Animation Showdown Project

Due to internal complications, Jax will no longer be in the roster.

INTRODUCTION

Hello everyone! This is Anthony7612, director of the soon-to-be-released Animation Showdown project here. Welcome to Animation Showdown Spotlight, a series to keep you entertained while I wait for the perfect time to bring people to work on the game!

Here, I will review Indie Animation projects that I feel like reviewing here, both viewer-requested and my own personal picks!

Today, I'll be reviewing the long-awaited pilot episode of Gameoverse, created by Ross O'Donovan!

! QUICK NOTE !

Animation Showdown: Spotlight was meant to start earlier than intended, reviewing Episode 2 of Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want To Be A Magical Girl.

However, stuff like college and other projects got into the way, so I scrapped that. Maybe I'll make one for when Episode 3 comes out months later?

WHAT IS THE SERIES ABOUT?

In shorter terms:

Wreck-It Ralph meets a certain [adult swim] pilot that I don't want to mention. With maybe a hint of Pixels. (Do you guys remember that movie? I remember liking it as a kid.)

In longer terms:

So, basically! Meet Kit, this catgirl-robotgirl... girl. She gets a task to save the world, risking most of her teammates' lives in the process. When defeating the villain, that's where we're introduced to the series' important thing.

Let the hero win and you're fucked big time.

So her, alongside her robot backpack companion Kaboodle, get to visiting other videogame-related worlds alongside new recruit Gobbles. Their first stop seen in the series?

A videogame featuring Flappers the Super Dolphin. Ecco, is that you?

All while the Syntax group is trying to cause trouble for our heroes, mainly Miss Information and Fold. The main big bad, Warrick, stays on the ship aurafarming.

And, uhh... that's all I can say. I highly recommend you to watch the pilot because it is SO good.

The animation in particular is a huge highlight. It has beautifully-made 2D animation, but doesn't shy away from mediums such as pixel art and 3D.

WOULD THEY BE IN ANIMATION SHOWDOWN?

If the cards are right, yes!

I feel like Kit would feel right as the main rep for the series, considering that she's inspired by characters like Mega Man (who is in Smash), and... well, she's the main protagonist.

The idea of her being in the game is still fresh, so I don't have any moveset ideas. Oh, and there's a 100% chance that Kaboodle will be part of her moveset, especially considering her Final Smash, if you've watched the pilot.

CONCLUSION

That's all for the review! Sorry if it was too short.

If you want to help greenlight the series, consider spreading the word of the series! Your friends, your family, your dead great-grandpa Greg... you get the idea.

Oh, and don't forget the merch!

Hey!

It's been a while, huh?

Animation Showdown hasn't been doing well in terms of development as I want to put it last in the series of games I'm developing for Team Eclipse, a fangame development group(s) founded by me.

Animation Showdown is an ENORMOUS project, with it being full of stuff and being a AAA-like game, at least in my eyes, being my massive love letter to the Indie Animation community. I might split Team Eclipse into three teams of developers for each fangame, AS included. I'm setting AS up for a release window of 2027 or 2028. A bunch of series will pop up by then, so we'll see if they'll make it in!

I didn't want to bring this blog closer to obscurity, so to add more awareness of the project, I want to keep this blog alive in what I like to call a "Blog Series".

What is this series, you may ask?

''Animation Showdown Spotlight"!

AS:Spotlight is a blog series that reviews both pilots and episodes of both up-and-coming and popular Indie Animation series! It brings both:

Awareness of the project

+ Awareness of the series

And it lets me interact more with the Indie Animation community. Don't worry, more of these Blog Series are coming up!