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The Sonic experiment + Sonic Chaos

Hey everyone,

Continuing the remastering of my old levels. This time, you get two worlds at once!

Being from the 1980s, I grew up with a Sega Master System, and Sonic Chaos was the first video game I was introduced to ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Chaos ). It's not the best, longest, or most fun game around, but it has a special place in my heart for being the very first game I remember playing.

Thus, when I decided to try and reproduce a video game in Everybody Edits, it felt natural to use Sonic Chaos as a reference.

I first started with a smaller level I called The Sonic Experiment.

It was a simple attempt at reproducing acts 1-1, 2-1, and 6-1 of Sonic Chaos. I made it a basic coin collection quest, which might not have been a good choice in retrospect.

Click the image below to play the level :

Following this experiment, I felt like I had locked down the idea of how to reproduce Sonic Chaos in an EE world.

The key challenges were:
- Getting the looks right (that part, I got right, put a ton of effort into it)
- Getting enough room for all 6 levels / 18 acts (that required a lot of planning, but I did manage to get every single element of the original game in there other than the emerald challenges)
- Giving it the speed feeling of Sonic (I am not fully satisfied with that, could have done a better job)
- Making it easy yet fun to play (I honestly think I failed that part, coin collection is not exactly super fun, and there is too much backtracking involved)

Once I was done, I was only 50% satisfied with the final product. It looked great, but wasn't fun enough to play. I didn't feel like working on it some more though, as it had taken weeks of effort, so I left it as is.

Click the image below to play the level :

Here are a few screenshots from the second one if you want to see what it looks like without playing it all:

I learned a lot making these worlds, and I still want to make a better Sonic world in Everybody Edits some day. Maybe.

Have fun !

Marios

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Joined: 2015-08-03

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Re: The Sonic experiment + Sonic Chaos

The Sonic Experiment was, okay, i guess. I had some difficulty on the last level until i figured out how simple it is to resist upward boosts.

I tried the first level (and a bit of the second) of Sonic Chaos and it does have part of the feel of a Sonic game (although boosts didn't allow for fully functional non-square-like spins). I guess i could perhaps finish it later and put a larger review of it.

Raven

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Joined: 2015-07-04

Posts: 1,341

Re: The Sonic experiment + Sonic Chaos

Finally somebody here likes Sonic.

Sensei1

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From: The land of saunas

Joined: 2015-02-16

Posts: 1,112

Re: The Sonic experiment + Sonic Chaos

I liked these worlds a lot. They really felt kinda like a sonic game! I found it a bit annoying sometimes when you fell down and you had to start all the way from the beginning of the "zone", so in my opinion you could have added just a couple of checkpoints in them. Really good worlds still, you succeeded very well at making them look "sonic style"
Also, this world is even better with some sonic music in the background!

Finally somebody here likes Sonic.

I like sonic too!