ChaosLord

You guys clearly know nothing about atmosphere. The tune can fit one and only one possible level concept: It's called "Barrel Night Zone". It's a metaphor for how life is full of ups and down and how barrels are just plain awesome. The boss is a massive barrel that shoots barrels made of tiny barrels at you.

Look, guys, I don't wanna trash on all your ideas but the moment you chose not to include barrels, you were screwed. Master piece. Genius. I don't really know what you do in it. Collect rings, I guess. The point is: It has barrels so it's automatically an incredible idea. I'll have my Freedom Planet copy now, thanks.

HAPPY BARREL DAY, SONIC UNITED!

YAAAAY!! HAPPY BARREL DAY! Have a Barrel:

UPDATE: BARRELS CONFIRMED WORKING IN WORLDS 1.4 The day of reckoning approaches!!

None can over come the Barrel, Ila. Barrel is soul. Barrel is life. Barrel i- OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE

This thread is really taking off. Thanks for the updates, guys. Together we are forming the future of Barrels. <3

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I like where this is going.

Yeeeah, I saw on Stadium that he reminded everyone it was his last fan game. Which kinda sucks because his unique yet nostalgic style was pretty epic.

The thing I find with things like SA1, Unleashed and '06 is that the open world is generally kind of surreal. It's unlike a Sonic game, the places are usually large but empty, they're usually not very 'realistic' and they tend to have this oddly calming but... undefinable music playing behind them. As a result, I don't necessarily love them BECAUSE of the free roam but because of the surreal feeling it creates. Mystic Ruin (goddamn that music) and the Soleanna Forest particularly create that effect. And then finding these little oddities like... piles of rocks with tiny gaps so you can see SOMETHING behind them. It all feels like you're making these freaky discoveries. The games are poorly built but as it turns out, their poor design is actually their greatest strength. It creates such a weird feeling of unnatural discovery and has this surreal effect which just hits me in a really good way.

I thought the orb from BTS and ATS being a Polem was kind of a given. Especially since when it returns for ATS, it has that antennae that shoots stuff... y'know, like Polem in this. I didn't think it was meant to be secret or anything, lawl.

Soniconspiracy 101. There is no Metronic. (Also, I just realised, I think he meant M was the name, as opposed to 'Raiden Sonic'... but I read Raiden Sonic first damn it, so I'ma call it Raiden Sonic!) Edit:

Yah, M key does nothing. I tried 'em all and none of them do it.

Wait, Lake! I need to know if I can boast about the Misty Maze Zone name that I totally won't abuse!

I got a pen. It has a laser on it. Pew pew.

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Everything seems in order here.

awyiss

They're not exactly rules of reality. It's just a series of norms we've developed as the civilization of humanity. Maybe birds living in a floating, technologically advanced city, handle their economy differently.

Physics in 2D is particularly easy, in my experience (no I don't mean basic Mario-style crap), and it tends to be the field I put a lot of attention on (It's fancy lighting algorithms that tend to throw me!). I haven't looked through all of your clips yet but yeah, I guess AI would be a problem but again, 2D AI algorithms tend to be pretty simple because movement and detection only needs to be measured in 2 directions. And thank you <3

Gawdamn, that's a lot of ideas. You said some of them might me 'impossible' to code. So long as you aren't introducing some crazyass CPU destroying idea (TEN MILLION SONICS ON ONE SCREEN), I don't see how any of these would be too complex to replicate. I may just be your 'programming genius', my friend (yeah yeah, arrogant, blabla, I'm a programmer, what'd you expect?). However, I have a University degree blocking me from advancing swiftly, right now. Fortunately my last Uni project lead me to creating my own little Entity-Component-System architecture (which ended up taking up more of the project work time than the actual focus of the project... damn I can't wait to see what they have to say about that!). Point being, when I come to my own engine, I should already have an architectural boost by implementing that and be able to go almost straight to trying some of these out. It is only a matter of time! I shall make sure to archive these demonstrations and pass on anything I create, to you. It would feel wrong to create someone else's idea then just hide it from them... Thank you!