I'm going to put my thoughts over the game.
I don't think I'm good with putting good points (or probably I forget), but I'll try my best to sum up. The good:
- I like when you control Sonic to attack from both left and right in the running stages. Like, pressing forward + attack to attack forward, just attack to attack, and back + attack to attack backwards.
- I love every part of the scenes of episodes you took for the story mode, though there are a little bit of color mess. However, it's really okay to me. You put most scenes to fit to the stages story-wise.
- I think you got some nice challenge with boss/mid-boss patterns specially for one mid boss in the first stage which you have to jump attack and stay away from the attack. You tried making different patterns for the bosses (including mid-bosses).
I don't want to call it "the bad", but as always, I put my thoughts, ideas, and suggestions as feedbacks. Feedbacks:
- After losing 1 life, Bunnie's death animation in 2D platform in stage 4, prevents her from falling down all the way to the screen. Instead, she remained on the z platform. Plus, I just tried with Sal just now. It seems the problem could be subject_to_wall or something. Dunno.
- There's something strange with the hornet enemy in the same stage (4-2). The hornet looks like he's flying until he falls down to one block and he's not floating, but having no jump anim for him is okay since he's supposed to be a flying enemy. However, for stage 4-1 in the sky stage, I see he drops down from the sky as you feel that he should come from the sky. May I suggest if you could use anim follow as a spawning animation with a spawning script? Probably you could make him float from the sky and start attack you. You could add a floating/flying script like the flying enemies from Bloodbane's Crime Buster mod, and probably some chars from zvitor's MFA2.
For spawning entities, you can script spawns for any entities. You can use this one:
Code:
spawn enemy
@script
void main(){
void self = getlocalvar("self");
changeentityproperty(self, "animation", openborconstant("ANI_FOLLOW3"));
}
@end_script
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Or..
Code:
spawn enemy
@script
void main(){
void self = getlocalvar("self");
performattack(self, openborconstant("ANI_FOLLOW3"));
}
@end_script
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- Now that I talked about spawning animation, I thought of the text in every beginning of the first stages for controlling your players from not moving. For example, you're Sonic and you're in the first stage where the text says "Act 1-1". You can script that text sprite/char for controlling player if you don't want him to move anywhere until it disappears. It's possible to do so and mersox's Power Rangers could help. While your character/player roams freely, I understand that you really wanted the text (I noticed it's an enemy type because of prevention) to prevent the player from proceeding until it's gone.
- For Rotor in the running stage, even though his attacks are unique, like shooting and using drill as attacks, what gets me is that when moving back, he has no red riding board like in act 2-2 for example. Plus he jumps without it. I bet it's kinda complicated to refine stuff for him and the board when you want to use him for the running stage.
So far, as I said, you guys did a very great job in the game. You can find time to refine some stuff for it. I thought of making animated rings as life points, like 5 rings in 2 rows. Gameplay is good to me though.
malik already shared the solution for displaying health values with percentage. So I thought you could do something similar for lifebar. I'm not worried, but I thought of giving you some ideas about creating custom health. Dunno if you had checked.
http://www.chronocrash.com/forum/index.php?topic=2441
Upload the fixed version.