The Kirby RPG I Never Released
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- What if Kirby had an RPG similar to Paper Mario or Mario and Luigi? What would that look like? Well a long time ago I started making one and it was very robust. I put about 6 years into the project and no one ever saw it. But today that changes, so I hope you enjoy the Kirby RPG I never released!
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Oh boy... I've been working on this for a long time. Trying to find the files and make them work again took a very long time. I'm excited and a bit intimidated to show it off, but it makes me feel free? Accomplished? I dunno. Time is a weird thing... I hope you enjoy this big "what if" project!
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I hope that it gets released one day, but I just don’t want to know what will happen if Mr. Sakurai and the rest of the Nintendo company found out about your Kirby RPG fan game, that is.
Now this is truly an interesting yet sad story of something being incomplete.
not to be that guy... but it's spelt "truly."
Correcting you now before someone else much more... harsh corrects you. Sorry.
@@citrufruit k well thanks for letting me know I’m not the best will spelling-
@@funtimemety5179 with*
@@llab3903 thanks-
I was typing fast and didn’t notice
Super sad
God, this takes me back.
Hello! I'm-- well, I _was_ Jirbytaylor. I hate that username now, lol. I am still deep in the bowels of RPG Maker to this day, but I'd like to think I'm _much_ better with it than I was back then. I'm working lately on a game in RPG Maker XP, and have released a demo of another game for 2000.
A boss fight against Kirby himself!?! Now that's a twist I didn't expect... And a clever one at that, I can only imagine how a fight like that would go...
you'd lose.
everybody would lose.
it's an impossible fight.
Or it would be revealed it was a copy/clone of Kirby or that Kirby was holding back.
@@DonutBurger Mind control tech is a tricky thing, they might not be capable of using it to unleash Kirby's unlimited power.
@@Solesteam i mean, kirby could be frogged, but how else could he be mind controlled? hes simply to stupid for it.
I'd assume a battle against him would have him copy one of your party members from time to time.
6:02 "The sun and the moon fought day and night" That's actually pretty poetic.
“Kirby wasn’t on vacation after all, he was being controlled by the mafia”
Aside from the story, this sounds like a super fun game when you mentioned that you added tons of secret areas. That's my kinda jam, and I really wish I could play this game 😢
12:53 i imagine the reason you made Wispy all-knowing was because in the anime he's the guardian of the forest and that's basically his role! (at least i imagine that's why since you had already included Cappy Town) i started rewatching the show recently and it's been a great nostalgia trip!
Hey, there’s BabyCharmander and Dagger! :D Those are my characters! It’s so awesome to see more stuff from this. I still remember seeing bits and pieces of it all those years ago. Honestly even though the game remained unfinished, it’s cool seeing how much you completed, and what’s there is very impressive!
This was an awesome watch! Thanks for taking the time to talk about this!
That's awesome!
You made those characters?! Am I missing something because I’m counfused?
@@yoshikoopa9545 I made BabyCharmander (BabyChar) and Dagger! Not the others though.
Are you still in touch with swankybox? :o
@@BabyCharmander Oh ok
this video was a HUGE blast from the past! i am Glod's creator! BC brought this video to my attention. a lot of the sprite animations in this are super cute and well-done considering your level of experience at the time!
the environment present in KRR that fostered fan creativity was a huge part of why i was initially drawn to the space, so it's always nice to hear people who were there praise it for the same. it's awesome that you're still making games, and that you've gotten into videos too!
We need this to be public. Return to this game, finish and release it.
I agree. I played fangames like this as a kid in the early 2000s. It's so charming and I think it would be amazing to see his childhood project finished up and released.
I’d play it
Probably shouldn’t make that sound so forceful.
@@whybother5741 fax
Ye I agree
I remember putting SO many hours into that same fan translate RPG Maker. It taught me a ton about gaming that's honestly helped with troubleshooting/working on modern games. Put enough time into RPG Maker and you'll never be able to purge the concepts of "event triggers" and "loading zones" from your brain.
