Open Surge Forum

Hi!!

So, how far did you go since the last news post?

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The animation looks excellent!

About the dev screen, hmm, out of curiosity, why bother doing throwable content?

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Hi everyone

I've just tried the latest bleeding edge 716 and I must say that the game has already a very coherent feeling as for the presentation, the menus and all that. The act 1 preview is also a good preview on several engine features, well completed by the template stage which shows almost everything else.

All that to say that it's taking shape! Well done!

There is only one very thing that is surprising concerning the current game compared to the rest: the way surge starts to run. I mean, the idle animation, and the full course and ball modes are quite fine, but when you start to run, Surge feels like slipping on the floor until the full speed course, is it intended?

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Me? I would never do that.

Hi,

I'm aware of the level design in progress in dropbox, but I thought that you could want to include the first level design made in the OpenSNC repository sooner or later.

I'm sure people would try it out more easily that way, using bleeding edges for instance.
It would also be much more appealing graphically, and regarding what the engine is capable of.

Again, it's just a question, of course.

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Hi there,

Please take into consideration Alexandre's point of view regarding direct file access since it's a kinda recurrent problem in game development.

On the other hand, I do think Jobromedia is in need of a script log file to debug his scripts. Maybe some log functions can be considered?

Secondary note: IMHO, here we've got a very common case where someone (I'm not pointing anyone, I also do the same mistake sometimes.) is presenting some technical functionalities (see 1st post) without telling why he needs it.
My two cents would be to advise all interested developers (scripters, ect.) to try presenting a need (or use case) before considering the implementation, again without pointing anybody since I also do the same when I don't put attention to it.

I hope this will help future requests.

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Hi,

Still here

Thanks for answering.

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Nice job so far!

I have a similar question as for the silverstep avatar: How does the character look in game?

Hi Alexandre,

From many, thanks for all the hard work, especially for the decorator-based engine.

May I suggest you do a release before going back to university, even as a beta, so people can actually test it out with the latest possibilities, and let you concentrate on your own RL work?

My best regards and wishes of luck for your studies.

Heya,

Good news!
Can you tell me which:
- Language (C, C++, ...)
- API (if c/C++)

thanks in advance.

Hi,

I was just thinking about that option...

And then some ideas popped up in my mind which I'm now intending to merge together below:

- First of all, there could be quests mixing cooperative play, and single play mode.
- Secondly, why not also make some levels especially made on character in particular.
- At third, we can also imagine that other 3 members teams could be added in a more or less late future.
(Every team would then be composed of a runner, a climber, and a flyer, I guess)
- And fourth, I still believe that letting the members be able to start at different points could be a good addition.

Then altogether, this could be added:
- The quests file could handle a parameter telling if the quest if exclusively one character only, or coop mode, and tell if the player can choose its starting character/team.
- Based on that option, a team selection or a character selection screen would let the player decide which character (s)he wants to use, or not.
-- If the quest is in coop mode:
- parameters in the lev files could handle where each character (runner, flyer, and climber) would start, that being the same spot by default.
-- If the quest is in solo mode:
- A parameter in the lev files could handle if the starting character is the one chosen by the player, or one specifically.
-- If the quest type is not set:
- Each lev files could tell:
- the level mode: coop or solo.
- the team used of if using the one chosen by the player.
- or the character : chosen by player, or specifically set (runner, flyer, climber).

- We could even imagine that only two out of three team members only could be used for a specific level.

This, in addition of cut-scenes would lead some true sonic stories!

I wrote all of this down hoping that it will help you think about new useful options for that marvellous engine.

Best regards.