Moonside wrote on March 27, 2018 at 9:03 PM

I recommend The Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Sonic Studies

twovests OP wrote on March 28, 2018 at 4:47 PM

huh this is a real thing

but no hedhehogs;;;((((

Moonside wrote on March 28, 2018 at 8:12 PM

Sorry, The Journal of Sonic Studies is real though.

Actually jfc there are so many scientific conferences it's mindboggling

voxpoplar wrote on March 27, 2018 at 9:17 PM

I dunno but I could link you to detailed articles about how the physics in sonic work

twovests OP wrote on March 28, 2018 at 4:48 PM

I'm interested in the ones you find the most informative! Especially those that can deal with not-sprites. (I'm not gonna be in 3D but I am gonna have vectors so it's like 3D but with 2 dimensions? is there a word for that? i should know that right?)

voxpoplar wrote on March 28, 2018 at 5:04 PM

These are really for understanding calculations from 8- and 16-bit consoles so may not be what you're looking for but still might help you understand how to get certain feels down hopefully.

Sonic Physics Guide. High-ish level overview of how physics calculations work for Sonic.

Mario Physics Guide. Lower level detail guide to SMB physics in all its hexadecimal glory.

twovests OP wrote on March 28, 2018 at 7:50 PM

Ooh this is useful. I was thinking of working around a physics engine but I might just end up writing me own for 2D, using the sonic physics guide.

The big thing is I'm worried about fuckiness with infinitesimally flat 2D meshes that don't use the extra 3rd dimension tbh.

Are there gamedev journals like there are scientific journals? I want to do a lit review before I make my weird platformer

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