The Sonic Amateur Games Expo (or SAGE) is back on August 6th to August 12th! If you’re a budding amateur fan-game developer with a project you’d like to show at SAGE then click here to be taken to the thread at Sonic Fan Games HQ where you can register your booth for the event.
Registrations must be completed by July 28th to ensure your position in the event. Basically, hop to it and don’t miss your opportunity!
As per usual we will be covering the event when it takes place and will hopefully be providing an alternative to our usual text-based coverage. Stay tuned!
TitansCreed’s Community Spotlight feature is a monthly YouTube series where the man talks to various members of the Sonic and SEGA community to discuss various topics and projects. This month’s feature just happens to be on us!
I talk to TitansCreed about the website, where it originated, Sonic fan games, Summer of Sonic, community in general and my band. Check out the full feature below and learn a little about myself and the website:
Sonic 2 HD, the promising HD fan remake of Sonic 2 has been officially cancelled as per a message left by Vincent (the project leader) on the project’s official Facebook. Reasons for this are mainly pinned on ex-lead developer LOst who wouldn’t provide the rest of the team with a DRM free version of the game and is solely responsible for the inclusion of the DirectInput bug which made users believe they’d downloaded a keylogger. He is also the only person holding what would be the source code for the game so production cannot continue without his involvement.
DRAMA.
Never-the-less, it’s sad to see the project go as the alpha demo was an impressive piece of work by what is essentially a bunch of bedroom coders. 2 members of the team (scanline99 and Cerulean Nights) have moved on to other independent work in hopes of furthering their game-developing careers and we wish them all the best for the future.
Members of Sonic Retro have discovered that the keylogger found in Sonic 2 HD’s code is not harmful to anyone who downloaded the game.
Lead programmer LOst has also been fired from the team after “several allegations from team members that LOst held the project hostage through the inclusion of DRM, public feedback of a bloated engine running an otherwise simplistic game, and other behind the scenes issues.”
Anyone who downloaded the recently featured Sonic 2 HD needs to get rid of it fast as it was discovered recently that it contains a keylogger which could have potetntially bad consequences if you regularly enter passwords and personal information in secure websites. Here’s the full details from Sonic Retro:
“Earlier today, I was contacted by a professional antivirus employee who was interested in why Sonic 2 HD consistently popped up as a threat by multiple antivirus software programs and did some investigation. His results showed that a keylogger is part of the Sonic 2 HD software. After receiving this notification, we conducted our own independent tests and found that there is indeed a keylogging program as part of the Sonic 2 HD alpha software.
I want to emphasize that at this time, we have found no evidence that the software has been “phoning home” any data—only that we have found the capability exists.
Because this vulnerability has been found, we are strongly advising that the software be removed. You will need to delete the files included with the Sonic 2 HD zip, as well as the registry keys hooked at HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/NakaSMK (if you are unfamiliar on how to do this, go to Start->Run.., type regedit, follow the folder path, and then delete the NakaSMK folder.)
We will have more information on the situation as it evolves.”
UPDATE ON 29/3/12
Please be aware that the zip you have to download to play this game contains 2 infected files; a dll and the main executable. Remove these and use the 64 executable as to not put your computer at risk.
The Sonic Retro fan-game project Sonic 2 HD which aims to recreate Sonic 2 with high definition artwork, has received a new alpha release which is available to download from the project’s official website now.
erbuka85 on the Sonic Fan Games HQ forums has revealed this trailer for a work in progress Blue Spheres fan game that he calls ‘Blue Spheres Forever’. Just watch:
Doesn’t that look incredible!? More news on the this fan game as we get it!
LakeFeperd is one busy little man! Not even a month after the release of Sonic Before the Sequel (which you can download here) and Lake has already released a demo for the sequel, ‘Sonic After the Sequel’. Check out the announcement trailer below:
There’s been a fair bit of activity in the Sonic fangaming scene and it all regards full releases (they apparently don’t happen according to some people)!
Sonic the Hedgehog Classic
Sonic the Hedgehog Classic has received several bugfixes as well as a newly implemented widescreen resolution. You can grab the latest version here: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
Sonic Axiom
Sonic Axiom has also received several bugfixes and now plays better than ever. The latest version can be downloaded here: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
Sonic Before the Sequel
The big news surrounds Sonic Before the Sequel which has finally been released. The game features flash animated cutscenes and a huge selection of diverse levels. Any serious Sonic fan owes it to themselves to check out this masterpiece of bedroom coding: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
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