b28340 No.15355230
Created by Shane "Sparks," Kyle & Lucy: Wonderworld is a game I have been working on for a few years (though variations of the game and the characters date back further).
The general foundation of the game is inspired from a love of exploring the levels in Sonic games, particularly "Sonic CD," "Sonic 3 and Knuckles" and "Sonic Pocket Adventure." From there, the concept is expanded on to be the core focus of the game. Gone away is the timer and emphasis on speed-running. Kyle & Lucy instead provokes a more easy-going, "take your time" sort of environment where progress can be made fairly easily for your usual platformer fan, but exploration is rewarded extra.
The overall goal of the game is to create a high quality adventure that uses familiar gameplay styles as a foundation, but in turn give a refreshing experience through unique characters with vivid personalities set in a colorful world you can spend hours upon hours exploring every nook and cranny. Tying this all together is the fairy tale-like story of Kyle and Lucy, two kids who find themselves lost in a realm that's strange and far-off from their own, and must find their way home before nefarious forces take away their chance.
This is the first public demo of Kyle & Lucy: Wonderworld, and I hope you enjoy playing it as much as the many talented people helping out and I did making it.
https://sonicfangameshq.com/forums/attachments/kyle-and-lucy-demo-sage-2018-5-rar.2028/
b28340 No.15355232
In the demo, you have 3 stages to play. These are all short stages designed to give the player a good idea of what to expect in Kyle & Lucy: Wonderworld.
>Limestone Lagoon
Limestone Lagoon is your introductory level, that gets you into the basic mechanics of Kyle & Lucy Wonderworld.
>Mystic Garden
Linked to Limestone Lagoon by a hub world, is Mystic Garden (1).
The botanics of this old plantation complex are elegantly overgrown, though there seems to be a lot of propaganda plastered around the place.
>Robot Roundup
Try your luck at an extra Mystic Orb in Robot Roundup! Here, you race against the clock to smash up enemies as quickly as possible.(U+200B was here)
1b8630 No.15355235
f98903 No.15355241
b28340 No.15355243
>>15355235
THE WORK OF ONE WHO CONSORTS WITH BEASTS!
6e70b5 No.15355254
>>15355243
Ahahah ebin meme fellow r/furrperson
Now take your trash and get the fuck out.
fe13e1 No.15355255
I would fuck Lucy and madame Maximus.
458a7d No.15355256
what a weird place to shill your game, can't imagine you will get much positive feedback from this cesspool (as someone who has been posting here every day since 2015)
anyway looks cute, I'll give it a try, are you putting it on GoG?
f98903 No.15355258
Just post the porn already
01807e No.15355260
Assuming you did make this, i'll give you a bump until the yifffags come alone and popularize it.
b28340 No.15355291
>>15355279
Yes, the twitter PR guy is retarded. Please note that PR and developers tend to have very little to do with each other. Take both of the Cyberpunk 2077 twitter incidents as reference.
458a7d No.15355296
>>15355291
on a big project like cyberpunk 2077, sure, I'll buy that
on an indie basically-fangame like this? come the fuck on lol
f98903 No.15355301
>>15355279
Big yikes
do better.
2e04e9 No.15355306
I'm going to assume OP's just copypasting the site description, I don't imagine anyone else on the team would've even thought to check here to see if there's game discussion
*except me. thanks for the shilling, op. hope you guys like the demo*
13eccb No.15355312
7/10 it's fun but I clipped through a wall and died
b7c5ca No.15355313
give me the full game or bust
b28340 No.15355318
>>15355306
you will forever be suspicious of everyone else on the team
089143 No.15355331
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>15355230
The pixel art and character designs look very cute. I'll give it a try.
