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Tonda Gossa! This is Kody NOKOLO back with another Mother Forever Almost Monthly News for February and March! Watch it in video form or read it below.
Well, it finally happened: MOTHER 3 is now available on Nintendo Switch Online. Of course, it’s only in Japanese, but you can download it by any region just by either creating a new Japanese account to access their store or by changing your own account’s region.
Tonda Gossa! This is Kody NOKOLO back with another Mother Forever Almost Monthly News for November! This might be the biggest news month all year! Watch it in video form or read it below.
First, it’s that time again, Mother Direct submissions are now open until the beginning of January! Send in your fan project, ROM hack, or Motherlike indie game applications to be a part of it whwn it airs next July. I hope I can bring you all a Direct that can celebrate 35 years of MOTHER. These Directs over the past few years have been tons of fun! I love meeting the artists behind each of the projects every year, and I’m sure it’ll be fun to put this year’s together. For anyone that isn’t interested in Mother Direct, but has an indie RPG on Steam, applications are also open to ALL indie RPGs for our Steam event called RPG Direct 2024!
A conversation with Aaron Cargile: EarthBound, USA’s Archival Producer. Interview conducted by Thane Gaming, transcribed & reworked for Mother Forever. They talk copyright & fair use (in YouTube and in film), Fangamer, and the EarthBound fandom! Aaron Cargile’s opinions are his own, and not necessarily representative of Fangamer.
Tonda Gossa! This is Kody NOKOLO back with another Mother Forever Almost Monthly News spanning summer through October! Watch it in video form or read it below.
First, if you haven’t yet, go see the Mother Direct!! It released on July 27th, MOTHER‘s 34th anniversary, and I think it was the best show yet. I’m not sure if it’ll be topped next year, but I’ll try! Speaking of next year, sign ups for the next Mother Direct will begin by December.
Mother Direct 2024 will be celebrating MOTHER‘s 35th anniversary, so I hope to put something together that can really show how far we’ve come as a community, even if the announcements can’t live up to the high bar from this year.
Tonda Gossa! This is Kody NOKOLO back with another Mother Forever Almost Monthly News for April! A lot of new information has come out, and my feature for this month is centered on new info I’ve found about Itoi’s childhood from a biography published by Hobonichi. Watch it in video form or read it below.
In February 2023, one of the Motherlike game developers that showcased their project in the Mother Direct, Oates, released their new game, Sorry, We’re Open.
After getting hooked on the game and eventually completing it, I asked Oates a few questions about their experiences with MOTHER and the making of Sorry, We’re Open.
A few months after the first MOTHER launched, in September 1989, publisher Shogakukan sold the MOTHER Strategy Guidebook filled with lots of fun art of the characters that you can find on our MOTHER Guidebook Art page and a walkthrough of the game. Thanks so much to Biozilla for sending in the scans of this book! You can find the complete scans on the Internet Archive. Shigesato Itoi was interviewed for this guidebook and revealed more details about the first game’s characters and plans for the whole series.
Tonda Gossa! This is Kody NOKOLO back with another Mother Forever Almost Monthly News for February! This month was packed! Watch it in video form or read it below.
First, did you know our website hosts a game now? I managed to get MOTHER: Cognitive Dissonance running a web-based version of the program EasyRPG, and thanks to the help and permission of the game’s director, Otherhand, I made it playable online right now! Play it now on your computer or phone at mothercogdis.com, and check out our page for the game to learn more about it!
And speaking of our website, I’ve been making some updates there too.
Tonda Gossa, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year! This is Kody NOKOLO back with another Mother Forever Almost Monthly News for December!
Watch it in video form or read it below!
During the summer of 2022, Mother Forever conducted a survey in the MOTHER community that totaled 784 participants to gather data on what kinds of trends exist in the community (or at least as much of the community as we could reach). We asked questions about each person’s background and about their experiences with each MOTHER game! Results follow under each respective section’s heading and all results are ordered from the most common to least common answers.