Man, I'd kill to play this if it was ever finished.
until Nintendo's ninjas come
@@gomichow once it's on the internet for at least a day, it ain't ever gonna totally vanish no matter how much Nintendo whines about it, even if they take down the original link.
@@gomichow Nintendo can't do crap about fan games unless they are being sold for money.
@@milkman4407 that’s what you’d think, but…
@@whybother5741 No they legally can not do anything.
A Kirby rpg would be kinda sick
Agreed
I would kill for a Kirby RPG.
Agreed. The copy ability system would lend itself *really* well to an RPG imo.
@@Cuprite1024
It's super apparent, especially in the Kirby clash RPGs
Had you completed this actually pretty good rpg, this would have definitely been a game I would have fallen head over heels for while browsing the Internet looking for "online Kirby games."
It looks so awesome and cool! If this game was ever released for the Nintendo Switch, I’d play it and I’d have so much fun playing it, too!
Honestly, Swanky, this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, and I would truly love to see it completed. I know there's a lot you've forgotten, but to see it fully completed, out there in the world for people to play, that would be incredible. Even if you can't get the Paper Mario-esque battle system you were working on to actually work, even having the traditional turn-based battling system with random encounters and leveling would be so cool and appropriate for this game!
I do really hope you can finish it one day soon, because it really does look fun and exciting!
The game that NIS America just released, in America, for the Nintendo Switch plays out very similar so far based on what you describing. The company releases them first in Japan for something related the way that the country functions. The company talked about it in detail in an interview that I found only once, and I wanted to play it ever since. The game is called The Cruel King and the Great Hero, and they were probably not fully sure on how they were wanting the make game fully either at first either. The game plays as true to their vision and explanation as they explained in the interview, so sorry in advance if you do not like exactly how it plays. They also placed a timer inside of the game to make the person playing the game aware of exactly how long they have been playing for. The reason will make sense pretty much immediately the moment that you start playing it. They made sure that the game explains itself through out the game to avoid any further questions about the game.
They did not say which engine that they used to male the game, but it was more advanced than RPG maker since it does use a function that is definitely different than what and how people playing the game would likely function as well.
And that's why fighting Sephiroth with a team of Kirby, Meta Knight, and King Dedede will always be one of my Pixel Portals.
Video like that please! Late 90s/early 00s online fandoms were truly special.
I'd love to see what this would look like finished and a playable game. I would play it.
Wow--Jirby is a name I hadn't heard dropped in years! Way to bring back memories of my time in the early RPGMaker space!
Swanky, I watch this channel for way more than just Mario, Zelda, and indie games. I watch it because you cover interesting stuff and you're a great storyteller. I'd love more videos like this!
I am so glad you talk to us about this because, so many of us used to make game of passion as child that's now, everyone would call cringe.
Honestly, that old project looked amazing!
Felt like it could become a real thing, younger you was super talented!
A kirby RPG now that's something I wish happened
this video makes me so genuinely happy. it's always so much fun revisiting old passion projects from years or even decades ago. i recently discovered a manga that i started drawing when i was 11 and it made me tear up because i remember being so passionate about my art and even though i rarely draw anymore because life gets in the way, it really inspired me to start drawing again. i'm so glad that you still have proof of all the effort you put into your passions and i'm happy that you still get the chance to do what you love all these years later.
I felt so alone making stuff like this, never knew anyone who had any similar interests or activities.
Man it’s so incredible to see the kind of stuff kids can accomplish at such a young age. This is really impressive and it’s sad to see it unfinished. Maybes finishing it would be out of the question, but it would be a cool idea to see “homages” to some of the characters in a one if your new works.
We were successfully playing Yoshi's Cookie when we were really little as well as playing City Connection perfectly fine as well.
There is likely more information that anyone can process at a young age that is not fully realized
@@joshernsteen2066 were you one of the people the characters were based off?
This is honestly a bit of an inspiring story, considering that I'm working on my own silly RPG Maker project as of recent, among the various other projects I have going on. While mine is probably not even a year old yet, the style is somewhat similar to what you have going on here: vibrant colors, black outlined characters, Paper Mario style battle system, stuff like that. I really wish I could play this little project of yours, but this little deep dive is just as good. Love your work, man, keep it up.
