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Οooh Best of luck! Can't wait

@Doombreed Thank you for your interest!
First 'Development Update' is now live!

You seem to be quick and efficient in designing. If you ever run out of context ideas, feel free to ask

Good Job 😁

@Doombreed thnx for the kind words!
I will!
I'm planning on making this a community driven project, so any fan of the series is welcome to give their input.(Story, Abilities, Mechanics) Right now I'm even considering if I should have some kind of armor design contest and have the best one implemented in the game. Though I don't know how much of a response it would get, seeing as there is (sadly) little activity in the programming forum.

@jonathannanhu Thanks!

Hmm...For story, I think obviously something different than the original Sonny series, obviously. Don't know when is it supposed to take place, but if you are going for something in parallel to the original one, then it could feature the same well-known characters (vera/roald/etc.)

As for abilities, it would be good to opt for a system with the balance of the first game in the classes and the unique abilities of the second game. We all loved the shadow xD Even in Krin's poll, Shadow Sonny won by far.

In the mechanics aspect, it also depends how much you want to stick with the original series mechanics. Some of them are ancient by today's standards but they still work.

@Doombreed I'd definitely like to set the story in the same universe as the original;
Maybe shed light on those characters before the events of both games?
Go with a brand new cast?
I dunno, I'm open to everything at this point.

As for abilities, definitely ;P
I was origionally thinking of having a shared skilltree among classes like the first game;
but now that I've gone over the idea, it would probably favor different playstyles and replayability if each class has one of its own.
I didn't really like the way sonny 2's late game relied as heavily as it did on combos;
but I also don't want to exclude anyone who likes it (my brother).
Designing them won't be easy, and I'll need all the help I can get when I get to that stage.

I'm open to ideas regarding the mechanics; the sooner in development I know, the better. I haven't really given this any extra thought myself, so I'm interested to see different takes on it.

Good luck, I hope you make it as a professional developer one day.

For the mechanics, the very obvious thing Krin failed at in the second game was making speed a reliable way to deliver damage. In the first game it's fine, the assassin class depends on it rather well. But for example the Predator build of the Biological had to be purposefully glitched just to put it on the same level as the others. Krin intentionally programmed every physical Biological ability to have a critical hit ratio x3.1 the one other abilities had. I think he intended to have some sort of speed based highly damaging class like the assassin in the first game but Piercings and speed did not quite work as intended.

Another thing were the bugs of the hot hydro and poison bio builds. Those abilities miss their targets way too often for it to be a coincidence. It is possible that it was meant to be a way to reduce the power of those builds but that also failed.

I'd say since this is a fan-made game, go with a new cast of characters. If you plan on going there, you can show what happened to sonny and he ended up on the ship for example.

@nichodemus Thank you! So do I

@Doombreed Thank you very much for this information!
I think a fresh cast can work really well too, so I'll be doing that then.

It looks awesome! Can you post animations of enemies and player outfits please?

Wow, these look amazing. Great job, keep it up!

@BalkanRenegades @jimmycarlos

Thank you both for the kind words!

I'm designing the outfits as we speak; I'll be sure to add them to the next development update!

I know you have mentioned that you are not an animator, and don't get me wrong , I am not here to criticize, on contrary , I would like to suggest you to look at following layer: leg part from knee to ankle/foot !

It's not consistent with other body parts! It looks good on its own , but fails when it comes to animations! Now , I would not change it , I would just adjust upper part of leg to look fatter! I think that such a move would adjust the quality to much higher level (it would look smoother) , especially when it comes to melee attacks animations !

@ivanxxxxxxx You're absolutely right!
Now that you've mentioned it, it's starting to bother me when I look at it.
I drew them a tad bigger on purpose; The images would basically be swapped with armor, so it would be easier for me. example:

But while this works with armor, it definitely doesn't without it.
Consider it fixed by the next update.
thanks!