Metal_Man88, on Jul 29 2006, 06:21 PM, said:
Sith-Smasher, on Jul 29 2006, 04:15 PM, said:
...then you need to be a drawing artist, gfx artist, programmer, level designer, musician & storywriter alltogether.
Even the official Sonic games were made by a whole team.
You can't possibly hope to reach a similar result alone.
And ripping boss programming and giving them some different sprites is not 'new'.
Neither is inputting music that already exists in other games.
He can't make a similar result alone? What are those games with Knuckles and even Tails in Sonic 1 about, then?
Not to mention he's programming it by himself. If you can do that, you can EXCEED the original games. I may not know much about programming code, but isn't programming from scratch more powerful than hacking the old games?
Also, because he is doing it from scratch, it is not a hack. A hack is a modification of a ROM, this is clearly programming.
I just think ye should look at what you can do yourself before criticising someone who appears to have some talent.
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.
This post has been edited by Cooljerk: 29 July 2006 - 09:45 PM
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