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Aww jyeah, gonna have me a complete Steam collection! Assuming this sale lasts into tomorrow. I am destitute. C'mon student money. Appear. Please~

This sorta came out of nowhere. No fight from MU? And how could they kill it before Pirate Bay? The one with 'pirate' in the name.

The PC version really is ridiculously superior to the console one, pretty surprising given Sega's dodgy PC port history. I would not be surprised if it turned out to have been built for PC and ported to consoles. :/ I mean, I got the lovely collector's edition box and everything with the console one, but the actual game part of the game? PC takes it by a landslide. 60fps looks truly beautiful. I rarely notice frame rates in games unless there's stutter or horrible slowdown issues, but it makes a huge difference in Generations. Also you guys all heard the 3DS version soundtrack? I only just listened to it, so I assume no one else has either. Sonic 3 Final Boss: And Vs. Biolizard "Supporting Me": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AnXcthJSXY Are both superior to their originals, IMO.

Stupid like a fox. That's pretty great, guy. Also the speed you work at is intimidating. You got a full game done and all this for a sequel before I finish one act.

Yeah, but that's just a normal Wednesday for them. *rimshot*

Looks nice! I think the art all blends well, and the grass looks great. What's that piece of HUD in the top right?

Though I can't defend hiding jumps behind the foreground, there is that whole section of back and forth platforming. But once you clear it, you can jump and skip over the entire underwater section. You could call this a shortcut, but it feels more like I'm cheating. ;D

That sorta mentality is why there were never any action figures made of the female characters. "Oh girls don't play with em and boys don't use girl toys" It's a pretty archaic assumption, especially given how the actual show portrays female characters; - Katara is by far the strongest of Aang's group; she holds em all together and keeps them moving towards the goal. - Toph is blind but still manages to be an 'ultimate wrestler' or whatever. - Princess Azula is the main antagonist for most of the show; there's the Fire Lord too, but he's never on screen for most of it. Azula is the face of the enemy, ultimate evil, the strongest Firebender, and she's a girl. Avatar has never belittled the female characters, I don't see why fans should expect them to. And hey, if it's any consolation? Korra is a 'badass'. She's not Aang, she won't run off or try and talk - she'll just beat a dude up. That's what little kids want, right? ;D

Facebook and Google won't go dark cause A) they have rivals and they make money. Also at this point, Google powers how many of the larger sites? Going down for a day at this point would be like switching off half the internet. Wikipedia is fairly unique and it runs off donations. They can 'risk' pissing off their userbase for a day because they'll have nowhere else to go. And since I don't think I have chimed in yet other than "SOPA and PIPA are bad eh?" here is my opinion on piracy and the prevention thereof; Anti Piracy measures have only ever made life harder for honest paying customers. Put DRM on a game, pirates will crack it. Paying customers gotta live with it. And all those god damn anti piracy ads in front of movies? Pirates don't see that. They hit play and BLAM insta-movie. If SOPA gets passed, all you'll see is more 'innocent' internet users making a move towards shady stuff like TOR. The proper way to deal with pirates, at least in games, is to offer incentives to paying customers, rather than penalize everyone. I'm actually a fan of those DLC 'subscription' things you get in games like Mass Effect 2 - buy the game new, you get a bunch of free NONESSENTIAL stuff. Buy it preowned or pirate it, you'll still have the game, you'll just miss out on the trimmings. Mortal Kombat and those sports games do it wrong; buy the game new and you'll be able to play online, otherwise you gotta pay MORE for that. That's dumb.

A cleaner version from photoshop! ;D I included the tribal Shadow logo, though I'm not too fond of it. I need ideas for something to occupy that space. Also the wordswordswords are gone. Have a barcode instead! EDIT: trying this type out with other level names though, legibility might become an issue. >.> I dunno. Been staring at it too long. Am I going in the right direction at least?

That middle piece is so much better than mine it ain't even funny. <3 But I'll still need something on the top and bottom slice, it'll look empty if it's just the big black main square and the red stripe, right?

