Indie Fighting Game Roster : "CROSSROADS : Indie Rumble"

Indie Fighting Game Roster : "CROSSROADS : Indie Rumble"

Greatly expanded, polished and improved version of my previous indie roster for a smash-like platform fighter.

This version can still be changed and polished, but I tried and did my best (considering the design nightmare this was) to put out a mostly finished proof of concept.

Now it contains 84 INDIE REPS all categorized under 12 distinct thematic Teams and Team Leaders, inspired by the roster structure of the latest "Tokkon : Fighting Soul" game.

(ALL illustrations, visual design choices and conceptual elements of this roster comes ENTIRELLY from human hands and mind.)

From left to right, the Teams names and their Leaders are:

·       Precision Striders - Leader Commander Video

·       Uncharted Team - Leader Ana

·       Humble Adventurers - Leader Shovel Knight

·       Chaos Club - Leader Monika

·       Scarlet Vanguards - Leader Hornet

·       Broken Heroes - Leader Isaac

·       Cartoon Fighters - Leader Ms. Chalice

·       Suppliers’ Alliance - Leader Shopkeeper

·       Ressourceful Minds - Leader Gomez

·       Prideful Combattants - Leader Undyne

·       Overkill Rushers - Leader Jacket

·       Cautious Survivalists - Leader The Silent

Of course, not every game could have a rep, and some games definitely does have a bit too much reps, namely Hades and Shovel Knight, but I tried my best in making a relatively varied, fun, creative and cohesive roster which could actually be mechanically viable with tons of different options for any types of players, all while being a personal love letter to indie gaming history.

Feel free to leave comments, constructive criticisms, questions and other reactions so that I gain better design insights for my next projects, or for pushing this one a bit further quality wise :)

u/Droma2 — 1 day ago
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Crossover Indie Fighting Game Roster

I'm really into Tokkon at the moment, especially its roster's team structure and character selection which I found very inspired, so I wanted to bring this design philosophy (emphasizing diversity of movesets/body designs rather than shooting for all the obvious icons) into my dream hypothetical Smash-like 3v3 platform fighter with only indie icons/reps as fighters!

The roster is composed of 45 characters all divided into 9 teams of 5, each occupying the nine horizontal rows of the roster. I conceptualized the teams around specific team names and their individual team leaders, which are supposed to be the characters on the leftmost column for each squad (Commander Video, Ana, etc...).

From top to bottom, the team names are:

·       Precision Striders

·       Uncharted Wayfarers

·       Humble Guardians

·       Chaos Club

·       Scarlet Vanguards

·       Broken Heroes

·       Cartoon Surrealists

·       Overkill Rushers

·       Resourceful Minds

Tell me what you think about it and what characters you would like to see added as DLCs!
If I made any spelling mistakes I'm sorry, english isnt my first language.

u/Droma2 — 5 days ago