Bionicle Fan Games

[Pohaturon]

I remember a time in BZPower's past during the mid-ish years of G1 when the site had a fairly active fan game scene. Since basically all that was lost with the datapocalypse and the erosion of members caused by the same event and subsequent cancellation(s) of Bionicle means this is most likely a futile attempt, but I wonder if anyone knows some alternate place where these were kept, knows some of the creators in person or off-site, or maybe even has the game downloaded and can share.

 

One I specifically remember was called "Visorak Adventures" I think, it was a cutesy take on the thing with pixel art and upbeat music. It was a top-down game where the player controlled a visorak - the rest is hazy. 

 

Anyone know any leads I could track down?

 

[Cyndersparkz]

I have a whole bunch of them. I even made a topic at one point with the intention of eventually sharing them with everyone. Sadly, there's no real way of doing that, because the vast majority were created in 32-bit gamemaker, which means it's impossible to run them on modern versions of windows (I believe anything after WIndows XP is 64-bit). The only hope was a crude conversion program gamemaker themselves offered, but unfortunately it doesn't work well at all.

 

I wish someone with the expertise could write a more competent version of the conversion program, but I think any interest in doing such a thing has probably faded ever since gamemaker was bought by yoyo games and became a freemium application.

Edited February 5, 2018 by Zarkan: Master of Storms

[Sir Keksalot]

Wasn't there a multiplayer one where you could be a Toa or a Rahkshi? Or did that die?

[TERIDAX941]

Wasn't there a multiplayer one where you could be a Toa or a Rahkshi? Or did that die?

Yes there was, and there was a huge following of it. The topic is here. It's called BIONICLE Fighter: Broken Virtues.

 

The last I heard (which was September of 2016) is that the system needed a complete reprogramming because of compatibility issues, but the creator is still potentially interested in completing it someday (at least that's my hope)

 

If you wish to download it the link is on the page I posted above. If you couldn't already tell from my banner, I'm kinda a big fan and am really hoping it makes a comeback.

[Ta-metru_defender]

I have a whole bunch of them. I even made a topic at one point with the intention of eventually sharing them with everyone. Sadly, there's no real way of doing that, because the vast majority were created in 32-bit gamemaker, which means it's impossible to run them on modern versions of windows (I believe anything after WIndows XP is 64-bit). The only hope was a crude conversion program gamemaker themselves offered, but unfortunately it doesn't work well at all.

 

I wish someone with the expertise could write a more competent version of the conversion program, but I think any interest in doing such a thing has probably faded ever since gamemaker was bought by yoyo games and became a freemium application.

By any chance does your stash include Super Smash Matoran?

[Cyndersparkz]

 

I have a whole bunch of them. I even made a topic at one point with the intention of eventually sharing them with everyone. Sadly, there's no real way of doing that, because the vast majority were created in 32-bit gamemaker, which means it's impossible to run them on modern versions of windows (I believe anything after WIndows XP is 64-bit). The only hope was a crude conversion program gamemaker themselves offered, but unfortunately it doesn't work well at all.

 

I wish someone with the expertise could write a more competent version of the conversion program, but I think any interest in doing such a thing has probably faded ever since gamemaker was bought by yoyo games and became a freemium application.

By any chance does your stash include Super Smash Matoran?

 

 

It doesn't appear so, sorry. Unless it happens to be in one of the zip-files that is just named "demo." If it is, there's no way of confirming it, because as I explained its impossible to actually open the executables.

[That Matoran with a Vahi]

I dunno how to share them, but I have a couple of games that I downloaded to play still saved away. I've got all the necessary files for a couple of 2D RPGs - "Flow of the River" by Swingin Kanohi Studios, and something called "Legend of Mata Zuto: Fall of the Conqueror" by Cyan Productions - which still run okay even on my new laptop. The latter may not be as old as you're thinking of, since its thread from 2011 still exists in the depths of the Fan Created Media forum (though the download links there are broken).

 

I've also got the game files for the platform game "Toa Quest 3" - I don't remember who it was made by - though they no longer play properly so I'm not quite sure what to do with them.

 

Speaking of, does anyone know where I might be able to find the latter's predecessor, "Toa Quest 2"? I remember that it had a number of bugs; but it had unique levels for almost every hero character from 2001-03, and then some, and I'd love to get all nostalgic by playing it again xD

Edited February 6, 2018 by Darth Jaller

[Pohaturon]

Bah, I wish there were some way to restore everything lost in the datapocalypse...

 

edit: I don't mean this to seem ungrateful for all above, I actually really appreciate the effort you all put into this

 

Edited February 6, 2018 by Pohaturon

[Cyndersparkz]

 

I've also got the game files for the platform game "Toa Quest 3" - I don't remember who it was made by - though they no longer play properly so I'm not quite sure what to do with them.