Mockup for a level title screen thing, whaddya think? Gonna have to figure out how to do those Sonic 2 style openings - I want the side and top bars to scroll off screen, leaving the black square to fade into gameplay. This is only gonna be on screen for a second, so you won't get a chance to read that stuff. I just can't think of a good thing to put in there, and this will drive obsessive people nuts! ;D

Yeah, last I heard, Generations was in development since 2008. They were working on it before Colours - meaning it's likely they came up with those 'rip off' sketches before the Fan Remix did. Unless Fan Remix was even longer in development than I'm assuming! ;D

A couple arty questions for GM! 1) Foreground! Alright, I'm not gonna go overboard with it, but; I'd like to include some animated features throughout levels. Stuff like the wiggly flowers of Green Hill and the flashing lights of Chemical Plant - y'know? Thing is, the only way I know to make them work is by creating them as an Object. Is there any way to use simple animated gifs in placing level art tiles? I guess it's no big deal, but I'd like to keep objects to a minimum to keep performance high. 2) Background! This one's more specific I guess; Parallax. How the hell do I program that? Reading the example script in SDASH, it seems to be talking about each specific pixel to move? That's nuts. How do I figure out which pixel is which? There's a parallax tutorial on here, but it's about the art side of things, not the programming.

Hey man, I only played the latest build, so apologies if this is all stuff that has been said before; - movement feels unnatural. It's not so much max speed that's a problem as the acceleration. Sonic goes from 0-max too quickly. I think his current max speed is great, just slow the acceleration curve down. - jump is too powerful and floaty, but it works for the established level design, so... - I don't get the point of the partner characters! Is there a way to use their abilities like in SA3, or are they just for show like Tails in Sonic 2? Maybe there's an obvious way to use them, but I'm not stumbling across it. - the silliest nitpick but also the easiest fix suggestion; add a 'no' sound effect for if you try and pick a 'wrong' option, namely selecting Sonic as a partner if he's your main. Yeah, it's obvious, but it's little things like that which really flesh these things out. ;D It's still rough around the edges, but it wasn't a chore to play, so you must be doing something right!

This is a good day.

I thought Avatar was some seriously irrelevant stuff before I actually watched it. I think it requires a bit of an investment from the viewer, as it's really hard to pitch it to someone. And since it's a series, you can't really pick any episode and jump in - you gotta watch it from the first ep. Once you get into it though? Dayamn. So good. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has the same problem. That there is some fantastic TV, but it has a girly image and an irritating over bearing fanbase.

Ristar made some level music for my game. It is all kinds of fantastic. I am torn between recommending him to everyone and keeping him to myself. ;D

You're only crazy if you're the one guy who gets abducted by aliens with no witnesses or hard evidence or a paying job to return to. You ever notice how, say, the President, or an executive for a Fortune 500 company is never the guy who has an alien encounter? Weird. Since this seems to be an all purpose weird stuff thread, check out Mel's Hole! http://hideousmonster.com/melshole.html EDIT; to clarify, I believe in plenty of paranormal stuff. You're just bein' really hostile, Streak. EDIT EDIT; and that extra thing 'rising' in the morning is the moon. XD

Well, look at it this way; if the world does end, you'd have a few seconds of smug satisfaction before oblivion. I dunno about you, but I'd rather live in ignorance before a sudden end than in constant dread.

Woah, Streak. Chill, eh? There's always been weird stuff. We used to call it witchcraft. Now it's conspiracies and doomsdays. World keeps on a turnin'

I love this whole 2012 end of days concept, cause there's no reasoning behind it at all. So the Mayan calendar ends this year. What was the dude making it supposed to do, keep on writing dates to the year 50,000,000?

No one watches Zero Punctuation to see a fair review of a game! You go to see it critiqued to hell. That said, his tastes are very similar to mine, so on the rare occasions Yahtzee praises a game, I know it's definitely worth my time.

With all the apparent effort they're putting into Sonic 4: Episode 2, I'd honestly rather they call it Sonic 5, make it a clean break. I can't see anything good coming of naming it after the least liked main game of the series. >.>

Hey, figured I'd throw something together to get ya started! Check this out; You could stick a little more in there, maybe, I dunno... a lightning bolt in the space between the SONIC and the Revolution? I got stuck with the logo-in-the-O part though. Making them that small to fit inside makes them a blurry mess, and it wouldn't be sensible to make the font for the words any larger, I'm afraid. :/