I'm not a Sonic fan by any means, but I watched the SAGE 2018 reel (embed related) and I was impressed by the quality of some games shown there. Also, as shown here >>15355279, please keep your PR guy (if it's really a PR guy and not just yourself) from being a fucking dumbass bitch.
c3f99c No.15355381
>>15355279
so whats wrong with what that guy said there
2e04e9 No.15355416
>>15355331
>(if it's really a PR guy and not just yourself)
not a PR guy, just a normalfag well unaware of most anything going on in terms of online drama. He's probably not even aware that tweet was about that NASA furry, he just thought it reflected his own wishes to not have the dumb shit we did as kids in sonic sites a decade ago doom us now
>>15355313
Gonna take a good while, sorry to say. Head dev's financing this out of his own pocket, with no plans for crowdfunding or anything either since he feels the tighter team without having to answer to anyone else has worked the best so far. Let's just hope over the next three years or so he doesn't get fired
>>15355312
any chance you can say what wall or what circumstances? Might as well take bug info with me.
>>15355256
>anyway looks cute, I'll give it a try, are you putting it on GoG?
too far off from the game releasing to be saying anything on that end but when the time comes I'll at least try to convince sparks to put it on steam and gog, as available as possible for anyone on pc
c3f99c No.15355425
>>15355331
why is there a mario fangame in there? it isn't related enough to the gameplay of sonic games to be relevant
even the megaman fangame is more understandable
2e04e9 No.15355435
>>15355425
I've no idea but being honest I like how SAGE's slowly opening to being a generalised "amateur game maker tries their hand at big things" rather than just "here's latest Sonic fangame".
Might also just be charitable towards Super Mario Flashback being here because the spritework's amazing.
089143 No.15355466
>>15355425
Don't know, but I'm happy about it. That game looks pretty damn good
>>15355416
>"not a PR guy, just a normalfag well unaware of most anything going on in terms of online drama. He's probably not even aware that tweet was about that NASA furry, he just thought it reflected his own wishes to not have the dumb shit we did as kids in sonic sites a decade ago doom us now"
I get his sentiment, but that's a thing to do from his personal Twitter, not an account for a game he's supposed to promote.
I hope you the best, though. Any well made 2D game with focus on fun and not retarded agendas deserves to be at least completed.
2e04e9 No.15355509
>>15355466
>I hope you the best, though. Any well made 2D game with focus on fun and not retarded agendas deserves to be at least completed.
Thanks. Honestly, the fact the dude's just bringing us together to do his passion project and is otherwise unaware of most anything is what makes it work. Otherwise you've got everyone going from "SJW" to, as evidenced here, an 8ch poster even if mostly a /leftypol/ one and things'd probably unravel fast, instead we're all just having fun and focusing on getting the game done.
Incidentally out of personal curiosity, those of you trying the game, what character did you choose? I'm seeing people mostly use Lucy and that's interesting to me, I'm guessing it's because Kyle is default so people go "let me try the other one first". Personally I just prefer the double jump and the animations I planned.
c3f99c No.15355516
>>15355509
have you ever read a thread on /v/ about why some guys make male characters and some guys make female characters?
2e04e9 No.15355522
>>15355516
Not remembering anything of the sort, no.
ce301e No.15355526
>yet another sonic rip off
c3f99c No.15355529
>>15355522
okay, well, I'll let someone else explain it to you; after all, it isn't a 3D game, so I assume that not all of the same reasons apply
ffa779 No.15355554
>>15355279
What's the problem here? When I saw twitter I immediately assumed it was going to be about pronouns or retweeting some cancer like Mcinjosh, but it's literally nothing. Daily reminder that the lead fucking designer of A Hat in Time follows Feminist Frequency among other marxists on twitter and is openly a communist sympathizer himself.
d9d213 No.15355811
>>15355529
Girls are cuter.
1823cb No.15355822
>>15355509
>/leftypol/
Does this make Lucy another commie cat?
2e04e9 No.15355895
>>15355822
there's only one commie cat in our hearts
332e8d No.15356628
>>15355509
>/leftypol/
See vid
Game looks fun, good job!
9b095c No.15356654
>>15355927
Why do Jews hate pigs and other farm animals? Must be the toxoplasmosis in their semitic brains tbh.
a991a1 No.15359671
>>15356654
>Why do Jews hate pigs and other farm animals?