WHOOOOO RPG Maker 2000!
I worked on my own RPG maker games for a few years. I loved it so much but I quickly realized that I don't much about what makes a game good and that it's a lot of work.
Same here
@@thedraftingax5963 I did learn a bunch of stuff that I managed to never use again though! Lol
I wish I would have had a clear vision and maybe I could have made something cool.
@@CeeJayThe13th yeah! Same here! I’m basically working on a new, fan made, Sonic RPG game at the moment, and hopefully Sega would like that a lot, if I sent it to them!
@@thedraftingax5963 I'm old now and don't get excited about much but the kid in me got really excited about the thought of a Sonic The Hedgehog RPG.
The fact you mentioned Kirby's Rainbow Resort surprised me- I stumbled across the site a few years ago. I liked reading the manga scans and seeing the fancomics there
God I live for this kind of stuff. I remember as early as elementary school that I'd draw out my own RPGs and game ideas on notebook paper, trashing a good chunk of it during college depression, then come my mid-20's found the means to use programs like RPG Maker and Godot to make those sketches into tangible games. Flash forward to now and I've finished two RPGs (flawed as they are) with more projects along the way (do the Mario Maker levels count too?) and it is such an invigorating feeling. I love coming across old sketches and notes and thinking 'ok, how do I remake this into something tangible?' and my goal in life is to finish as many as possible before it's curtains for me.
Thanks for reminding me how special and nostalgic those childhood ideas are. It oddly enough gave me courage to keep trucking along!
I would seriously love if a kirby rpg was a thing. I’ve always wanted to make one but I do not have the skill and decent enough technology to do it. This made me so happy to see! Awesome work.
This was truly beautiful. I have never seen such a amazing passion project! RPG Maker games are always varied in quality, THIS is what I call quality. The characters, the puzzles, the ambitious battle system...
Finished or no, you did all this as a KID! That just proves how strong your love for this adorable little videogame series is.
I hope someday your characters will be able to truly shine...
Thank you.
Damn man, it looks pretty good
Incredible, simply incredible! Thanks for sharing this Swankybox!
Even though I never seen this project in my life it makes me feel something, it makes me a bit sad and nostalgic in a weird way. It makes me think back of a time I would make animations as a kid that I would never be able to finish them. It made me realized how many projects will never see the light of day. It’s sad in a way. You making something out of nothing just for it to be left behind. I don’t think we realized how much things are left behind from artists, musicians, animators, programmers etc.
It give so much old internet vibesthat I strive for and would kill for.
Yes. Stuff like this was my childhood. I tried making countless fangames that I canceled and those files are long gone, sadly.
This video reminds me of the game I was making as a child on Game Maker 001. I spent so much time working on that game and making sprites. Sadly, the Windows XP computer I was making it on eventually crashed on boot up one day (probably because of all the Malware it had from weird websites I downloaded emulators and rom modifiers on) and couldn't be revived. All I have left of the quarter finished game is an executable of the most recent version of the game. I'm pretty sure I lost all the project files to corruption in the crash but this video has inspired to check the PC's backup files again.
So did u find anything? Seems interesting!
Man, I remember seeing a few of those sprites occasionally, IIRC as an avatar. I didn't think they were tied to an RPG though. A neat retrospective. Thank you for sharing your memories with us :V
The more I listen to the story of this the more I wonder whether or not you can call this Kirby game, but I Can’t argue with your imagination we made this game up!
This is exactly the kind of stuff I lived for as a kid. Then life got in the way and only now am I getting the tools together to make things on my own. Kudos to you for having gone so far
Woah. This game reminds me of the times I tried to make RPG maker games myself. Thanks for making another great video.
Also, please make more videos about Kirby. I never knew how deep was the Kirby community, and I never get tired of watching your videos.
Not gonna lie, a lot of these locations look really good actually, and the writing has an old flash game type charm.
