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Mike_Z

Mike_Z

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  • hakefm
    Mike a few days ago someone ask how many combinations of characters are and you said 2380
    and that number is incorrect, for exemple you're counting paras+pain+squigly, painw+squigly+paras and squigly+paras+painw as 3 diferent combination.
    what you have to do to get the number is a combination. If i did it well it is 469 combinations
    Anyways sorry if I anoy you,
    hakefm
    hakefm
    the post was quite longer but I had the make it samller because the 420 limit
    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    I wouldn't have said 2380, cuz 14*13*12 = 2184. :^)
    "14 choose 3" is 364, which is MF/SQ = SQ/MF. However, in a team game with assists and DHCs (not CvS2, etc) SQ/MF is NOT the same as MF/SQ, so I'd still take the larger number because order is very important. See?
    Nhoj
    Hey Mike, will any of the UI stuff be available in the Art Compendium when it's done? I've been wanting the character icons to use for button art for a long time, but the only good vectors I can find are of the original cast, none for the DLC characters.
    WrestlerGuile
    Hey Mike, I know you seem tired but I wanted to ask: Where did you go for college and what did you study?
    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    The University of Minnesota; Computer Science. What's that got to do with being tired?
    Cheesedragon
    Cheesedragon
    He's tired of responding to stuff maybe? Also i assumed he was self taught but i guess not.
    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    I was self-taught for a while, but I also took AP Computer Science in highschool and during my senior year I went to the local technical college and took their C++ courses.
    JBThazard
    I hope Indivisible will have crazy speedrunning glitches like SM. GG and congrats on the announcement, I wish you all the best of luck with this new and exciting project <3
    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    You know how SG adapted glitches from other games into features? ....yeah.
    JBThazard
    JBThazard
    It's been a while since a comment on the internet has made me this happy <3 <3 <3
    SonicFox
    Happy Birthday Mr Mike Z! Was away at a tourny but now im back. At evo im going to give you birthday punches so dont 3s parry them.
    Mike_Z
    You're all very nice, I'm too tired to respond individually. Thank you!
    Kai
    Kai
    We'll let you off this time, but only because you're great ;)
    Clawsome Bombs
    Happy Birthday to a great programmer and person in general. Looking forward to other things you have in store!
    gllt
    Happy birthday, you've indirectly changed my life for (mostly?) the better. ˙ ͜>˙
    SmashBlade
    Happy birthday, Mike Z!
    The amount of hard work and dedication that you and the rest of Lab Zero put into Skullgirls is truly inspirational. I can't wait for you to have some time to relax and not worry about fixing the game.
    Aden
    Didn't think this was worth making a thread for but had no place to put it, most Vita games allow you to play your own music while playing a game, was just wondering if this was going to happen for SG.
    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    We did it on PS3, 360, and PS4, so I see no reason why not. Although we have not gotten to that yet.
    Aden
    Aden
    Oh, thanks. Didn't realize you did it for PS3, so few games do I forget that it's an option.
    Aden
    I've always hated having little mobility in fighting games so I tended to dismiss most grapplers but Skullgirls has shown me how fun a lot of grappler tools are so I've gone back and picked up Pot in +R and Hugo in 3S. Now I'm having more fun than ever, thanks for showing me how wrong I was.
    F
    Important question. Are you throwing up a rainbow, or eating a rainbow?
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    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    It's supposed to be eating, hence the "mnch mnch" but I've always seen it as throwing up, too.
    Cheesedragon
    Cheesedragon
    Question of my life. I noticed the onomatopoeia but it still looks much more like you're puking the rainbow. You should get it redraw- wait, i just noticed the smudges and stuff, is this a photographed Whiteboard Wednesday?
    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    Yep, the original was by Persona, and he also colored in the rainbow for me. ;^)
    JBThazard
    Mike, I've always wondered: SG is of course inspired by MvC2, but did anything about the soundtrack of MvC2 influence the kind of jazz you wanted to be in SG? Or do you just consider it to be bad elevator music?
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    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    Some people say that about SG's, too, though!
    JBThazard
    JBThazard
    Alright, I just wanted to know since you don't see jazz often in fighting games. And for the record, I love both of their soundtracks <3. THANKS MIKEY Z
    Cheesedragon
    Cheesedragon
    I don't care what people say, Marvel 2's soundtrack is amazing whether you're fighting or not. They made it smooth and relaxing so you wouldn't take getting bodied so seriously.
    Cheesedragon
    You put up with too much. Just be like Hideki Kamiya and ban/block everyone that asks dumb questions...
