WIP Sonic's Foray into Unusual Zones (spin-off of Mario's Rather Unusual Trilogy)

[OssieTheOstrich]

Here is the spin-off entry of the "Mario's Rather Unusual Trilogy" series. Most of the info is copied over from the Sonic Retro thread about the project.





Plot:
I have a rough plot outlined taking place after the events of Mario's VERY Unusual Final Frontier, which involves Dr. Eggman making a gem to control various universes and, of course, Sonic has to stop him from doing anything harmful.

Development info backstory:

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On August 8th 2018, I posted a thread basically saying that I have started some work on a Sonic fangame with an.. admittedly looking back now.. lame and kinda lazy premise involving a sorta Sonic Mania concept, but with fan levels. Long story short, I scrapped that project soon after due to both lack of motivation and the well deserved criticism of the concept. I later tried to revive it by instead making it a more original fangame with my own custom zones, but even that didn't last until I canned it again. Eventually I tried a different fangame concept all together, basically making a almost 1-1 remake of Somari as a genesis Sonic game. That, as you can probably guess by now, also got canned, though for more technical reasons this time.

Come 2022, where I had recently released a Mario 3 styled fangame called Mario's slightly Unusual Boss Rush, which has the premise of Mario going through levels to battle various characters from the most random series I could think of (it's basically a Boss Rush'ish game). Later on I stated that I would release an updated version of the game fixing bugs and adding some other features. I also announced a sequel (Mario vs. Some Unusual Foes, based off Mario vs. Donkey Kong on the Gameboy Advance) and a threequel (Mario's VERY Unusual Final Frontier, based off the Mario Odyessy type gameplay but in 2D) as well (note: the threequel post isn't finished), which are currently all in development all at once.

After a little while I stumbled across a community of Sonic fangamers who make Sonic engines in the Construct 2/3 game engines, and since I've been really wanting to make a Sonic fangame ever since I'd stopped those other two projects, I thought to make a small test. I then thought, "hey, what if I were to take that 'Mario's Rather Unusual Trilogy' concept and use on a Sonic project?" Thus, the concept of this was created.

Playable Characters: You initally start off with only Sonic, but then unlock another character later in the story (the character is from the previous entry)

Current list of the zones and their respective bosses:
Zone 0 (Prologue Zone, Eggman's Base): Single Act, No Boss
Zone 1 (Bubsy 2 Zone): 2 Acts, Woolies
Zone 2 (Garfield Zone): 2 Acts
Zone 3 (Chalk Volcano from ChalkZone): 2 Acts, Skrawl
Zone 4 (Sodor Island Zone from Thomas & Friends, Runaway Express): 2 Acts, Diesel 10
Zone 5 (Fair City Zone from WordGirl): 2 Acts, Dr. Two Brains & his henchmen
Zone 6 (Pacopolis Zone from Pac-Man & The Ghostly Adventures): 2 Acts, Toc-Man
Zone 7 (Monkey Ball Zone): 2 Acts, Dr. Bad-boon
Zone 8 (Prankster Planet Zone from The Electric Company): 2 Acts, Pranksters (Manny or Francine. While Danny and Annie could be obstacles in the levels)
Final Zone (Air Ship Zone(?)): 2 Acts, basically Wing Fortress, Flying Battery, Sky Base Zone, & the Death Egg in 1 zone

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Most of this post was copied over from the Sonic Retro thread, tho some of it is new.

For those wondering the coding/programming status of this project, please look at this post cause I don't want to repeat myself here.

So a majority of this post is mostly dealing with sprites and animations of Sonic, Eggman, and some other stuff (some of the colors got broken but they look better in-game and in my scratchpads):

First off, here is Sonic's most recent spritework:

Walking W.I.P (based on Sonic 3)


Running (based on Sonic 3)

The same run in motion (the colors are correct in the .GIF)


And some scratch tests for the Dashing animation (based on Sonic 4 Episode I)


Next, whoever this fella is:

Ossie idle test; long after I made this I came up with the idea to have him fold his arms/wings in a annoyed tone, but I haven't done it yet (also the colors are correct here too)

(no he is not a self-insert, he is supposed to be carry over from Mario's VERY Unusual Final Frontier)

Next, the Eggman:


Then, it's Metal Sonic


Then, two enemies:

A Motobug, meant for the prologue level which is to be a Eggman base near the seaside (used an unused SPA Motobug sprite as a base with the other two as color and design references)


W.I.P of a Hardhat Bot (from an old PBS flashgame)


And lastly, here are two of the bosses:



the ones labeled W.I.P (other than Eggman) are Skwarl from ChalkZone and Dr. Two Brains from WordGirl


Also, here is (in a separate file so I can program it) the attempt at recreating the Homing Attack mechanic

Other socials:
Sonic Retro
NCFC
YouTube

List of projects I eventually plan to finish after the indefinite hiatus is over, assuming I don't abruptly cancel them:

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Mario's Rather Unusual Trilogy (Mario's slightly unusual Boss Rush (Completed), Mario vs. Some Unusual Foes (In development), Mario's VERY Unusual Final Frontier (In development))
Sonic's Foray into Random/Unusual Zones (spin-off of Unusual Trilogy, in development)
Angry Birds Slingshot Frenzy (In development)
Super Mario Flashback: Really Good Edition (In development)
Super Hilda DX (In only conceptual phase)

Yes, I am aware that I have about 6 or so fangame projects currently in development at the same time. And yes, I am also aware that all of this is very ambitious.

+ List of projects I'm helping out with in some small capacity during my hiatus:

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Super Mario Bros Dimensions 2 (as a spriter, only for Mario's sprites)
MFGG Community Fangame Project 3 (as a spriter)
WordGirl ReWired (as a artist)