Sonic From The Beginning (Cancelled)

[Jassbec]

(Taken from my internet site http://jassbecspot.webs.com/sonic-from-the-beginning)

Sonic From The Beginning (Previously known as it's working title "Sonic UC" Which means Ultimate Chaos)is a Sonic The Hedgehog Fan-game made by me (Jassbec)

Welp, all because I wanted a thread at Sonic Retro about this game, we're remodelling it. It won't be part of the Feperdverse any more, something I truly regret. We're also getting rid of a few zones and, due to the Feperdverse drop out, we are also changing the story. I personally hate the drop out, but I'm going to stick around, at least for now, and carry on making the game. Also, if we are unable to make SAGE, we are sorry. Jass has restarted from scratch twice now and we feel we would be more...professional if we release something good after SAGE rather than a rushed-job before it. Therefore, please be patient.

It will take place before Sonic 1,explaining how Sonic really met Eggman.

Similar to what LakeFeperd's fan-game "Before The Sequel" did for Sonic 2 and Tails.

The game takes location in Christmas Island, Sonic's birthplace.

The game is still a work in progress and you can expect to see it in SAGE 2013,as a demo most likely.

Planned Zones (and their description)

(Zone 1) Green Gate Zone: A peaceful place, there's everything in here, a beach full of palmtrees and a forest full of trees. Sonic's adventure starts here.

(Zone 2) Diamond District Zone: A city built by Eggman over a mineral mine, seems like Eggman found the source of his money.

(Zone 3) Floral Frost Zone: A place where it's always snowing, strangely it shows signs of a variety of plants.

(Zone 4) Gear Gorge Zone: Eggman's hydroelectric plant located in a Gorge where there was once beautiful flowers and an amazing variety of trees.

(Zone 5) Complex Cavern Zone: A cave relatively untouched by Eggman, some say it's haunted.

(Zone 6) Raindrop Ruin Zone: It never stops raining in this ruins since Eggman got into the island, who knows what's going on.

(Zone 7) Caliente Carnival Zone: This is a desert that is slowly turning into a casino,maybe Sonic should let Eggman build there since deserts are useless.

(Zone 8) Eternal Elevator Zone: A giant tower that holds Eggman's empire, to reach Botanik Badnik and Scrap Skies, you need to climb it.

(Zone 9) Botanik Badnik Zone: What's this? an artificial forest? What is Eggman planning on doing with those animals,maybe he wants to use them as an energy source?

(Zone 10) Scrap Skies Zone: This is it! it's time to meet the guy behind all the weird things going on Christmas Island. This is a factory full of deathly traps.

(Zone 11)

Special Stage Zone: Eggman has finally found out the true power of the Chaos Emeralds! And his testing his emerald powered robot...with you! Stop him before it's too late!

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♪-FTB Sound Team-♫

(Retired) QubedSteak https://soundcloud.com/qubedsteak

StaticBlu https://soundcloud.com/staticblu

(Retired)TheSymphonicGames https://soundcloud.com/symphonicgamescloud

LoneEchidna https://soundcloud.com/loneechidna

(Returned)Faseeh https://soundcloud.com/gottagofas

Geckoroverse https://soundcloud.com/starvinggecko

InfinityAlex https://soundcloud.com/infinityalex

Digital Mozart https://soundcloud.com/digital-mozart

-Special Thanks to-

"Arkut" for the moral support! (Thanks a lot buddy!)

"LakeFeperd" Inspiration and mentor...and basic Sonic Worlds tutorial.

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Real progress in the game will be posted here, that means NO CONCEPTS whatsoever.

Enjoy your visit!

Goodbye FTB, hello.

[Jassbec]

Let's start by posting some Screenshots.

Here's a video, it's a little outdated but, OH WELL.

And here's a mock-up for Complex Caverns Zone.

And one for Floral Frost Zone.

And here's the OST so far, constantly updated!

https://soundcloud.com/infinityalex/sets/sonic-from-the-beginning-ost

Well, this makes me feel so much better.

