We wanted bodies flying apart and spraying cartoonish viscera all over every available wall. We wanted oversized enemies that would absolutely menace the player and take center stage in the combat loop. Swain and I are huge fans of games like Smash TV, and Hotline Miami – the old, simplified, top-down, run and gun style of high spectacle, high carnage action. Mixed in are a lot of the tremendously weird influences that defined Newgrounds and which led to Madness Combat being what it was. The protagonist alone contains a lot of DNA from the leading role of movies like this.

Movies like Equilibrium, Blade, The Matrix, and The Terminator. Madness Combat is and always was a sort of love letter to action movies of the 80s and 90s. People weren’t just sitting through an advertisement to play our game now – they were paying real money for it. We began work on studying Unity and Blender, and would assemble a Kickstarter in 2014, showcasing our intentions of developing a proper 3D game to serve the series with more lore, and a lot more violence.

This pressure would go on to create a formidable learning process. We were thrilled to see it well received by the fanbase, but in 2013, Flash game advertising revenue was becoming unviable, and so we set our sights onto the retail market Back in 2012, I teamed up with fellow Newgrounds content creator Michael Swain to develop a Flash game of the same name. Madness: Project Nexus is a sort of ‘summit’ of the series. I would go on to utilize the musical talents of my friend Sean Hodges, who to this day still contributes to the animations. Twenty years ago I stumbled into it, and uploaded the start of a series I called “Madness Combat”. When Tom developed the Portal on Newgrounds, a first-of-its-kind repository for user generated content, it was an open invitation anyone who could get their hands on the software and create, could have their work hosted there. Animations and games being generated by individuals with software on their personal computer, and anyone who cared to look at it, could. I was absolutely fascinated by what was being posted there. Tom Fulp’s is a site that altered the trajectory of my life.

It has found itself a sizeable and dedicated fanbase, accruing over 8,000 Steam reviews with an Overwhelmingly Positive rating.ĭeveloper Matthew “Krinkels” Jolly has penned the post below, describing the game’s origins on Newgrounds and towards the game as it exists today. The game was released in September 2021, after being in the works for seven years. You will shoot, stab, bash, chop, and slaughter your way through three game modes: a story campaign, arena combat, and an open-ended playground. Madness: Project Nexus is a run ‘n gun/beat ’em up with arcade-style action and intense combat. Developer Matthew “Krinkels” Jolly talks about developing the game. 18 Jun, 2022 Madness: Project Nexus is all intense combat and furious button-mashing.

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