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Table Of Contents
+ ..What? Why? Who??
+ Main Week Development
+ mmmmm menu design on my burger....
+ I Like Vanilla
+ That’s All For Now!!!
..What? Why? Who??
Welcome to the MMP Development Blog! A newsletter sent out on the 10th of every month detailing all of the current progress for Mario’s Monday Morning Mixup, found right here!
We didn’t really like the overload of bite-size teasers we were sending out and the limited things we could really do with said teasers since we’re only really publicising this mod on around 2 Discord servers; so we figured we’d spice it up a bit, just in time for the mods other notable birthday that really kicked things off. (May 10th! Today!)
Here you’ll find more in depth progress reports on whatever we’re working on, some fun facts and just generally a better look into how this project is shaping up to be. Most blog posts will be written by me, Avery, but if there’s anything any of the other team members would like to comment on they’re more than welcome to join in :]
That being said, here’s the rest of the team!!
Hi I’m Murioz! Goofy fella who likes to make music and also loves super mario!!! I’ve been making music for 3-4 years now so I like to think I’m a decent composer. I composed a good chunk of the soundtrack for this! If you wanna listen to my work, I’d recommend looking at my Youtube or Twitter since that’s where I mainly post my songs.
Hello! I’m Gabe, nice to meetcha!
I’m the one and only coder for the mod, which means I’m responsible for programming everyone’s ideas into reality, from making extra character animations to creating entire menus and everything in-between. I’ve also done some music for the mod, although Murioz does most of the compositions. I also edit some of Logan’s charts for certain songs (for example I added the gun notes for Flintlock).
If you’ve heard that I’m the director of the mod from someone, I’m afraid they’re mistaken. The entire team co-directs our projects: for example, Avery might give an idea and some art for a song for Murioz to interpret and compose, who then hands the audio for Logan to interpret into a chart and me to functionalize via scripting.
Heya!! I’m Logan, Charter and one of the initial people who worked on MMP! I started charting for Gabe back when it was just remixes he had made of the original MNMM OST. And seeing Avery and Murioz join, and what this mod has evolved into with our efforts, makes me very happy :] we’ve come a long way. and I’m glad to be part of it! even if i just do the charts :D
As of this blog post going out it will be a day after Logan’s birthday!! Go wish him a happy (late) birthday!!
..And I’m Avery!! The artist and animator for just about everything you poke your eyes at for everything surrounding the project; I also do pretty much all of the writing from character dialogue to the very words you’re reading on screen! (and also this entire website) Fun!
That being said, the existence of this blog doesn’t mean we’re going all hands on deck with this doohickey and abandoning those other places though!! Teasers will still be posted in their respective places, but this is pretty much the hub for any MMP related news from this point.
Introduction aside, let’s get into actual development stuff!!!
Main Week Development
I see a lot of mods prioritising extra content that isn’t really important over the actual main content of the mod. We’ve been.. Trying not to fall into that development cycle.
For a while we were in a loop of focusing on the extra content and the main content of the mod at the same time, though we’ve started focusing our attention on the main week as of the past few weeks. ..That and menus, which I’ll go over later.
Regarding the audible aspect of this, I suppose a little context is in order:
Back before I (Avery) wedged myself into this project and increased its scope tenfold, this project thing was a simple remix mod of the original Monday Night Mario Mix spearheaded by Gabe with Logan on for charting.
Surprisingly, a lot of the content from this era remained in the project, primarily the first 2 songs of the main week, being Flintlock and Thunderstruck; which were remixes of Firearm and Stormstrike from the original Monday Night Mario Mix.
This didn’t sit right with me and the other team members as the last song in the main week, Antagonistic, was a fully original take on Opposites, and having a completely new song at the end of 2 remixes seemed a bit odd to us.
