General Project Thread & Feedback

Is that going to be the final interface we'll be using? TBH it seems a bit of a long-winded way of adding/changing the tiles.

 

That's what I've been using for quite some time now and it gets the job done. I'm sure there will be stuff added later that helps streamline things further if necessary.

 

I was thinking we could have a scrollable pop-out menu [via the right click?] of all the tiles displayed at once (perhaps a large square grid full of tiles, to which moving to its edges will scroll it along [or as shown - assuming here - the middle button; but then how will laptops deal with that?]).

It's just an idea, anyway.

 

This. This right here. Until the alpha has been released and has been playtested on a variety of systems, we can't give the kind of estimates you're after.

And yes, 3D hardware is part of the engine S2HD functions on. I just recently listed why this is the case, per the large textures being used in all the artwork. Just because a game is 2D doesn't mean it won't use 3D hardware -- many of the shaders and effects that S2HD will make use of are built on the capabilities of modern graphics cards.

 

I was curious about how the waterfall looks animated from the screenshots, so I snipped it out of the trailer, used some rubbish image editing skills in Game Maker's sprite editor, and created this:

Neat, eh? I think that is lovely and also true to the original at the same time.

 

You can get a 1080p monitor right now for like 120 bucks. Beyond that though, it was pretty easy to get a 1600x1200 CRT back in the day.

The solution for 4:3 is simple. Crop the sides of the 16:9 display. It's not rocket science, and it basically just restores the view to how it is in the originals.

 

I don't particularly want to join in in the aspect ratio arguments as I feel they'd be better addressed much later in the development process, cropping the 16:9 game would result in wonkiness if the bosses were re-designed for 16:9, as I remember was commonly discussed a while back.

 

Cropping won't always work because some of the boss battles are designed with the width of the screen in mind. However, while it would probably be really difficult, they could try to have both a 4:3 mode and a 16:9 mode where the level design is adjusted to those aspect ratios.

 

Agreed. The next thing I'll possibly be getting for my PC is a faster CPU - not to mention a new graphics card; I'd love a new monitor as well, but I think my CPU needs sorting out first. At the moment a new monitor is out of the question (unless suddenly monitors go to rock-bottom prices); besides, I might wait until OLED monitors become pretty cheap, but that will be a long, LONG wait.

 

Hooo boy. You've got that right. I wouldn't recommend waiting THAT long . Still, I think 1080p monitors already are at rock bottom prices.

 

I'm going to try connecting my laptop to the ol' 1080p TV. That'll sort it out.

 

Sonic 2 HD GameGear edition anyone? :specialed: That was what I instantly thought of...

Or that some of us don't want to buy a new piece of hardware for one game. I don't have that much money in my bank account right now and I'm saving up for other things.

 

I'm running on a laptop which supports up to 1366x768. And for the foreseeable future, I won't have access to a 1080p TV or monitor (they're currently in storage and we're at an apartment until we get our new house). I'd think that I'd still be able to enjoy the new sprites and clean graphics even though I wouldn't be running at full 1080p. I'm just wondering if there will be ANY sort of option for running at lower resolution, downscaling, cropping, or whatever. Is this something that will even be possible to play or resize on a TV or monitor that doesn't support full 1080p?

 

Aye, that's what I meant. So I take it that it will be available? Thanks for the info. It would just have been a shame if the game could ONLY be played at 1080p. There's a lot of people who still have HD monitors but not the full 1080p kind. And IMO, there are more merits to this game now than just the HD aspect. The new level and character art is fantastic, along with smoother animation.

 

Any chance we'll get more screenshots before the alpha release? Screenshots after would kinda be pointless.