Vitiman

Vitiman
Vitiman's ref, as seen on the staff page (at the time he was a Wiki Sysop).
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Aliases:	Ike Bravo, Mega Vitiman Z, Nonsense, PunkYoshi, Stalin, Vitiman
Real name:	Isaac Bravvismn
Interests:	Gaming, doodling, writing, hitting his no

Vitiman is one of MFGG's more controversial members in recent times. He had been working on (canned) Project MFGG Tennis 64 and Advance. Advance was made in Flash, but was also canned. Pre-split, he was most known for being a thorn in several member's sides and causing trouble among PPP, CCC, and Lounge regulars alike.

History

Vitiman initially joined on November 21, 2006 under the misspelled name "Nonsince". He was originally very prideful of his ability (and as pointed out by several, too prideful) and would berate anyone who tried giving him constructive criticism. Sooner, he became more pessimistic; instead of having any pride in his works, he lost all hope whenever negative attention was brought on. This can be observed pretty clearly in the comments of some of his submissions. An example of this can be seen in his review of Late Night Mario, a joke game made by Glukom. He called all the other reviewers out for giving it high scores and dubbed them "trolls", missing the point of the game and the other reviews entirely. After some negative attention, he announced he would just remove the review because of the backlash, which was met with disappointment.

Projects

• Super Mario Everything 2 - Vitiman's very first project, and one that was quickly canned due in part to poor reception to the demo and Vitiman's increasing disinterest towards fangaming at the time. After coming back to MFGG in 2012, Vitiman made note that the game's source had been long lost, a fact that saddened him because he had expressed desire in finishing the first big game he ever tried making.
• Mario + Wario - Vitiman's second project, which would have eventually been finished had the source file not corrupted. Even prior to this, Vitiman lamented that the game was only slowly making progress as a result of him and Madox's very public falling out. In June 2013, however, Vitiman finally found out the source of the problem that caused the game to not work properly and has eagerly resumed development.
• The Super Charisma Bros Series - A series of joke games Vitiman made at the height of the Skype group's popularity. A fourth entry was planned, but progress had only went so far before multiple different problems came about that forced Vitiman to end the series "permanently," with no plans to continue onward with development of the (surprisingly polished) 4th game. However, he kept churning out new sequels, and In July 2014, he posted a Charisma 7 on TSR.
• Mario's Mansion 3 - Not necessarily Vitiman's project, but he unofficially continued development of Fan Guy's long awaited third game in the MM series. Despite not saying much about progress, Vitiman continues to reassure those curious that the game's development will continue on, if slowly due to the fact that the game is, as said above, unofficially being continued.
• F-Zero: Reverb - Vitiman's latest project, and one that has been met with a very positive reaction once he had revealed it to the community. Not much else is known about it other than the two screenshots Vitiman had posted from the project in the game's thread. Although much work had been done beyond said screenshots, Vitiman would eventually announce the game's cancellation not too long afterwards, stating his reasoning was that working in the pseudo third dimension was taxing work for something that was very inaccurate and buggy at times. To make up for this, Vitiman has begun development on a Paper Mario fangame that spun out of a technical demonstration he was working on. A '.gif' animation showcasing the smooth movement has been praised by many on the forums and several have already shown anticipation for such a fangame.

Charisma

The Charisma series is arguably Vitiman's most notable contribution to MFGG, community-wise. Many a laugh was had at the expense of Heavy Fire, S, Dudim, Miles and others. The games are as follows:

• Super Charisma Bros. - No codename. The game features some of what made the later games popular in terms of humor, but otherwise seems to fall flat in retrospect. Of course, this can be excused somewhat for being the very first installment.
  • Charisma: Prog Rock Edition - Codenamed Revolver, this game is a remake of the original game (in a planned trilogy of all 3 games being remade) that uses assets from the unfinished Charisma 4, such as basic engine and some graphics.
• Super Charisma Bros 2: Disco Edition - Starting with this game, each installment would be codenamed after a Queen album, beginning with A Kind Of Magic. Considered the best entry in the series by many, Disco Edition provides the most originality and uniqueness of the installments, thanks in part to having completely custom / resized graphics (although not all of them were made by Vitiman).
• The Brothers Charisma: Super Charisma 3 - Codenamed The Miracle. Often considered the "zaniest" game in the series for not making much sense to the people who had inspired the game's humor, it goes back to the graphic style of the first game with some minor tweaks. Gameplay now consists of platforming segments like the first two but intercepted with several minigames played by other Charisma characters.
• The Brothers Charisma Alt: New Super Charisma Bros - The original version of Charisma 3, back when the game went under the codename Hot Space. Released as a bonus to little fanfare some time after Charisma 3 was released, the game is a very short "tech demo" of sorts that includes pseudo 3D backgrounds and not much to offer in terms of gameplay or even humor. The game also notably has no ending; the "Rock Field Zone" is just a short area without a clear goal (as poked fun at by the title card that preceded it).
• Super Charisma MFGG - A short April Fools game submitted to the main site in 2013, this installment preceded Charisma 4 by about a mere week or two. Codenamed Greatest Hits I, the game consists of various levels from the first 3 games hastily stuck together (notably, levels from Disco Edition suffer as a result of the game's different screen size). In addition, a "new" level is included where the player walks around as Cam in the "Hidden Hentai Palace Zone", an idea Cam had come up with for Charisma 2 that only saw the light of day when Vitiman added a DLC package to the game prior to making this compilation. Not much else is known about the game, since the only way to download it has now been purged since April Fools has long past.
• Charisma 4 - Codenamed Innuendo. Due to various production problems and Vitiman being increasingly pushed away from the other Charisma main-players, Charisma 4 was never fully finished. Because of the emotional baggage surrounding the game for Vitiman, it will most likely never be finished, either. In spite of this, the game was the most polished of the series, sporting completely custom graphics made by Mit, a very smooth platforming engine coded by Vitiman, and a more "indie-game" feel to it. Other contributions include a few graphics by Camtendo, music by Genogenesis7 and Doc, and Miles helping with a palette bug. S, as always, didn't contribute anything.
• Charisma 5 - Codenamed Made In Heaven, Charisma 5 was initially announced to the curiosity and frustration of many (particularly those interested in Vitiman's other project he was working on, F-Zero Reverb). After a short trailer and a screenshot, Vitiman announced that the original Charisma team had permanently disbanded and moved on. Taking a trick from this, Vitiman himself decided there were better things to do than bask in former glory all the time, and has also finally put an end to Charisma... at least, in the wake of sequels. No word about any other installments that he may or may not do out of boredom.
• Charisma 6 is a rushed game he released right before he got banned from MFGG. This game's story brings the series to a hasty, and to some MFGGers, unsatisfying conclusion, but might not be canonical.
• Charisma 7 is a new game that uses similar concepts but doesn't include any of the characters from the original games. Vitiman released it on TSR in July 2014.

Interactions

Vitiman has had disputes with kapworld, Neopolis, and TFGD in the past because of their "sarcastic personalities" in his opinion, although in retrospect, this was more or less the attitude that many had towards newbies such as Vitiman himself. While he didn't get along well with most MFGGers,Vitiman felt that he was a good spriter and was eager to join any teams in need of one, again, showing his obsessive pride. As of recent though, Vitiman turned to writing as his better talent. He would also join in on many fads, notably during the Taloncrossing era. Of these, he would sometimes try and start his own fads, usually ending in the thread dying or being derailed into a different conversation. In June 2010,Vitiman left the forums for nearly 2 years, and occasionally visited before 2010's end to see if anything interesting had happened, but eventually quit doing this and had moved on. To his surprise, he and Madox were informed by Dex that the forums had split during his absence. Even though Vitiman would occasionally visit this incarnation of the community (dubbed the Minus World), he never truly frequented it. In mid 2012, he and Madox committed account suicide on the MW via petty trolling, which Vitiman ended up regretting.