[ila]

I like that more games are using the Modern Genesis Sonic sprite these days. It really is a lovely piece of work.

[Jassbec]

I like that more games are using the Modern Genesis Sonic sprite these days. It really is a lovely piece of work.

Good to know someone agrees with me on that!

[AstroPiranha]

Jeez I missed a lot today, didn't I? I'll give you a PM with my Skype later (if you want). If anyone else wants any sort of contact info, just request it via PM.

In the meantime, I'll be making some badniks and some tilesets, and they'll be posted here when a good deal of them are finished.

Cheers.

[InfinityAlex]

I think no concepts at all is just a little bit harsh, Jassbec; just a couple of level/badnik concepts would be alright, we just need to make sure we don't release to much.

You still really need to change those sprites.

EDIT: I'm also working on some Floral Frost tiles right now. I started thinking "OK, so we've already been called out for being a BTS/ATS ripoff, but I think a character race would be pretty cool."

And if were to do that, I happen to be producing sprites for a fan character...

EDIT DEUX:

@Astro/Gecko

Are either of you you any good at backgrounds? Act 2 really wants a snowy forest background to make it fit better with the music (though it's fine other than that), but I can't draw backgrounds or trees for shit...

Just thought I'd ask...

EDIT TROIS:

Also thought I'd post the Mod.Gen spritesheet I'd edited for use in the game. It's a hybrid between Lake's ATS one and the original Mod.Gen one. I mainly edited this to define the nose from the eyes and vice versa.

http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/7059/sonicboosterclassic1.png

I also decided to chuck in a Mod.Gen version of the ATS sprites, just in case you want to maximise BTS/ATS homage vibes.

Ignore all that crap down the bottom right corner; I started creating a Rocket Knight inspired power up for Sonic Origins. Feel free to use it, but remember to give credit to myself and, more importantly, the Mod.Gen team.

EDIT CUATRO (What's 4 in French? XD):

Here is a mockup for Floral Forest/Race:

What do you guys want to name the fennec character? Yes, I know the ears need to be bigger...

Anyway, I want the final background to look like this (big-ish pic ahoy!):

But snowier.

@Jassbec

So, I'll see if there's anything left that needs making tiles-wise and then I'll PM them to you (being the only one in the team in a British time zone is awfully lonely...it feels like I'm talking to myself).

[Shinbaloonba]

Also thought I'd post the Mod.Gen spritesheet I'd edited for use in the game. It's a hybrid between Lake's ATS one and the original Mod.Gen one. I mainly edited this to define the nose from the eyes and vice versa.

http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/7059/sonicboosterclassic1.png

I also decided to chuck in a Mod.Gen version of the ATS sprites, just in case you want to maximise BTS/ATS homage vibes.

I'm not even sure if you're using those or the Modern ones anymore but eh,if you're using the classics,credit ME not the ModGen team,I made this sheet by myself y'know.

If you wnat though,you can use the current sheet:

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Shinbs/MGT/xsonicsheet.png

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Shinbs/MGT/sonic_workshop.png

[InfinityAlex]

Oh, OK. Thanks for the other sheets then.

I'm quite confident we're using Classic ones now, this taking place before Sonic 1 and all that.

[Jassbec]

Yes, we are using the classic sprites now, those screenshots are a little old.

And Floral Frost is looking good so far Alex, PM them to me when they're done.

Maybe you should make the ground a little more "wintery and icy" looking.

EDIT: you should post that mock-up in the screenshots thread so we can get a name for the race. Nevermind, i already did.

EDIT 2: i just realised the game's ice level has been renamed 4 times!

Ice Island - Polar Post - Frozen Foliage and finally Floral Frost.

EDIT 3: my logic behind the fox-thing race is that christmas island has to have at least some people living on it, it makes sense to me :V

[AstroPiranha]

EDIT DEUX:

@Astro/Gecko

Are either of you you any good at backgrounds? Act 2 really wants a snowy forest background to make it fit better with the music (though it's fine other than that), but I can't draw backgrounds or trees for shit...