In light of this, as of the last few weeks we decided we wanted to shed this “remix” aspect and go fully original with all of the songs in the mod, all of which were composed by Murioz! Who I’ll let speak on it now:
Avery asked if I wanted to write something about the development of the main week soundtrack and I figured I might as well. Main thing is: Music doesn’t always come out how you want it to, and you don’t usually get something you’re happy with on the first try. That goes with about any type of media (Avery struggles with that quite a lot) (fuck you)
In short, Thunderstruck and Flintlock went through a few versions before we got something we liked. You can listen to the god awful previous attempts right HERE
^ First attempt, sounded a bit too "happy go lucky" so we scrapped it.
^ Second attempt. Eugh.
^ Gabe did this one, I’ll let it play out for itself.
There’s not anything to write home about the old versions for these, so I’ll show off the new and improved versions, starting with Thunderstruck:
(Do you like my Mr. L fancam? Isn’t it wonderful?)
This is an updated version of a teaser we sent out before this as BF was pitched up a lot prior, it’s also inspired a lot by Ezzy’s FNF music.
As for Flintlock, that’ll be showcased in a bit so keep reading if you want to see the new teaser for it.
As of writing this I’m remaking an 8 month old freeplay song for the mod! I’m glad because it’s kind icky popoo anyway that’s enough from me idk why I wrote this-
Thanks for your very meaningful input. Back to me :]
On the visual end of things, progress has been going pretty well. I finally nailed down some character references for the main cast a bit ago and I’ve been trying to work these designs into sprites since that point. As of currently, Boyfriend is around 95% complete with alt animations and more, while Mr. L has still got no updates since 2024 lol
As for Cherry and his debut song Flintlock, progress has been going extremely well. So well in fact, that I managed to finish pretty much all visuals required for his song in 2 days flat.
Cherry has gone through probably the most redesigns in the mod compared to any other character because I could never make a design I could truly say I’m happy with; which changed the morning of April 24th when I finally created his final sprite. After FIVE iterations and not being fully completed for the mod’s entire development cycle, I completed him.. In 1 day.
On Top of this, I managed to finish the main week’s stage the day after. Funny timing for this too, as we’re just about 2 months short of the very first gameplay teaser related to the mod, which also so happened to be Flintlock (or Firearm, as it was still called at the time)
Taking advantage of the situation, we decided to post a snippet of Flintlock’s gameplay to Twitter, which you can view below.
People really like it, and that’s pretty damn cool!! Hi, me again, this song is inspired a lot by the new Sussus Mogus (2025) from UPDOG ok thank you byee
I’m planning to wrap up the main week visually by the end of the next few months as I’m still pretty busy with my school coursework. Then I have to focus on cutscenes! ..But I’d rather focus on that in a later blog post because thinking about them puts a very big frown on my face.
mmmmm menu design on my burger....
I’ll take over for this section, thank you Avery.
So... Menu design...
All our menus are gonna be designed by Avery (he’s the artist and idea-maker, after all), and all the menus he’s curated so far have been pretty darn good! Only thing is, some of the ideas he’s gotten have been pretty complex and hard to implement.
Implementing the others’ ideas is kinda my thing, so every time a wacky idea like this comes up, it’s my job to put it into action. Although the end results tend to be pretty cool, that doesn’t make the process of figuring out how to implement them any easier.
For example, take the Profile Submenu available from the Main Menu:
Hi, Avery here, just wanna pop in one second since I saw people asking after we posted this teaser; the profile icons here do not represent the actual cast of the mod so don't get too excited lol
Having transitions as clean as this menu does is no easy task: entire substate itself, despite its apparent simplicity, has nearly 500 lines of code!
Not only that, but I had to use a bunch of math (specifically exponents and roots) to get it to get it looking like it does. Basically, you gotta have at least a pretty good understanding of some of the more complex math (accompanied by knowledge of general programming concepts like classes and experience with the language you’re working with) to do some of the more complex (and awesome) tasks in programming.
That being said, I’m gonna hand the mic back over to Avery.
Hiring me onto a team means you get a really picky UI designer on the team too. This project is no exception. I am very sorry Gabe.
We had not a damn clue what to do for each respective menu for a good while so I’ll just do a quickfire round consisting of the evolution of each menu.
