Project Mettrix

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Sonic the Hedgehog: Project Mettrix is a fan game led by Stealth for DOS and Windows platforms. The engine itself is written in the C programming language, and is a good approximation of the original Sonic engine.

Project Mettrix also includes a level editor and other tools making the Fan game very editable. Well-written documentation is included with the Fan Game package.

History

(From the Offical Site) This game was under development for some time on The Games Factory under the name "Sonic and the 7 Rings", but after many complications, Ron decided to seek out a programmer to do the engine work instead.

Features

(Form Stealth)

• 3-layered scrolling, including a multi-speed background.

• Palette Rotation and Animation.

• Tile Animation.

• Screen Border Relocation, as seen in areas such as Green Hill, which can make the level taller, shorter, or boxed in at times, such as in boss battles.

• Background swapping, one level can have both an "inside" and "outside" background.

• Sonic style movement for each of the three characters (Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles), including their slopes, curves, loops, and their special moves.

Other features to-date include:

• 4 decently-sized levels made playable for the current demo

• One zone that uses a SA-Like radar system for finding the enemy

• Original level and badnik art

• Original SoundTrack

• Built-in Level Editor for creating your own levels

• Save-Game feature and interactive "options level"

• The semi-complete 3D special stage

• A whole lot more.

Level Order

The game starts in Wood Zone, as an options zone to chose your characters, save data, and Levels. Afterwards, the levels go as following:

Levels	Sonic	Tails	Knuckles
Level 1	Shining Island Zone	Shining Island Zone	Guardian Castle Zone
Level 2	Aqua Lung Zone	Aqua Lung Zone	Dust Hill Zone
Level 3	Nightlight Heights Zone	Nightlight Heights Zone	Bronze Lake Zone
Level 4	Neo Sky Chase Zone	Neo Sky Chase Zone	???
Level 5	Zoom Tubes Zone	Zoom Tubes Zone	???
Level 6	Hidden Palace Zone	Hidden Palace Zone	???
Level 7	Timeless City Zone	Timeless City Zone	???
Level 8	Egg Fortress Zone	Egg Fortress Zone	???
Level 9	Mettrix Zone	Power Source Zone	???

There are also hidden test levels within the game, accesible by the editor.

Credits

• Ron Echidna - Original Producer, Level Art/Layout, Badnik Art
• Stealth - Producer, Programmer
• Liz - Art
• Verse - Music
• Andre Schroder - Original Music
• Sneeky - CutScenes

Special Thanks

• MSmoke - Groundwork for sound programming
• Chaos Emerald - ASM info, Windows programming examples
• YarHarHar - Ideas and Dust Hill art
• Michael Sterns - Original MetalSonic sprite set
• Sonic Team - For the official Sonic series, of course!

External links

• Current version of the game
• Old version
• Even older version
• Eldest version
• User-created levels