General Project Thread & Feedback

The game will be 16:9. For those wanting 4:3, it may be supported via letterboxing of a sort or HUD centering with aspect correction, but it will be meant to be played in the 16:9 arrangement.

 

A completed EHZ has always been our priority for the first release of the game, yes. Additional zones and content will be added in subsequent releases.

 

There's more to it than that, but the coding is a part of it of course. At this point we're all running at full steam, and it's just a matter of tying everything together. If you'd like to help, the best way would be to pop in to one of the concept threads and keep the ideas flowing. Those give us fuel and direction for the next zones we'll be tackling.

 

Forgive me if I'm overstepping my bounds, but what on Earth happened here?

I've been lurking (occasionally but rarely posting comments) in the wings watching progress on this fantastic project only to see it go basically dead for the past month. The HTZ concept thread went dark and some of the talented posters who weren't official members of the team went silent. I'm sure the core team is hard at work getting a demo out to the public but I can't help but think the silence is a sign of bad things to come.

And just so it's out in the air (I'm almost surprised I haven't seen a comment about it) I think S2HD has great potential to be better than the recently released demo to that other Sonic game. That demo was far too "busy" and from what I've seen of the staff here, this group can do even better.

 

I think it's simply because people are either busy with life, which does happen to everyone at times, and/or they don't have motivation to do stuff at the moment. I wouldn't worry about it being quiet, we're still dedicated to getting it finished, so it'll get done.

In regards to your last comment, I think people are too busy making jokes about this never getting done to actually think about its potential. But yeah, thanks, and we are planning some fancy stuff that will not disappoint.

 

I stopped posting because there is nothing more to post. That and my attempt to revive a sleeper artists from lurkers or forum goers failed miserably. All that came of it was posters arguing, staff doing little to intervene or settle on what they really wanted out of a specific piece of art. Canned Karma has pretty said now staff have made all the HTZ artwork since they are trying to get it in the demo and that all the concept efforts have played a "large role".

So I'm really just sitting here waiting for the demo honestly.

 

I'm certain that's how most people who follow the project are looking at it right now. I can't fault people for it, given that there isn't much else that can be done publicly for the first release in regards to the artwork, but that only applies to to EHZ and HTZ. Once those are done, we'll be moving on to a new set of zones: CPZ and DEZ. Why not go in the game's order? We're trying to tie off the zones that share common metablocks first. The best way anyone could contribute now would be via the concepts workbench focused on those two levels.

 

Well we've got that concept thread that just opened up, so that will just be kind of a catch all type thing for the time being. I have a feeling we'll have a dedicated thread for Chemical Plant and Death Egg open later when we're actually working on those stages directly.

 

Th.. they do? ...I think I need to lie down.

 

Speaking of which, SFR allows you to pick the resolution you prefer from a fairly populated dropdown list, including both 4:3 and 16:9 resolutions (maybe 16:10 and 5:4 too). Is forcing people to have 16:9 monitors part of S2HD's goal? The "we might give you a crippled 4:3 version" still enrages me.

(and yes this is a quote from another thread, posted here because it's more appropriate)