So, um, yeah... announcing my sonic game

er, I'm not making a hack. I'm making a new sonic game.

 

My minor is Graphics design. I can draw.

I can design levels well.

One of my frat brothers is majoring in composition.

And sonic games need not a story.

So, in short, this is my project. I don't need help.

That said, I plan on releasing the source when it's all done.Thanks for the offer, though.

EDIT: And, while not a knock on you, calling my game a hack, and telling me that I'm ripping off boss "programming" tells me alone that, really, you can't help.

 

I really don't think he was criticizing (although he did phrase his response in an annoying way), but rather that he liked my project and was enthusiastic about helping. I was the same way... I'd see badass projects like Retro-Sonic or Metrixx and, at the time, I knew I couldn't really make a program like that to save my life. But I wanted to dearly be apart of them, so I'd offer to do something easy, like draw, or design levels.

Hence why I'm keeping a notebook of my work, and my game is going to be open source - so that people who can't do it now, can learn from what I do so that one day they can.

And if anyone has any questions about how I've done anything, then feel free to ask. This is a very liberal-style project... I am more than willing to share my knowledge and even my code at a later point in time.

But yeah... I really am doing this project by myself just so I can step back and pat myself on my back. It's one of those things I do for myself. Letting people help kinda defeats the point.

EDIT: And just to point, I'm not in any sort of competition between Retro-sonic or Sax's proSonic engines. I admire their work greatly, and don't want to compete with them, but just do my own thing. I'm doing this for my own enjoyment. I spoke to sax, in fact, to talk about how his engine worked when I was coming up with theories and forumlas, and he felt pretty much the same way. It seems to me, from an outsiders stance on this community, that those who have the most talent seem the least likely to be a jackass.

More people should follow sax's example and not criticize. After all, if my project becomes this awesome engine (which I'm trying my hardest to do), it won't take away from what Sax has done, and the community benifits from having TWO engines to choose from.

 

Not a real demo or anything, but I've rewritten my image format and the method it's drawn to the screen... completely rewrote it from scratch. It looks exactly like my last method, but it is loads faster.

Since it behaves the same as the old one, I'm not uploading a demo, but here's a screenshot showing scaling in action:

 

So, I've been working on a function that draws a line between two points on the screen, and can fill 3 points with a color. I got it working, so I wrote a quick 3D algorithm that'll automatically transfer a point to another position on screen based on it's Z coordinates. Something is really wrong with it, because it doesn't always draw right, but every now and then, it works correctly. The end result is essentially what the SuperFX chip could do.



I'll keep working on it, and put up a demo when it works flawlessly.

 

Quickie update:



Amazingly enough, I've still been working on this since last summer, just at a slowed pace due to school. It's very, very far from complete (the game physics aren't implimented yet, sonic simply follows the ground) but it's coming along.

Thanks a ton to drx, jman2050AG, and especially ymtx18z for spending long nights explaining how the sonic engine works. And thanks to Stealth for SonED, which I've been using to figure out how sonic works, and as a templet for the tools I've been creating. And thanks to SonicTweaker for unlocking this :D.

And before anyone asks - naw, no demo yet. It'll probably be a few months before a demo is released.

 

They're just Knuckles Chaotix tiles right now.

In the end, I plan on making my own, but this was just for testing purposes.

 

So, I've been rewriting my sprite editor to make it more user friendly. Before, my sprite editor was all command-line based, but this new gui sprite editor is turning out pretty slick:

 

Heh, I dunno. I don't think I'm in the same level as sax.