My Sonic Game that i made from scratch
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Monster Iestyn
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Screens please. We need to know what the game's like before we download it.
Sik
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The level design sucks :P through it may be a test level, but at least the engine is quite stable (aka you know what it'll do and Sonic will obey you :P learn that, Sega). No comments about the HUD, it's obviously a debug one.
Two things through:
Two things through:
- Never put rings over a pit if you can't reach them in the top of a jump, otherwise you'll lose the life always if you try to get them.
- Sonic seems to die when he goes out of the screen, when he should die only if he goes under the screen >_>
It's mildly entertaining. My critisism both ways in a list:
Good:
Engine is mostly stable.
Animation is clean and smooth.
Quite functional as a basic platformer engine.
Bad:
Not much "Sonic" here. One could easily replace the sprites and get a Mario game.
"Fangame Collision Syndrome" a nasty, yet all too common tendancy of fangames to have poor collision routines, that makes the player stand on walls.
There's no decelleration, which can be tricky at times in the platforming.
Topspeed is a bit slow for a Sonic game.
Holding jump allows you to rapid jump (I think just changing the action used will fix this in GameMaker)
Don't let the longer list of Bad fool you, this is a midly entertaining game, and quite acceptable as a random demo.
Good:
Engine is mostly stable.
Animation is clean and smooth.
Quite functional as a basic platformer engine.
Bad:
Not much "Sonic" here. One could easily replace the sprites and get a Mario game.
"Fangame Collision Syndrome" a nasty, yet all too common tendancy of fangames to have poor collision routines, that makes the player stand on walls.
There's no decelleration, which can be tricky at times in the platforming.
Topspeed is a bit slow for a Sonic game.
Holding jump allows you to rapid jump (I think just changing the action used will fix this in GameMaker)
Don't let the longer list of Bad fool you, this is a midly entertaining game, and quite acceptable as a random demo.
Sik
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And on ceilings sometimes. What happens is that people just check against collision with the level, but they don't check from where is the collision. This is the cause of this bug. There isn't an easy solution for it. You either have to script your own engine (you know, using the scripting abilities of Game Maker), or do some cheap hack (like putting a little bouncing) that would make the collision to fail. This would also affect collision against floor, but gravity would make the player stick to it again.Draykon said:
spriter12
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thanks for all the critism :). im still way into the beta production of the game and when i get gm pro (next month) i'll be able to upgrade with 360 motion ^.^. and im getting help with the spin dash and wall colisions. but with it just being me on the team it can be hard work at times. but i'll keep you guys posted on progress in this thread
tails92
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It's nice, but the engine needs a bit of work on it.
The oddest bug I found was that if you jump, you can still duck by pressing down.
And you need to work on accelleration.
Don't worry, it's better than my last try to do a fangame in C and allegro. ;)
I'm running Windows Server 2003 x64 here and nothing crashed.
The oddest bug I found was that if you jump, you can still duck by pressing down.
And you need to work on accelleration.
Don't worry, it's better than my last try to do a fangame in C and allegro. ;)
I'm running Windows Server 2003 x64 here and nothing crashed.
supersrb2fan
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where is your link i want the game
supersrb2fan
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well its pretty good for making it from scratch but.......
frozenLake
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