Comments on: Sonic Nexus Programmer Quits

By: Exclusive: Jonathan Rose Speaks Out on Nexus Departure | tssz|news

Exclusive: Jonathan Rose Speaks Out on Nexus Departure | tssz|news — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:01:50 +0000

[...] was very awkward,” Rose told TSSZ News, speaking of his good-bye message from a week and a half ago. “I felt pretty awkward at the time. Truth be told, I still [...]

By: snowy

snowy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:09:17 +0000

Ta, i’ll look into those…

By: Jonathan Rose

Jonathan Rose — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:22:09 +0000

@Snowy: What Rael just said. Here’s a link.
http://www.sonicfangameshq.com/forum/index.php

By: Rael0505

Rael0505 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:24:38 +0000

Snowy, have you considered showing your project off to Sonic Fangames HQ?

also, JQP… hahaha. Thanks.

By: snowy

snowy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:35:42 +0000

blimey,well if u find u want to start anything else i’m looking at starting a project i’ve been working on over the past two years, u don’t know any sites that are good for finding ppl looking to join projects? Cheers

By: Jonathan Rose

Jonathan Rose — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:00:58 +0000

@Snowy: I’ve already put myself in for contribution on two other projects. Nothing as high-profile as Nexus, but I think they are both high quality projects by clever people. I also want to start working on a few independent projects including some technical writings and something else that I might talk about later if anything pans out of it.

By: snowy

snowy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:06:54 +0000

john, are you interested in starting a new project?

By: JQP

JQP — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:48:26 +0000

Rael you’re talking to a brick wall called TSSZ.

By: Jonathan Rose

Jonathan Rose — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:00:20 +0000

Feel free to question me about my departure if it’ll ease your curiosity.

By: Rael0505

Rael0505 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:09:49 +0000

FYI guys he just left because he couldn’t really wrap his head around the Retro Sonic engine.

It’s much harder than Sonic Worlds – the previous engine Nexus used. Worlds is neatly organized and documented as it’s meant to be a learning tool and tutorial. The Retro engine is waaaay more complicated and is not neatly organized and documented the way Worlds is, and frankly when they made the switch DW knew his primary role as lead programmer came to an end.

This isn’t bad news for Nexus. Taxman has taken over as head programmer years ago. DW is just finally leaving rather than struggling to understand the complex Retro engine that Taxman is already so familiar with.

A lot of people wish the Retro engine were made public, but if it were, no one would know how to use it. It’s so much more complicated than Worlds.