Return & Currently

Vitiman joined the latest iteration of the MFGG forums on June 18, 2012, as "Stalin", even with the communist flag as his signature. He registered as a joke, having grown frustrated with the Minus World community, and assuming most of MFGG would be more or less the same. To his surprise, however, most of that community had vanished from the new MFGG. He soon became a quality contributor, and three days later he changed his mainsite and forum account names to Vitiman.

Finally, on October 5th, 2012, Vitiman announced his leave from MFGG, now having to focus on being responsible according to his goodbye post. While not much else was revealed in why he left, his return didn't seem too likely at the time. Regardless, he began making semi-regular visits again a month or so after this announcement, presumably having whatever made him announce his departure under control. It's unknown if he will disappear again, although he has had a tendency in the past to announce his leave somewhere only to make a return not too long afterwards.

Vitiman later changed his name to Rystar as he continued his tradition of intentionally-misspelled usernames. He worked on the Super Charisma Bros. joke game series and earned some critical acclaim for his Queen parody album, "A Night of Fangames." Since then, he has announced his departure on three different occasions, every time leading to him returning a few days later. He has admitted on a few occasions of this problem, and had noted that he had been going through a rough patch in his life during the initial departure, and the other two occurrences were most likely a side-effect of the event. As of now, this problem looks to be dormant and/or gone completely, so it's entirely possible that he did manage to work against the issue, but never spoke about it.

He was promoted to Wiki Sysop in early 2013, and demoted later in the same year. He was banned on MFGG on August 27th and banned on the forums on September 29th after abusing his power as a Wiki Sysop by deleting dozens of pages on the Wiki. Fortunately these deletions were quickly undone.

Vitiman returned to MFGG at December 14, 2015. Two days later, Vitiman released P-Switch Predicament, which managed to get nominated for Best Story, and win Funniest Game, in the MFGG Awards of 2015. It also managed to win the Game of the Month award of January 2016.

Other Communities

From summer 2012 to early 2013, Vitiman created three different "spinoff" boards - MFGG^2 (also known as Late Night MFGG, a reference to Late Night Mario), MFG3, and AltMFGG. These boards were intended to recapture the feel of the IPB-era MFGG and provide a General Chat-like hangout for MFGGers. The first two boards enjoyed modest success at first, but each successive forum was less active than the previous one, as the novelty wore off and MFGGers had a real General Chat and other communities they could use to communicate.

Vitiman also created an unofficial MFGG Skype group that inspired many of the episodes from the Charisma series. This group was not the first or only attempt at bringing MFGGers together on Skype, but it was one of the most active of any Skype groups. Unfortunately, this activity also included a fair amount of drama at times.

Trivia

• Vitiman's favorite game is Yoshi's Island.

• Vitiman has had a habit in the past to make fangames that usually get canned, more than likely a direct result of being a large procrastinator with projects.

• Vitiman's best friend on MFGG was Zappy/Madox, prior to their falling out.

• Vitiman, while probably not notable, has Asperger's syndrome, and might explain some of his quirky or otherwise bizarre behavior, especially during the Taloncrossing incarnation of MFGG.

• Vitiman had an unhealthy obsession with LuigiFan, to the point where his personal Web site used to be "www.lufa.com" and his location was "LuigiFan's Mansion", and has admitted it was an irrelevant conversation about a .gif file that lead him to believe LuigiFan was a close friend, something undoubtedly linked to the above trivia piece.

• Despite not being liked by some members, he is often considered one of the better "average" members on MFGG due to having a likable personality.

• Vitiman was previously well known as "Ike Bravo" on the Taloncrossing forums, but after the first forum switch to phpBB3, he reverted back to Vitiman, without the Mega and Z.

• Although his favorite game is Yoshi's Island, Vitiman is an avid fan of the Mega Man franchise.

• Helped start The Wiki Smooth Jazz Experience.