Sparkling Summer Fan Fest '22/TheFazDude

Hello and welcome to the Faz Studios presentation for Sparkling Summer Fan Fest '22!
I’m going to be upfront about this, folks; This is gonna be one of my biggest showcases in a long, long time. In terms of raw content, I think that only the 2021 Spring Showcase comes close to the size of this presentation. Here, we’re gonna be talking about pretty much all of my projects, present and future. It’s gonna be a blast, and I hope you’re as excited as I am.
Before we get into all that, though, I do want to mention that I have volunteered to be interviewed as part of the fest! I will post a link to said interview here once it's conducted/released.
With that said, see you on the 25th for the reveals! As always, here's some waiting music.
==CrossClash II==
Let’s start by talking about CrossClash II, since it’s been a while since I’ve had any major news for that. I have been working on things behind the scenes, but I haven’t done much substantial work with it since the end of Season 3. I want to get back to it soon, though, so let me lay out my plans.
Firstly, let me get the bad news out of the way first - Story Mode is on hold for the time being, mainly because I want to focus on the story mode for PCR, as well as some other aspects of CC2 itself. It is not canceled, mind you - Just not a priority at the moment.
Next, I want to talk about the future of DLC.
I’m in a weird spot regarding DLC. There are a ton of characters I’d like to add, but I’m finding it more and more difficult to find ways to make those movesets work. Maybe it’s burnout, maybe it’s not thinking hard about it enough, but whatever the case, it’s an issue that’s really demotivating me from working on DLC.
As such, there is a chance that Season 4 will be the final DLC season the game gets. I’m not 100% sure on this, and it is very possible I’ll change my mind, but for now, I’m going to treat this season as if it were the last. That isn’t to say it 100% will be the last, but I am going to do my best to ensure that this season is something great.
To begin this, I want to show you the focus of Season 4’s Franchise Pack. Please take a look!
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The trailer opens on a sunny day in Neo Metroville, with a distant alarm being audible. A black car blazes through the streets, with loose dollar bills flying out of the trunk, implying that this car was involved in some sort of heist. The camera then cuts to a nearby alley, where a gloved hand grips onto the edge of the wall as its owner pokes their head around the corner. It’s none other than Chewout, having gotten word of the robbery in progress and being determined to stop it.
Shooting out a tendril of gum at a nearby building, she begins swinging across the city in pursuit of the vehicle. As she does, she repeatedly shoots down gum bubbles and tendrils at the car in hopes of slowing it down. The plight eventually works, with one of the car’s tires getting stuck in a pool of gum, causing the car to spin out and crash into a nearby wall.
Smiling, Chewout descends to apprehend the criminals. As she does, though, she spots another swinging figure coming in from the sides… someone wearing red and blue? As she lands, she notices a bag of money in the wreckage and reaches out to grab it. Before she can, though, a thin stream of webbing juts out from the side and yoinks it away, leaving her confused. She turns her head to find that the crimson stranger had grabbed the bag with the web, looking a little awkward as he addresses her:
???: Sorry, is this your turf? Why don’t we clean these guys up together, Spidey-style?
Spider-Man Marvels the Competition!
Grateful to have an ally, Chewout gives a smirk as the criminals crawl out of the wreckage, ready for a brawl. Chewout and Spider-Man take their battle stance as the latter’s gameplay montage begins.
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Amazing, spectacular, sensational, whatever you wanna call him - Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man will be joining the fight!
Spider-Man is a hero who bears no introduction; The wall-crawler’s been appearing in all sorts of media since he first hit comic pages in the 60’s, and is more popular than ever with the MCU and Sony films featuring the character being renowned successes. He isn’t even a stranger to the fighting game genre; He’s had tons of experience in the Marvel vs. Capcom series, and even beyond that, he’s been in his fair share of fighters over the years!
While Spider-Man won’t be releasing until next month, I do want to give a few details about what he’ll be like.
*For the most part, Spidey will not be using his kit from the MvC games. While a few attacks do hail from those games, a few moves originate from the Insomniac Spider-Man titles.
*Spider-Man’s main gimmick is his webbing, allowing him to immobilize opponents for easy combos.
*The Franchise Pack isn’t just about Spidey! While a lot of content in the pack will involve him, other Marvel heroes and locations will appear in his additional content. Please stay tuned!
Overall, I’m really excited to be bringing Spider-Man to the fight, and I hope you’ll look forward to his release! I plan to talk more about him in an upcoming Dojo post.
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Finally, I want to make a special announcement.
I said earlier that I want to make this season great. I also said that I was having trouble figuring out what I wanted to do with fighters. To kill two birds with one stone, I pose to you a question; Who will be part of Season 4?
The answer? You decide.
CrossClash II presents...
NERD FOR A MILLISECOND 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO
More information will come after Spider-Man's release.
==Project Cape Rumble==
Next, a pretty exciting announcement for me personally - Project Cape Rumble’s story mode, Exam Day, has finally begun! As of writing this, the first chapter isn’t quite complete yet (I still need to do some cutscenes/art), but we’re getting there! My goal is to write one full chapter every month, plus doing any needed artwork. This timeline will probably speed up as I do more art, but for now, that seems like a pretty realistic goal.
I’m pretty excited to finally be showing off more of these characters and their world. I hope you’ll tune in to see just what these heroes get up to in their biggest adventure yet!
As a brief side note, I have been thinking about doing DLC for this game. I’m not going to fully commit to it yet, but after Exam Day is complete, I could see myself adding a few more characters/stages. Again, nothing’s set in stone, but the potential is there. It’ll probably be a lot like how the original Project Cape handled DLC.