I'd love to see the deep dive on the old Kirby community. It'd be super interesting
That feeling of accomplished nostalgia that you were talking about I think I can understand. Recently I found a book that I wrote at 8 years old and it was really bad. But when I was 16 I rediscovered it and thought I would remake it but better. Now I'm 18 going on 19, and I've re written the book three times and decided I want to make it a trilogy. Hopefully it comes out half decent lol
Hey, good luck! I'm working on rewriting a story I wrote at 10 and adapting it into a comic. It's a long process but it's worth it!
This video was amazing. I recently finished an RPG Maker 2003 game that I released on Steam, but I wouldn't have ever gotten to this point without hundreds of projects similar to this. I really enjoyed your trip down memory lane and I remember the early internet Nintendo communities fondly... for me, the Kirby fandom you talk about was synonymous with the RPG Maker and Earthbound communities I grew up in too.
It’s really cool to finally see the Kirby RPG you mentioned way back in the Aquapolis Pixel Portal video. You only mentioned it briefly, so I never would’ve guessed that this was such a huge project.
I’ve been writing a lot of stories since I was a kid. A couple of years ago, I stumbled across a story that took up a majority of my middle school and high school life and only just recently shared it with my wife. Sharing such a personal thing is very intimidating, but I’m very glad you opened up about this project.
This seemed like a great project. Thanks for sharing this trip in nostalgia land. You have my upmost respect.
Oh hey, I remember this!! I remember you!!!! Thanks for the trip down memory lane! It's good to see you are still around doing cool things!
As a big RPG Maker fan myself, I have massive respect for this old project of yours. Especially for all the custom stuff you were trying to do; it might not have all worked out, but it’s more than I would have done, especially these days when I can look for a plug-in from someone who’s done the work for me. Well, the sprite work is a bit of an exception, not on the impressive work end, but rather that that’s one bit of customization I have dabbled in.
You've managed to make me nostalgic for a time I never experienced, and a game that I've not only never played, but that you never even released.
It’s so awesome you shared this with us :)
This game seems actually kind of fun, i would probably play it if it were t get released, even in it's unfinished state
This was a beautiful video. Your project looks like it would have been a fun game! It’s a shame it’s not finished, but I love what you’ve shown us! There’s a strange feeling of nostalgia that I am hit with even though this isn’t even my game! Thank you for sharing!
You have no idea how cool this video is to me. Me and my friend loved RPG Maker as a kid, though she was the one who was making the games. I loved working on them and playing the test builds with her and coming up with all sorts of different wild ideas. I have a deep nostalgia for the software and games made in them. We never finished any big ones, but a few smaller projects actually did get completed. That comment about the characters being based off your friends hit home for me because one of the first "major" projects we both got invested in took place in a small forum me and my friends frequented(really, it was ONLY me and my friends, haha, it was a small place) where we were the bosses. We're actually doing a nostalgic "revival" project in the same universe and it's brought some of those friends back into my life. It's great.
I wish we could go back to that time...making things is so much harder now. I still like 'fan things' like fanfic and fangames and want to make some. But when you're an adult, you're so much more self-conscious. And you don't have as much time, life is hard. Maybe the insecurity is just me. But when you're 6 you make tons of crappy MS Paint drawings and dumb plots and you don't care, it's fun...but as an adult I feel like I have expectations to make use of my time. I have to make something good or whatever, something original, it's not as impressive to show your friends little dumb drawings anymore. I don't have most of them saved...I had a phase in my late teens where I began to hate on anything I made as a child, and I seriously regret that because now I have little to look back on. Old forums I roleplayed on were shut down, old fanfics were thrown in the garbage, plans for old games are gone...it's bittersweet.
Sorry for the ramble, this video just took me down memory lane. It makes me realize sometimes the dumb things you did when you were younger weren't exclusive to you.
Dude you made this in public, ITS INCREDIBLE! I tried making games like a Mario fan game that crossed over with sonic with lots of code! I lost that but daaang the nostalgia. It was so much fun! And I love this game! The “Dynamic Squadron” is a creative yet stupid name and that’s why I love it! The Sprite Work is so well done! Your really more talented then you think dude!
