Mushroom Kingdom Fusion

Mushroom Kingdom Fusion
Developer: Fusion Team Publisher: Fusion Fangaming Platform: Windows This game has unused areas. This game has unused graphics. This game has a prototype article

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This page is showing its age. Please update this page to fit our current standards! Here are some things you can do: Todo and unused content still reflect v0.53, which was replaced by v0.6 in late 2018. Check more recent versions for differences and content. (Current version: v0.875 Stable Rev B.)

This page sucks. If you could make it suck less, that would be awesome. Specifically: See above. This thing really needs a rewrite.

Mushroom Kingdom Fusion is a 2D platformer that fuses the traditional Mario-series trappings with...pretty much every video game franchise under the sun, it seems.

Bowser has kidnapped Peach (again), so Mario and Luigi set out to rescue her (again) - except this time Bowser actually had a pretty decent reason to kidnap her, and it affects far more than just the Mushroom Kingdom...

Cue a huge adventure with a ton of playable characters using a variety of play styles (Wario, Sonic, Link, Roll, Arthur, Simon Belmont...); a bunch of great level and graphical design; music, enemies, and items from across gaming; a big dose of nostalgic levels (including some based on games that aren't 2D platformers); and some pretty unusual ideas.

Despite positive reception from pretty much the start, development stalled after the release of v0.53 until March 2015, when the project was officially cancelled due to lack of manpower, real-life obligations, and burnout. The biggest issue was the use of older versions of Game Maker (7, 8, and 8.1) as the engine/development software - they not only don't play nice on Windows 8.1 and higher, but they were never meant for projects as massive as MKF, resulting in the software frequently crashing; the game was also too far along in development to be easily ported to Game Maker Studio or later, and the source files can only be edited by Game Maker 8.1, which had not been supported for quite some time. A sister game which stuck far more closely to traditional Mario gameplay, Super Mario Fusion: Revival, remained in development until being cancelled in March 2017 (the last release being v0.5.3) due to many of the same issues that plagued MKF.

The project was revived by D-TurboKiller in late 2018 after the game's source code was released, with the first update (v0.6) massively optimizing the game and its assets among other changes. The game can be found on itch.io.

To do: There are sprites (maybe more?) of Kirby in the external folder. There may be unused rooms, but that's gonna be a pain to check. Revisional differences. Lots.

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