I would like to think of this first post as an introduction. After all, many of you do not follow me, and you have no reason to. I am Gabriel Ramirez, A.K.A. Batzarro, blogger and artist of no large reknown. I have a concept and hope to eventually launch a Kickstarter campaign to see it through. But I thought if instead of going straight to the "gimmee"part of it, I would like to tell you of how the idea was born.
Like many of you, I have grown to enjoy videogames and superheros. I grew up in a world that didn't have inmmediate access to scathing reviews of products, so in the process of choosing which games I would buy or rent, I developed something I call "The Batman seal of aproval". If Batman's face is on the cover, surely the game would be enjoyable.
While this policy got me in trouble with myself quite often, I did learn to have a taste for the licensed superhero tie in. Why, me and my brother and my cousin would sit with a stack of Pepsi Cards and shoot off into the wind about how we'd one that make a game that includes every single one of these characters. Even Quasar. Especially Quasar, whoever he was.
Years ago, though, thanks to the PDSH wiki, I discovered that there are many superheroes that have fallen into the public domain. And from the FAQ, it shot me in the face with this:
Any.Way. I. Want. Superheroes that I can rewrite over! And yet no one in this modern world that has Avengers, Spider-Man, Batman and Ghost Rider on the same year on the big screen, has considered to use them other than comics? We're making movies based on board games? WHY THE HELL NOT?
Since then I've had this itch to try and get some of these characters into something a little more modern. That's when I had the idea for Alpha Danger Squad.
ADS would be a homage to the licenced plataformer, only instead of being licensed, it would exploit these copyright free charaters. I don't want to give too much away without having anything to show for it, but I plan to ad at least four player local, team dynamics, and many many secrets.
As for the characters themselves, I plan to revamp them to reflect modern sensibilities, and to allow less redundance in them. They will be heavy changes. So far, I can announce 4 characters, which have been part of the plan all along. They would be Captain Courageous, The Heap, Woman in Red and Spider Queen. I plan to make each of their gameplay styles as different as possible, and ad a lot more characters down the line.
How many? Well, that will depend on you. I could knockout the game myself on a bootleg copy of Yoyo gamemaker with no regards to quality or time. But I think this deserves something more. I will outline my plan further as we go along, and if we have some support...we're going to get the game with some nice sprites from the best hobbyists the internet can offer. For now, I want to see some support. Do you guys want a game starring Public Domain Superheroes? Which ones do you want to see? Chime on!
