No.13857
Hello /fast/,
The name's MrLevRocks, Lev for short, and I want to present you with a fan game that a few guys and me have been working on.
I missed the mark making it the first fan game presented here, some anon got that honour, but alas…
Anyways, you might be wondering what Sonic Time Corruption (logo send) is and why I chose to present it here.
For starters, it's just a plain classic-flavour Sonic fan game lead by me. As you can tell from the title, it's got something to do with time and indeed that is the main concept of it. It's similar to Sonic CD in structure, but has some differences in how it plays out.
Story-wise, I can't add much more either, Robotnik stole the Master Emerald, went to a new island of the week called Northwood Island where the Time Stones are, hijinks ensue.
Now as to why I chose to post about it here. You may have noticed, I have yet to mention what actually is done. Don't worry, I'm not coming in empty handed, that'd be rude, but the small team and I lack the capacity to make something of scale. I'm personally an artist myself and what we, what I, am looking for is a programmer that is familiar with the GameMaker Language used in GameMaker Studio (1.4, in our case). I'm looking more for reliability and availability myself, rather than raw skill, but I'll tell you the reason for that next post. As for myself, you can look up my online handle above and easily find accounts of mine, proving that I'm not just bluffing, I too do my part in bringing my vision (technically not mine, but that's a story I don't want to have to type out now, ask if you're interested) to life.
If you're interested, do post here, I'll share my email once I found someone so the private stuff can be discussed in private.
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No.13858
To show that I'm not just a bigmouth, here's a recording of one of the engine tests, showing one of the quality of life improvements we thought up for the life system. You ever played Contra? This is about the same, you die and respawn in a second, smoothening gameplay.
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No.13871
Oh wow, don't know how this thread flew under the radar.
Always appreciate seeing projects like this come to life, s best of luck in your project, anon!
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No.13883
>>13871
Thanks anon, I hope I can find a few helping hands and if not…
I'll make the best of it regardless.
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No.13886
>>13883
Well, the board is seemingly going through a slow period probably because of some of the severe weather conditions hitting part of the US, but hopefully some of the folks here can help when things clear up.
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No.13887
>>13886
>the board is seemingly going through a slow period
I though we were going through an activity surge since a few days ago, though it did slow down more recently.
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No.13889
>>13887
We have, I was mostly referring to today
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No.13998
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No.13999
>>13998
To the first point:
First, I think you're looking for /smb/, this is /fast/, we don't do that whole C&D around here.
Second, I do get your point but I don't think I'm in any grave danger per se. It'd be foolish to assume SEGA wouldn't take me (or any other, bigger, Sonic and SEGA fan projects) down, SORRemake bit the dust about a decade ago after all, but the hand I've been playing looks good, with so far no projects C&D-ed and mine being relatively low-profile despite my best efforts to make something of it on DA and Twatter.
>Do you need programmers?
Putting it this bluntly sounds a bit rude, but yes, that was one of my goals coming in here (the other being sharing my work around in an audience yet untapped). I assume you ask because you might be interested or could recommend me someone, so I answer that question with a counter-question: Do you, or whomever you want to recommend, use (or know) GameMakerLanguage as used in the GameMaker Studio 1.4 IDE?
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No.14000
Speaking of audiences starved of content. Here's a GIF recording of a menu prototype I did recently. No point in showing gameplay at such an early state anyways, we all know how Sonic works, so this is a lot more interesting.
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No.14014
>>14000
Nice menu
Eggman's got some big 'ol hands
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No.14853
>>14014
>Eggman's got some big 'ol hands
The better to stangle Sonic with, I suppose.
Anyways, apologies for the lack of updates recently, I've kinda forgotten this place existed. Nobody got in touch with me or asked for my eMail address, so the position of coder is still open.
In the meantime, we've started to make progress towards developing a demo by making level designs and smoothing out some rough edges in the general design of things, such as how to access special stages and secondary matters like so.
