Technical Systems Designer
@Player1stGames
| Commentator/Competitor for Smash Bros and
@ProjectMGame
| PMRank 2018 | Esports Super Fan | Mario Tennis Enthusiast
Life update: My wife matched to Massachusetts General for residency... We're going to Boston! I'm gonna live somewhere that's not MDVA for the first time in my life๐ฏ. Excited for the adventure!
Hot take: Leffen is really good for the Ult community because he gives y'all a villain and makes his matches/journey more exciting and interesting for casuals.
Bonus hot take: most top Ult players have boring personalities.
SEO: you have to release content at very specific times to maximize potential engagement and get as many eyes on your product as possible
MVS: we released the Stripe teaser after midnight because that's how Stripe works
With all the Smash drama going on, here's a quick reminder about a fun game called PROJECT M:
- No Bayonetta, But technically still has DLC
- Majors never conflict but we still get like 2-3 each month
- 2018 about to have the largest PM tournaments of all time
As a half-meme, I've complained for literally YEARS that the "Remember Me" checkbox on SmashGG login doesn't work. By the next day I almost always have to relog.
I'm happy to announce that SGG finally fixed this issue.... by REMOVING THE REMEMBER ME BOX LOOOOOOOOL
ty for this thread. no lie i worked on a chunk of these and we've got fixes coming imminently. Like literally this Bugs safe interaction we fixed internally on day 1.
I think we've got a ton of changes queued up but at this point it's just about waiting for patches to clear.
MVS Players:
Since I want
@Multiversus
to succeed and become a polished game, I wanted to start collecting all the clips of glitches, infinites, and cheese that youโve found so far.
Collecting them all in a video and send it over to the MVS Devs.
Post them here!! Iโll start:
@ssbmhax
Hey buddy. I respect you as a competitor and an entrepreneur, but you should really seek help if this is the level you think you need to invest yourself into issues like these. This is unhealthy.
What's up with all these community leaders like "We finally got Nintendo to acknowledge the comp scene"
What? We all saw Reggie's video at Evo. We all saw Splatoon ads at Genesis.
We all saw Nintendo shut down TBH Online. We all saw Nintendo's C&D Riptide.
Why pretend?
Hey all. Now that I'm a top smash player I'm looking for a sponsor. Here are my qualifications:
1. I don't assault/harass women.
2. I don't have sex with minors.
3. I don't say the N-word.
4. I'm not a white supremacist.
DMs open looking to hear from orgs before FnB2 next week
Shovel Knight marks the first time a character has appeared in both Rivals of Aether and Super Smash Bros. Kinda nutty isnt it?
Honestly.... mega huge congrats to
@danfornace
you really made a fantastic game.
"We rebuilt the game from the ground up for our new netcode."
I've been contributing a lot in this space, and this is what I'm most excited about. I hope we'll set a new gold standard for fighting game online play. It is REAL rollback netcode. And it is GOOD rollback netcode.
We want to let everyone know that we are delaying the start of Season 1 & the release of Morty to a later date. We know this might be disappointing for some and want to assure our Community that we are dedicated to delivering new and exciting content that delights players. (2/3)
Please delete Steve from the game bruh theyre not even playing the goddamn game
Im so close to going to dropping this game and going to Project M or some shit that isnt full of dogwater gimmicks
WAIT LOL remember that it became a thing that you couldn't even SAY "Project M" on a Twitch stream?!? REMEMBER THOSE DAYS?!?
Holy shit watching this happen to Melee in real time feels like I'm coming to terms with being a victim of gaslighting.
I'm a big believer that college campuses are the
#1
place to get people excited in esports/smash. if you're involved with University smash, please...
Ultimate releases THIS semester. Start organizing a massive release party. You aren't ready for how popular it will be.
one of the first systems i worked on was our vacuum hitbox system. so if you thank me for the Arya changes, you must also thank me for the current state of Finn backpack ๐๐
Lunchables sitting on stage, crying. He had finally won. He finally conquered his demons. He collapsed on stage, head in his hands.
Cameraman comes up. "Lunchables! You did it! Do you have anything you want to say?"
...
"Despacito"
What a fucking legend.
I love that so many people are still so excited for this. And there's so much I wanna talk about. But I can't yet.
