits with the rest of the character sprites. We’ll let you know if we end up using your work.
February 5th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Not to sound rude, but about when will this game come out and appromixly about how long the game would be? [ please compare lengths to priveous Mother/Earthbound games]
February 5th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Question: Are you at all legally allowed to remix music (i.e. “Snowman”, “Pollyanna”, “Volcano! Inferno!”) into the game, or would such remixes result in unnecessary lawsuits?
February 6th, 2010 at 3:54 am
Funny, I kind of had a thought about the Memory Room, except the very final boss was Giygas through every phase (including the battle vs. Heavily Armed Porky), including a kind of “last ditch effort” phase.
Basically, after choosing the option, Chase and his team suddenly black out. Then they wake up in front of the Devil’s Machine, with Porky questioning at why they are there. To him, it doesn’t matter, for this gives him the incentive to begin battle anyway.
Once they get to the first phase of Giygas (post-Devil’s Machine), Chase finds that four robots are aiding him and his team in the battle, one of them looking like it is praying.
The very final phase then looks like a very quick mix between his other formes, shifting between them in rapid red static. This would be crunch-time, for if there isn’t enough damage given to Giygas here within a number of turns, they would all be hit with mortal damage simultaneously.
After finally defeating Giygas, I thought of them (Chase’s team) awakening in a hospital, where it is explained that they were found in a comatose state by someone and were rushed to the ER. After all is said and done, Chase apparently finds something under his pillow, namely the reward for Giygas’ defeat.
February 6th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
@Shadowgamer1370
Please give the FAQs a look over.
@Mindzombi3
My guess is that it would be as legal as this: link.
@Blitzkrieg98
Interesting. I love reading speculation.
February 7th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
you know what would be cool if you can find secret items 15 (in pairs of 5 so it means 1/5) you unlock one of the main starters from the other 3 games though make it hard like making it an elusive item from an enemy or something i would love that
February 9th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
those npc lines really got me, steinmitz has a thing for comedy im still laughing
February 24th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Can we post plot ideas? Or are you guys pretty much finished with the plot?
February 24th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
We’re pretty much done with the plot, but if you’d really like to get your ideas out there, feel free to send your thoughts as a submission.
February 27th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
is mother 4 going to be a downloadable game from this website
February 27th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Yes, please have a look at the FAQs. They should answer most of your questions.