Because a burning shrubbery on a desolate mountain told a lunatic that it was haram.
cb556b No.15359959
So what's the deal with the link? I'm just getting an error saying "The requested attachment could not be found."
1823cb No.15359978
8af99d No.15360023
>>15355243
I'm going to ignore the furry and point out those robots are just Scratch and Grounder
2e04e9 No.15360031
>>15360023
and they're so with lots of love, too
3964ff No.15360045
8af99d No.15360046
>>15360031
Aight cool let me know when they try to get the cats to smoke and drink whiskey while jaywalking and littering.
1edc8d No.15360068
>>15355279
Anon what's the issue?
027719 No.15360096
321090 No.15360098
>>15360031
>>15360023
They fit the Apple and Banana body type meme. They could just as easily be Sans and Papyrus
3964ff No.15360102
>>15360098
okay but theyre also a chicken and drill robot
dd848f No.15360106
>>15355230
Is that Pappy's art?
8af99d No.15360117
>>15360102
In their defense the green one's also ripping Woody Woodpecker's face. I'm sure someone can find what the drill's ripping off.
2e04e9 No.15360121
>>15360098
No, anon's right- we thought "we need a couple bumbling robots like Scratch and Grounder" which eventually became "let's remake Scratch and Grounder"
Maybe with time they'll gain more individuality (especially Ballast since his design's more different from Grounder) but for now they are what they seem, a love letter to AoSTH.
>>15360117
Spike's head is a mix of Woody, Carl Barks' art, and a very specific childhood cartoon memory- there's a Coyote and Roadrunner short where the Coyote builds a female Roadrunner doll, and starts by painting eyes on a sphere then gluing the beak, and the way it was constructed always stuck in my head.
>>15360106
ayy
dd848f No.15360126
>>15360121
I knew it, send my best wishes to the commie cat.
cb556b No.15360143
Alright I got a chance to play, here's what I think:
>Kyle has weak mid-air correction
Both characters already feel quite slippery to control, so not having a way to easily control where you want to go puts him at a distinct disadvantage. Lucy, on the other hand, with her second jump is able to more easily bleed momentum and course-correct.
>Robot Round-up isn't fun
At least to me, the slippery controls combined with the inane game of hot-and-cold just didn't do it for me.
>The Ball-and-chain that switches you between foreground and background are clear enough.
They just have a left-right arrow which doesn't really mean much. when I first saw it, I could guess that it would spin me around, but it took me several interactions to figure it out by about the 3rd one I encountered.
Other than that, I really enjoyed the wall grab and the ability to quickly gain vertical momentum with it. Also, the characters had a lot of charm and the animations were really solid. I like the fire around the crouch to inform whether or not you'll do damage to enemies.
2e04e9 No.15360205
>>15360143
Passed the crit along. Robot Round-up probably is going to look fairly different by the next demo, it's in need of various reworkings
cb556b No.15360379
>>15360205
Cool, good luck on yer shit. I think that the control thing might be the reason you're seeing more Lucy players than Kyle players. Right now, as it is, Lucy seems to have the most advantages.
c73534 No.15360610
>>15355256
Paying for entertainment is for retards like you.
ca9ce8 No.15361675
>>15355232
I don't know if you're still around, but I thought I'd post a critique. I can see what your team is trying to do with the color design, but it's painfully obvious from the screenshots that while you're trying to mimic the aesthetic of Sonic the Hedgehog (and old games in general), you don't understand why they chose the colors they did. You succeeded partially in making the game look vibrant and detailed, something that is many levels of skill above most indie game projects (it looks good). However, you fell into the same trap they tend to fall into, that being you cannot quickly glance at the screenshot and visually separate the foreground and the background. There is not enough contrast between them, and the main characters sometimes clash with the background since you are using dark characters with dark backgrounds. I would suggest changing some backgrounds to be a little brighter or at least more saturated, and using darker foreground instead. Of course it doesn't need to be all dark, just as long as edges are clearly defined. You can experiment to achieve the same bright environment of Sonic without sacrificing the professionalism of good color choices. Really just need more beta testers pointing out any areas where the colors should be tweaked.
