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Developers: Fusion Team (start-v0.53, v0.7),
D-TurboKiller (v0.6)
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Mushroom Kingdom Fusion is a platformer that fuses traditional Mario-series gaming with...pretty much every video game franchise under the sun, it seems. Bowser kidnaps 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, filled with awesome music, great level/graphic designs, a big dose of nostalgic levels (including some based on games that aren't 2D platformers), and some pretty unusual ideas.
Despite positive reception pretty much throughout, MKF was cancelled in March 2015 (some time after the last version, v0.53, was released) due to lack of manpower, real-life obligations, and burnout. The biggest issue, though, 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 has not been supported for quite some time. A sister game which sticks far more closely to traditional Mario gameplay, Super Mario Fusion: Revival, remained in development until being cancelled in March 2017 (the last release being v0.5.3r53) 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 release (v0.6) massively optimizing the game and its assets among other changes. While initially putting the game on indefinite hiatus in late December due to having gotten steady work and becoming progressively more frustrated with Game Maker, the project came back to life in February 2019 and can be found on itch.io (where it is currently up to v0.7).
 | To do: cover the unused stuff from v0.7 |
