The Patreon Podcast - Episode 134 - Sonic 06 Part 2

James G. Jones

There's an app you can get and pay £10 and it'll give you a notification when a new test opens up. I moved my test forwar by 6months on it

Alyssa Gordon

genuinely as soon as Rebecca said there were open slots for the prints i immediately updated my Patreon haha

Thomas Knight

They changed how severely wind impacts shots from 4. It's much more forgiving now. Spy Academy is an absolutely incredible level. We're only on Mission 7 at the moment, so I don't know if it'll be topped, but Spy Academy has been the stand out for me. Mission 2 we've also really enjoyed. The axis invasion mode has been enormous fun also, really fun inclusion.

Thomas N Wyndham

By the way! If you don’t already have permanent charger installed at your home, I throughly recommend the myenergi zappi. It has plenty of functionality about it with scheduling and solar matching. It’s champion.

Narmatonia

I was about to comment wondering why you'd buy a car now, what with petrol skyrocketing in price, then it turned out you bought an electric car :P Also I highly recommend the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once

marcnet

Check out the pre-alpha video on youtube from Introversion Software. They're creating an elite/ftl/prison architect hybrid thing. Looks really promising ---> The Last Starship

Well Read Nomad

Grats to Rebecca on the driving; I remember going through all that shit, but it's defiantly worth it!

Paul Robinson

I'm not the biggest Sonic-player in the world, but I've long thought that a 3d Sonic game should be (mechanically) a blend of a racing game, pinball and super monkey ball, with all the momentum-y, physics-y goodness that those 3 things imply. Right Trigger - go fast. Longer it's held, the faster sonic goes. Release to slow down. Left Trigger - focus. Doesn't slow Sonic down, but slows down the whole game around him so you can change direction, hit enemies etc. Would probably need to be on a meter. Boost - used to change direction in mid air, or get extra boost for a jump Jump - you know...a jump. So imagine, you head off a ramp and see a grind rail with rings on it. You hold LT and the world slows down around you. Enemies flail past, laser bolts hang in the air (basically like those similar bits in the recent movies). You line up the camera and 'boost' in that direction, which slingshots you out of slow mo and over to the rail. You could even have it where you zoom along, see some enemies and slow things down to punch em on the way past. The game itself would be set in an old arcade with each 'zone' literally being a pinball machine. When you're in the 'zone' it's a big, beautiful, fully themed world, that is still very pinball-machine-y. You could even have a big, Gundam style launch tube to shoot Sonic into each level. Obviously there'd need to be some story where Robotnik has shrunk Sonic to the size of a pinball ball...but yeah I dunno, it just sounds like a fun idea for a game and I wish I knew a lick about game dev so I could make it.

h3.

Have you played "Sonic Time Twisted"? It is a great little fan game that really scratched my 2D Sonic itch. Feels kind of like a Sonic CD sequel. Could easily pass as a mainline 2D Sonic game if the final boss wasn't a bit off brand. Give it a Google :)

Thomas N Wyndham

Welcome to the electric car club! We have a Mitsubishi Minicab MiEV, tiny electric van. Electrics are so much fun. Only thing, strictly speaking it’s zero tail pipe emissions because you still have particulate emissions like micro-plastics from tyre wear. The good news though, smart people are working on making better tyres and such so that will be minimised in future as well!

Matt

Please keep to your no sponsorships ever, your opinion is the ONLY one on YouTube I listen to and 100% value (I value Jons at 50%) if you say a games good I’ll always give it a go if you say it’s shit I won’t touch it and it’s always worked out with many good games.

Tyler Kelley

You guys should see Everything Everywhere All At Once. It's an amazing and clever film that the both of you will love

The Leaf (certainly pre 2018, possibly new style too) has a design flaw that can cause the top of the front suspension rods to rust prematurely. The wipers direct water down into the area where the driver’s side rod attaches to the car body, and Nissan’s ‘solution’ is to cover the area in grease that washes away quickly with UK weather, so you’ll probably want to get some covers for the suspension rods if the car didn’t come with them.