Tweets like this remind me why I work so hard. Every day we draw closer and closer to 2024 ๐ค๐ค๐ค
There's a facebook poll to fly out a top PM player to a major on the east coast and Techboy was in the running and then his Dad came in to campaign for him and it's the most wholesome thing to ever happen to PM.
I've signed the job offer so it's official:
I'm changing careers to work in Game Design! I'm going into Systems Design at Player First to work on MultiVersus!
I'm beyond excited for this opportunity and I hope we can make something great for the community.
So I've been informed by QA that the main method we're meant to use for reporting bugs during the Beta is through the MVS website . At the top right there is a spot "Report a Bug" and this will help us track everything. Pls RT for awareness
Hey
@CONEY
saw your brawl video great story loved it quick question...
Why are you using my worst-in-the-world marth clips why you gotta do me like that? I'm literally getting bodied by Tant and EE's D3 in 2013 man why you gotta expose me like that?
Are you tired of the PGR completely LYING and FORGING results to make their friends look better? Can I recommend a new community to you that plays... PROJECT M?
With Project M we accurately rank all 30 people still playing the game each year with PMRank, then we invent 20 more.
Heads up, MVPs! We'll be going into Maintenance Mode this morning at 9:00am pt while we implement a patch. We'll let you know as soon as we are back in action. Patch Notes to come soon.
People starting w Ultimate today don't realize there was a point in time where PM was legitimately the most popular smash game. It was also the most popular console videogame mod full stop.
Had a realization that blew my mind recently: people that started playing melee in the past few years donโt know how many people that started in ~2014 (and prob pre doc) got into melee because of PM. Like so many people started with PM or played both for a long time
Y'all new kids don't know about this era.
Our dinky local was like the premier Smash event/stream. 4k-ish viewers every week. Random 5th-7th place finishers were getting recognized on the street. People came from states over just to meet us.
Absolutely insane time in Smash.
Real talk for a sec... I have so much respect for the other designers on MVS. They are so good at creating fun experiences and breaking down what people enjoy in a platform fighter. Ive learned so much from them in my short time here and I'm looking forward to learning much more.
I'm in a weird spot right now. These allegations and these bans have made me REALLY want to come back into the Smash community. I want to help rebuild. I want to be a force for good.
My platform fighter hot take: people don't actually like Project M
People like the nostalgia of learning a new game with really interesting mechanics, and the "anyone can win" nature of patch 3.02.
If people actually liked Project M, they'd be playing it today.
Your friendly reminder that the argument of "Nintendo won't like UCF at their events" is complete bullshit because Smash64 runs tournies with a hackpack. Every time you see a timer in a N64 match at G5... that's hacked in for the betterment of their game and community.
People asking for beta keys is its own layer of hell. During MVS beta I got a request from someone on Discord with a swastika icon and I'm sitting here like "actually I'd prefer if you don't play our game at all. ever."
I was a Brawl competitor for 2 years and a casual Brawl player for 6. Every time I look back at Brawl MK with a better understanding of fighting game mechanics I'm just.... dumbstruck. How did this character make it to release? And how did we let one region keep us from a ban?
Worried about Melee elitists that keep bashing Smash 4? Might I recommend a new hit game called PROJECT M?
Project M: because even when the game is Melee, Melee fans won't play it.
UPDATE ON THE MYSTERY MACHINE:
Turns out the van was owned by a smasher ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฎ He let us see the inside and take pictures and of course it's fucking sick. Said it was about $13k worth of work.
With LAN majors coming back, a quick PSA:
We haven't forgotten about
#FreeMelee
and
#5DoM
. It's time to ditch Nintendo, and let PM have a seat in the spotlight. We've done our work and we deserve a shot.
Let us share the main stage. We won't let you down.
Tony's not mentioning that he is also the lead on this character, and it's the most ive seen him get excited about design for this game.
Character is also MAD fun.
The character after Iron Giant, from a gameplay mechanics standpoint is really cool and not something Iโve ever seen done before. Sorry for the tease, but needed to tell someone.
#MultiVersus
This is actually genius, this is actually how PM got popular in the first place. Just let all the established Smash players beat up on all the baddies so they think it's fun. They tell all the casuals to start playing... Then when they least expect it...
BAM FIGHT A SONIC MAIN.
