Jimmy alterted me to it a couple of days ago when he was helping me with the math for my game. It would seem that Elecbyte, the company that's only known for having created Mugen, the company who hasn't given any signs of life since mid 2001, suddenly decided to b alive again.
Didn't really post about it sooner cause it doesn't affect any of us directly here, nor we care that much about Mugen. but it's still really really strange.
And as they returned into... being alive i guess, they released an update for Mugen introducing new functions to it. I imagine all those Mugen communities might be really excited right now.
When u think about it, Elecbyte made a simplistic DOS based engine with a crappy example character and stage, and stopped updating it in 2001. And somehow, that lil engine became incredibly huge with massive communities still making characters for it. Entire "games" have been developped using Mugen and some fans actually made patches for it to add it more functions like Hi-res support. Weird.
It seems it could had easily become overlooked and forgotten like so many engines, but somehow, it's still big. I can't help but wonder how did that happen and if it was just luck.
Didn't really post about it sooner cause it doesn't affect any of us directly here, nor we care that much about Mugen. but it's still really really strange.
And as they returned into... being alive i guess, they released an update for Mugen introducing new functions to it. I imagine all those Mugen communities might be really excited right now.
When u think about it, Elecbyte made a simplistic DOS based engine with a crappy example character and stage, and stopped updating it in 2001. And somehow, that lil engine became incredibly huge with massive communities still making characters for it. Entire "games" have been developped using Mugen and some fans actually made patches for it to add it more functions like Hi-res support. Weird.
It seems it could had easily become overlooked and forgotten like so many engines, but somehow, it's still big. I can't help but wonder how did that happen and if it was just luck.
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