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The following story is FICTIONAL. I made it up in like 2016. I almost put this in Scraps but I still think it's pretty fun.

"Seven years ago, Marvel contacted a medium sized video game company I was associated with, to create a Marvel fighting game akin to Capcom's Marvel fighting games from the 90s. Our goal was to create a 2D fighting game featuring a unique blend of Marvel characters. The story involved a war between Genosha and Latveria which escalated into a world war where all of Earth's heroes and villains eventually got involved.

The sound track was jazz inspired and even had many of the same musicians involved with Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 onboard to eventually create its music. Michiru Yamane and Grant Kirkhope were planned to guest produce 2 songs, namely Lady Death and Slapstick's themes.

What was my involvement? I was one of two lead designers for story and art direction.

Why didn't it happen? Concerns involved our choice to use a 2D sprite based art style, which they claimed would never sell in the age of 3D graphics.

What is this picture? This is just concept art of the first page of the character select screen. There were 2 pages which added up to 62 characters.

Marvel would eventually give up on this project and contacted Capcom some time later to produce Marvel Vs. Capcom Infinite instead."

Description
The following story is FICTIONAL. I made it up in like 2016. I almost put this in Scraps but I still think it's pretty fun.

"Seven years ago, Marvel contacted a medium sized video game company I was associated with, to create a Marvel fighting game akin to Capcom's Marvel fighting games from the 90s. Our goal was to create a 2D fighting game featuring a unique blend of Marvel characters. The story involved a war between Genosha and Latveria which escalated into a world war where all of Earth's heroes and villains eventually got involved.

The sound track was jazz inspired and even had many of the same musicians involved with Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 onboard to eventually create its music. Michiru Yamane and Grant Kirkhope were planned to guest produce 2 songs, namely Lady Death and Slapstick's themes.

What was my involvement? I was one of two lead designers for story and art direction.

Why didn't it happen? Concerns involved our choice to use a 2D sprite based art style, which they claimed would never sell in the age of 3D graphics.

What is this picture? This is just concept art of the first page of the character select screen. There were 2 pages which added up to 62 characters.

Marvel would eventually give up on this project and contacted Capcom some time later to produce Marvel Vs. Capcom Infinite instead."