Dr. Albert O'Wily is an Irish scientist and inventor, with the ability to create, modify, program, and reprogram various machines, robots, and Robot Masters. He is also known for his deception skills, manipulating others (people and Robot Masters) into doing his bidding, planning elaborate schemes, and being able to escape just about any situation if he is at a severe disadvantage.
Dr. Albert O'Wily was originally friends and classmates with Dr. Thomas O'Light at the Robot Institute of Technology, but both had a falling out due to Dr. Thomas O'Light getting his funding revoked and ultimately getting his "Double Gear System" project shut down, due to claiming the project could be too dangerous. This led to a long-lasting rivalry between the two with Dr. Albert O'Wily blaming Dr. O'Light for sabotaging the success of his projects and ruining his reputation.
He has intentions of world domination, and has been involved in various schemes intending to make those dreams a reality, but always fails due to Mega Man and his other allies interfering. However, despite always losing, Dr. Albert O'Wily always seems to have a backup plan to escape being arrested.
March 24, 2025 - The Break a Targets contest, a contest focusing on Targets, is announced.
March 12, 2025 - Mr. Bouncer, Francis, Knightly, Inter and Doriko are promoted to trial Discord moderators.
March 5, 2025 - BokoKnight74 is promoted to trial wiki moderator.
March 14, 2025 - The results for the 1.10.0 Plushie Contest are announced. The winners are Plushies based off of Elec Man (56 votes), who stops Elec Beams and acts as a light source; Air Man (105 votes), which produces rideable Air Shooter projectiles when shot that moves the player horizontally; and Gemini Man (56 votes), which makes two Plushies move together when shot if they have the same pose. It also included a Gravity Man plushie (111 votes); however, due to no functionality being programmed yet, a joke about reverse gravity being deconfirmed was shown instead.
February 28, 2025 - Guts Man is announced to be included in version 1.10.0, having been chosen by JumpDashEvade.
February 25, 2025 - The results of the New Year's Tradition contest are announced. The winner is Fission Furnace Zone (ID: 576522) by ItsJustSeb while the runner-up is The Soul Siphon - Hydroelectric River Styx (ID: 576296) by BokoKnight74. A few changes to the next challenge event are also announced.
February 21, 2025 - The results for the New Year's Tradition contest are scheduled to be released sometime next week while Mega Marino is announced as a judge for the next challenge event.
February 16, 2025 - It is announced that for 1.10.0, loading for levels has been improved. Additionally, loading a level will no longer freeze the game while data is loading; instead, the player is provided with additional loading details as demonstrated on the example levelDeveloper Challenges. Voting for the plushie contest is also now closed with 757 votes in total registered and a plushie presentation planned for next month.
January 30, 2025 - A new weapon is announced - Wire from Mega Man 4. Additionally, Toxin-GX is announced as a beta tester.
January 28, 2025 - Meka announces that 1.10.0 will add assets based on what the dev team wishes to add rather than sticking to a specific theme. In addition, it is announced that it will drop support for 32-bit OS, to allow the team to take advantage of more GameMaker functions in 64-bit OS.
September 19, 2024 - Release trailer for 1.9.0 is released with layering announced as the main feature and a release date scheduled for the following day.