I'll try the actual demo later. But I'm /pol/ myself, so even if I like the end result, I can't say I'll pay for it. :^)
769d6d No.15361805
>>15360045
It seems, but fast.
FP had better character design.
d9fb3a No.15362227
>>15361805
I disagree. I like these characters better, they are more their own thing and less of an Original the Character. The bird-machine and the drill guy are the worst offenders in this regard but it looks like it was intentional to make a throwback to that old sonic cartoon
2e04e9 No.15362354
>>15360045
I'll put it like this- it was MORE Felix the cat at one point, when the character designs were described to me as "less Sonic more old cartoons"; then the dev saw the concepts and went "nevermind put some more Sonic back into it". Main art inspirations at this point are neither Sonic nor old cartoons but Italian Disney comics.
2e04e9 No.15363117
>>15361675
dev asks to confirm if by background you mean this layer, or the stuff on the foreground but non-interactable like the bushes or the broken pillars
1823cb No.15363283
10/10 recognizes my Pokken controller.
Niggles (this is V6 btw):
>the controls screen seems confused on which Sonic fangame this is
>on the character select, I can keep hitting the confirm button and have it chime multiple times as the screen fades
>the flat tops of the bright blue pillars are hard to distinguish from actual platforms
>I'm not sure what the point of the coins are considering there aren't any lives. Is there supposed to be a shop or scoring system like Yoshi's Island in the final game?
>the double jump animation looks weird and somewhat creepy. I think the in-between frame with the eyes and no hair lasts too long
>the skidding sounds sounds like an actual vehicle and it's jarring
>crawling into a ceiling makes you stop, but crawling into the ground doesn't stop the animation and makes you stuck until you jump off (trying to climb up or rev up does the animation, but you don't actually move)
>the not Scratch and Grounder scene is a bit too close to the source from the music to the script to the poses
>clearing the demo makes the health bar disappear and pausing unusable when restarting
2e04e9 No.15363393
>>15363283
I'm told there'll be a shop, yes. As for the Sonic Zero title, it was an old fangame that this is reusing the engine and assets from, or was earlier on- every connection was supposed to have been scrubbed out by now but clearly some details missed.
As with the rest, passed on your crits along. This thread's been pretty useful on that end. Keep it coming, anons.
d63a90 No.15363625
>>15355230
link returns an eror. Do I have to register for the forums or did it get taken down?
2e04e9 No.15363646
>>15363625
OP links to an earlier version that was taken down for a new one. Here
>>15359978
d97d13 No.15363698
>>15361805
>FP had better character design.
Wrong
3964ff No.15363717
>>15361805
well, fp certainly has sexier characters
d63a90 No.15363767
>>15363646
missed the update, thanks.
have an Omelette
af9746 No.15364741
>it's actually fun
>no, seriously, it's actually fun
There are things to expect from games self-shilled on /v/, but that is not one of them.
There are some glitches that will likely be smoothed out with time; for example, if you're standing just so on a quarter-circle ramp and duck, your character glitches out. Running too fast into a rock will freeze your character temporarily.
I also have 10 pins and cannot find a single fucking orb in Mystic Garden 1.
af9746 No.15364816
>>15364741
Oh there's one, cripes
c3f99c No.15364862
>>15355243
>>15355245
this stuff reminds me of cuphead for some reason
027719 No.15364882
>>15360096
Well I guess there is no porn. sad.
f9052b No.15368668
>>15361675
>the main characters sometimes clash with the background since you are using dark characters with dark backgrounds.
Same impression. Though I've only looked at the screenshots, and in motion parallax effects can make it less ambiguous which layer is the one the player interacts with, so maybe it isn't that much of an issue.