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No.14855
>>14853
It's cool, anon. Not entirely sure if we're the best to look when it comes to coders, but I would absolutely look into trying to contact some fan-game makers who've worked in the GameMaker Language before.
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No.14856
>>14853
>I've kinda forgotten this place existed
You make Bump sad.
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No.14865
>>14855
>Not entirely sure if we're the best to look when it comes to coders
I know, but at the same time, I assumed this place would have the odd programmer or two around. It's a gamble, but one I'm willing to take.
>I would absolutely look into trying to contact some fan-game makers who've worked in the GameMaker Language before.
Problem with that is, I already tried. Not sure why or when, but there's a recent trend, at least around the circles I manage to be part of, that, first, fan games aren't made as often in GML as they used to be. It his CTF2.5 and Sonic Worlds Delta too but not as much, as more "experimental" engines in Construct, self-written in something like C# or just plain Sonic Mania mods are getting more popular than ever. Second, every Tom, Dick and Harry is trying to work on their on game and thus much less people are available. You find some new kid on the block, try and ask them to help you and turns out they've started their own fan game in the 3 minutes it takes you to say "hello".
I don't really blame anyone, neither you nor the fan gaming community in general for these developments, it's just bad timing on making a Sonic fan game on my end, but I'm still chaffing at them.
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No.14871
>>14865
>I assumed this place would have the odd programmer or two around
You're not wrong, but honestly there's much more interesting stuff to work on than Sonic fangames when you have skills, and it's also sometimes a bit hard to come home from coding all day just to keep coding even more.
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No.14887
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No.16034
Almost a month since last post and this is still on the front page of this board. Not very active, are we?
Showing off some stage asset progress in form of a new zone, as well as some new Sonic sprites to go with it. Not all's done, lamp post/holographic palm tree for example doesn't have a palette yet, but you get the gist of it. I do leave you with one question however:
What is Sonic listening to?
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No.16036
>>16034
That looks pretty nice. If it is a casino themed zone, I think the background should have some more animations
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No.16037
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>16034
That is a very beautiful background.
As for what Sonic is listening to
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No.16057
>>16036
You think? I don't disagree with you in that casino-themed stages often have background animations, but given the amount of background to animate, it could be a bit too much on the eyes, won't it? Worth a thought still.
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No.16073
>>16034
>Not very active, are we?
No, but there's still been several hundred posts since then, though since they're mostly contained within a few threads, other threads don't slide much. By the way, how did you find us? We're not very popular as you imply. Also, how much stuff have you created for the game already in terms of zones?
As for the background, I like it. It's fairly detailed but it doesn't seem as busy/distracting as in the Genesis games. It could stand to be a bit more detailed like the other anon said, but looking at other backgrounds you might be able to get away with it by making it smaller so that it looks like it's further away from the stage.
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No.16074
>>16073
>Also, how much stuff have you created for the game already in terms of zones?
More than I show off, obviously, but it's not like the game's done, I'd be showing off more then. I've got a bit here and a bit there, but nothing is quite polished enough to be worth showing off. I think it'd be fair to say every stage has something, be it a background or a tile set (or tile to be making a set from, if I'm lazy), but only the stuff shown off on DeviantArt and such is done enough to allow a stage to be made from it. One thing I also noticed is that I've not shown off is alternate time lines, because you'd think for a game called "Time Corruption", the first thing I flaunt around would be time travel. Yet, all the images and footage was only from one version of every stage each. Pure coincidence, believe me.
>By the way, how did you find us? We're not very popular as you imply.
Like you'd expect, I suppose. I was looking for a community not tainted by the faults of the general Sonic fan gaming and hacking scene and the first thing that came to mind is imageboards. Thus, I looked it up and behold, /fast/ is a Sonic-themed board on 8chan and, by the looks of it, starved of fan games too. I saw a marketing oppurtunity and I seized it.
