This month I managed to make some free time to dedicate to the project. It´s progressing slowly but steadily.

I´m still at the second ruins. I decided to remake them from scratch.
Why?
Because the place was boring.

Up to this point I was following the original map design too strictly, and forgot that the original layout was done inside the limits of hardware limitations.
So, I redesigned the second ruins from scratch. I´ll be adding some scripted events and simple puzzles to add some variety to the usual gameplay. Because the main areas are ancient ruins, I could add all kind of traps and devices, I was thinking something between Tomb Raider and Rick Dangerous (does anyone remember that game?).
Ideas for traps are welcome.

Some more enemies have been drawn also. We´ll begin with the Alpha Metroid ones next week or so, I´m in a mood for AI coding.

Oh, and if you still havent seen this...
Metroid:SR388
This game is gonna be awesome.

Project AM2R has an official spriter.
Of all the talented people who sent their own version of Metroid 2 enemies, Hyrule_SwordsMan captured the style flawlessly. He is now the project´s spriter, you can check his blog out.

A couple of enemies have already been revamped, here are some screens of the new sprites in action.









I´m redoing some of the enemies´ AI, mapping parts of the second temple, and balancing out the stacked beam system, it was too overpowered. It´s quite a challenge, because of the weird order you get the beam upgrades in the game.

Once all the enemies are done, we´ll start with the Metroids... and that´s gonna be so much fun to do.

Thanks to all the people who showed their support, and all the talented people who sent their awesome sprite work.

Project AM2R needs you! (if you are a graphic artist)

In the following weeks I´ll be choosing a spriter for the project. If you have talent and some free time, and wish to contribute, choose one of the following enemies and redraw/shade it to fit the zero mission / super metroid style. Here are my sprites:



I´m not a graphic artist, so please excuse the inconsistent shading and colouring.

Send your cool enemy sprite to doctorm64@live.com , I´ll be using MSN messenger too.
As always, you are invited to visit the project´s official blog: http://metroid2remake.blogspot.com

Thank you for your time, and good luck.

I´m still surprised.
It all happened in a matter of days, and I still can´t believe it. All of the sudden the project became popular, I still remember feeling a cold shiver when I checked GameTrailers like always, and saw my video featured in the front page.
I guess I´m not used to popularity. I don´t know how to react.

I want to thank meleemaster and all the people here at 64D for the front page post. I´m sorry if the project´s popularity attracted spammers.

Anyway. I took a small break from the mapping tasks. I´m making the entire game map with black squares, so I can test the levels before any tile work.
I see black squares everywhere by now.

I tweaked the map editor and made a small example. This will help a lot if you plan to add a Metroid style map to your game. Many of you will surely ask "why didn´t you use data structures?". Well, I still haven´t played around too much with data structures, I guess I´ll have to switch from arrays sometime. In the meantime, this example could prove useful.
I just submited it, it should show up any minute now.

Like always, thank you for following the project. You´re invited to the project´s Blog for more updates.

Hi, my name is Milton.
I live in Argentina, where I work as a sound technician and music producer in my own recording studio.

I´ve worked in many games these last years, some of them in Game Maker, and the latest one (and most ambitious so far) is my Metroid 2 remake.
Look for AM2R Tech Demo to take a look at the engine.

Right now I´m quite busy with work, but once in a while I dedicate time to the project. Since Metroid 2 wasn´t a big game (compared to other ones in the series), it might be possible to finish the game this year.

In the meantime, you can check out a nice preview video here:

(The powergrip description is a placeholder text I forgot to change, Prince of Persia rules!)

You can also read more about the project and how things were made in these years by visiting the project´s blog.