February 14th, 2013 | EarthBound, Fan Games | 47 Comments

About a week and a half ago the guys at Fangamer were like, “Hey, Valentine’s Day is coming up. We should do a podcast about love sims.” And then the discussion turned to, “Hey, we should make our own love sim.” And then I was like, “Hey, I know how to program games.” And after a few days of hard work by lots of folks, the game is complete! Behold: Sweet ...Read More »

January 21st, 2013 | Fan Games, MOTHER 3, Videos | 18 Comments

A few days ago I posted about how the Ultimate Chimera Hunt game mode for Garry’s Mod was back in action (see hee). Now that it’s back up and running it’s gained a lot of attention, especially thanks to some popular YouTube players. Here they are playing Ultimate Chimera Hunt for the very first time, with no MOTHER series knowledge or experience at all. As you can see, they have ...Read More »

October 13th, 2012 | EarthBound, Fan Games | 11 Comments

Trying to learn to type Japanese text on QWERTY keyboards can be tricky, so there are lots of games out there to teach Japanese people how to do it. I recently ran across a fan-made MOTHER 2-themed typing game called something like “Gyiyg’ Strikes Back Again”, check it out here! The story is that after Ness defeated Giygas, Giygas’ spirit still remained. Since Giygas was o...Read More »

September 5th, 2012 | EarthBound, Fan Games, Images | 8 Comments

8bitsandwich recently sent this in: Hi there! I’d like to share a project of mine I just recently completed. It’s my personal tribute to the Mother series – a map for Team Fortress 2 based on Saturn Valley. I know what you’re thinking – this has been done over and over already. But take a look at the screenshots I’ve included. It’s not a direct recreation ...Read More »

August 8th, 2012 | Fan Games, MOTHER 1 | 13 Comments

Ploaj is working on a remake of EarthBound Zero/MOTHER 1 using MOTHER 3-like graphics. Here are some screenshots: Kind of reminds me of this old post. Anyway, you can read more about the project here! ...Read More »

July 11th, 2012 | Fan Games, MOTHER 1, Videos | 14 Comments

It’s interesting how for the past many years EarthBound fans have been clamoring to remake EarthBound Zero using various different tools. The latest attempt is by AcePsycho, who’s used Game Maker Lite to re-create the intro from the game: AcePsycho adds: This is an Earthbound Zero remake that I attempted. This is only the intro, but if I get enough views on my video, then I will conti...Read More »

June 6th, 2012 | EarthBound, Fan Games | 15 Comments

Saturn Valley Online has been around for quite a while now – if you haven’t heard of it before, check out the site here. Anyway, Skye, the head of the project, recently sent me this: You remember Saturn Valley Online I assume. I wonder if you could do a shoutout to the EB community that we’re urgently looking for a second C# programmer. Darkfrost is currently doing all the codin...Read More »

May 14th, 2012 | Fan Games, MOTHER 1, Videos | 28 Comments

Over the years there have been many attempts at recreating MOTHER 1/EarthBound Zero in a more modern format. As far as I know, none have the projects have reached completion yet, but I was recently shown this project that looks promising: There’s not much information, but it looks like it’s being made for Macs. See for more info and some screenshots. Now if someone would just make thi...Read More »

May 13th, 2012 | Fan Games, Videos | 14 Comments

Over the past couple weeks there’s been a lot of talk about games being financed through Kickstarter – it seems like everyone and their dog has a Kickstarter game in the works Anyway, here are two EarthBound-y-ish ones that people have been discussing! Boot Hill Heroes First up is Boot Hill Heroes, which has already gotten a good amount of press. It’s described thusly: Take one...Read More »

April 22nd, 2012 | EarthBound, Fan Games, Videos | 28 Comments

TalentNinjaInc., qpringle1, and NorthofOnett have been working on a fan game called Super Smash Bound – from the name you can probably guess that it’s an EarthBound-themed Smash Bros.-type of game. Here’s some sample gameplay: A beta version of the game is available on the project page here, and progress can be more closely followed on the Starmen.Net forum thread here! ...Read More »