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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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I'm a fan of the mastermind series because of (among other things) the overwhelmingly good artwork, and for that I thank you.

But on topic, this game sounds... Quite... similar to the PC game "Evil Genius". Though I love the idea and I can't wait to play, I'm a bit curious if you were aware of the game's existence.

There's no coincidence there - I was playing Evil Genius when I wrote the first Mastermind script. I love that game, but goddamn was it frustrating. The entire game was based on letting good guys destroy your base so you could rebuild it.

This game is like the Flash version of what I always thought Evil Genius COULD have been ;)

you impress me or something

oh rtil

I actually checked your site earlier today to see if there was any more news about this game, lol

That screenshot looks really slick and awesome. I will be looking forward to the game's release =)

Working on the game keeps me distracted so that I don't end up posting updates about said game. It feels like the twenty minutes it takes to capture, format, upload, and post pictures is time better spent repairing one of the 38765063106 bugs on my to-do list.

I'm excited to play this game in its completed form. The menus are very nice looking.

Well then let's make sure the voice acting is even BETTER, dig it>?!

krunka lunka dunka dunkety DUT

And here, sir, is the response you knew you would get.

It looks fairly complicated to play, but...

THIS'LL BE AWESOME!!!111ONEHUNDREDANDELEVEN

Ok, now, will MasterMind be saying punchlines before he does something?; If he's about to blow up Bejing, it randomizes between 5 different punchlines?

Or something along those lines...

Nice texture, as well.

I'm still toying with the concept of dynamic dialogue in cutscenes. My big problem will be lip synching, so I may just ditch mouth movements entirely for the sake of having more funny dialogue, so players dont feel they have to click the SKIP button every time a mission cutscene pops up.

Swain! I bet... you could fit... that ENTIRE salmon... in your mouth.

In fine with the game as long as you can't attack Africa, if so, you're racist.

Apologize.

North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. Diamonds and gold won't help the Mastermind conquer the earth :(

Let's see if your GF can whip you more into finishing it faster ;)

Ssimultaneous release, eh?

lol, guess that means ur gona cheat some poor SOB out of a daily second.

Assuming you mean I'm gonna get daily first no matter what (let's recall the time I submitted on the same day Utah posted a new Tankmen...), then the alternative to taking daily first and second is to take two daily firsts on two different days :(

I guess my only option is to make sure I'm very vocal about what day I post my game/toon duo. If I do that ahead of time, I won't risk undercutting other worthy cartoons.

Awesome! I can't wait to play it ^_^

did you think that was going to impress me or something

Haha, now now you're gonna flare his temper.

You and your game SUCK Swain! I hope I never meet you.

:*

I guess before you wrote that you must have done a BACKGROUND check aaahahaha its a pun because I'm doing backgrounds for you.

So can you invade all seven continents or just the 4 shown? Conquering Antarctica would give the mastermind control over the bottled water market... or something, I don't know.

Just the four territories, I just went with the top areas of strategic importance and crossed my fingers.

Pretty good.

"World Supplier of Natural Resources" is great.

I wonder how the red button thingy will work without unbalancing the game.
I like the style and the idea of the series.
However, any chance you get those texts brighter? they kinda "mix too much" with the rest of the GUI in my opinion.

Oh yeah, you should totally destroy South America. Just lemme get outta here first.

Good luck there on the way to the finish line.
All heil Mastermind.

Plotting missions, executing missions, calling meetings, and evacuating your base all involve a big red button, kinda like the "Execute!" play button at the start of every Mastermind episode. Dunno why I thought that was necessary, but it's in. So you'll use the same red button to conduct a mission to rob a gas station as you would to kidnap a paparazzi, blow up an Asian city, or brainwash Europe, etc.

I made most important text a flat white color, I left the secondary, filler, and background text an off-blue so that it wouldn't be distracting. There are plenty of times in this game when you'll have a lot of text on screen, and I had to make a choice on how to keep it from being disorienting.

This game looks like the shizznet, seriously. I think I'll quite enjoy it along with many others looking forward to it. Like said before, it seems like Evil Genius in a way (you know, the whole 'Evil Genius' part?), which is pretty cool. Anyways, keep at it man, you make great stuff.

*Leaves a comment hoping that I will get replied by the man him self*

I am only a man in name. Really I'm just a kid with a beard.

Me love you long time!

yeah.. find me one quote where i ever said "ALL CARTOONS MUST BE 100% FBF NO TWEENS ALLOWED TWEENS ARE BAD" and i'll believe you aren't just generalizing me for the sake of trying to make me out like i'm a douchebag and you're a saint. i mean i know you're just bitter because i don't like your work and you're oversensitive, but be at least a tiny bit more rational.

lol speaking of oversensitive

wicked but i hope when this is done you can work on blockhead some more..

Hell yes, that little yellow goon'll be getting more attention following this ridiculously long endeavor.

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