 

Speaking of, does anyone know where I might be able to find the latter's predecessor, "Toa Quest 2"? I remember that it had a number of bugs; but it had unique levels for almost every hero character from 2001-03, and then some, and I'd love to get all nostalgic by playing it again xD

 

Toa quest 2? I never got to play that one sadly. The only other Toa Quest I was aware of was a completely different version of Toa quest 3 that focused on 2004. It has four levels: Lhikan, Onewa, Matau, and Whenua, and features some pretty impressive platforming gameplay and graphics. There's an Archies escape sequence at the end of Whenua's level that is probably the most epic thing I ever saw in a Bionicle fangame.

 

And for the record, the version of Toa Quest 3 you have never worked very well even when it released. I remember the executable with the Tahu and Kopaka levels crashed on the Muaka boss fight, and the one with Lewa had a nasty habit of becoming corrupted and spawning you in an endless death cycle after launching it a few times. The executable with the Gali and Pohatu levels was the only one that I was ever able to fully playthrough - and I did it multiple times, cause it was great fun. Pohatu's level being a Sonic the Hedgehog clone was a stroke of genius.

 

It was a shame it never got patched. I believe the creator actually lost the game files in a hard drive crash, and decided to just cut his losses and release the executables he had already compiled. Both versions of Toa Quest 3 were still more impressive than the majority of games created over the course of BZP's history. Nothing like them, The Insurgent, Dark709's Comics: The Game, or Bionicle Paracosmos: the Map of Mata Nui is probably ever going to be created again.

[That Matoran with a Vahi]

Toa quest 2? I never got to play that one sadly. The only other Toa Quest I was aware of was a completely different version of Toa quest 3 that focused on 2004. It has four levels: Lhikan, Onewa, Matau, and Whenua, and features some pretty impressive platforming gameplay and graphics. There's an Archies escape sequence at the end of Whenua's level that is probably the most epic thing I ever saw in a Bionicle fangame.

 

And for the record, the version of Toa Quest 3 you have never worked very well even when it released. I remember the executable with the Tahu and Kopaka levels crashed on the Muaka boss fight, and the one with Lewa had a nasty habit of becoming corrupted and spawning you in an endless death cycle after launching it a few times. The executable with the Gali and Pohatu levels was the only one that I was ever able to fully playthrough - and I did it multiple times, cause it was great fun. Pohatu's level being a Sonic the Hedgehog clone was a stroke of genius.

 

It was a shame it never got patched. I believe the creator actually lost the game files in a hard drive crash, and decided to just cut his losses and release the executables he had already compiled. Both versions of Toa Quest 3 were still more impressive than the majority of games created over the course of BZP's history. Nothing like them, The Insurgent, Dark709's Comics: The Game, or Bionicle Paracosmos: the Map of Mata Nui is probably ever going to be created again.

 

TQ2 was what started my interest in exploring fan created games in the first place, it's massively nostalgic for me. I think I'll just have to make do with my memories, though, as I seem to remember the creator saying way back in the Toa Quest 3 thread that the TQ2 game files no longer worked at all.

 

Oh, I remember that version of TQ3 too - kinda, at least. I played it back when it was just a demo that only had Lhikan's level, I never knew it had been expanded beyond that. That's pretty cool!

 

I never remember having those problems with the newer TQ3 though. I recall a glitch where if Lewa fell to his death he just didn't respawn at all (the Turaga Vakama level in TQ2 had a similar issue as well), but otherwise I remember playing it through, a number of times, without issue. Maybe that depended on the computer that it was being run on, though.

 

Whereas now, if I try to open the games on my new laptop, I just get a black screen which plays the menu music but does nothing else. A little bit frustrating xD;

[Toa Bors]

Have you looked through the links here? I tested a few links and while Dropbox ones appear to all be dead, there's at least a few links to other sites that still work. There's one called Visorak Arcade that appears to still be downloadable. The Map of Mata Nui is available from here.

[VakamaHordika147]

I remember there was one called Hordika: Hero or Beast. You would create a Toa and then play through these 2D levels.

As for a recent fan game, Bionicle Masks of Power.

[Fry]

I remember this startling game from years ago: http://www.bzpower.com/board/topic/19809-new-bionicle-fangame/?do=findComment&comment=980791

[Pulstar]

Hello, if all the fan games are lost, is it possible for someone to at least tell what they were like, for inspiration because I didn't know about them!

Thank you and let the great spirit guide you!

[Master Inika]

Anyone remember Metru Nui Online Game (or MeNOG)? I got to play it a little bit, but I unfortunately wasn't able to dive too deeply into it. Everyone had it in their sigs for a while. The music was awesome and ambient.

