Fighting Game Competition

My thoughts:
1. See the section titled "Can't Shaq fund it himself?"

2. Kickstarter DOES charge more royalties. The funding method, however, is something that is a bit suspicious.

3. Are they similar? That game looks cell shaded, but this one doesn't.

Oh, and are sure this will be competition?  Bionic Fighters is somewhat of a different genre.  We're making a platforming/action/fighting game, not a constrained linear fighting "versus" game.

Nah it's not competition, it's something more along the lines of a hack and slash from what I saw.
It's graphical style kind of reminds me of Street Fighter 4 but slightly less cartoony.

No comparison really, it looks like just another traditional fighter. It definitely looks unique though, I don't like the graphical style (far too busy for me), but it is a thing.
New characters can be good though, just look at Skullgirls. Same with adult themes. I'd personally love to see a F2P competitive platform fighter (of course centering around buying taunts, intro/victory/loss anims, costumes, and accessories for my character instead of new characters). Even if, maybe even especially, it centered around ludicrous amounts of violence, nonsensical racial slurs, drug use and alcohol, heavy usage of expletives, and rampant prostitution.
Actually that sounds great.

But I digress.
That game may very well do well just because of who it's targeted audience is in the first place (dedicated traditional fighter players who tend not to care about the characters filling a game as much as most, some of whom may very well only but 1 or 2 characters), but it certainly won't have the appeal of having characters people may already know, being an actual platform fighter, as we don't have enough of those, and not already being the same price as Bionic Fighters after buying 3 characters.

Luckily as a platform fighter there won't be much competition. The only thing I can see as moderately that would be Brawlhalla, but it looks like it will cater to the casual players only, which means Bionic Fighters wins on the larger audience front, F2P or not, and I doubt that most casual players will give Brawlhalla too much money, even if they will download it. Even I would throw my money at the F2P platform fighter I was talking about before, but never Brawlhalla unless they decided to make it more than what it is, then maybe.

Perhaps it will, I'm not sure though just because of who their target is. Casual players tend to just play a game for a short while then walk off, only playing for the fact that it caught their attention is free. Nothing against those players, but it's a trend I've noticed. I do hope it does well, and surely the devs have thought of this beforehand and have done something to counteract what I've just said.
I'm not really sure what BitBrawlers is going for but I guess it's supposed to be based off of user-generated content. So perhaps it will have some form of Workshop integration? That could potentially be awesome.
The EF-12 Fighting Game Engine is doing something like that but it's pretty much only for traditional fighters. A MUGEN for Smash would be nice to mess around with.

Also this has me thinking, there are now 3 platform fighters that popped up around the same time (Bionic Fighters was earliest by a good bit, but for the sake of this we'll say it's close), so maybe there will be an upcoming wave? I guess we'll have to see, as previously there were none.

That pretty much inspired me to try even harder on the next campaign, that would be huge.
I can't believe I forgot Megabyte Punch and PSABR lol.

I just hope we don't end up seeing a Turbo Edition.
jk

Also another option with making a game with original characters only that I've seen someone recommend for ADO is to make a webcomic series or something involving the characters so people get the chance to get to know them more, fleshing them out some and giving the series a small fanbase to launch off of.