How To Make a 2D Game?

[SonicXV]

Hello everyone, My Name is SonicXV and I am New To SFGHQ.. But I don't know how to make a Sonic 2D Fan Game.. Can anyone help me with sprites and stages?

The Game that I will make is going To be (Sonic'13) which it will contain the next characters :-

Sonic

Tails

Knuckles

Amy

Shadow

Rouge

Silver

Blaze

Shade *A NEW CUSTOM CHARACTER!*

storylines :-

Sonic,Tails,Knuckles,Amy - Heroes Side

Shadow,Rouge - Dark Side

Silver,Blaze - Future Side

Shade - Self Side

Super Sonic,Super Shadow,Super Silver,Super Shade - LAST

Sonic'13 will be Awesome! (only if i know how to make a 2D game..)

so thats all I gotta say guys.. I hope you help me out on how to make a 2D Game!

Thanks!

[DimensionWarped]

Sprites and stages are the least of your worries. The first step to making a 2D game is learning to work with the medium of realtime 2D graphics. You sound like an absolute beginner, so I'm just going to recommend either Construct Classic (if you don't want to really code) or GameMaker (if you think you can handle some code). Then spend a few dozen hours running through tutorials before really thinking about getting a project together.

[SonicXV]

Sprites and stages are the least of your worries. The first step to making a 2D game is learning to work with the medium of realtime 2D graphics. You sound like an absolute beginner, so I'm just going to recommend either Construct Classic (if you don't want to really code) or GameMaker (if you think you can handle some code). Then spend a few dozen hours running through tutorials before really thinking about getting a project together.

umm.. thanks but.. does Photoshop is Recommended to Make a 2D Game?

and where I could find a program to make my own 2D Game?

and do you like the characters?

[TailsSena]

umm.. thanks but.. does Photoshop is Recommended to Make a 2D Game?

and where I could find a program to make my own 2D Game?

and do you like the characters?

--Any image editing software can do spritework, even MS Paint. And most beginner programming tools have their own image editors.

--Google.

--Characters do not matter at the moment. For now, just use a solid colored box as your character, worry about the visual details later.

[SonicXV]

--Any image editing software can do spritework, even MS Paint. And most beginner programming tools have their own image editors.

--Google.

--Characters do not matter at the moment. For now, just use a solid colored box as your character, worry about the visual details later.

thanks bro! you help me out too much :s

I will try to make Sonic'13 very Awesome.. I think the one who will rise Sonic'13 to The Top is (Shade The Hedgehog) is because Shade didn't showed up in any games.. fan games or other.. Shade is going to be Awesome! and Sonic'13 will have DLC not like the other fan games!

and Maybe I'm going to make Sonic'13 have Zombies.. the first DLC that I will release is "DIER JACK Pack" It's going to be EPIC!

[TailsSena]

thanks bro! you help me out too much :s

I will try to make Sonic'13 very Awesome.. I think the one who will rise Sonic'13 to The Top is (Shade The Hedgehog) is because Shade didn't showed up in any games.. fan games or other.. Shade is going to be Awesome! and Sonic'13 will have DLC not like the other fan games!

and Maybe I'm going to make Sonic'13 have Zombies.. the first DLC that I will release is "DIER JACK Pack" It's going to be EPIC!

I... Kind of admire your gumption... At the same time though, as DW implied, you're in a little over your head with all that "EPIC AwESOME!!1" stuff. (Learning more comprehensible grammar would help too.)

DLC - I wouldn't even think about that yet. It's very, VERY hard to do with 99% of tools, and even then, not all creation tools/programs are even capable of DLC.

Zombies - No. Just no.

[Jassbec]

I can see why you're excited, in fact, i'm excited for my own projects as well!

...

but it's pretty obvious you don't have any idea on how making a game works, it's not that easy and your DLC,Zombie,fan-character thing might not work because some of these thing can ruin the Sonic experience (unless you have a pretty clever plot planned).

Believe me if making DLC was an easy thing, many fan-games would have that, but because it isn't they don't.

I don't want to sound rude, but making a game takes a lot of effort and dedication. If you want to make your game like that... then go ahead i guess,it's your game after all but many people here have experience with fan-games and such, and they obviously know what they're talking about.

If you want to continue, please make sure you put your soul into that thing and learn better grammar, people will take you more seriously.

Good luck.

P.S. There's a pretty good Sonic engine called "Sonic Worlds", you can use Multimedia Fusion 2 (you need to buy it...or pirate it...) which can be kinda tricky to understand but it's pretty user friendly,also be sure to check out LakeFeperd's Sonic Wolds guide if you decide to use this engine.

[Asuma]

I... Kind of admire your gumption... At the same time though, as DW implied, you're in a little over your head with all that "EPIC AwESOME!!1" stuff. (Learning more comprehensible grammar would help too.)

DLC - I wouldn't even think about that yet. It's very, VERY hard to do with 99% of tools, and even then, not all creation tools/programs are even capable of DLC.

Zombies - No. Just no.

You can do DLC in the form of patches. But then again it's just patches.

[TailsSena]

You can do DLC in the form of patches. But then again it's just patches.

Exactly, and for that, if using MMF, you need Patch-Maker, which costs another what-- $80?

[SonicXV]

Hello guys, you said that DLC is very dam hard!

Will guys.. I will cancel about the DLC, now i'm working on Sonic'13 (I didn't create the main menu, but when you open the game.. You gonna Play as "Sonic" and Go Through The Stage Called "Eggship" and yet.. I may have bugs.. And you all was right.. It's damn hard! I completely toke 2 days just making Sonic Playthrough Like "Standing,Walking,Running,Spining,Homing Attack" Those 5 things toke me 2 days, and i think "Eggship" going to take like 14 days.. I will give you a screenshots and videos about the game as soon as I arrive, I will leave 1 month and I'll tell ya the updates when I return

[SonicXV]

And one more thing guys, Follow me on Twitter @SonicXV so I can tweet you about The Updates of Sonic'13

[SonicXV]

And one more thing guys, Follow me on Twitter @SonicXV so I can tweet you about The Updates of Sonic'13 and how it's going to work

[Asuma]

Exactly, and for that, if using MMF, you need Patch-Maker, which costs another what-- $80?

Well, MMF2 does have a file MD5 checker and file checker extensions. With a combination of that, you can do a pre-installed DLC with a fake file that matches the MD5 tags. But then what would be the point? It's already in the game. 3:

[TailsSena]

Well, MMF2 does have a file MD5 checker and file checker extensions. With a combination of that, you can do a pre-installed DLC with a fake file that matches the MD5 tags. But then what would be the point? It's already in the game. 3:

Yes, you could do that with any file, even a .ini or a .txt... Doesn't matter, just make it check for a specific file and unlock shit if the file contains the right stuff... But I agree, Unlock DLC is pretty damn stupid.

[ilcane87]

^ Agreed.