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No.16623
Small delays from our side that I wish to apologize for, have a small badnik animated instead.
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No.16625
>>16623
Cute, diabolical fella
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No.16628
>>16623
make it run over a sanic
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No.17066
>>13857
Any fan games out there that have the time travel feature of sonic CD? I always thought it could be done but more elaborated with more changes depending of what you do
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No.17274
>>17066
I don't think this is the place for that, >>388 is the general fan game discussion thread on this board, from what I can tell.
Anyways, though I'm not sure any of them have object persistence (not from a programming point of view), there's a handful of fan games and hacks that (tried to) have a time travel feature.
-Sonic Time Twisted is the obvious choice, a long-developed fan game that acts as a semi-sequel/successsor to CD. Some say it's great, some say it's awful, I thought it was fine.
-Sonic 2 CD Remix is a hack of S2, I think it was released not too long ago, which also has time travel. In particular, some zones have pasts and futures, but I'm not sure how close to Sonic CD it is.
-Sonic Chrono Adventure, if it needs an introduction, is another fan game that features time travel, though there it's a means to the end, as it's only used to access the "alternative world" or whatever it's called in semi-open games like that. Think Dark World from Zelda on the SNES.
-South Island Warped is another hack. Don't know anything about it, I just saw a video of that once.
Can't list any others I'm afraid. It can be assumed the extra effort needed is what turns fan devs away from implementing time travel in their particular projects, can't say I blame them.
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No.18799
It has been a while, hasn't it?
Truth be told, I never noticed 8chan coming back online over a month back, but I'm glad I found it again.
So, to kick the new year off (or kick the old year out, your pick), I made a quadtych in December that I'd like to proudly share with you folks.
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No.18802
>>18799
Hey man, good to see you're still around and still working on your game. Looks very crisp! Are you reusing sprites from Sonic 2 for pics 1 and 4?
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No.18859
>>18802
>Hey man, good to see you're still around and still working on your game. Looks very crisp!
Thanks anon. I couldn't leave all the people here hanging after a reveal like that.
>Are you reusing sprites from Sonic 2 for pics 1 and 4?
"Kinda" would have to be my response to that. I think the wing blades in image 1 are original, just heavily referenced from the ones in WFZ but the Clucker badnik (what you can see of it) in image 4 is from the same stage, just recoloured and detail added to.
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No.19745
Another series of images have been completed and shared since, thought you might enjoy these too.
This is an earlier stage than the airship from a while back, the obligatory theme park stage, with hints of Stardust Speedway, my personally favourite stage of the series.
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No.19754
>>19745
Looks pretty sick!
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No.19865
>>18799
>>19745
Holy shit these colors looks sexy, I love them. I've seen this thread like a year ago and remembered about it to see you're still at it is great. Godspeed and good luck with your game anon
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No.19878
>>19745
Looks actually nice, I dig. Upper right one looks a bit empty though.
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No.19917
>>19865
> I've seen this thread like a year ago
Looking at the dates, it really has been 2 weeks shy a year since I first shared things here. At least we can shut up all those feel-good gurus that claim a lot can change within a year.
Thanks everyone for your support. It's minor, but even kind words drive one forward.
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No.22671
Has it really been over half a year since the last post here? Times flies by when you're standing still.
As many may be able to point out, Sonic Time Corruption wasn't at SAGE this year. Roadblocks got in the way, team members were busy with their own (and more successful) projects etc. so I couldn't get anything done myself. However, now that things are returning to normal, I too am back in development.
Here's a direct comparison shot of all 3 time variants of Tropical Trouble, the archetypal opening stage of every Sonic game. 2 are very similar, yet subtly different, and for a reason.
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No.22673
>>22671
Hey anon, long time no see. A few were wondering if anyone from here was going to have a booth at SAGE, sadly it seems it didn't come to pass.
Please notice we've migrated to 8moe and this board is our bunker now, so I hope to see you on the other side too. >>22642
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