🥊 Episode 10 · Capstone · Full Game

Assemble the Game
Episode 10: Build the Whole Game

You have a fighter, a stage and an AI. Now you put them into the select screen, choose your roster and stages, and get a full game you can share.

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🕹️ select.def 🗂️ Roster 🖼️ Screenpack 🌍 Share
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Ember says: this is the satisfying part. Your fighter joins the roster, your stage is in the rotation, and the game is yours. Then you share it, safely.
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Build Your Roster
Who is in the game
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Add your fighter and others to the select screen.

  • 1Open select.def and add your character folder name under [Characters].
  • 2Add any other fighters you want in the roster.
  • 3Some versions let you set a random select and hidden characters.
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You add fighters under the section of select.def.
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Where do you list the fighters for the select screen?
Aselect.def [Characters]
BThe .sff
CThe stage def
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Add Your Stages
Where you fight
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Goal for this step

Put your stage in the rotation.

  • 1Stages go in the [ExtraStages] section of select.def.
  • 2You can put a stage under a character so they always fight there.
  • 3Order the list so the good stages come up often.
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Extra stages are listed under in select.def.
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How do you add a stage to the game?
AList it in [ExtraStages] in select.def
BPut it in the chars folder
CName it music.mp3
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The Screenpack
How the game looks
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Goal for this step

Understand what a screenpack changes.

  • 1A screenpack changes the title screen, the select screen layout and the fonts.
  • 2It is optional: the default pack already works.
  • 3Changing the pack is how you give a MUGEN game its own identity.
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The look of the menus is set by the .
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What does a screenpack change?
AThe menus and select screen look
BThe fighter damage
CThe palette
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Final Play-Test
Break it before players do
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Goal for this step

Play a full arcade run and fix what breaks.

  • 1Fight through a whole arcade run with each character.
  • 2Watch for crashes, missing sprites and stuck states.
  • 3Fix the first problem you find, then test again.
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Fix the problem you find, then test again.
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What is a good final test?
AA full arcade run with each character
BOpening and closing the game
CReading the files
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Share It Safely
Pass it on
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Goal for this step

Share your game without sharing private details.

  • 1Zip your MUGEN folder (or just the chars, stages and select.def) to share it.
  • 2Give credit to any sprites or characters you did not make yourself.
  • 3Never include personal details, and ask a grown-up before posting online.
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Always give for art or characters you did not make.
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What must you do when sharing a mod that uses other people art?
AGive credit to the original makers
BRename it
CNothing
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You Made a Fighting Game!
A fighter, a stage, an AI and a full game, all yours. That is the whole MUGEN project, start to finish. Go and make another one!
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