[Galaxia]

RedStripedShoes, on Feb 20 2009, 03:17 PM, said:

Ice Sonic, on Feb 20 2009, 06:55 AM, said:

jman2050, on Feb 20 2009, 02:35 AM, said:

Volcano->Exit into Desert

Volcano in a desert? What?

That's nothing compared to the volcano under a desert in S&K.

Could've been towards the center of the earth, if you want to argue that.

[Aerosol]

Ah. Now I understand your viewpoint Matwek. I'm just looking to minimize unnecessary, extra work. The way Chimpo suggested it, I figured he meant only a change in scenery, like Unleashed (which he referenced to). Different areas in Unleashed didn't play differently at all, so I figured that's what you were referring to.

In short, I agree with you.

[STHX]

[jman2050]

So does anyone have ideas for potential gimmicks or level design set pieces for this zone? Or at least a recap of ideas that might've been expressed earlier in the thread?

After all, it's one thing to consider the theme of the level and another to work on the details.

[synchronizer]

Well-hidden switches that dam waterfalls in order to allow the player to access important secret passages?

[Firion]

Burrowbot badniks hidden in the sand perhaps?

Or vine traps that pull you up instead of down like in Mushroom Hill?

Even going as far as to have something like a termite badnik drop tree limbs in your path, so you either take damage or have to speed into the passageway the tree would block.

[Kamon62]

Firion, on Mar 1 2009, 09:41 AM, said:

Burrowbot badniks hidden in the sand perhaps?

Or vine traps that pull you up instead of down like in Mushroom Hill?

Even going as far as to have something like a termite badnik drop tree limbs in your path, so you either take damage or have to speed into the passageway the tree would block.

I had a sketch for a bot that burrow's in the original first stage thread, so we can use that when it comes time to work on the badniks.

[BlackHole]

STHX, on Feb 21 2009, 11:11 AM, said:

But, going from a beach to a volcano?
This change is pretty drastic.

Depends, do you go from beach to the interior or beach to the exterior?

Interior, easy enough, Sonic can enter a cave and drops into it, ala the Lava Reef and Sandopolis Pyramid.

Exterior, Tropical Island, Sonic climbs up a cliff-face and ends up running up a volcano (erupting if neccisary)

On-topic; I believe I said it somewhere on this before, Quicksand that either sucks you onto another path or into a bottomless pit, marked by being darker than the sand around it and/or moving in a downward motion.

[jman2050]

THat's a lot of sand gimmicks for something that is presumably only a small portion of the level.

Although I wouldn't know exactly what Chimpo and company have in mind for that.