Weekly mod news 4/8/2024 "Utilities & neat weapons for the platformer mod & dart HUD fixes"

Bloons mod: "hud updates and small additions"
1. Updated dart monkey's hud to show more arm in animations. (000 to 003)

Platformer mod: "Power stone, gravity hold & much more"
1. New weapon: Power stone! summon 3 stones that spiral outward. Able to hit multiple targets and moves through terrain.
2. New weapon: Gravity hold! Increase or flip the gravity of all enemies ignoring Armor, destroying them in a large area! (Gravity hold affects enemies that don't have a gravity hold immunity, "I plan for many bosses & enemies to have the immunity, meanwhile bosses that are affected will do some damage & partially/completely alter patterns")
3. E-tanks, W-tanks & M-tanks now exist in the platformer mod!
"E-tanks work on all classes, Alric has health upgrades that can increase his max health, E-tanks account for these upgrades and heals to that upgrade's max health."
"W & M-tanks are only usable by Megaman & Bass at the moment."

4. Alric's class code got updated "Alric now has immunity frames like everyone else"
5. Alric is the first to get a new animation on the player setup screen!

Other:
1. n/a

Plans for next week? Some Bloons mod HUDs & two platformer mod weapons.

Not just etanks, but all tanks glow! E-tanks glow cyan colour, W-tanks glow a reddish-pink colour, and M-tanks glow yellow!

I'm in it to win it! Time to cut this competition down to size!

Weapon competition? I'm a little rusty, but count me in!

So many ideas and I think I just found the right one.

Ok I will open the slade and cook for your organisation

Utilizing the tech introduced in v6b that eases weapon creation and carrying on the spirit of the INSPIRE competition from years ago, Inspired BURST! is a new weapon creation competition focused on adapting things from other games into MM8BDM weapons!

"But Korby, I am not good at creating weapons!" you say to yourself, as I cannot hear you through your monitor. "How could I possibly win?!"

Good news, strawman I have invented! On the Official MM8BDM Wiki, we have two, count them TWO very detailed weapon tutorials! That's right, we've got a beginner's guide to using the V6B tools to make a weapon, and even an advanced one showing some of the more complicated tools!

If that's still not enough for you, I'm sure someone would be happy to help you in the MM8BDM Discord! Probably.

This competition will work in two stages; A submission stage and a judging stage.
Submissions will run until September 28th!
Afterward, the judging stage begins!
The three of us judges, Russel, Trillster, and myself (Korby) will attempt to have judging done by October 12th.
The goal of this phase is to have public servers running the weapons in a variety of modes to see how they play in real matches!

The first place winner of this competition will receive the Blacksmith medal!
Second and Third place winners of this competition will instead receive the Blacksmith (Runner-Up) medal!

Premade weapons are fine (and would also be hard to verify on our end anyway) so submit to your heart's content!
I also updated the rules a bit to specify that Megaman fangames are also off the table.

Also, are pre-made weapons fine to submit (ones that are not in a released wad), or does it have to be made specifically for this?

WEAPONS competition!? 👀

this sounds EXACTLY my speed and something I can actually get motivated enough to finish

Sure, seems fun so ill join it