It's hard not to feel personally responsible when a lot of the stuff I was working on totally broke when the patch went live. Very unfortunate circumstances but also a learning experience. Going to be extra vigilant from now on so we can continue putting Players First ๐ค๐ค๐ค
We wanted to explain some of what happened yesterday. Some of our work-in-progress work slipped into the build causing a lot of issues. Some of our global hurt/hit box changes got pulled in accidentally as well as in-progress ammo cooldown system.
Sometimes I make a prototype in MVS and show it to Tony/leaders and they're like "this looks bad."
And then I say "but this is what Melee does."
And then they say "in Melee it also looks bad."
And I'm caught off guard every time.
So the dude gets accused of predatory behavior and INSTANTLY deletes his Twitter account?!?!?
@NRGgg
y'all better drop this man off your roster the SECOND you wake up this is abhorrent behavior and this man needs to be removed from society.
After today's patch I'm stepping back from new content for a bit and focusing solely on fighter optimizations and bugfixes. Already feeling good about some of the stuff I'm working on. If you've tweeted at me with a bug I'll try and get to it for next patch... and then some.
Spitballing some names for the new Project M patch:
- Project N
- Project Plus
- Project Ultimate
- Project Make Malachi Great Again
- Project Still Not Adding Isaac
- Project Metroid: Other M
- Project Shh! Don't Tell Nintendo!
- Icons: Combat Arena
So Project M is trending thanks to supporting leaders in the National Health Service
But don't forget it's also everyone's favorite Smash Bros videogame mod!!!
Everyone wins!
Just took a bio exam. I won 3-1, but got 2 stocked when it counter picked with cellular respiration. I knew it was coming too, just didnt have time to practice that matchup
I've seen the future of PM. And it's incredible.
Gonna start teasing the PM showmatches on 12/14 soon. I'm just so excited I couldn't contain myself today.
MVS Ranked Update: We're enabling the Grandmaster tier for this ranked season. The Grandmaster rank is awarded to the top 100 players on the leaderboard each day at 9 AM UTC (4 AM ET/1 AM PT). During the day you may see Masters/GM players among the top 100 until the rating update
Smash content idea I wanna see:
Top Player plays Slippi. He has to play 1 game each against 4 top 100 players (or good players from top player region). TP has no idea who he's playing against.
After all 4 matches, give him a list of 5 players. If TP can correctly guess which...
we're doing a lot a lot rn lmao. i only work on a small slice of the pie so apologies i dont always have all the info and all the answers.
but if i see a clip of a bug i've fixed i'll let you know i've fixed it lol. lots and lots of cool combat updates otw.
MVPs, thank you all for the continued feedback, we appreciate it.
We wanted to give everyone an update on areas weโre working on for MultiVersus. Current priorities for the team include:
I'm finally starting to tell more people so I guess I should make it clear:
I'm no longer competing in Project M.
Had a good run. Gonna spend this year travelling to commentate and saying bye to the homies. I accomplished everything I needed to and I'm satisfied.
Like go ahead. Secure the bag or whatever. But it's weird to me to pretend like this is gonna be the event to salvage our relationship with Nintendo. Stop going back to Nintendo. It's been 20+ years of this cycle and it's not going to end now.
Thanks y'all for the positivity. It really helps keep me goin.
We are doing.... so much. It's an incredibly passionate team working very, very hard to give the launch our fans deserve. See y'all in 2024 ๐ซก.
MVPs, thank you for the support during Open Beta! The feedback and inspiration has been amazing. Open Beta will close on June 25 as we prepare for full launch in early 2024.
#MultiVersus
will be back better than ever with new content, features, modes & more when we return.
Melee will never be PM, and PM will never be Melee. They both have their benefits.
PM has RAR, AGT, B-rfeverse, and a bunch of interesting characters.
Melee has Slippi and a hard time dashing backwards.
So yea both games have their benefits!
Any chance we can get some coverage from like
@Kotaku
or
@LauncherWP
? its kinda insane Nintendo is really still out here shutting down tournaments 2 weeks before theyre slated to take place. Entrant numbers had this as the largest P+ tournament every I'm pretty sure.
For those who remember the good ol PM/VGBC days... sad to let you know that PM @ Xanadu appears to be finally dead. Bracket hasn't run for the past month or so.
We kept it going as long as we could after everything ran off a cliff. All things considered, 3.5 years aint half bad.
Quick Note: Everything we are bringing to you in Season 1 will not drop on the same day. New modes and content will be spread through the life of the Season. We'll continue to share dates on all the fun things to come!