VENICE'S BRIDGE ROBOT MASTER CLASS CONTEST!

Have you ever looked at the wide variety of robot master classes mods and wondered to yourself, “man I wish I could make and play as my OWN robot master OC in one of these.” Well, worry not, today is the day you very well might get a chance to.

What is this?

Through the efforts of Rick Edwardson and Mushsect, Venice's Bridge classes is bringing to you the VBRMCC, Venice's Bridge robot master class contest. Were you, yes you, can submit your very own original robot master class concept for the chance to be one of two winners and become part of VB classes. All you need to do is create a design or use a robot master design you already have made, whether it’d be through sprites or artwork. Create a class concept around it that fits the theme of the robot master design with a moveset that would be cool to play with. Just remember to take into account the rules of the contest and submit it before the deadline, so do start cooking your ideas.

What is VB or Venice’s Bridge?

Before we get into the details, I assume it’d be best to explain to you what VB or Venice Bridge is to those who are not privy to its existence.

Venice Bridge is a mod patch of the mod patch known as Gondola for the Classes mod. Which Gondola is a more competitive focused classes mod that aims for balance. However VB’s goal is to bring different and unique classes to Gondola that are from various fan games or different media transformed to be in theme with mega man. Starting years ago as a humgle "Quake woman dlc", it has expanded over time from just fan game robot masters to original robot masters by those in the mega man community to even multiverse based classes that take a spin on translating famous characters into robot masters you can play as, all for the fun of it, all for the hell of it.

The Contest Itself

So what’s all going down? Over time VB has built up a select set of 6 original character robot master classes, those being; Shard man, Viscera man, Bayonet, Rouge man, Blood woman, and Kabuto man. All selected and created with the permission of their respective owners. However, it takes 8 bots to make a full set minimum, so this contest was made to give the community a fun chance to get their bot in as well to fill out the last two slots. While there are only going to be 2 winners (with a small chance of a third one so long life grants me its permission), each person who submits is allowed to pick ONE of their submissions to appear in the accompanying maps as audience members as a participation prize. Getting 2 unique 5 rotation frame poses that match the map they are displayed in. These aforementioned maps are 6 in total and based off of the current 6 oc robot masters in VB! We hope you look forward to playing on them and seeing your little robot appear in the audience, as well wish to present decent maps that are designed for classes specifically. Additionally, the 2 winners will not only get their robot obviously made into a class for VB. They will also get a drawn art piece by Mush to match the contest’s logo art of the current 6 as a cute bonus.

Meet the Misfits!

Contest Rules and Submission Guidelines

While we are all for having fun with this contest, there are a select set of rules we’d like you to follow to make submissions streamlined and easier on ourselves to get through all your ideas.

The rules are as followed;
- No obvious derogatory content, please keep it clean
- Your class is open to be discussed and maybe have its core gameplay customized to adapt to the game if needed
- Each person can send up to 5 submissions, but must only select 1 as their preferred map cameo if your robot master does not win
- Submissions should at a bare minimum have a clear design identity (try to avoid stickmen scribbles), bonus point for providing a concept of class function and archetype of some form (ex/ tank support)
- Submissions will be accepted until day (x) at (x) (timezone) time
- A.I. and stealing other’s art or editing other’s art without permission is disallowed and you will be auto disqualified.

Submissions;
Here we have provided to you an example submission based off of one of Mush’s robot masters before we provide you the link to the google forum for submitting.



Fizzman
- Simple and straightforward character that must keep his ammo in check to keep his power from being crippled, the higher his ammo the farther his projectiles can travel
- Mainfire: hold m1 for a spray of bubbles, they do low overall damage. They latch on a target and pop a second later, the more bubbles present on the enemy, the bigger the pop explosion
- Altfire: shoots a big unstable bubble that latches on an enemy, if this enemy touches someone else or any walls, it will explode
- Reload: Reloads buster ammo, takes half a second to fill each stock
- Item: N/A
- Passive: N/A

With that out of the way, here is the submission form, copy the link into your browser's search bar to visit the page, do read it:

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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUtmkRQQVmhnj4AhuHl7ELc2iQp_JmzN3_7br6Re_qAQZV1Q/viewform
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With all said and done, we wish you luck and await your submissions for the contest.
-Rick/Mush

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Catalyst Series Major League is THE premier MM8BDM CTLMS Tournament. Join likeminded players from all across the world and compete to see who the best of the best is!

Rules are here for the Major League (READ THIS PLEASE)

FAQ (I also recommend you read this if you're curious about anything)

For those who are interested, signups are here.

It is also required you join the Catalyst Series discord for the sake of scheduling games and getting updates.

Additionally, you can join the Gondola Patch discord if you have any questions/you need to reach me.

After years of inactivity, this celebration of Halloween and the Holidays™ has finally returned!

Experience history with the chilling return of 14 themed maps and a whopping 64 skins!

But that's not all... This year, because of the advancements made in MM8BDM-v6b, NBC will have custom weapons for the first time!

And, of course, it wouldn't be NBC with just a simple release. That's right, I've read your mind. "Why would you put a release in Events?"

The answer's simple. Just like in the past, submissions are open to all! Weapons & Items, Skins, Maps; you name it, you can submit it!

If you haven't been around long enough to witness one of these - and I imagine that's most folk in the community nowadays - we'll have a fairly lengthy submission period that encompasses both holidays and should give you plenty of time to submit whatever you so desire.

If you're interested in submitting but don't know how to make what you want to make, venture on over to the Official MM8BDM Wiki where we've got tutorials galore for every aspect of creation you can think of! Whether that's creating a skin, creating a map, or even making a weapon or item, making things has never been more accessible so let your creativity run wild!

One thing worth mentioning is because of the sheer amount of them, most of the old skins do not currently have mugshots. As such, we're also taking any submissions we get for those for that completion factor! please make mugshots please there's so many skins oh my GOD

NBC-Maps-v1a

Finally, here's some submission guidelines for you to follow. Submissions are open to all and I'm not worried about creating a perfect product or anything, but these are mostly here for my sanity. I HIGHLY recommend reading these, especially if you're newer!



I'm definitely forgetting something, but it's 2 AM and I work tomorrow. I'll add it here if I remember.

Make sure to post in this thread to let me know you're working on something! I lose track of things very easily so having everything here makes it MUCH easier for me.

Have fun, everyone, and Happy Holidays!

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This month's schedule is late, but better late than never! We took a week off to give folks a little time to play the much awaited indie-hit sensation Silksong, then played a more lowkey FBF on the 12th with some randomized layout Team Deathmatch. The two heavy hitters are Saxton Hale making a return and a newly tweaked Possession mode by BullGator! (I promise it's going to be more fun than the last time we tried it)

Hope you'll join us!

August is upon us, and that means another Freezer Bowl Friday schedule!

Things are a little less modification heavy this month as we try out some tried-and-true classics. We kick things off by trying the Hyperfighting mod made by Messatsu, which advertises some fun changes to the base movement and plenty of weapon tweaks. Skulltag makes an appearance in our second week before Scorched Earth—this time with custom weapons! To end things, we'll try out Weapon Master to see who can master single weapon matches!

I am aware the 29th is a Friday this month. If we decide to host another one that day, I'll make an appendix to this schedule!

Hope to see you there!