Hi Folks,
The EBF Birthday Fanart Contest is almost over!
Make sure you submit your art over the weekend before the end of May 1st to be in the running for the cool prizes. You can find all the details on the contest, prizes, and how to enter here. Winners will be announced a few days after the contest is over.
Happy May Day EBF Birthday Spring Celebration Mega Weekend everyone!
Hi Folks,
A wee reminder that the EBF Birthday Fanart Contest deadline for entries is only one week away! We’ve already received a few entries, and are getting very excited as the deadline draws closer. Best of luck to everyone participating, and thank you for sharing your amazing art with us!
You can find all the details on the contest, prizes, and how to enter here.
Salutations Fine Folks,
May 1st will be the 13th birthday of the Epic Battle Fantasy series and we are going to be celebrating with a fanart contest!
To participate in the contest create EBF fanart with the theme “Birthday” and post it to the #contest channel on the EBF Discord server with the name of the art piece, your name/nickname, and a link to your art page. The deadline is May 1st, and remember to title your entry with “Birthday-Contest-Entry”. You can make as many entries as you’d like, but all art must be new, yours, and PG-13.
There is a total of £200 (~$260) to be split between the top three entries, as well as Steam or Android keys to any existing Epic Battle Fantasy games and soundtracks. Cash prizes will only be awarded via paypal to existing paypal accounts.
Entries will be judged by Matt, Phyrnna and Ronja, and winners will be announced a few days after the deadline.
If you don’t have an art page, or are looking for a better platform you should check out Newgrounds! It’s where EBF1 first made it debut on May 1 2009, and continues to host an amazing art community.
Flashplayer is kill – Flash games will (in most cases) no longer run in browsers starting yesterday. In case you haven’t heard yet, some alternatives include BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint Infinity app (I’ve tested it, my games work on there), the Supernova plugin for Chrome, or the Pale Moon browser. I do think Flashpoint Infinity is the simplest solution though – once you set it up it’s really easy to use. I think it’s Windows-only though.
Ruffle can already play a lot of ActionScript 2 games in browsers, including Epic Battle Fantasy 1, The Kitten Game, and Mecha Dress Up Game. The games actually run much smoother than they did in Flash! Newgrounds has Ruffle enabled for games that work with it. I’m excited to see the day when Ruffle can run ActionScript 3 games – a lot more people could potentially play Epic Battle Fantasy 5 in HD without lag! If you have any spare money lying around and want to preserve Flash games, I really encourage you to donate to the project. (you can also donate your time by reporting bugs and stuff)
You’ve also got the option to buy my latest games on Steam and Itch.io, which include a lot more content than the free versions. And in a few months, the Epic Battle Fantasy Collection will be available to purchase too, which will include ALL of my older games with slight updates.
Anyway, here’s some EBF5 art that Ronja made. Very cool.
Hey guys, me and Ronja will be exhibiting Epic Battle Fantasy 5 and Bullet Heaven 2 at the Play Expo in Glasgow this weekend. This time I’ve got the full version of EBF5 – not just a demo, and we’ll also try to get some 4 player games of BH2 going. It’s not a big event but it’s still lots of fun.
In other news, I’ve finished updating the animations for the classic foes that are coming back to EBF5. The animations haven’t changed much, but I’ve balanced the sound volume, added flee animations, and fixed other little things. I’ve already spoiled a lot about the update, so I’d like to keep which foes are coming back as a secret. But so that you don’t get your hopes up, I’ll tell you that there’s no final bosses. If you really want to see the full details, they’re up on my Patreon.
So that’s 23 new foes and 27 classic foes confirmed for the EBF5 version 2 update, with many of those being bosses or minibosses.
