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Hastings Paradise-Harlem Renaissance

Hastings Paradise is a game about a girl from Detroit in 1937 driven into a time paradox. She will encounter a person named Shun from 2013. They soon find out that something or someone is out to stop historical legends from making history.

The game runs on fighter maker 2nd.

Lunaport is an online program which allows players to play each other in the game.

The character style is based on the NEO GEO pocket games.

Unique controls--

There are only four buttons to the game which plays like Smash Bros series. Free movement: characters can go in any direction.

A button: (Attack) In different directions. Attacks have different properties depending on direction.

B button: (Block) Block can be in the air, crouching and standing. Not all characters share this.

C button: (Specials) Different directions have different specials

D button: (Extra specials, Supers) Shadow moves, Lightning moves and Dramatic supers are all done with this button.


 * Power down: Is a way to stop players from abusing Super and Ex moves. It takes away from super bar.


 * Dramatic super bar

There are three levels to super bar. Normals, Throws, and Specials Some characters build from being damaged.

Legends
 * Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was an American civil aviator. She was the first female pilot of African American descentand the first person of African-American descent to hold an international pilot license.

Her style is flight movements and air combos.


 * Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959 was an American jazz singer and songwriter.

Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.

Her style is Boxing. Her attacks are powerful and she builds meter from being damaged.


 * Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an African-American film and theatre actress, singer and dancer. She is perhaps best known for being the first black actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1954 film Carmen Jones

Her move set is projectiles, counters, and teleport.


 * Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestras. He led his orchestra from 1923 until his death, his career spanning over 50 years.

His style is keep away and tricky.


 * Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress who came to be known in various circles as the "Black Pearl," "Bronze Venus" and even the "Creole Goddess". Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine later became a citizen of France in 1937. She was fluent in both English and French.

Her style is kicking and taunting


 * Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.

His style is slow and powerful attacks.

Amelia Mary Earhart (/ˈɛərhɑrt/; July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.[ She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record.

Her style is keep away, up close, and teleport specials.

Original Fighters


 * Deshun is from Detroit Michigan in 2013. Born in 1978.

He is a all around fighter.


 * Eleanor Young is from Detroit Michigan 1937. Born in 1919.

Eleanor is a defensive fighter.

Four more legends will be confirmed and worked on in the fall 2015.

Development

The game started in 2014 as a test to see how legends will look in a "pocket like" game. The game was taken down last month, and will redesigned until 2016.