Sonic the Hedgehog: Overlooked!! (FIRST PUBLIC RELEASE)

FIRST PUBLIC RELEASE!! SONIC THE HEDGEHOG OVERLOOKED V. 0.01A: *retracted due to complaints about incompletion*



I wanted to get a little further with this before posting a topic, but I'm pretty excited at the moment -- so here it is! Overlooked was an idea of mine that I had years back (originally I had been working on it in the PC version of Sonic CD) that incorporated various levels of Sonic that I felt weren't really looked at all too much. Here's the levels that I'll have:

Azure Lake Zone (s3 2p)
Endless Mine Zone (s3 2p)
Chrome Gadget Zone (s3 2p)
Carnival Zone (Sonic Crackers)
R2 (still considering tentative names) ??Abandoned Archetype Zone??
Desert Palace(s3 2p)
Scrambled / Crystal Egg(only on third act) (s2ms)

Each level I'm planing (at the moment) to have three acts. The original version of this had HPZ and WZ, but those have been done to death and I'm heavily worried about originality.

...and what's a new hack without at least one picture?



Suggestions, help, comments, etc. are very much appreciated as long as it's constructive =) Progress at the moment is 5% completion and a public, playable version should be out within a month from now ^^

EDIT: The error in the background and the non-transparent leaves I just noticed and fixed =P


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COMPLETION
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Title Screen 30%
Level Select 0%
Title Cards 0%

ALZ

Art 80%
Layout 10% (100% conceptual / on paper)
Objects 5% (100% conceptual / on paper)
Boss 0%

EMZ

Art 70% (definately needs some help on extra tiles)
Layout 1%
Objects 0%
Boss 0% (5% conceptual / on paper)

CGZ

Art 70%
Layout 3% (100% conceptual / on paper)
Objects 1% (100% conceptual / on paper)
Boss 0%

Speed Slider Zone

Art 90%
Layout 5% (100% conceptual / on paper)
Objects 0%
Boss 0%

Rusting Ruins

Art 5% (35% conceptual / on paper)
Layout 0% (80% conceptual / on paper)
Objects 0% (70% conceptual / on paper)
Boss 0% (50% conceptual / on paper)

Desert Palace

Art 60% (100% for act 1 and 2) (100% conceptual / on paper Act 2 and 3)
Layout 30% (100% conceptual / on paper)
Objects 25% (100% conceptual / on paper)
Boss 0% (100% conceptual / on paper)

Scrambled / Crystal Egg

Art 50%
Layout 0%
Objects 0%
Boss 100% (yah.. I'm keeping the final boss for Crystal Egg. I'll try and make it a bit easier than it's gg/sms counterpart>.> )

 

yah.. although I feel some of the s3 2player zones were kind of dull music-wise.. might have to spice 'em up a bit ~.^

 

I had a few interesting concepts for Azure Lake, but that was NOT one of them... thanks for the idea! :D

 

mercury mines was fake (although humorous.. kudos to Nemesis) =P The most accurate representation of R2 was that brief clip from the SCD ending video.. but it's possible that could be interpreted as a mine. It's one of two levels that will have ass tons of custom art so I have plenty of time to think about that one. I've decided that I'll be making updates on % progress in various areas by editing the first post.

 

Endless mine was the height of the S3 competition music, imo. Azure lake's didn't feel quite right but wasn't too bad, however Desert Palace was absolutely nauseating -- didn't fit a dezert zone in the LEAST.

Anyway, I've run into a problem and, although I'll probably have it figured out by the time anyone replies, I'm posting this just in case =P



Can't go around the loop... <.< Everything else is right as rain. The collision is perfect except for that one spot and I have no idea wtf I'm doing wrong here. I was assuming it had something to do with the path swapping (I still don't understand that and it's been the bane of my existence from when I first even started doing level layouts eight years ago) Collision is modified ARZ collision, although this one was a default I used and is D2 D2 and angle F8. All Solid on both solidity settings. The collision map on either side is +/- 1 pixel, so I don't see that as being an issue as well =\ I'm gonna take a look at HTZ in just a sec to see how they made the fucker work in that level, but this is driving me MAD >=\ After that I plan on porting the rest of the art that can be ported and then continue to finish the level layout for this act. ^^

EDIT: ...and now as I figured I got it fixed >.> Didn't have the right properties on the path swapper. Still have a LITTLE bug to fix, though.. because although sonic goes around the loop he runs upside down off the left side >.<

 

of course.. but I liked the smaller loops >.> Thought it added an interesting dynamic. Now the whole thing is just inconsistent. If making the loop larger will help I'll do it =\


EDIT: I didn't want to make a new topic for this unless it was actually something significant which at the moment I'm not sure if it is.



I've gone through the mappings three or four times now to make sure I didn't accidentally stick random shit on the end or what not. ALZ didn't do this when I was grabbing it's mappings so the only conclusion I can jump to is that CGZ thinks that it has mappings for a full level.. even some of the 16x16 blocks fit together correctly when viewing those alone o_o Don't know what's going on here.. but could it be possible that at one time this was going to be a lot -- bigger? :blink:

EDIT2: Upon closer examination it looks like those might be ALZ mappings stuck on the end! See the mountain shape? Thoughts?

 

Double posting updates in my own topic is cool right? Regardless just figured I'd let you guys and gals see Desert Palace ^^ I just finished porting the art and the raster ripple effects in EHZ look like they were meant to be there just like I thought they would <3





...and a little bit of action...






Should have some early images of Chrome Gadget soon, but there's some awkward chunks to start out with and I'm having to rebuild a BUNCH of stuff straight from 16x16 stuff (not nearly the bitch that rebuilding the loops in ARZ is being but annoying none-the-less)