posted April 05, 2006 07:09 PM            

This was one of four worlds I created near the very end of the project to help Ofer and I gain support to do the PC version of Sonic Xtreme.

Crystal Frost Video - 27.5 Mb Zipped .AVI

Here are all of the worlds you can view/discuss:

* Jade Gully
* Crystal Frost
* Red Sands
* Death Egg

posted April 06, 2006 01:30 PM            

They had problems animating fang near the end so they cut him out entirely.

posted April 06, 2006 08:30 PM              

Echo what others have said about the levels being uber cool for being 'just thrown together'.

posted April 07, 2006 01:20 AM            

This PC version never reaally got shown to any high management, who really wanted a Saturn game anyway. Porting the code to the Saturn would be quite hard anyway.

posted April 08, 2006 10:00 AM              

What really suprises me is that the graphics engine doesnt seem to suffer from pop-up(yes theres some, but not in places that u wouldnt expect it.), no glitches whatsoever, and nill slowdown.
Considering games back then were new to the whole 3D thing, you guys at STI did an EXCELLENT job!

Some excellent level design too. The part where Sonic whizzes along the slopes at hight speed. ^^

Also, what was that Key for? And was those white ball powerups extra lives or something?

Cant wait for the next one. Well worth the time taken to download it!

posted April 08, 2006 12:48 PM            

Spawn of Jack - Thanks. Those were indeed 50's as Matrix guessed. I put those in their to make it look more like a "game" in the video... in actuality, there was no score system yet, nor would we have used something like point-ups anyway (so it was video "fluff"). There is some "rotation" in Ofer's own video - which is TOTALLY awesome and the most Sonic-like of them all (lots of paths and cool path shapes). I'll share that pretty soon.

hxc - lol... Yes. *raises one eyebrow*

AG Wolf - Thanks, amigo. Without that tool though and its capabilities, I could never have imagined setting up those levels any other way.

Ace - It's certainly nice to think so. What an accomplishment that would be!

Xeniczone - You're right - most of what was shown publicly were complete tests for one reason or another - or the materials weren't in the best shape to show... so "smoke and mirrors" is harder to compare to levels that had at least *some* thought put into them for real gameplay purposes.

Keith - Gracias. I hear you... but we'll have a chance to take the spirit of what the game could have been and dream up our own actual playable fan game!

Gen - It was sadly too late. The Saturn door was closed and the PC department didn't have a slot for this game (not to mention the political difficulty of sanctioning something associated to what Nakayama-san had completely crapped on)

Matt_TY - The people we showed it too seemed impressed, but it was just too late (see above). Thanks for joining the discussions, btw!

Alyn - Yes, it's great that we're developing a strong sense of community. Remember, too, that many others put tons of hard work into this project - Ofer Alon (without whom there would be no levels and videos shared!), Ross Harris (without whom Sonic and the enemies wouldn't be rendered or modeled or animated), Rick Wheeler for his assistance throughout the project on all sorts of design-related issues, Don Goddard for picking up the programming torch when his predecessor couldn't make it... and so on... tons of hard-working people.

posted April 09, 2006 05:29 AM              

I agree, you can tell from watching the videos that a LOT of effort was put into the game.

Xtreme seems to be like Sonic Adventure, both games have had a LOT of effort put into them and it shows. (Just a shame that Xtreme didnt make it while ADV did.)
Its this "effort" that I feel was lacking in
Heroes/Shadow.
But I did think that Sonic Riders was well put together. I had that same giddy excitement that I had back when I played Sonic Adventure for the first time back in oct 99.

posted April 20, 2006 01:37 AM              

I kinda have mixed feelings about it. On one hand the graphics look amazing for it's time and the gameplay does look smooth.

I'm not sure if I like the lens effect. I do see how it gives you a much better view of what is to the left and right but I noticed that when Sonic runs toward the camera, you have no idea of what you are running into. Is this something that was being worked on?

I do love how the world looks smaller because of the lens effect. It feels like sonic is running "around the world".

All in all, the game looked very promising. It's a shame that we will not be able to see the finished product.

posted April 20, 2006 02:30 PM              

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Originally posted by Ace:
well the PSX were'nt really that awesome that everyone thinks, it was a 32bit machine who was kept alive buy letting Sonys Big Bucks buy all the Big and Commercial games and then ofocurse, Sony havae always been great on the market, both the Saturn and Dreamcast where acctually better graphicly (especially Dreamcast, which was better in ALL WAYS, exept marketing), but then again, yea, it's MUCH better than playstation

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The Dreamcast can't count, it was a generation after Playstation (PS was PS/Saturn/N64, Dreamcast is DC/PS2/XBOX/NGC).

posted April 20, 2006 10:23 PM              

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Originally posted by Guess_Who:
The Dreamcast can't count, it was a generation after Playstation (PS was PS/Saturn/N64, Dreamcast is DC/PS2/XBOX/NGC).

That level is sexy.

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