Sandopolis Zone W.I.P.

[toddoestuff]

I told myself I would use the message board more so that's what I'm going to do. An early prototype of Sandopolis I started today. Just getting a feel for the ideas before committing to anything. This only exists because I wanted to use the song you're hearing in the video... It is very on the nose with that title, I know. I would like to do more with this right now, but I did not get any sleep, so this will have to wait until later. If I manage to finish this thing maybe I'll make a cup to go along with it and use even more copyrighted music! How exciting!!!

Post automatically merged: Feb 26, 2025

More layout progress. This is coming along nicely. I think I'll remove that bridge for the final version. It's in the way and I really don't want to work with or around it. I still need to figure out what to do for the start line. I don't want to just rehash Marble Garden's steep slope idea.

Also, I can't believe I didn't make the loop last time do 2 rotations. How silly of me.

 

[toddoestuff]

I decided to start texturing at this point before I finalized everything. I'd like to make my own texture set for Sandopolis as opposed to using the tilesets from the original. I've never been a fan of how most of the Sonic 3 & Knuckles stages look tile-wise. I hope what I have will make it feel "Sandopolis" enough.

 

[Whoexer9]

And I thought I was the only one who remade Sandopolis. Great job, dude!

 

[toddoestuff]

Update: IT LOOPS!!!

I woke up today and had the perfect idea for the layout, and this is it. Well, the rough sketch of it. I was hoping to use those SA2 pulleys as opposed to the dash rings near the end, but they only work going up. Oh well, I'll make better use of them later. You can tell how excited I was to have this loop because I immediately started time attacking lol. When I finish up the layout I'll finally be able to move on to the decorating, and you can see it a bit so far. I want to lean a lot harder into the Egyptian architecture that the zone is based on, so It may or may not still be recognizable as Sandopolis when I'm finished.

 

[toddoestuff]

Progress has been going... uh... well, it's been going. Spent the whole day yesterday trying to make the orange brick patterns look good, failing, making one I like better, (that you can see below), and ending up not needing it because I'm using the blue bricks more (that you can also see below). I'd say I'm getting close to releasing this for testing, I just need to do a few more modifications to the layout a bit before I am satisfied. This is all I'm going to show here (because I can't upload the videos I've taken with the video file size limit). If you're in the KKD you can find the vids.

Okay, I lied, have this hyu spinning.