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    Cheesedragon
    Cheesedragon
    Somehow i knew you'd say that, but I didn't want to believe it. Edited.
    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    Well then, as a serious response - he's not interested in community feedback for his (primarily single-player) games, and he's got every right not to be. His money is his own. On the other hand I *am* interested in it, and I will wade through any amount of junk to make sure the game is the best versus experience it can be. Until we're done, that is, at which point I don't have to anymore. :^)
    Cheesedragon
    Cheesedragon
    Well, that makes sense.
    Colares
    When you hired programmers what knowledge were you looking for? Or if you were going to look again. I'm searching in all job applications in the area to have a base on which extra classes I should take;
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    Colares
    Colares
    Animation there's a multimidia course also but I don't know if I'll waste too much time and money getting all these things there that I could get by myself. I took the bait of these "schools" once.Ifeel ashamed
    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    BS in CompSci degree is what I have, so I recommend general CompSci education. Most of games comes from experience, and it's nice to be able to work at another job in case games ends up not for you, which a stricty games background doesn't really allow. Lua is useful, Python less so, from my experience anyway. Don't care if programmers can animate...?
    Colares
    Colares
    Ok, thank you for taking your time.
    thefocuswobbler
    It's the same Xbox 360 that I used to buy the game on when Encore was released and it's the same Xbox account that purchased the game which I used recently to download Beowulf.
    thefocuswobbler
    I don't want to bug you that's all, this 420 word limit is hard too. Please take your time reading the doc, my sister and I are big fans. Thanks for everything you do for Skullgirls and for us (every fan of Skullgirls out there). Thank you! :)
    thefocuswobbler
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    thefocuswobbler
    thefocuswobbler
    Every DLC seems to work fine for the game and no corruption to the data with them. Just Beowulf, when starting the game (just pressing hard drive save) it says it's been corrupted and for my sisters, she can't even get past the first menu screen.
    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    As a stupid question, have you deleted your savedata?
    thefocuswobbler
    thefocuswobbler
    Recently? Yes I have.
    Aden
    I wanted to say thank you for answering my question and say I wish you did more talks about game mechanics from your perspective, it's interesting and educational, I'd love explanations like that for Skullgirls or other games like Guilty Gear. I know you're busy, I'm just saying it would be something fun and interesting for fans and I can't imagine you wouldn't enjoy talking about something you clearly enjoy.
    JamesMcCloud
    Hey hi uh just a lil question! Would you ever consider tacking on the extra 200~ damage when Fenrir Drive hits the ground onto the chomp part and end the super there? Might just be me, but it feels kind of weird when the opponent get's KOd by the little "thud" instead of the giant teeth monster.
    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    Nope! I like it as-is because it's funny.
    JamesMcCloud
    JamesMcCloud
    Fair enough!
    Birdo!
    sorry if you've answered this question before, but why did the Kikuri Hime Eliza palette get replaced? It was my favorite.
    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    If you mean palette number...uh...3, was it? Because it looked very very similar to some other color and we needed more room. If you didn't get the reference it was kinda just "drab brown color the 3rd," part of the aim is to provide colors that are also visually interesting as non-references. Everything is *someone's* favorite, but you were in the very small minority.
    Birdo!
    Birdo!
    yeah it was palette 3, and I get that people that didn't get the reference wouldn't like the palette, thanks for the answer!
    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    Ya, sorry.
    bigbandpro69
    Hi, I'm writing a pretty expansive guide on Big Band. I was wondering if you'd like to take a look? I can send you a steam friend request if so.
    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    Um, sure. Or you can PM me...?
    Colelegante
    How do you control Wulf Blitzer for Beowulf. Is it random?
    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    ?????? For the first one, which button determines which start dir, and after that hold a dir and hit a button again...
    Dio Brando
    Will Squigly's Crouching Hard Kick (C.HK?) ever get it's hitbox increased? even if by a very little bit? Big Band and Beowulf too big, combo breakers too good, buff pl0x.
    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    Provide a clear example please.
    Dio Brando
    Dio Brando
    Forget my request, after trying over 40 times i was finally able to get the timing on the dash so the flames hit Beowulf after Grave Digger, triggering his Infinite burst without it hitting me and reseting with Silver Chord, Just a question, where Squigly's flames (C.HP, not C.HK, my bad ) nerfed in one of the updates? feels like the range is smaller.
    Mike_Z
    Mike_Z
    According to the logs for the frames directory, c.HP's hitboxes have not changed since July 28th, 2013.
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