Sonic: An Angel of Life

Well, I've recentlly been writing out my sonic - an angel of life wiki article on a seperate writing pad on a seperate computer (As I said earlier.. My actual computer has no internet. :p), and started making a few videos (finally), just finishing up the speed demo. There won't be any level-specific videos, but all will be featured, and I plan to have them in categories- Speed Demo, Boss Demo, Port Demo, alpha demo (So you can see what kind of progress I've been making over time :p), and Levels Demo.

And another thing, I've been deciding upon one last major change. I'm possibly going to replace Mystic Massif, because I just don't feel all to comfortable with it looking like Graveyard Garden (The graphics, of course). I'm probably going to shoot for either Sandopolis, Lava Reef act 1, angel Island, Or all three.. And I'm leaning towards all 3 at the moment. :p

 

:p heh, thanks. As it turns out, I did replace Mystic Massif with Lava Reef zone.. But, a few things were changed even at that;

A. I've decided drop the Angel Island graphics because of a number of reasons. If I had the time, I could, but I'm really trying to get this done by the release for once, which even may extend farther than that. Also, I wanted more variety, because I already have plenty of 'open field' type of levels. I have 2 of atleast most of the major types of levels, except for Aquamarine being the only cavern level. I have plenty of other sky-outer space-themed, I've got the 'fancy' levels (luxurious Lights and Fallen Festival). Also, I was originally going to have the scrolling background for Mystic Massif's clouds be replaced with the water scenes as seen in the introduction to Angel Island on sonic 3.. But then, that would make it look like a complete Carbon-Copy of Fallen Festival's Background, and the whole point of replacing mystic massif was to add more variety as it shared the same graphics as Graveyard garden.

And B. If I could, I'd definatly have Sandopolis.. But as I see it, in order to balance that out, I'd also need a winter level, that is, if I wanted to get everything all evened.. Which I do. So Sandopolis was dropped..

So yeah, It's just going to be Lava Reef act 1, which would have the lava reef act 2 rocks in Spirit star make sense. And As I mentioned, each level plays a very important part of Robotnik's domination that I had intended to create. Wistful wild has lumber for building, Mineral recources in Aquamarine, Oil in oblivious ooze to use as gas, and Fallen festival and Luxurious lights show the aftermah of 7 years of domination (Even robotnik may get bored, and want some fun :p), and I'm going to put these elements in the actual level to hint the player of what's going on.

Some levels later on give hints to the purpose in previous levels, like the rocks in Spirit Star as mentioned (used as a type of power resource).

 

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There are moments that do have multiple paths, and will try to get more in some more in other levels, but right now, I just want to be sure I can make the layouts play out for quite some time. Again, this is just a speed demo, so of course some parts are going to seem linear.. But as for the majority of the game, the levels are massive, in the sense that there will be plenty of open-world travel, aswell as being extremely complex (Even in the actual level editor, I would sometimes get lost and have to use some objects to indicate what leads to what xD)

 

Correct. While oblivious Ooze act 1 is an incredibly fast-paced level, act 2 has the more challenging and difficult obsticals that actually require thught. :p This especially goes for most of Wistful Wild, andPutrid Polder act 2

 

I have 12 finished.


And please, I cannot stress out the fact that this is just a small portion of a few zones, and that no level is entirely consisted of loops, or anything. And Tweaker, There definatly is much variety, and even more so once I begin the object layout. Trust me, what you see are not the entire levels. :p

 

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And in mystic Cave zone's level slot, I have a sandopolis stage using the name Hell Haze


I feel I have to mention, again, that the levels are incomplete, including this. I've taken Sandopolis, replaced the pyramids with mountains, with the color patterns used as somewhat a placeholder for up-close ridges (Light brown), A lake/river (blue), a plain/field (Dark green), and an uclose view of the field, along with the underground transition (light green). Kind of like a mix between the background of Marble zone mixed in with the smb 3 cavern-ish backgrounds. And as mentioned, This is mystic cave zone's background, so picture it like that.

There's probably more I forgot to mention, but I'm far too tired to go back and check. Remember, everything is incomplete, the whole hack is around 20% complete as a whole, so things are bound to look boring ;p