Sonic: An Angel of Life

Dark Sonic · Dec 26, 2007

Bowser said:

flygon said:

I find your original Putrid Pouldur quiet interesting, may I suggest putting it back in and renaming it, it does look quiet interesting and from my experience I have not seen too many Green Hill Zones anyway =P
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Yeah, I kind of had a tough time letting The original Putrid Polder go. I did spend a great amount of time on graphics (Especxially those little yellow specs in the picture, which would actually glow bright to dark to bright and so on), but I couldn't get the loops to work, some of the collision screwed up, etc.. Though, in my next hack, which will be comprised of nothing BUT S3K and Sonic 1 levels, I'll be sure to move my entire work of Putrid Polder onto there..

Also, to be honest, My next hack will be split into two seperate parts, in which the reason being I want to use ALL of the S3K AND Sonic 1 levels.

One last itty bitty thing.

I've been taking the "Light-to-dark" coloring scheme to consideration, and I am going to use it.
I'll use it for the Special Stages. :P
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Are you planning on using all the levels from the original trilogy? That'd be awesome. Combining Sonic 1 and Sonic 3 and Knuckles levels only? That'd be weird.

If you are making it so that the plots connect yet the levels are the same as in the original, Sonic 1 doesn't fit with anything due to it doesn't have anything to do with the Death Egg. But if that's not the purpose of your next project then it doesn't matter, although the styles are really different.

Sith · Dec 26, 2007

Your hack seems to have come a long way, I remember your first roms.
Your bad habits of monochrome palettes have disappeared. They are much better. Great work.

CloverCC · Dec 26, 2007

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dark Sonic @ Dec 26 2007, 01:21 PM) : I still had the same goal to produce a quality-hack back then, but now, it pretty much looks (Both figurtively, and litterally) like shit to me. In half a year, I may be looking at the images I in the first post, and saying the same thing about these 3. Who knows, Because I feel the same way about the colors In those 3 images back in that time, as I do today with my current colors... "Looks nice.. But how can I make it look nicer?". :P

Jayextee · Dec 27, 2007

Didn't you once have this really awesome Hill Top palette which you since changed? (Which, to me, was a step backwards)

Nonetheless, any thoughts about new level art for Your Next Thing? Heh, I might be verging into asshole territory with my constantly insisting upon this, but there's only so much that can be done with recolours.

CloverCC · Dec 27, 2007

Which Hill top pallet? :P

And yes, I have a few ideas about maybe "transforming" a few levels to be purely biome-themed, but that's about all I've taken into consideration. I'm still much in work of completing SAL right now, And I really don't want to shift my mind any further on my next hack, until I get this one completed. Right now, it's got very little plans so far, using Sonic 1 and S3k levels, will be split into two parts, and is something I know I can accomplish, though I'd probably spend another 5 years on it.

Lostgame · Jan 6, 2008

The original screenshots look fantasic. You're making good progress and a real solid effort here. Keep up the good work!

CloverCC · Jan 9, 2008

Lostgame said:

The original screenshots look fantasic. You're making good progress and a real solid effort here. Keep up the good work!
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Thanks, it's what I intend to do. :P

I've also posted a few new pictures above for updates, including Graveyard Garden's new colors (Which I think looks more "graveyard" to me.)

DynaShock · Feb 23, 2008

Lostgame said:

The original screenshots look fantasic. You're making good progress and a real solid effort here. Keep up the good work!
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I agree, they look...how should I say this..

Beautiful?

Anyway, it looks really nice.

CloverCC · Feb 24, 2008

DynaShock said:

Lostgame said:

The original screenshots look fantasic. You're making good progress and a real solid effort here. Keep up the good work!
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I agree, they look...how should I say this..

Beautiful?

Anyway, it looks really nice.
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Thanks. :P Been a long time since I've mentioned anything in here, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to give a few updates:
All 3 acts of Cineral crater are finally complete, now starting Rocket Runway's layouts.
Few minor color changes
Planning to make each act have it's own background variation.. just something to make it seem more diverse.

amphobius · Feb 24, 2008

I really didn't want to bump this yesterday. Now it has been bumped.

This really is good work, keep it up. By any chance, are you needing beta testers?

CloverCC · Feb 25, 2008

DalekSam said:

I really didn't want to bump this yesterday. Now it has been bumped.

This really is good work, keep it up. By any chance, are you needing beta testers?
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I might look into that. I havn't spoken to JcFerggy in a while, so yeah..

GHNeko · Feb 25, 2008

Why does it seem like this game would go great with some Cut scenes and level transitions. >_>

I kinda like the palette that is being used, though yea. Its all to dark. x_x

I'm looking forward to a release of thing. ^^

JcFerggy · Feb 25, 2008

Bowser said:

I might look into that. I havn't spoken to JcFerggy in a while, so yeah..
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Ya, sorry about that, Its hard to talk to someone on a regular basis when they don't have a msn.

AeonicB · Feb 25, 2008

I like it lots, a lot of nice level editing, but its slightly dark. Unique color choices though, which I like a lot, just wish there were slightly more bright colors.

And on CT.

PsychoSk8r · Feb 26, 2008

That pallet is Godly, it's like a realistic Sunrise =P

CloverCC · Feb 26, 2008

PsychoSk8r said:

That pallet is Godly, it's like a realistic Sunrise =P
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Again, one of the changes that was for the better. Thank you :D Now, hopefully I can get the foreground to look a little more well-fitting to the background (A few shining/reflections spots, etc.)

And again, I do apologize for the lack of updates, as Cineral crater left me very stressed around the first quarter of act 3's layout (Doing a 3-act s3k level was a bit more challenging than I though, mainly because at times I forgot that each act from s3k pretty much used it's own tileset to where me using Hydrocity Act 1's tiles, I forgot about there being no waterslides, or anything else from the 2nd act, yet ironically, the 3rd act of metropolis is the one level in sonic 2 that uses its' own tileset that differs from the previous 2 acts, so any tiles I created in the first/2nd metropolis acts wouldn't be in the 3rd), but eventually got it all done without any areas that may seem slacking/rushed or whatever.

Anyways, working on Rocket Runway now, I can pretty much say that it's perhaps the most fun I've had while doing a layout as of yet. The curves, the little pipe-loops, everything. Then after this, only a few more levels until I do the object layouts, then after that, I'll do all the final touches for perfection, then after that, the release will come.

BtCE · Mar 18, 2008

Improving the colors aside (and to be honest, my only problem is variety - individually they all look intresting), this is quite intresting as well as impressive. I do think it would be a shame to allow those three stages you eliminated which you nearly finished to go to waste - perhaps you should consider putting them back in as "secret stages" or something along those lines? Selectable only from the stage select or something more creative than that (and I imagine, harder to implement). I don't know how possible it is from a technical level, but if it is possible, I would love to see them become playable - if you put your time into making them, why scrap them? You clearly have some concern for work quality. Eh, but that just my opinion, anyways. All of that aside, great job, and I look forward to the release.

CloverCC · Mar 18, 2008

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Lassic @ Mar 18 2008, 04:35 PM)

Also,

True Dude · Mar 18, 2008

Since this hack has such a dark mood, have you ever thought of making it based off SatAM? I would love to see a hack based off that show. The only things that would need changing would be Robotniks sprites and a few other things.

CloverCC · Mar 18, 2008

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (True_Dude @ Mar 18 2008, 05:17 PM) I

And Ghneko, each level does have a unique transition from one to the other, though it's not using cutscenes

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