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Happy Birthday Dami =D! Hope its excellent and stuff, you deserve it!

That is a really scary thought =(

Duuude. The second prototype looks absolutely fantastic! I can't quite put my finger on what game it reminds me of though (not Sonic Xtreme). The camera definitely reminds me of some other game for sure... Maybe I'm just tired and making stuff up in my head, that could be it too. Cool work though =D

You're asking for an entire engine...I think you might get yelled at for that instead.

Oh wow, that is pretty awesome. The only thing I think I might take though out of that for reference is perhaps the spin rotation coloring job, if I ever end up actually coloring this all in. I'd love to make extremely quick little fight sequences like that, but the only problem is I have to have a certain length of footage to show so I can actually squeeze more out with cycles and whatnot. But thats a pretty neat take nonetheless, thanks for that =D!

I'm actually looking forward to this game, if they make it anywhere in the same kind of style as Diddy Kong racing (albeit update it, the game is kind of dated) then I'll be all smiles. I really couldn't care less about whether or not Sonic was in a car or not, its a spinoff with a whole bunch of other SEGA characters who just happen to be unable to run at the same speed as him while on foot. Besides...Sonic R was a crappy game anyway imo so I'm quite glad they aren't just going to make an R2. The controls were terrible in that game.

Haha, yeah, I kind of need progress on it. It is my final project after all xD. If I don't finish then I think my marks might take a huge hit. Maybe when I'm done I'll add some silent movie music to it, but there will be a version with a soundtrack and sound-effects to it when everything is 100% done. I'll probably use the old retro sound effects for everything xD Thanks =D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmpcPM8luME&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fmy_videos_edit&feature=player_embedded Final preview, and no - before anyone asks (and I've already had a friend ask this) that is not a cunt at the end xD. Youtube cut off at the worst possible part. Sonic is breaking through the Egg Robo. Oh hell, even that sounds wrong too now. Whatever, just watch the animation xD

I just had the time now to listen to these new tracks, and I have to say both the boss battle (retro) and Angelic Airway are probably my favourite tracks so far. Really awesome work here, I wish I had that kind of a talent in music =)

Haha, someone beat me to the punch of having a lot done on a Knuckles fangame. Good show though, I like the screens you have up so far. Knuckles is one badarse character, so I'll be glad to see where this goes =)

Alright, thanks a lot for the input guys, and the tutorial links as well! I'll definitely download this when I get a new computer (which should be at least by the end of summer) and fiddle with it in my spare time. The knowledge on how to code stuff would probably be a nice thing to get out of this as well =)

His shoes seem to be very small in comparison to the rest of his body, but you said you'd be adding new shoes anyway. There is something about the head that is really bothering me, but I can't quite put my finger on it. You should probably add some more shading to it too, such as lighter colors here and there to highlight parts. I suck at explaining things. But good start thus far!

I just found out about a band called Hadouken!, not sure if they'd be considered as such, but I'd assume so based off their name haha. They also have very videogamey sounding tracks. But yeah, I know of MaSu, and they are awesome. I can't wait for new material from them.

Alright, thanks for the feedback!. I'll give it a download then and see what its all about =D

Are you looking for an actual sheet of the clouds, or rather just a screenshot that you can rip them from? The only thing close to it that I can find is this. I'll keep looking though =)

Happy birthday dude! Hope its awesome =)

Not sure if this fits in this part of the forum, I wasn't sure where to put it. So if it needs to be moved, please move it so its not in the wrong spot and all that =). Anywho, I was just wondering if anyone here has had any experience with Microsofts XNA tool at all. I'm thinking of eventually learning how to use it, but I'm not sure how easy it would be to pick up and all that jazz - or rather how effective it really is. There are a lot of community games on Xbox Live that are really poor, most of them aren't even games. I imagine though it is more or less along the lines of how much effort you put in = how much quality you get out of it, since there are a couple that look alright. So if anyone has any thoughts about XNA before I make a decision on whether or not eventually I will pick it up (which probably won't be until I get a new computer) I'd love to hear 'em. I just want to have somewhat of an idea of what its all about before I do try. Reason I ask this is because I'm going to be taking 3D Animation and Game design in college next year and when its all said and done I want to try and make a game based off the knowledge I get out of those courses and maybe put together a small demo game. If I can discipline myself to do it, I'd do it all 2D with hand-drawn visuals but that would take me ages to do haha. Thanks!