Just thought I'd ask...

I never tried before, but I said the same thing for spriting the badniks and look how that went So I'll give a shot (just PM the details and whatnot).

[InfinityAlex]

@Astro

Just something like that picture from Brave I posted in that post, but snowier. Just think "Mystical Snow Forest" sorta thing.

@Jassbec

Specifically which part needs to be winter-ier? Just so I know where to start. Oh, and, while I'll be able to get sufficient sprites done rather quickly, the fennec still needs a name, and I've no idea what to call him.

[Mr. Potatobadger]

I hate to interject, but I have a few things to say. Just suggestions, but my opinion nonetheless. I think someone here should have a job directed towards (if not, dedicated) to making a custom sonic sheet. That's what I'm doing.

It looks nice, and it's totally original. Other than the fact that it is sonic. His shoe is messed up, and his hand is a little messed up, but this is from an old PM, it's fixed now.

Anyways, I feel like some of this stuff should stay in a group IM chat in Skype or something, because, most of this is trivial comments back in forth to each other. I think you guys could get more done that way too. If me and Zigzax discussed everything in thread, we would have a lot less done. Now, I LOVE this thread, when you post something exciting. Like the thing with the fennec guy, that is really cool. Or when one of you has a new badnik. That's what I wanna see.

Just suggestions, PLEASE don't take offense.

[InfinityAlex]

None taken (Not by me, at any rate...)!

I for one, love the Mod.Gen sheet and the team (possibly) have no intention of changing it. However, I agree with your discussion point, which is ironic seeing as most of the trivial discussion here is caused by myself.

Also, thanks for your feedback on my fan character, whose current name is Rumble, just for reference (still subject to change, though). We will try to ensure in the future that we keep this thread clean and tidy, unlike its predecessor.

[Jassbec]

Anyways, I feel like some of this stuff should stay in a group IM chat in Skype or something, because, most of this is trivial comments back in forth to each other.

Just suggestions, PLEASE don't take offense.

I'm making an exception to my personal rule of "don't post on the thread unless i want to communicate something important."

That was pretty much what was wrong with the old thread, and i don't see trivial comments in this thread so far, the team is aware of what we have done wrong in the past and hopefully, the same thing will not happen here.

We are keeping many stuff between the team members. And Alex please communicate with the team members or me when you're going to post something related to the game, that way we can avoid unnecessary posts. ( I've learned from my mistakes. )

Thank you.

By the way, if you're not part of the team feel free to post in here.

[Mr. Potatobadger]

I'm making an exception to my personal rule of "don't post on the thread unless i want to communicate something important."

That was pretty much what was wrong with the old thread, and i don't see trivial comments in this thread so far, the team is aware of what we have done wrong in the past and hopefully, the same thing will not happen here.

We are keeping many stuff between the team members. And Alex please communicate with the team members or me when you're going to post something related to the game, that way we can avoid unnecessary posts. ( I've learned from my mistakes. )

Thank you.

By the way, if you're not part of the team feel free to post in here.

Good to hear that from you guys! I think I will find myself on this thread a lot more often.

[InfinityAlex]

Updated mockup to show better tiles. These are of a winterier (that's a mouthful) hue, as requested by Jass.

[Chapmic]

I never realy understood why the Sonic saga never started from the beginning. Generally, the hero meets the bad guy for the fist time in the first game. The japanese manual says that Eggman is tired of sonic getting in his way all the time, like if there were other games before. That's why I already love Sonic From The Beginning. Like Mephiles said: "Everything has an origin". And even if it's not an official, the games will finally have one after 22 years. Thank you Jassbec.