[Toa Philo]

On 6/17/2025 at 11:06 PM, Master Inika said:

Anyone remember Metru Nui Online Game (or MeNOG)? I got to play it a little bit, but I unfortunately wasn't able to dive too deeply into it. Everyone had it in their sigs for a while. The music was awesome and ambient.

Vaguely, I don't remember if I ever played it or not.

[JAG18]

On 6/17/2025 at 3:35 AM, Pulstar said:

Hello, if all the fan games are lost, is it possible for someone to at least tell what they were like, for inspiration because I didn't know about them!

Thank you and let the great spirit guide you!

My picks for the three greatest Bionicle fan games:

Bionicle Fighter by Katuko was a lot of fun.  The gameplay was simple, but the huge variety of powers and maps made it more interesting.  Some powers were lack luster, but some were really cool like the fireballs that sent people flying.  

For some reason, I was obsessed with coming up with the most degenerate characters possible.  Like a Toa of Earth with a mask of strength and maxed out strength who I could one-punch everyone with (until a magnetism or disintegration rahkshi stole or destroyed my claw).  The AI was dumb so a Rahkshi of camo with an quake breaker was so easy to dominate with it got boring fast.  I liked making Samuel Jackson with heat vision so powerful I could one-shot most enemies.  I also liked to make the vision a bright pink or light blue color.  
The boss fights added some more much needed variety.  Fighting the Toa Mata on Kini Nui or that red hot flaming Exo-Toa on Karda Nui was dope.  Good times, multiplayer would have been insane, but it's fine it never happened.

Hordika: Hero or Beast by Leppy was so, so hard but also really good.  You tricked your hordika (mostly just change to color, I usually went all black or gray) and ran through Metru-Nui which was a side scroller with a few platforms.  Visorak, Rahkshi, Nui-Rama, and more marched at you or jumped out of random places and you could either shoot them with a spinner or swung your arm hook to kill them.  For some reason the Vahki were mini bosses and needed extra hits.

This game was so hard that you needed to play it again and again to know where the enemies were coming from or where the pits were.  It was literally just like that Tom Cruise movies ("Live, Die, Repeat").

It was made for the only game contest BZP ever had and I still remember the topic where everyone (not me) was complaining about the game being too hard and Leppy was just like, "Skill issue".  Like it was all in good fun, but one of the staff still needed to come in and say, "If I might make a quick observation, telling your audience they 'suck' is usually a bad thing".  Winning this game felt earned.

I'm glad this game is still available.  Might be the best fan made Bionicle game ever except for...

Bionicle RTS Game by Hewkii Inika.  I'm biased because RTS games were my favorite as a kid, but this probably is my favorite even though it was only ever a one level demo.  I honestly can't remember if you played as the Visorak or Bohrok (Vahki were a planned faction that never arrived), but either way you played on a flat green map with you starting in the top left and the enemy in the bottom right.  I think they were protodermis mines next to your base and in the bottom left that you sent little workers to mine them in order to get resources.  The enemy had one red rock base that spawned units (only one type) who marched in a line to your base.  

Like most RTS games I've played, it's hard at first until you get enough money to build up your defenses, then it's just a matter of how long you want to wait to march on the enemy base with your giant fully upgraded army.  Although this game I think just had different units with different strengths and nothing else.  If it sounds boring paying the same game over and over, then you're right.  It's a shame this got killed by a site downtime because with just a couple more maps and factions with just a little bit of customization, this could have been a really great game.  

Can't remember if this game had a real name but I know there was another RTS game someone was working on that was so far behind this one people pointed it out in the topic.  

Hewkii Inika also made a Park Tycoon style game which was also a lot of fun even if the guests could be frustratingly stupid at times.

Havok and Insurgent were fast fun shooting games, nothing super special, but well-made and memorable all the same.  

I have no idea if that's what you wanted someone to respond, but I had fun getting nostalgic over these old games lol. 

[Toa Philo]

On 6/25/2025 at 7:44 PM, JAG18 said:

Bionicle RTS Game by Hewkii Inika.  I'm biased because RTS games were my favorite as a kid, but this probably is my favorite even though it was only ever a one level demo.

I'm surprised I never heard of this game. A Bionicle RTS would be sick.

[JAG18]

15 hours ago, Toa Philo said:

I'm surprised I never heard of this game. A Bionicle RTS would be sick.

Absolutely, the idea has a ton of potential.  After writing that I went looking for this guy in case he still had the demo, but unfortunately he hasn't been on the site in a decade.  😕

[TERIDAX941]

On 6/25/2025 at 7:44 PM, JAG18 said:

Bionicle Fighter by Katuko was a lot of fun.  The gameplay was simple, but the huge variety of powers and maps made it more interesting.  Some powers were lack luster, but some were really cool like the fireballs that sent people flying. 

This was my favorite bionicle fan game in my younger years, I spent hours exploring the maps and vanquishing the bosses. Great times!