Luigi's Mansion Fangame

Hello dear community!

I've been working on a "fangame" for my favourite game of all time: Luigi's Mansion for Nintendo's GameCube!
I started working on it back in February! I showcased the game on the Luigi's Bigger Mansion forum and built up a small team. The game was "cancelled" for a short time but I wanted to start on it again.

Now, here's some info about the game contents:
It reassembles the Luigi's Mansion Beta a bit.

You have a GameBoy Horror Timer:


You have a heatmeter, which indicates when your vacuum will explode:


You also have stereoscopic 3D with Red / Cyan glasses!



You can also enable controlling the player with the Nintendo's Wii Wiimote via Bluetooth, an extra program and a script. The game has it's own soundtracks now and the mansion is completely self-modeled.

I'll provide a download to the last public build. It's not up-to-date anymore, but I don't want to make any other builds for the public.

I also did development videos with some gameplay:

YouTube Development Playlist

If you have any ideas, suggestions or need help, feel free to post it.


Luigi's Mansion Fangame | Download


Regards,
starscratcher

 

From watching the videos it looks pretty solid

But of course I'm sure you're aware of all the things that come with wanting to make a fan game, so yeah, just be cautious and such.

I look forward to seeing more updates!

 

@FBTH Haha, thanks.
From the last video, alot of things has been changed.
I got, for example, a whole new mansion, at least the beginning of it. ^^
More and better animations do exist now, too.
I'll also rewrite all the ghost's AIs.

 

Great! haha Jarvis, I like how he works in-game

It does feel like a Luigis Mansion game too, thats why I will be watching this!

 

Be careful dude, Nintendo isn't as lenient on fan games as other companies. If you emailed them right now, I am almost 99% they would advise against it.
If I were you, I would either find some way to make it a parody of Luigi's mansion in some way, or keep the gameplay mechanics and swap out all the nintendo related stuff for original stuff.
Good luck.

 

@Warrior1424 Nah, I don't think Nintendo will do much about it.
I don't make any money from it and I don't say I own the stuff I use from Nintendo.

 

@starscratcher @Warrior1424 does have a point, but there are people like PETA that did parody Pokemon and got in trouble, so it seems like it all is a risk. Who knows what they'll think

 

I think PETA is a bit different than a fangame.
Also, the purposes are different.

Can anyone help with that?
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/780748/how-to-draw-another-cameras-view-without-handles-c.html

 

@starscratcher I can't tell you how many people emailed Nintendo asking if they could do a fan game based off X, and got denied.

 

Why should I e-mail them?
Also, what about the million Mario fangames? They all exist.

But this is getting a little bit off-topic. ^^
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Today I want to figure out how to make the ghosts dragging Luigi around. Also, I need to find a way making them NOT spawn outside rooms. :/

 

Looks wicked. Luigi's Mansion was quality!

I approve.

 

@starscratcher I don't wanna see another fan game be abandoned because of complicated stuff. I really like this game so far, so I really wanna see it finished

 

@FBTH Haha, thanks.
My small team and me want to see a final product, too! ;3
We also got the story figured out, the camera will get some fixes and improvements and a mini-game is currently in development.
A score system is also planned. There was one just at the beginning of the development, but I kinda forgot it. ^^'
And we have something like "costumes" planned, which means you can buy things like skins with the coins you collected.

 

Anything new?

 

I haven't done much the last weeks. I was ill and school began for me.
Well, I got some New ideas to make a better experience. I'd like to create like a connection to Luigi. I want cutscenes which are realistic in terms of Luigi's expressions, etc.