Slingerland Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 Love the graphics all around, especially the badniks, the music is festive and a fun remix of Jingle Bells, and the level design isn't annoying. You have already addressed the demo's problems, so I don't have to repeat shit. I just wish it were longer, as it took me longer to download the game than to play it [/exaggeration]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amesuki Posted January 1, 2008 Report Share Posted January 1, 2008 I thought I post someone on here, but I must of not of done, so my bad. You know the bugs, so like Slingerland said, no need to repeat. I thought it was rather good, but short. (Good things come in small packages) lol'd. It looked very good, it played pretty well, so all in all it was a very good demo. ^^ The graphics were very very nice, by the way, really fit well with the game XD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 I forgot to mention that this was the first time I'd bothered to play something from here in like.. a year or something. Good job, you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSUK Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 Funny actually, I was looking at STFH about a day before you released this. XD;; Anyway, I overall loved it. Graphics were beautiful and festive, Visually Rich in detail and design, the sound fitted the mood perfectly, but short. That's the only thing I don't like about this demo, it's extremely short, Though I'm sure you have your reasons affiliated with time for that, So I wont go any further on that. Very nice work, Blaze. Now Hurry your ass up and get us a full fledged demo out. ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 Why the hell did you make it so hard to spinball? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckythemutant Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 Why the hell did you make it so hard to spinball? Thats my favorite Sonic Fan Gaming quote ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The ParadoxX Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 Nice (late) christmas present, TFH is classic and so is the style of this little demo, simple and fun as fangames should be. But a spindash could be easier to make, and the jump should be higher, other than that, great job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeHedgehog Posted January 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 Incidentally, For those of you who want a super in-depth timeline of TFH's development history, I've written it all up at the Sonic Retro Wiki. http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic:_The_Fated_Hour There's actually some articles regarding SFGHQ, SAGE and fan gaming in general at Sonic Retro that could do with fleshing out, if anybody's interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slingerland Posted January 6, 2008 Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 Somebody made me a Nexus wiki. I must learn how to use it, so that I may edit it. :3 I would edit the SFGHQ page, but I don't want to type falsities, because I'm not clear on a lot of the earlier history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeHedgehog Posted January 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2008 Yeah, but the point is that you write what you know and if you're wrong, somebody fixes it for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeHedgehog Posted January 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2008 Rather than start a new thread about it, I decided I'd just bump the current TFH thread. While searching for some files on a CD I had, I happened to stumble upon some really, really, really, REALLY old files for The Fated Hour. Circa 2001. So I am sharing these images with you. There's actually an engine test, but I think it's too old to work right in MMF2. For some reason I get stuck in the floor and can't move - then a robot rolls up and kills me. Maybe if there was a version of CnC/MMFE we could build it from... I dunno. Not like it matters, though, because I even recorded video of TFH way back when. And finally: I have been doing this way too damn long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kain Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 Heh. 2000? Certainly got me beat! An 8-year project! Plus it's certainly a better engine than my earlier stuff. Also, nice: Engine Status:GOOD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damizean Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 2005: Jealous of one of the first versions of Sonic Worlds coded for Mutlimedia Fusion 1.5 This is wrong, I started working on Sonic Worlds late 2006 xD After MMF2 was released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeHedgehog Posted January 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 Heh. 2000? Certainly got me beat! An 8-year project! Plus it's certainly a better engine than my earlier stuff.Also, nice: The engine status was back when I first figured out how to do my own framerate counter. If it was running at a low framerate it would either be "Medium" (yellow text) or "Bad" (red text). I locked it to "Good" because to record that video, I had to use the screen capture object to take a screenshot every frame (and then later paste them in video program to make an AVI). This really, really hit the framerate hard (that version of TFH was made on a 266mhz PC), which is why the time goes all bonkers and speed shoes only lasts for a few seconds. Back then, though? That video you see there was cutting edge stuff. TFH was one of the first fangames to come up with a smooth work-around for "stop dead". Back then everybody used CnC platform movement and it was garbage. DM Ashura suggested to me a concept that became probably one of the earliest attempts at SFGHQ to implement sensors. You can see the sensors on Sonic's sprite when the video first starts. This is wrong, I started working on Sonic Worlds late 2006 xD After MMF2 was released. No, there was a version for MMF 1.5. The one I use with Sonic 2k6 2D, and the same one Sonic XG used to run off of. It wasn't called Sonic Worlds back then, though. It was just some Sonic engine you (and probably a couple other people? I think ParaDoX or whoever was working on it too?) were messing around with. It wasn't until MMF2 that it officially got the name "Sonic Worlds". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sockman Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 TFH was best known for it's major plot point in which Tails died in the first ten minutes. Hehe...Tails certainly has it coming, the prick. I was certainly considering killing off the guy myself, but in my game I ended up killing Amy instead. In the opening cutscenes of Sonic Blitz, Amy dies (awesomely) within the first thirty seconds of the game It's about time we give Sonic Team's crappy characters what's coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damizean Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 Yet still wrong Blaze. I started working on that engine after MMF2 was released, since the MMF1.5 engine was outdated and my coding skills were improved with the years, so I first made it in MMF2. However, seeing many people didn't have MMF2 back then, I decided to port it to MMF1.5, and so I did. Remade all the objects, events and stuff in MMF but never actually released it. Eventually, that engine ended up being the Sonic Worlds engine (even though it's been considerably rewritten since then). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 I'm actually amazed you're still plodding away at this, Blaze. I mean, jesus christ. I actually remember the image you posted where you were planning on a darkness level, where the character had a torch. Then it became a bit more RPG. This is obviously supposed to be as close to the original as possible? (PS - SONY 4 LiFE!!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeHedgehog Posted January 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 No, no. TFH has changed very slightly over the years. I've tried to scale back the cheese and not be quite so stupidly ambitious. I'm more interested in this actually getting released, now, rather than being cutting-edge like it used to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 When I said original, I meant original Sonic games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 I personally love the hell out of the sprite you use, Blaze, except for the top spike. The way it sticks out straight, it looks different from the rest. Maybe if it looked something like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeHedgehog Posted January 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 Hm. Yeah, I guess that does look better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykle Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 It's really awesome =) The graphics are great and the engine is great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boodles Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 Wow, I come to this site again for my yearly visit and I see that TFH still lives.. awesome. Reading through the history was interesting, it got me wanting to play some of those old demos... so I did. Fun stuff! I found a lot of old fangame stuff in the dark depths of my computer, I've probably deleted quite a few builds of this but I still have a large number of them. Hmm, just for kicks, I think that I'll list what I've got, I'll try to do it roughly chronologically, I'll hide the list as it probably isn't of much interest to anyone, but wow this game has been going on for a long time! TFH Stuff That I Seem To Still Have: sonicfatedhour.exe - SONIC: The Fated Hour, has intro, no actual gameplay bplayer.exe - "Blaze Player" along with the files THE.AVI and thevideo.bvf tfhenginebeta(v0_891).exe - Chemical Plant Zone Engine Test tfhbetav0_899_mmf.exe - Chemical Plant Zone Engine Test TFHengineBeta(v0_9).cca - unprotected cca of TFH Chemical Plant zone engine test TFHfinalbeta(v0_999).exe - Chemical Plant Zone Engine Test with intro tfh3d.exe - Fake joke demo.. "Yamauchi! - Reboot!" TFHGHZ.exe -"SONIC: THE FATED HOUR NEW ENGINE TEST SONIC 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION GREEN HILL ZONE" - Includes City Escape Bonus Level TFHGHZv2.exe -"SONIC: THE FATED HOUR NEW ENGINE TEST SONIC 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION GREEN HILL ZONE" - V2 - No City Escape Level TFHdemo.exe - A Sage demo, features an intro with the infamous, "Text Box" part of the intro. This is now the more adventure style being implemented tfhcutscene_player.exe - Opens and plays *.cnn files tfh_final14.exe - engine test in small area with lots of items tfh_final15.exe - engine test in small area with lots of items tfh-game-MMFe.exe - Sage demo, new intro, According to the readme file: "Sonic: The Fated Hour Demo v1.5 | Date: Sept 17th 2002 7:14pm" tfh_demo_1_5.exe - According to the readme file - "Sonic: The Fated Hour Demo v2.5 | Date: March 1st 2003 8:01am" tfh_tech.avi - Video of "The Test Zone - Act 3", engine test video tfh_engtest.exe - "The Test Zone" an engine test, large area, lots of items I should probably get back on topic, sorry. So as for this Christmas Beta, well, it being the first thing that I've downloaded in quite a long time now I'm not really familiar with the current standard of fangames and it sounds like this Sonic Worlds thing is quite a leap up. Anyway it plays really well and it looks quite amazing, I really do love the graphical style used, great work! Oh and I can't resist taking a screenshot to bring up some old memories, so I hardly think that a history is complete without this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeHedgehog Posted February 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 Are you a different username than you were back in the day, Boodles? My long term memory isn't the best, and I'm having trouble remembering you. While we're at it, though, any chance you'd be willing to put those TFH files of yours up on Sendspace or something? Even if my old HDD still works, it's a maze of files and I'd never be able to find half of what you seem to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boodles Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 Yeah, I don't think that I used to visit here under Boodles, umm, I think that I have used a few names in the past... I think that here I used the name Buduls a bit. Anyway I was quite a lurker, not posting all that often, and I never went on IRC or anything like that so it doesn't surprise me that you wouldn't remember me anyway. So, I have sent you an email via this board with a link to what I've uploaded... I can't seem to use the PM function until I post more, which I really don't plan to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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