Sonic Maker
From Sonic Retro
Sonic Maker is an PC game creation application being made by Sonica as his response to Play SEGA's level editor. It is designed to be a user-friendly 'point and click' level editor offering common objects, including platforms, rings, boxes, and loops. Its easy-to-use interface allows users to simply choose and place items in a level grid, as every object fills a set number of squares. Currently, there are functions to save or test layouts, but these are still in a testing phase.
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First appearance
Sonic Maker was first mentioned on this thread on the Sonic Retro message board, to spark attention and see what the community thought of the idea. After a good response, development was intensified.
Programming
Sonic Maker's editor is developed using Visual Basic 2010 (initially Visual Basic 2008). Playing the levels will be possible with a variety of engines, ranging from Game Maker to Visual Basic.
Runners
The 'runners' in Sonic Maker are the engines that will play the users' games/levels. They will be implemented using many different engines and programs. The only runner at the moment is one made in Game Maker, an edited version of Sonic Dash, but in the future more will be added, with different exporting methods. Other engines may include Multimedia Fusion's Sonic Worlds, an engine made in Visual Basic, and any others the community suggest that will be suitable and adaptable to Sonic Maker's features.
Current Features
Sonic Maker currently allows the user to create levels by point and click, save levels, export levels and play levels. The load feature doesn't work, but has been implemented for the next build.
Future versions
Future versions of Sonic Maker will include more features and access to many different ways of creating Sonic games. The next version will include the load feature, a downgraded .NET 3 framework (so more people can use it without having to update their framework), access to more common objects and accelerators such as springs and boosters, and possibly a click and drag function.
There is also an addition called Boss Maker that will be announced before the release of v3.
Downloads
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Download Sonic Maker
File: Sonic Maker V2.7z (5.28 MB) (info)
Current version: 2.5 |
Remember this is the testing demo, but you can play your games using the GM Runner.
Prior versions
- Sonic Maker v1 (info) ("SonicMakerV1.zip" does not exist) (117KB)
