#Mata nui online game

[ashilean]

Speed

Bonus piece I did for Marn a little while back.

[edward18]

Takutanuva was a character I was never quite satisfied with in his varied looks across the Bionicle franchise, so the other night at work I found myself doodling ideas for what he might look like if he ever showed up when I did Bionicle stuff =)

Also did a review of Bionicle if anyone wants to watch that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slpHB4OLWTA

More stuff's in my gallery: https://www.deviantart.com/warahi/gallery

Discord's over here if anyone wants to hang out and chat or anything: https://discord.gg/zxCJbHz

Patreon's here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=49390038

Always open for commissions ^_^

[danalysis]

Kopaka!!

New bonkle anim!! Been a while

[risingshards]

Something I really like in Rebuild the Galaxy (the fun new lil Lego Star Wars miniseries) is how it echoes (probably not intentionally) Templar Games' Bionicle Mata Nui Online Game in the theme of building vs. destroying, taking an aspect of Lego play and putting it into the story.

In MNOG, Gordon Klimes from Templar described how they made Makuta the embodiment of destruction:

“'The void' above Makuta is indeed a swirling mass of lego pieces, though it's not supposed to be representative of his true form. Makuta is chaos and nihilism, Mata Nui is order and creativity.”

“For me Makuta represents the destructive aspect of playing with Lego. You would build something and then destroy it in order to build something new. Makuta is a maelstrom of swirling pieces, he represents the pile on the floor that all lego creations come from and will eventually return to.”

“Good and evil just wasn’t good enough any more. It didn’t make any sense any more. But this was okay, because from the beginning, that’s not what it was about. The Makuta wasn’t evil, and his brother, Mata Nui, wasn’t good.”

“We knew that while building was fun, it was just as much fun to destroy. They were two sides of the same coin, and neither were wrong: it was all part of the play, part of learning, part of having fun. Not good or evil: Creation and Destruction, equal powers in the universe, natural and necessary. Both good. Both bad. Both neither. It’s true, we’d painted Destruction a bit negatively - using words like “Infected” Mask, or “Monsters,” but we’d needed the conflict.”

“So the Makuta, for all its darkness and danger, was not evil after all, and he says as much at the end. The final act was the confrontation, not between Good and Evil, which was meaningless, but between Creation and Destruction, where everything comes from nothing, and goes back to it, eventually. This was the struggle between the Toa and the Rahi, and Mata Nui and Makuta, and a LEGO fan and her kid brother, building and smashing happily, in equal measure. Our world had gone a bit mad, but to us, this helped make some sense of it. We wanted to share what small comfort it brought.”

Rebuild the Galaxy uses something similar, having Jedi Builders against Sith Destroyers feeling like it takes the act of playing with Lego part of the story, which is really fun. And if something's gonna be effectively a toy commercial, I'd rather it be fun and light about it. The people working on it definitely have a lot of love for Lego, and it showed throughout the miniseries.

[teoft]

Makuta from Mata Nui Online Game

[nickpeppermint]

Scariest part of Mata Nui Online Game

[wjbs-bonkle-au]

I find it absolutely hilarious that MNOG includes a reference to a football* chant whose lyrics, apart from the depicted ones, involve making fun of someone's weight and calling them a bastard.

*the one where you actually use your feet, not the one where you (mostly) use your hands.

[mimicry-works]

Hahli for my little sketch tonight.

[tjbanni]

Check it out, I unearthed my attempt to mod MNOG from years ago

[toacody]

Kahu Bird

The original flying steed.

Source

Creator: imbatman123459

[ashilean]

MARN, toa Mangai of earth (8/11)

Adventurous toa of earth, Marn delves deep into the uncharted tunnels beneath Metru Nui in search of strange rahi, natural resources, and new paths between the city's districts. Leaving behind distinctive marks chiseled into the stone, finding one of her trail blazes is said to be good luck amongst matoran spelunkers.

Marn wears the great Kakama and wields a Folding Pick--it's sharp point helping to climb through the winding caves while the blunt head is used to put chisel to stone.

After the dragon was defeated, Marn developed a love of helping the people of Onu-Metru, but was never able to build up her social skills. She took to exploring and mapping the subterranean city so she could provide guidance to her people despite her discomforts.

[vixivulpixel]

You probably wouldn't know it just by looking at it, but MNOG was huge. To an extent, still is huge. We talk about Bionicle: The Mata Nui Online Game.

[caffeinautilus]

This is everything to me

[sepublic]

Headcanon that when Makuta shapeshift, they split apart into a swirling swarm of various pieces, before reassembling themselves into their desired form; Basically Makuta’s vortex form from MNOG. Every Makuta is a walking Lego Creator 3-in-1 set, and while not every piece is used, you can spot some familiar ones every now and then among the parts. Absorbing things with the shadow hand adds to their selection. MNOG Makuta represents the destruction that all of creation comes from and returns to: The parts bin, with the shadow hand adding to their mass. So too does the species exemplify this idea in their creation of Rahi and constant rebuilding of themselves.

[oldboneandbogfoot]

MNOG Improvement Mod Update

Download and more info on the BZPower post. Updated with more fixes, more edits, and more content. And (hopefully) even more on the way.

MNOGIM is my mod of the 2001 auto-saving version of MNOG provided by BioMedia Project. I’ve recreated every compressed jpg, edited eye colors to be consistent, fixed a handful of bugs such as Maku teleporting to Po-Wahi, and added a number of quality-of-life fixes to the gameplay (The Telescope now updates as you play, Maku won’t appear until after you visit Ta-Koro, can’t go to Onu-Koro until a little later, etc). You can even pick from different modules to only install the changes you want. A full list of changes can be viewed here

[ssv-raven]

I forgot just how metal the Po-Koro matoran were, setting up enormous skulls around the entrance to their village