Happy Birthday =D

Luckily then that I'm going more the animation route with mine I guess. Game Design just happens to be a part of the 3D Animation course. Chances are I'll be one of those guys who helps makes CG cutscenes, but hey...if I had to start off plastering faces of people onto models for a bit I guess I'd tough it out lol.

I have a box full of Riolu haha. I at one point had a lot of Mudkip as well just for kicks, but it seems like it was very popular among my friends. Anyway, I'm psyched for this game to come out! Gold/Silver/Crystal were my faves.

Well, in between working on my Sonic animation at school (which I've got roughly 30 seconds done now!) I had been working more on my music stuff. I cut out a lot of the crap above and kept working on new stuff... Unfortunately my computer died not too long ago so I have a lot of unfinished stuff that I just cannot work on now =(. I shall link you to some of the more finished stuff that I had uploaded prior to the death of my computer. Keep in mind that these vocals here are really rough and were going to get a much-needed re-recording. Can't do that now though sadly... So uhh, here are a few tracks. Some will have vocals that are unfinished, some I didn't even get to the vocal stage yet. "Bones" Demo That was just a temporary name for it. Gonna change it once I finish writing the lyrics. "The Ska Song"/"Temporary" final version Everything in there is final except for the vocals, which are extremely rough. The lyrics are getting reworked in places. Vocal errors abound in there too, but you may recognize that song if you listened to any of the stuff from the first page. I re-did it =). I like this version better, mainly because I've been using ezDrummer for the drums. Which I think I need to raise the volume of, hard to tell on these laptop speakers. Lyrics are really in need of work especially after the first chorus there, I just didn't have any good ones at the time and I wanted to get something down. Vocals are really rough/terrible xD; "Silent City" Demo Vocals are in need of MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR re-working here. That was my first take at the vocals anyway. This song I wish I had more time to work on =(. I don't know why I wrote it either, I was listening to a lot of Cancer Bats though at that moment in time so chances are thats why haha, seeing as its a pretty Cancer Bats inspired song. Random solo near the end ftw, it completely blows and thats probably why I'll just keep it in. I never wrote a proper solo for it. An old Swing Life Away cover I did back in 2006 A cover of a Rise Against song I did three years ago rofl. It holds its place in my heart though, I did it for a couple people that meant a lot to me =). As for my sprite, probably can't finish my Knuckles sprite anytime soon. This isn't my laptop that I'm on right now and chances are I dunno how much time I'd get on it during the week. Enjoy I guess, I know that I've got a lot of improving to do musically. I do it mainly as a hobby though =)

Wow, this game has certainly been coming along. I haven't been around much since my computer is now dead (RIP 9 year old piece of crap dell) so I'm just trying to get the money to get a new computer happening again. Right now I'm just hijacking laptops in the house. Anyway, I haven't seen much of this game as of late because of that and I can see you're definitely putting a lot of care and thought into this one =D. Good on you, this looks like it'll be a blast to play if you have something available for SAGE. If not then I'll play it whenever you've got a demo out =)

I'd say you could probably get by using the 'sprites' used from Sonic The Screensaver, but you'd have to make a whole bunch of custom animations if you were to actually use them in a game. I think there'd also be a bit of cleanup involved too. I'll try and find the sheet of the rip I saw. here it is I guess apparently it is also on this site somewhere. I wouldn't know, I usually go to Spriters Resource for any sprite related stuff for the most part xD

Oh my, that one of Etna is made of pure win. All of these actually are, but that ones my fave =D

I graduated from high school last year, this year I have this feeling I'm going to pass through my traditional animation course with flying colors (how do I know this? I've got a spot reserved there next year for 3D Animation and Game Design haha). Then after that I'll be done college and I'll be off to do whatever.