>using dark characters with dark backgrounds
The issue can also be solved by having character outlines in another color than black. Titus on the Game Boy had a dark character with a white outline. Instead of using one particular outline throughout the game, one could use different versions for dark and bright sections of the game.
2e04e9 No.15373484
>>15368668
Plan's going to be to give a different tint to the black tones in characters. We've tested it around, it should help enough to distinguish from BG especially combined with the bright-colour clothes.
Here, related to what I explained here >>15362354
cb5754 No.15374186
>>15362354
>Italian Disney comics
oh nice
800bd2 No.15377499
a95217 No.15377517
>>15364862
Maybe because they're fucking obviously based on old cartoons?
555167 No.15378886
>>15373484
Diggins those clothes, mate.
30425b No.15386771
>>15362354
Draw them kicking the shit out of Alunya
f2b8e7 No.15389568
>>15355230
That's some pretty good character design. Care if I draw some of them?
4b2297 No.15389601
>>15355243
Lucy is cute, like genuinely cute not "I wanna fuck this thing cute"
These characters seem to have a lot of character to them.
5530ae No.15389614
>>15355230
>>15355243
>That spritework
Tasty shit
Also, I want to fuck Lucy
>>15389568
Breddy gud
>>15373484
Hey Paps, which of the 9 islands do you live on so I can go there and kill you for being a communist parasite with my grandfathers P38 from his Ultramar days buy you a Super Bock?
Hope you're enjoying the humidity
30425b No.15389620
>>15389614
Let me lick your butthole while you're fucking her so you can cum harder.
30425b No.15389684
>>15389630
YOU MOTHERFUCKER. YOU'LL LET ME LICK YOUR BUTTHOLE AND YOU'RE GONNA LIKE IT.
30425b No.15389876
>>15389706
>Portuguese butthole
Oh man, you're practically begging for me to suck on that starfish, baby.
4b2297 No.15389906
>>15389620
>>15389630
>>15389684
>>15389706
>>15389876
Anon, he can't be contained! Just let him lick your butthole before his homolust reaches critical mass!
e4fe05 No.15389978
>>15389918
JUST LET HIM YOU DOUBLE NIGGER
2e04e9 No.15390000
>>15389614
>9 islands
wait there's nine of them? I've only been in this one so far. I keep mixing Madeira and Azores in terms of which one has a ton of islands and which one doesn't
Anyway, SAGE ends today, so it's back to the grind in the demo (and to draw some stuff that was meant to promo SAGE but because of demo work will instead promo the Christmas demo I suppose. IF we make a Xmas demo that is, depends on how much work gets made in the next months.)
If you guys have further criticism or notes to send over, just post here and I'll relay; otherwise see you next demo, and remember, any thread you see won't have been posted by me or the team- that's just not good shilling, now is it?
(was also pushing to have the demo translated in PT-BR meanwhile since I know BR youtubers would eat it up if given any attention but Sparks just wants to focus on make game, think that sort of secondary stuff later. I'll push for multiple translations in the final game, at least.)
0d8672 No.15390169
30425b No.15390213
>>15390031
Anon, it's just one slimy little lick! You'll like it, I promise on my grave! Please mang, please.
709b3f No.15391177
>>15355554
But A Hat in Time has a loli in it, so it is automatically GOAT.
5530ae No.15392667
30425b No.15392677
>>15391160
ANON. YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, IF I DON'T LICK YOUR BUTTHOLE I'LL DIE. IT'S A MEDICAL EMERGENCY!!
fb9bd1 No.15392821
>>15392677
Dubs demand butthole
ff5a13 No.15394019
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
I'm sorry to go offtopic from the butthole licking but this is the first game featured in this SAGE showcase video.
inb4 "where's the webm faggot"
cf94dc No.15394027
>>15394019
Johnny Vs. Exercise and a Strict diet.
I swear to christ, him and his little brother are basically a spic-ified mark.
bd0b28 No.15399346
>>15394027
Isn't mark part spic?