Starting with the main menu, it went unfinished for pretty much the entire duration of the mods development; our idea for it was a point and click type menu involving the Multiverse Hub featured in Mario Mayhem where there would be 4 portals you could click between that would take you to their respective menu.
Here’s how it would’ve looked, keep in mind this is some OLD concept art:
After a while though we weren’t as shappy with how this was looking so we went back to the drawing board. 2 of the main ideas included something similar to Kirby Return To Dreamland, that and merging the main menu and title screen together.
Most of the team was in favour of the former, though after deciding to put the main week in center focus compared to a bunch of menus we never really did anything with these.
Following a theme in this blog post, this changed a few weeks ago when I threw caution to the wind and banged out the visuals in a single night. After looking at the kickass menu Vs. Matt 3.0 had I wanted to do something similar, and settled on having something akin to the Switch main menu would look pretty good.
From there I constructed a rough outline of how it might look:
And from there made it look all nice:
Not too bad if I do say so myself!! Here’s a little video showcasing all of it. It also includes our new freeplay menu which I really can’t be bothered to write about currently:
And while that wraps up our cool new menus, there's something else I wanna get into..
I Like Vanilla
Figured we might as well end the first blogpost with a bang, so here’s this thing.
As I mentioned prior, this project used to be a simple remix mod of the original Monday Night Mario Mix back before I joined this mod 1 year ago today.
A lot of the content from this era remained in the project until a few weeks ago, when we wanted to shed ourselves of this by replacing the remaining remixes with their own original songs. (which have been teased prior)
Though, taking these remixes outback and disposing of them quietly didn’t really sit right with me given the work that was put into them. It was while thinking about this that I remembered this fan sprite Pixel (the original mod creator!!!!) made of Plus!Cherry a while ago, as seen above. And came up with the idea of preserving them in the mod somehow.
That being said, introducing:
In short, Vanilla+ acts as a DLC alongside the content of the base game which doesn't affect the progression of the main content, showing an "alternate reality" of sorts where the mod stayed truthful to being a remix mod, both in terms of visuals and music.
Currently, Vanilla+ contains the original remixes of Firearm and Stormstrike, and we intend to keep it that way as the main content of the mod is our biggest priority. Think of it as a late anniversary gift to the anniversary of the original MNMM.
While we were planning to release them in their entirety today, we plan to fully iron out both songs with events and such to not feel too lackluster and to give you a more quality content release rather than rushing them out for today. As for now, here's a little preview of the stage!
Hey! Logan here, taking the mic for a sec- I actually helped out with Vanilla plus! The cherry and Mr L assets were done by me, after Avery made the original cherry idle HERE
I did them on pixel studio instead of focusing on schoolwork (which I'm behind on now oops)
show a screenshot of one of the cherry sprites i sent you here if you want, also put that long neck Mr L wip it's ugly and I love it
Cherry pixel studio file while I was workin on him
Old up pose attempt, funny, but very bad-
got both cherries and Mr L done in about a day each. Avery just needs to do touchups as of typing this.
I also helped out a bit with finishing off a basic sheet for V+ Cherry and BF, and did the old base for Mr L's sprite!
Since SMB1 is my strongsuit with sprites, I'm glad Avery let me take over for it!
Huge thanks to Logan for taking a weight off my shoulders regarding this entire side-project in terms of sprites, he's been really passionate about Vanilla+ alongside myself and we hope you look forward to what we have in store for it over the next few weeks :]
That's All For Now!!!
Hope this little blog has given you a taste for what’s to come in the following months and how things have been going recently too, both in terms of the mod itself and this website. Making more sizable updates like this has been a genuine blast and I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as we did writing it.
If all goes well. you can expect to see another one of these things on June 10th, I’m unsure what it will entail for all of us as we’ve been putting this project on the back-burner a bit in favour of exams and such as we’ve all got lives outside of making this silly Mario mod, but thanks for reading anywho, cya!!! >:]
- Avery, & the rest of Team Greenstache