Thank you so much for sharing, Swanky. You seem to have learned so much about yourself and many new skills from the experience, and what you built is impressive! That you were able to figure out a start a custom combat system and maps on your own is time I did not invest in a project at that age, and a lot of times still today.
Your willingness to share helps us further collaborate with others and work on ourselves, too,. I really appreciate that.
OMG i was actually working on a remake of Kirby's Dream Land but RPG with Mario & Luigi-ish mechanics on Godot, but didn't made much more than Wise Waddle Dee and Kirby's 4 directional sprite with Super Star Ultra graphics. Doing a Kirby RPG fangame nowadays is an underrated idea.
This looked like it had so much potential! I’d love a remaster.
This looks so cool! I can`t believe you made a fan made Kirby game! I would really want to play this if it gets released.
Would totally want to watch that video regarding the Kirby community especially I used to have Kirby projects during my childhood.
Very, very cool video! I'm a seriously big fan of your videos where you talk about your own video games, rather than the normal uploads.
Also, 22:10 "HOLY CRAP HE COULD DIE ON THAT THING." sure is a line of dialogue
YES, I would LOVE to see a video on the lost Kirby community.
The Kirby community of the late 90s/early 2000s always fascinated me too. It always seemed infinitely better than the fanbase that has existed for the past 10-12 years or so.
The fact that you got this far into creating something is very impressive to me. I can barely get into the task of learning a game engine before I get intimidated and give up.
Not to mention all the art. Art isn't my strongsuit either.
Please finish this game, I would LOVE to play it! I’ve been dying for a new RPG experience!
Oooh. This is quite a comfy, bittersweet video - partly just from how much of your past this clearly brought back, but also how much it reminds me of the kinds of creative endeavors I tried out in my early teens. The pixel art, the inclusion of friends' OC's, and especially not knowing how to manage project scope... all good times.
Loving those MIDI-fied Block Ball tracks you used, too! I appreciate that you used those for this video, to *really* bring us back to those days. The Dark Cloud 2 / Dark Chronicle MIDI was also a nice treat. :3
This was great to share Swanky. I'm also got motivated from last year to hop on the indie gamedev train. I always wanted to create games based closely off of my favorite adventre/puzzle franchises. Which is what I'm trying to do at the moment. This was inspiring really. Engines I'm using are GameMaker Studio 2 for my 2D games and UE5 for my 3D ones.
No joke, maybe you can update the stuff, remove the Nintendo properties, make some original stuff and probably release this as a game next year.. I would play it. Maybe make an Easter egg for the other game your released. Like the final non story boss, Culex style for Mario RPG
Pixel Portal: Swanky's Kirby RPG Lost Bits; the Third.
Man, that's really cool. I love old creations like this.
Thanks for sharing, Box!
Looks interesting,
I think a Kirby RPG would be a great idea.
I wish sega would give sonic another RPG
the first one at least promising.
I don't know whether to call this inspiring or deflating. I've started an RPGMaker project of my own for the first time recently, and it barely has 3 minutes worth of content in it, I don't even know how to make most basic things function, and if I keep coding it the way I am I know it'll end up as a cluttered mess. Comparing that to something you made when you were like 7 or something having all these moving parts, completely original sprite sheets, and huge maps... I really don't know how to feel.
That aside, Glod is my new favorite name.
please, PLEASE polish this up and release it, it looks so fun to play
This has inspired me to make a rpg myself. I hope it gets farther than yours though.
How’s it going?
@@kiartoons2010 I haven’t start yet. I was sitting on the rpg maker steam download page and I was thinking if someone saw this they would think It’s an anime game. So I didn’t get it, because I didn’t want my parents to be weirded out.
@@SirScallywagger I do really want to make one tho…
Thank you for putting this out there, it gave me nostalgia for my own kirby stuff, though they never left the spiriting stages. Still, it's heartwarming to hear that the kirby community was a major thing back then and that people made RPG maker games on it.
22 years ago, I remember playing Kirby Warrior RPG. Considering you never released this publicly, I’m pretty sure this isn’t that but it’s strange that two people were working on similar projects at the same time.
