Sonic: The Lost Worlds

I thought someone would notice. The columns gave it away right?

Yea the new zones I did were built off other zones to save time. Desert Zone was built off Emerald Hill, Winter Zone was built off Desert Zone obviously, Rock Zone was built off Aquatic Ruin Zone and Cyber City Zone was built off Metropolis Zone. I figured, in any zone, there's always gonna be some flat ground, slopes, and loops so I decided to save time by not starting them all from scratch. I didn't just open Sonic 2 with SonED and start editing though. There's a lot more work than that. Don't worry, these levels will be worth playing.

 

A little update. First, I made a small fix to the title screen from before.



I fixed up Casino Night Zone so the few problems where art overlaps in VRAM doesn't happen and I fixed the collision problem on the conveyor. It turns out that those blank looking blocks you see in the Beta are actually the same numbered blocks that use the animations from the final Casino Night Zone, so they were probably going to be used even when it looked like this.

Casino Night Zone:



I also fixed up Wood Zone so it looks more finished. I didn't even have to touch the 8x8 tiles or 16x16 mappings, just the 128x128 mappings. I fixed what was there and added some more.

Wood Zone:



Am I the only one who's gonna have a finished Wood Zone?

So, it's finally time to start on level layouts, which I decided I'll be using SonED2 instead of SonED for obvious reasons. The only other things to do are the debug lists, demos, and change the credits picture.

And, ZOMG, my last trial post! Hopefully I'll get approved.

 

Full member now!

You don't fall through the roofs on the Wood Zone tunnels.

I was only thinking about Wood Zone in it's original look. Good point though, yours is completed.

 

I wasn't thinking about doing any demos. The thing is, it might not be that much longer before it's finished. If I don't have any more big delays, I could have this released before summer or maybe over summer. Right now I'm doing level layouts. Once those are done the only other things to do are setting starting locations, level sizes, background cameras, layer deformation, and demos. The only other thing is to either remove 2 player from the title screen menu or figure out how to fix it so the levels in 2 player don't have messed up graphics. So, there's still a lot to do with level layouts but, it's looking pretty good.

And thanks for the comments. Looks like people like Rock Zone. Maybe since it's more original.

 

Here's some screens to show the progress I made since the last post. I've been doing the floor part of the level layouts first and the size and start locations. Once those are all done I'll go back and put in rings and sprites. So the first 3 zones now have the floor layouts done.

Look familiar? I made a little art and palette fix for Desert Zone.


A palette improvement for Rock Zone.


And another shot of Wood Zone.


After I first did these layouts, I ended up going back and making improvments to make them more fun. So they took a little longer. I'm still hoping to get this released around the time of the contest. We'll see what happens. That's all for now!