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Did some Blockhead. Made a lil' Mastermind. Co-created Madness: Project Nexus. I love you so much!
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Mastermind Progress Report

Posted by The-Swain - June 29th, 2008

The day's almost here. For those of you who enjoy the Mastermind series, you'll have a riot (...LITERALLY?) adopting the role of the Mastermind himself and taking on the world powers. And for those of you who HATE Mastermind, this is also good news; it means I can move onto other projects at last, not the least of which will be Blockhead: Episode 11. FINALLY. I must have more Weevil.

Below you will find that South America has become the target of my wrath as I proceed to blow up one of its cities. Different mission types, targets, and territories will have different effects on the game, such as lowering the health of spawned enemies or increasing the success percentage of missions. Also,
it's fun to press a single shiny red button and blow up millions of people.

The structure of the game is simple, although the way you interact with the game is complex enough. Combining a base defense game with a strategy base simulator in real time has been a painful challenge for me, but I am almost confident that the effort will have been worth it. And DO NOT FRET, it's not going to be anywhere as difficult to play as the Blockhead game was.

I've also written some music for the game. Check out the Mastermind World Conqueror game loops:
Loop 1
Loop 2
Loop 3

Also, I'm in love with you. Thought you should know. LATER SKATERSSSSZZZZX

Mastermind Progress Report

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matbrat33

WOOT FIRST COMMENT(i think) cant wait for this AND Mastermind 4!

The-Swain

Yes, forgot to mention the SIMULTANEOUS release of MWC and MM4 :D

JoSilver

You know I've never acutally seen mastermind, I THINK I'LL GO WATCH IT!!!!!!!

Toukeman

nice screeny

MUST........................
PLAY.....................

PostTimeskipSam

I wouldn't mind beta testing this Masterpiece.

The-Swain

Har har, clever pun

Graeme

Honestly, I don't like the Weevil. He's kind of... disturbing.
I think it's time for a new character.

The-Swain

To date, the Weevil has been more of a prop than a character. He deserves his chance to shine, and he may or may not stick around depending on how he does.

AwesomeGunzPlayer

You got a problem with SouthAmerica?....

The-Swain

Only in this game. You can pick as many territories as you want to terrorize.

Perry

Looks good, probably top 50 good.

So you defend your base while conquering the world, so you are the base of operations, and you have to control the invasion of South America while defending the mastermind who is in the base?

like how do you combine the defense and simulator?

The-Swain

You can target four territories with the plots you create, and then certain targets within them (leaders, politicians, criminals, journalists, cities, etc.)

But the rest of your description is accurate. You can also switch between bases you've bought in 8 different secret locations, in case you're afraid you might lose your base in an attack or want the benefits that different bases give you.

Atgod88

Holy cock that looks sexy.

Wiiporter

Looks like something I'd loose at. Miserably.

The-Swain

I'm aiming to make it difficult to win, but difficult to lose, too. Staying in a safe and unambitious state should be very easy with this concept.

Summy010

Nice, it looks and sounds like a very complex game. I really look forward to it.

The-Swain

The game is complex, hell yes, but my big goal has been to make sure the GAMEPLAY is simple, if you see the difference. I don't mind that there are hundreds of calculations that go into determining the difficulty of a mission, but for the player, all they see is "73% Success" or whatever. The more players mess with the engine and system, the more insight they'll get into how to maximize their output.

...or so I hope.

junkietomato

First of all I would like to thank you for the whole mastermind series so far. I Find it so funny that I whatched it more than 20 times and I still crack a laugh due to it's great humour.
I can't wait for MM4 and MWC, I think you will make Newgrounds history (again) with those additions to the series. Thanks again.

Alex aka junkietomato

The-Swain

MM4 is going to be back to basics, kind of like MM1 was before I ever expected it to be a series. I'm hoping the episode can stand alone, which should always be priority #1 in any short. Being funny is a distant second in there somewhere :O

rtil

oh boyeee blockhed LOL TONGZ XD

The-Swain

I'm nearly finished with a 60 second nearly-traditionally-animated Blockhead short, not a single tween and with almost constant movement from frame to frame for all three involved characters.

Also UR RONG THEr WASNT NE TONGS IN TEH EPINSODES 10 OR TEHM GHOSTMANS.

P0wer-W1thin

O? as long as it isn't targeting central America I'm good lol...DOWN WITH GDI

The-Swain

Some countries, continents, and territories are left alone by the Mastermind because they don't have strategic significance to him, but because your goal is to destroy the earth, in the end no one is safe ;)

Theo-art

So do I get to choose my own villain?

Or do I have to be boring ole' me.

The-Swain

You play Mastermind himself, but your for your plots you can assign a Patsy to conduct them. Think of Austin Powers 3...Goldmember would be kinda like Dr.Evil's Patsy :D

P0wer-W1thin

LOL don't tell me the Mastermind has a moon base, otherwise to destroy earth with yourself in it doesn't really make sense...quote "Everyone thank your comrade for blowing up Finland with you in it"

The-Swain

A Moon Base is available in this game :D But it's not necessary, part of the Mastermind's plan for world destruction involves a safety route.

Sialys

That reminds me of Dominion, and Starcraft in terms of how clean and simple the navigation and such is.

You should definitely get some people in the PC gaming industry to take a look at this game. I want to see it in mass production!

The-Swain

If there's one thing Fulp has taught me, it's that I should take my own life before considering making a console game or anything like it :O I'm just hoping the Flash game does well first. Baby steps!

packerman

On completely on related note have you seen the NEW movie Wanted? I did today and there was a message that's is making me go to a gym I signed up 2 months ago.

What the heck have you done with your life?

That made me decide to start going to the gym. If you have seen the movie you know what I me if not GO SEE IT! It was THE best movie because I saw Angelina Jolie basically naked from the back down but with a towel covering the bottom half of that sweet ass of hers, but also because it had gore and a plot twist that no one watching the movie in the theater did not see coming.

I hope you see it if you have love seeing Angelina Jolie and all of her tattoos which was hot!

The-Swain

My roommate's girlfriend just walked in and told me she hated Wanted and fell asleep to it. I wonder which was the cause and which was the effect.

Luis

i think we need to discuss you not overusing the Kino font!

The-Swain

In that pic up top I think only "Control Room" and the barely visible "Mastermind World Conqueror" text are in Kino MT. Everything else is written in the love of my life, Gill Sans MT. STOP RIDING MY ASSSSS

rtil

did you think that was going to impress me or something

The-Swain

Sorry I must have mistaken you for some kind of authority on animation.

BMack24

if there's suddenly an increase of cities being levelled by doom lasers made by kids who have played this game, i think someone's gonna be in troooublllle.

also, balls.

The-Swain

I make the destroyed cities just generic shells, no names so no one can be offended :D

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