New Sonic Engine Coming...

I was expecting a piece of shit.

I was surprised.

This is awesome.

Physics feel just like they should and camera isn't awful like all those other games. Any suggestions I would have to offer would probably be things only I would want.

Excellent job, I hope to see more.

 

Ah this is pretty cool, I like the idea of being able to toy around with the game while editing it in Debug, well, placing bumpers everywhere was fun, and I've found that the physics are nicely accurate to the original S1 8-Bit game, I love the fact that you've put the SEGA logo in there just like the original.

A few issues I'd like to address however are:

-> +**(Nevermind Chimpo explained this one)**+
-> It's a little difficult to find where all the settings and controls are (I.e. when trying to edit it), it took me a while to find out how to toggle between debug and normal game.
-> In full screen the game appears to lag like mad (Might be just my computer)
-> No sound

But as you've stated, it's obviously in wip stage, so I'll trust they'll be attended to soon enough, I would like to ask something though if you wouldn't mind, With this, would we be able to do something like... Improved graphics, high quality sounds, or anything going far beyond the 8-bit system? Because the fading to white and back seems extremely smooth.

Well to sum it up, I love this so far, I might put this to use and make something out of it (Once it's complete of course), awesome work =)

 

Jump button is 1 on the number pad.

I don't have an issue with the game slowing down in fullscreen mode. Then again I built my thing to run anything recent so yeah.

 

This is very, very cool.

A shame it's made in Game Maker instead of a proper programming language, though, with all the limitations it implies.

 

Wait, wait, hold on... this entire thing is made in Game Maker? It's actually correct!

Wow. I think you might be onto something big. Superb work so far; looking forward to your more developed engine in the future!

 

...How do I jump? Where's the music?

Need to lern2read.

This is pretty good! Now that I know how to jump, I'm going to give it another try. :v:

 

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You guys have either never used Game Maker or haven't seen the incredible things that can be done with it. It provides a simple framework for losing a lot of the initial, annoying work that has to be done just to get sprites displaying on the screen, etc. and is a perfect tool to allow individual people to write functional games and focus on the details instead of spending months wondering why they can't get their PNG to rotate right. Through the use of GML, you can write your own incredibly complex collision engines, and while GM is certainly not efficient by any means it is certainly is hugely useful for these specific purposes.

TL;DR - Stop being playa haters, 'yo.'

 

Agreed. I mean, you could have used Lua or .NET scripting in MMF2. At least that way, your code could be used outside of MMF2. GML is locked to Game Maker.

And yes Lostgame, I do know that Game Maker is capable of making amazing things (Spelunky is awesome)

 

So why are you guys bitching about it? I don't get it. Is it just that you think you're 'better' than him because you'd do it in a 'real' programming language? There's no harm in it, and it doesn't take away from the fact that the engine itself is great, and still took a lot of effort to make.

 

Uh? It's great to see him making the engine in the first place, but my concern was about portability, in an effort to see his work be usable on things other than Windows PCs.

 

In regards to Sonic games, everyone so far has made nothing but shitty Sonic clones.

Yeah yeah, potential and shit. None of that means shit when a majority of the projects out there still feel inaccurate. Now we're actually seeing something on the same level of the originals so you can't blame us for being surprised.

 

Well, I must say I like the accuracy of this, as well as the changes (camera fix, ring loss, spindash, Peelout etc.). A bit disappointed by only 2 acts (c'mon, you could've at least put the boss in too!), but since this is only an engine, that doesn't really matter.

The problem with Game Maker is that it tends to give large, unoptimised files, and as said above, has compatibility issues with some computers. However, once the engine is fully functional, given that most of the collision detection etc. is scripted, it shouldn't be TOO difficult to convert to another language. Of course, it'll take some time to do this.

Looking forward to the 16-bit engine.

 

Oh, my God!

I'm quite surprise of what you've done.

I played it and it's awesome. I liked the spindash and I liked that now you can retrieve your rings when you received damage.

I noted that green chaos emerald, so I'm going to ask if the 6/7 emeralds will have a different color.

Beautiful engine!

 

Game is pretty decent, I'll give it that much. As far as sonic games go, it's pretty good and I'm sure the engine is just great blah blah blah.
And it does run under Wine, albeit with the minor issue that it eats up the entire screen with blackness and then has the game itself only take up a tiny corner of the screen. Better than most game maker games I've tried, I'll give it that much.

 

A fighting system like Henry Hatsworth for Knuckles.

Upgradeable abilities obtained from items.

Doors or teleporter that lead you to other areas rather than the level ending via signpost.

You know, basically turn it into a Metroid game but with Knuckles.

You won't add any of these.

 

Hey, these were in GG's Scrap Brain Zone, and since he said he's going for an 8-bit feel, I wouldn't be surprised to see them implemented.

As for the engine itself, I haven't had a chance to try it yet, I'm sorry, I'll probably do that on saturday.