I’d love a video on that game and the online community from that era back when I was a kid.
A Kirby rpg game need to happen
I think the reason Whispy is all knowing in this is because of how Whispy is presented in the anime, as the guardian of the forest, or maybe because of the all knowing Kabu?
So you're looking for a thriving, friendly and downright amazing, go no further than Kirby amino, AMAZING community, and unlike any of the other amino's
Man, you did what 10 year old me dreamed of doing, but just couldn't understand. Right down to RPG maker.
This is so impressive man! I'd love to play it someday ♥. Thank you for sharing this. It's inspiring.
Wow. So much time and effort poured into this. It's truly inspiring to see someone else's passion project, even if it didn't come to fruition. Recently I've been trying some fiction writing but I've been lacking motivation. Consider me remotivated now!
man this game feels just like the 90 RPG, this game would be a plast at the time and of polished would be amazing today as well
I’d definitely like to see how the old community was, and the things they made. I want to be inspired myself.
sick rpg, ive been watching for awhile now and just wanted to say your doing some good work. I really love what this channel is about nostalgia and game secrets and all. I feel like my childhood was a lot like yours in a way, loneliness and video games and all. Anyways enough about me keep up the good work!
Lost Kirby community?! That sounds exiting :)
dude... I WANNA PLAY THIS SHIET, THIS LOOKS SO COOL AND INTERRESTING ! no really i'm in admiration, when i was 9 i tried to do a Sonic RPG But i never finished it and you, you almost finished your fangame
It's always cool to see old projects people worked on in when they were kids.
That reminds me...
I need to go find my old self insert RPG Maker tutorial that I spent a single, intense week working on, then never touched again...
Wait, you tried your hand at making a Kirby RPG at such a young age? And there I was simply learning stuff in school! Man, do I envy you or what?
Anyways, this is some intriguing stuff. Indeed, this truly felt like a time capsule of the Kirby fanbase in the late 1990s to early 2000s, and I say this as someone who became a Kirby fan a little later than that! I wonder how the rest of the story would've been like had you opted to keep on going; maybe there'd be a couple extra twists here and there, and perhaps Kirby himself may have ended up having a larger role in the story despite not being the main character? Who knows! I'd absolutely love for HAL to give the Kirby series a proper RPG someday, but until then, I suppose this (and maybe Team Kirby Clash Deluxe and Super Kirby Clash) is the next best thing! Y'know, despite being unfinished and unofficial...
Also, I'd be down for someone like you doing a whole retrospective on Kirby's Rainbow Resort and your experiences there; the site's quite a historical place that is emblematic of the Kirby fanbase throughout the 2000s, and I feel it's about time someone gave it some much needed love.
I REALLY hope this eventually comes back one day. Maybe a FULL BLOWN REMAKE! Or, just trying to polish it up and release it so others can actually experience this beautiful masterpiece.
I actually really like this. It could obviously use polishing, but it's cool that it was made by just one guy, and that there's a lot of love put into it.
I would love to see that deep dive you were talking about!
I really enjoyed this video. :) This probably my favorite postmortem video ever.
I've been in the professional gamedev industry for almost a decade now, but this really reminded me why I love gamedev even when I was a kid. Thank you.
Broooooooo this legit would have been my entire childhood
Someone needs to finish this! It’s too good to let it go to waste!
Bro this is sick! You should finish it. It has so much soul and it feels way more Kirby than the modern Kirby games.
I don’t even want to try to count how many half baked demos I made in GameMaker Pro as a kid. $25 and you have unlimited power? Absolutely! As YoYo Games moved away from casual/learning developers and started raising prices dramatically, I moved onto Unity for more precise control and an actual programming platform
Music from Dark Cloud 2 in the background, a true connoisseur.
If you just added deleted battles, and did a few kinks. i would buy this for 60$. keep makeing amazing things swanky
Dang I’m sad this never got released now. Kirby is the perfect series for an RPG, and this seems like it could have been an interesting fan game had it been finished.
Still, neat to see you worked on it nonetheless