==Unett==
The Unett will be coming out this fall.
…Yeah, that’s pretty much the announcement. To me, trying to hype up this console would be pretty hard, since it’s not something with a ton of major features like a game would be. It will still have a lot of content for a console, don’t get me wrong, but it’s hard to write it in a way that’d be interesting and something other than what I’d already be putting on the console’s page.
So yeah, the Unett will be coming out in the fall. Don’t expect to hear too much about it until then.
==The Next Chapter==
It has been a fun 2.5 years on Fantendo. I’ve made a lot of friends, made some really cool projects, and ultimately, I don’t think I would have ever been comfortable with sharing my wacky ideas with the world at large if it weren’t for this silly little blue site. I have all of you to truly thank for that.
The first thing I want to make clear about this upcoming project is that it is not meant to imply that I am leaving Fantendo. That is FAR from the case - I still have ideas for projects to do here, and even when I do inevitably stop making pages, I’ll still be around. I love this community, and I’m not going to give it up for a single project.
That said… It’s time that I branch out a little.
For the past while, I’ve introduced you to a lot of OCs that I’ve loved working with. Gary, the Project Cape gang, Yalp, Zoe… All those guys. You know them, right? Well, here’s the thing - I’d love to do more with them beyond Fantendo. While this would probably just be doing art of them and posting it off-site on DeviantArt or something, I’d still like to dip my toes in the water and see what people think.
At the same time, I still love writing game ideas, especially for fighting games. I have talked a little about my ideas for umbrella games on other sites, and there seems to be an interest in them. I love working on them still, and while I won’t necessarily stop working on umbrella projects here, it does give me a really fun opportunity to share what I love doing with a wider audience and get my name out there in a (slightly) more professional way.
Everyone, I would like to announce...
CrossSmash
(tentative title)
This game is pretty much my take on the platform fighter genre, which is home to the Super Smash Bros. series, Rivals of Aether, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, and many other great games. As the title also suggests, it will be a spinoff of the CrossClash games, featuring characters from all sorts of media franchises coming together to duke it out. If you liked the CC games, you’ll probably like this.
Now, let me go into a bit more detail via bullet points:
*As I said, this “game” will not be hosted on Fantendo. I am planning to find another non-Fandom host (probably Miraheze or ShoutWiki) to host it. On this wiki, there will probably be a main page explaining the game (mechanics, roster, etc.), and a dedicated page for every fighter and stage, kinda like what the Smash Wiki does. In this respect it’ll be a larger scope regarding certain elements of the game in comparison to the CrossClash games (although other things will probably be cut down or less emphasized, at least to start).
*Despite that, though, it’ll pretty much just be an umbrella game just the way I’ve always made them! Oddball picks, links to music for stages, alternate costumes - I’m not going to dumb down the experience just because I’m going offsite. Like I said, if you like CrossClash, you’ll get a real kick out of this!
*I am planning to go HARD with this roster. As of right now, CC2 will have at least 116 characters once all is said and done. I’m not going to be setting any kind of roster size limit with this one - If I want to put them in and can think of a moveset for them, they will be added!
*Finally, let me talk about what this project will not be.
**This project will not be a replacement for the CrossClash series. Like I said, I still want to do more umbrella stuff here, and CC2 will continue development.
**This project will not threaten any of my current or future Fantendo projects. This is meant to expand my characters beyond Fantendo rather than trying to scrub them off of it. I will still work on projects, my characters will still be free-to-use here, nothing’s getting deleted/changed in a major way, etc.
**This project is not any indication of me leaving the Fantendo community. I love Fantendo, and I plan on sticking around for a while. I just want to try out an offsite project that I think could be fun to show people outside of the site.
I’m going to be honest; This was nerve wracking to write. This is something I really want to do, but I don’t want people to feel that I’m betraying Fantendo or leaving it behind for something greater. That isn’t what this is about. I simply want to take the creative writing I love and do something a little bigger with it. I’ve said this a lot so far, but I am not turning my back on the Fantendo community - I am here to stay, but I am going to be taking this sole project off of it.
I hope you understand where I’m coming from with this. I know this all may feel like the “beginning of the end” when it comes to my Fantendo career, but I’d like to assure you that that isn’t the case.
I also hope you’ll check out the project once it’s out. I know it’ll be missing a cool blue background and probably a comments section, but let me tell you now; I will be putting just as much love and thought into this as I would any other Fantendo project.
This isn’t another CrossClash game.
This isn’t a means of stepping away from Fantendo.
This is something different.
This is CrossSmash (or whatever I end up calling it).
I will keep you posted with any new updates. I will welcome any questions and feedback with open arms. For now...
==Someone Order A Pizza?==
Finally, I would like to end this showcase by presenting a rough idea for a new wiki project. Introducing...
Project Delivery
(tentative title)
No final name yet, but I have a general idea of what I want to do with this game. It'll be a smaller title, just like Beatdown Town was. More importantly, though, I'll be designing it like a mobile game. You'll be delivering pizzas in the midst of a mutant apocalypse, using your trusty scooter and the environment to defend yourself. It's still VERY much work-in-progress right now, and I'm not 100% if I'll end up actually publishing it, but it's a fun idea I want to do something with.
And with that, it's the end of our showcase. As always, thank you all for reading! I will be opening a AMA in the comments of this presentation, so feel free to ask me anything about my projects, characters, or whatever else you may desire.
Until next time, this is Faz, signing off!
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