sonic: crystal chronicals

[ancara]

oh well.

anyways, i'm gonna work on a system for the crystals, where you can find a special energy that allows you to learn new attacks whenever you put it in your crystal, thus giving you more abilities that the sonic character trapped inside of it hides.

EXAMPLE:

at the start of the game, when sean gets the crystal, a strange energy enters the crystal and he gains the ability to spin dash, just like sonic, in battles.

what i'm trying to say, is that in the game, there will be a lot of this kind of energy to find and collect, to learn new techniques.  but sometimes, to get that energy, ya have to beat a boss.

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anyways, i'll leave ya with this info.  i'll update when i get something good done, ok?

with that, i'm off.

[aboutasoandthis]

2 questions. One, how did this get 2 pages in a day? Two, you're a guy?

That was not meant to be offensive, at all...shut up.

I think the best advice I could give you ancara, is to wait until you're far in the way of finishing with your games before you even tell us about it.

Have at least 4 screenshots, not including the Title Screen. You can have one battle screen and no more. You'll need 3 extra screens. I'd suggest one to show off your mapping skills, one that's story related, and one that shows off a minigame or CMS or something.

If you have that, it'll look like you spent a lot of time on the game. THEN people will help you. It worked for me.  

Come back in a month or two with this. Again, not being mean.

[Meiscool-2]

Originally posted by aboutasoandthis
Stuff.

Read these: http://charas-project.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid=17149&forumid=22&catid=8

http://charas-project.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid=16783&forumid=44&catid=6

http://charas-project.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid=16712&forumid=11&catid=4

http://charas-project.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid=16018&forumid=11&catid=4

[ancara]

i would try to show a battle shot for ya, but i said that i stink at making character sprites, so give me a while to find whatever i can use until i can get better stuff, ok?

by the way, i got a really good song for the intro.  here it is:

http://charas-project.net/resources/Midi/6203_1102746062.mid

[I Have a Sandwich]

Of all the Sonic songs, Follw Me isn't the best bet. I wouldn't even use Open Your Heart or Live and Learn. Maybe use green hill zone or something.

[ancara]

well, here's what i had planned for the intro:

first, we'll see Sean running across the landscape, preparing for the nationals.  he then stops to talk to a couple of his friends.  he then continue running.  he then accidentally falls off the cliff he was running across and he ends up in a cave.  that's when the music is changed to a cave-like theme. he then walks around and finds a crystal.  curiosity gets the better of him.  he picks it up and the crystal shows a ruined landscape.  it shows sonic & friends trying to enter to egg carrier.  then a battle starts with sonic and a robot setinal.  then they get to eggman.  then eggman hits them with the weapon and they turn into crystals.  he then scatters them across the world and the crystal stops showing it.  then sean takes the crystal and leaves.

is this a good intro?

[I Have a Sandwich]

Why is a cave near where they're holding a track meet, much less an undiscoverd cave?

[ancara]

well, don't you think they WOULD put the path near a cave if they knew about it?

[aboutasoandthis]

I knew about ancara a LLLLLOOOOONNNGGG time ago. Since the second game. Remember, I used to snoop. I just try to be nice.

I agree with the Sandwich. Maybe in Cross Country, but it wouldn't be undiscoverd. They map the race out.

It would've been better if you used screens for your intro.

EDIT-
I didn't really read it. He just went off running into nowhere getting lost and found an undiscovered cave.

Don't say ok.

[I Have a Sandwich]

Originally posted by ancara
well, don't you think they WOULD put the path near a cave if they knew about it?

Either rewrite that in a coherent manner, or emphasize the right word.

[Anubis_Soldier]

Gosh this story zounds so freaking cool doesnt it? It is cooler then Meiscool...

That was sarcasm, To me, it makes no sense, especially if this sean guy is a human, I do not remeber ANY sonic games with humans whats over

No i am not as expierienced as most of these guys (FAR FROM IT) but to me your story sucks

[I Have a Sandwich]

Originally posted by Anubis_Soldier
Gosh this story zounds so freaking cool doesnt it? It is cooler then Meiscool...

That was sarcasm, To me, it makes no sense, especially if this sean guy is a human, I do not remeber ANY sonic games with humans whats over

No i am not as expierienced as most of these guys (FAR FROM IT) but to me your story sucks

Have you even PLAYED a Sonic game? Robotnik IS human.

[Domo_46_Kun]

OK.  The story to this game seems to suck... hard.  Using already created characters

But about when you said you suck now at making sprites and always will...

I started making a metroid fangame which would have played similar to SW Battlefront with some friends a while ago (about 2 years) and at first I sucked at spriting.  I sucked hard.  Within a few weeks though, I was the main spriter on the team and was spriting completely custom G-Fed commandos, Luminoth,

Sadly, the game (metroid: dark echoes  and the counterpart  metroid: the X factor) was cancelled due to me getting addicted to MMORPGS (dont let it happen to you.)  If this sounds familiar to anyone I would maybe like to get the project started again.  I used to go under the screen names Peter12311 and DestinyTomorrow.

Anyways, the lesson here is practice makes perfect.  I used to suck, now I don't.  I've posted some of my sprites that are custom so you see that although you suck now, you won't always.  If you come up with a better plot and/or make it more original, I might teach you how to sprite a little.  My Yahoo instant messenger is GravityCat_v3.

Took my graphics out for now because they looked sucky-ish stretched and stuff.  I might post them in the gallery.

So you see, I, a complete n00b at sprites and graphics, have become better, as can you.  If you need help with the story and stuff, you can also ask me for help on how to make an original story and title.  I just like to help people I guess =/

And if you actually want to finish a game give it a good plot that captivates you into wanting to finish it.

NONE of these are made in photoshop.  It's not required to make sprites and I personally find it confusing in relation to the program I use.  It's free.  Send me a message on YIM to get the program, because i'm too lazy to find the link now =P

BTW, off topic, but my new sig rocks, doesn't it?

[Archem]

Originally posted by Sammich
Have you even PLAYED a Sonic game? Robotnik IS human.

You know what he means.

And for the record, Robotnik is inhuman. 'Cuz he's the bad guy.

[Anubis_Soldier]

Originally posted by I Have a Sandwich

quote:

Originally posted by Anubis_Soldier Gosh this story zounds so freaking cool doesnt it? It is cooler then Meiscool... That was sarcasm, To me, it makes no sense, especially if this sean guy is a human, I do not remeber ANY sonic games with humans whats over No i am not as expierienced as most of these guys (FAR FROM IT) but to me your story sucks

Have you even PLAYED a Sonic game? Robotnik IS human.

one guy... well, if there are more there is a short amount of them