Any 2D resources for Modern Sonic moves/skills?

Good timing. The Sonic Worlds engine is updating tomorrow with much of what you're looking for.

 

Sonic Worlds is in many ways the best right now given how thorough and feature rich it is, and MMF2's simplicity makes it easy to use. However, MMF2 has huge drawbacks that keep me from using it, and these issues have resulted in Worlds becoming very bloated and difficult to manage. In other words, it's easy to use off the bat, but attempting to make any significant modifications or even a full game can become a huge strain. If you're wondering, Sonic Worlds can be used with CF2.5, but it's not much better than MMF2.
I would recommend Sonic MAX for Game Maker Studio, given it's arguably the best Game Maker engine around. It only has homing attack as far as modern abilities go, but the engine is full of features, very accurate, versatile and relatively easy to use. Tpot, the creator, is also fairly active, can answer questions here, and is still updating the engine.
GMate, a Game Maker 8 engine with a planned Game Maker Studio port, is in development right now and that will be a good rival to MAX. It'll have several modern abilities out of the box, and may be more what you're looking for. However, it won't be public until next SAGE, a few months from now.

 

It's certainly achievable in Sonic Worlds, but it can quickly get very sticky and complicated. I would only recommend doing so if you have a strong knowledge and understanding of Worlds' inner workings, as well as MMF2 itself.
You would likely be able to achieve this much more simply and cleanly with a Game Maker engine, but if you can't do programming, I don't know what to tell you. GML is very easy to learn and use, so if you're willing to take a step up from visual programming, you'll have a lot more at your disposal for what would likely not be much trouble.

 

I have nothing to base an interest on yet, but you're welcome to explain it and I'll give whatever advice I can.
I would recommend you dive in and do everything you can, because ultimately you'll just become that much more capable as you go.

 

Sonic MAX is a really great engine, however it's not that easy to use and it requires some GML experience. If you (or your co-developers) don't know GML, don't start to learn it with Sonic MAX.
If you have enough experience with GML, download it and try to learn how it works. Believe me, it's not hard to use, it just looks a bit complicated. Also, Sonic MAX' homing attack only works with enemies, so if you wanna use it with springs or other stuff you need to edit it a little bit.
If you will have any programming related questions, I will try to answer them as much as I can. But I can't guarantee I can answer everything since I'm not the developer of that engine lol

 

I'm so tempted to opensource my engine just to make you stop mumbling around about how much MMF/CF sucks for making a freaking Sonic fangame. SW is packed with features and yes it's extremely difficult to edit/add new features but actual reasons for that is that it's very poorly programmed and as any freaking engine in existence needs to be studied (and studied hard) to be understood.
CF2.5 is more than enough if you just wanna make a Sonic fangame. You just have to not suck at making code and actually have more than superficial knowledge of how to work in it.

 

So wait, people should stop complaining about how much MMF/CF sucks, cause it doesn't suck cause it's very poorly programmed?

Uuuh

 

No no, MMF/CF sucks hard if you wanna make anything more or less unusual and challenging (and not strictly in 2D) that would also not be unoptimized as shit. But 2D Sonic fangames are not rocket science, especially ones that imitate classic/advance/rush gameplay so MMF/CF is more than enough for that cause it's accessible, easy to use and has a ton of examples/engines.

If I was to learn a game making environment today I would definitely not use MMF/CF or Gamemaker for sure.

 

Start using any engine or programming language and practice, practice, practice. Then practice again. Take a tutorial. Implement it. Try to understand why it was used like that, change things a bit. When you need to do something, don't think about ' has somebody done this before, can I copy it verbatim so I don't have to do anything'. This is not a test in school on a subject that would never be of use to you in your life.
Break problems into smaller parts.
You want to do an air dash. What do you need? You need to read the state of the B button. To raise a flag that you are in the air dash state. To change the character horizontal velocity. How do you switch animations? etc.

Programming is hard, and so is 'scripting'. You need to spend much time to get good at it.
If its not for you, then you have to be even better at drawing so that the programmers who can implement those things would be remotely interested in *your* *unpaid* project.

Doesnt matter that much which engine you'll pick. You can do everything on all of them. Yes all of them are relatively slow and crappy. Relatively, because that drawback is offset by the current speed of the hardware. Your game runs 100 times slower than Sonic & Knuckles Collection? Well you are not going to play it on Pentium 1 75MHz anyway, right?

 

Felik, MMF2/CF2.5 is shitty. It has critical disadvantages that can easily stunt development. It's simple but it's simple in some of the worst possible ways.
If he were just making a simple Sonic fangame, I'd say sure, it'd probably be fine, even if still not an optimal way to go.
However, he's said here that he intends to expand the gameplay with new abilities and some sort of stat building system. That's already asking for a lot of trouble, and he'd ultimately be better off learning a starting language like GML and working with a more flexible system.

 

You say you have several programmers on the team. Are they actually good, are they coding more than 30 minutes on an odd weekend?

How serious are you about this project? Do you yourself spend only 30 minutes a day or less? If so maybe you should focus on the 2 part time jobs you are working on and feeding your kids first. If you are in high school you have ZERO excuse for not putting like 20 hours a week in the project.

People wont think you are bossy or demanding if you are actually doing work.
And for the last time(heard this many times from many people) talking/discussing the project with other people/team members does not count towards work.

P.S. Sonic wont 'die' or anything. That doesn't even have any relevance to fan games. Your project will not 'save' anything.