[Jassbec]

I never realy understood why the Sonic saga never started from the beginning. Generally, the hero meets the bad guy for the fist time in the first game. The japanese manual says that Eggman is tired of sonic getting in his way all the time, like if there were other games before. That's why I already love Sonic From The Beginning. Like Mephiles said: "Everything has an origin". And even if it's not an official, the games will finally have one after 22 years. Thank you Jassbec.

Wow, thank you! Everyone is doing its best to make this game something worthy of being a Sonic 1 prequel!

(i just had to respond to this,sorry! )

[Jassbec]

-THREAD BOOST POST-

I started building Floral Frost today, here's some screenshots.

EDIT: Ignore the modern sprites, i haven't gotten around implementing the new ones.

And...

[HoMax_]

Looks good. However. What is the grass (red)?

[Jassbec]

What is the grass (red)?

I'm guessing you mean what is the red thing on the ground?

It's a mistletoe (at least it's what AstroPiranha told me.)

[Jassbec]

-Thread Boost Post-

I was looking through my old computer's files and i found these VERY EARLY concepts and logos for FTB before it was FTB (Fine, it was Sonic UC).

Just in case you guys are interested.

Sonic UC was getting pretty much 4 episodes, like Sonic 4, it would have around 20 zones (Holy Shit)

And i also found this .txt file with the story of the game, if you're interested

Backstory:

Sky Garden Zone is a mythical island that was once part or Earth (Earth,Mobius,call it whatever you want) 4,000 years ago,when Tikal and the Echidna tribe were alive,the Perfect Chaos incident destroyed the tribe and created the Chaos Emeralds,it also created a device known as "The Staff Of The Chaos" it's purpose was to convert the Chaos Energy into the "Purest Power" known to Man (or animal,mobian,i don't care). When people discovered the Staff Of The Chaos 1,000 years later,they started using it as a war machine,killing millions of people (or animals I DONT CARE). When all hope was gone a young hero took the staff and used it to lift the island (known as Kentopia Zone in this point of time) into the sky and put it into orbit (In space,dude.). it only comes back every 500 years.

Now: Sonic is relaxing on his favorite beach chair, when tails comes worried - Sonic! i have a feeling that eggman's is up to no good! - Sonic confused asks Tails why,Tails responds - Have you heard of "Sky Garden Zone"? - Sonic responds - Uh,you mean that Angel Island/ Little Planet wannabe that comes to Earth every...uh...bunch of years? - Yes - Says Tails - Have you also heard about the "Staff Of The Chaos" and what it does? - Yeah, is it real? - Sonic Asks - TOTALLY - Tails responds - Man! then we're on big trouble! let's go and check out tha.....wait a second,how do you know eggman is up to no goo...oh nevermind - Sonic says after tails gives him an odd look.

Then (No Details):Tails is kidnapped by Eggman,before arrive to Sky Garden Zone.

It was bad fanfic from my part, everything about it was crap so i scrapped everything.

And a video i had from it.

Now we conclude today's history lesson!...

...Sorry for the disapointing update, i'll post some progress on Sonic From The Beginning soon.

[Mr. Potatobadger]

I'm guessing you mean what is the red thing on the ground?

It's a mistletoe (at least it's what AstroPiranha told me.)

wow all that stuff is really cool!

I can guarantee your game doesn't look like that footage does anymore, right? because if It does, I will not play your game. Don't take that offensively, we all had a one-picture parallax at one point

[Jassbec]

I can guarantee your game doesn't look like that footage does anymore, right? because if It does, I will not play your game. Don't take that offensively, we all had a one-picture parallax at one point

Of course it doesn't look like that anymore, it's some old footage of the first thing i did in worlds, i didn't know about parallaxes and stuff back then. So no, it's not like that anymore. (Sonic UC was my first fangame attempt if you didn't get it)

[Mr. Potatobadger]

Of course it doesn't look like that anymore, it's some old footage of the first thing i did in worlds, i didn't know about parallaxes and stuff back then. So no, it's not like that anymore. (Sonic UC was my first fangame attempt if you didn't get it)

Don't worry, I totally got that. It was part of the joke.