Sonic Time Twisted Released ~ 1.1.0 Released for Android, Windows and Nvidia Shield

Ah that makes sense. From what I looked at, the engine seems very different from other GM sonic engines.

If I'm not mistaken, you have a time table tracking Sonic's recent position, or am I reading that wrong?

 

I don't know how Game Maker works with certain platforms, but because it was made in Game Maker, would a PSP or Vita Homebrew port be possible?

I know that a Game Maker version at one point did support the PSP, not sure how old it was though...

 

If you don't mind going in to it, I'm curious what those "other things" are. I'm curious why a table of coordinates was necessary, as opposed to simply looking at speed_x variables and such. Was it for achieving spindash camera lag for the sake of accuracy? You have me intrigued, sir.

 

The table was implemented for general purposes. It is used as a supplement to GM's built in xprevious and yprevious variables when necessary, and is also adapted for the invincibility stars, just to name some examples.

 

Does anyone happen to have a full 100% to this game? I lost my saving when getting a new PC so I am kind of bummed after playing so long. Thanks!

 

I think I do with each of the three characters. I played it last year but I remember having the hardest time using Knuckles to beat the last boss. He can't jump as high against those falling platforms. I eventually did it. PM me and remind me to look for the file if I don't respond in the next few days.

 

I think bosses are often overlooked in fangames and you did a great job with them. They were interesting in design and mostly fair to battle against.

 

I played this game again and I have to say I quite like it. I think the in-game sprites of the trio are fantastic and the levels design and concepts are quite nice. I enjoy the Sonic CD inspiration that was taken with the Past and Future, it makes the enviornments have more depth to them. The story I think is also quite neat, I love the idea of Metal Sonic making use of alien tech. to ressurect Robotnik. I just really don't think Galaktnik is that great of a concept though. It feels a bit underwhelming to some random reveal of this giant thing that's Robotnik resseructed, I think it's a bit too far out there, even by Sonic standards. I really enjoy the gameplay and the majority of the bosses, most noteably the bosses that reference the Fleetway Sonic the Comic, like Emporer Metallix and a giant version of Robotnik's robots I don't remember its name, but it's in Frigid Fortress. Overall the game is quite well done with quite a few hiccups, but it's all perfectly fine. I love it Overbound, you did good.

 

Just want to reiterate that this is one of the best Sonic fangames I have ever played - up there in the echelons with the best of anything to ever come out of the fan-gaming scene. Played it to completion and fucked loved it. It was on par with how much I enjoyed Mania - Time Twisted was that excellent.

And this is just the perfect thing you can be doing right now. Awesome move right here. I'll be buying/playing your next game with a huge amount of interest. LakeFepard transitioned from fangames to indie/original games (Spark the Electric Jester) and did quite well and can now just do his thing making games - so I hope the same happens for you dude! Looking forward to seeing more on No More Robots (amazing animation above also!). Maybe start a dedicated thread on here when you have screenshots to show?

I'm sure Retro would be very interested and it'd be cool to have a progress thread.

 

And of course the Vita port comes out AFTER I give up on using my Vita for homebrew. But serious excellent job!

Too bad a Raspberry Pi port isn't possible, since the Pi module isn't available publicly due to Game Maker preferring to only toss out a few GM games on the single-board computer and that's it.

Also, how would the PS4 and PS5 ports work? Wouldn't one have to go to Sega and get permission to release? I could see STT given a legit release. C'mon Sega, give Overbound a contract and bring STT to consoles!!! I'll TOTALLY pay money to play this and I just some time ago beat the game!! I mean, Mania was great but only a third of its levels were original, while every level in STT was brand-spanking new!

Keep up the awesome work!!!

 

Pretty sure he meant PS4+5 releases of his all new game, which I'll totally be buying when it does come out.

What might be possible is a Switch port of TT. People have been making injects of other Game Maker Studio games for hacked Switches by using Undertale and swapping out the relevant files. Playing this on the go would definitely be a treat.

 

Cool. Wasn't expecting an Android or nVidia Shield release. Come to think of it, I wasn't expecting an update at all.

+ - But I was expecting not to expect something, so it doesn't count :P  

 

Oh wow!! I never thought the Android build would ever be finished, I tried it out and it works great. I might play through the whole game again!

 

I'm looking forward to trying the new version. The main thing I noticed about the old version was that even after beating the final boss, the big rings that you found before don't come back like Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Did the new version fix that? Or if you get every big ring in the game and don't win every special stage, are you permanently barred on that save file from ever achieving 100%?

 

The Special Stage Rings stay gone only if you succeed at a Special Stage, and they all come back if you get all the emeralds in a particular time period. If you're going back through the game with less than 100% emeralds and all the Rings you tried using are truly gone still, that's a bug.