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==Games==
 
==Games==
 
===''Make My Sonic''===
 
===''Make My Sonic''===
Make My Sonic is a Sonic the Hedgehog original character creator. Characters can be customized, posed, and photographed before being uploaded to SegaNet. Original characters created in Make My Sonic will appear in Sonic Movie Maker and Eggman Origin.
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'''''Make My Sonic''''' is a Sonic the Hedgehog original character creator. Characters can be customized, posed, and photographed before being uploaded to SegaNet. Original characters will appear in Sonic Movie Maker and Eggman Origin, and any pictures taken can be exported to Twitter.
  
===''Eggman Origin''===
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===''Eggman Origin''===  
 
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'''''Eggman Origin''''' is a featureless white limbo populated with talking egg mascots and half-buried earthworms. Original characters uploaded to SegaNet will appear here as heron-like creatures. By feeding enough earthworms to the bean-shaped Eggman in the center of the map, players can eventually feed themselves to the Eggman, and their original character will “ascend” to the Twitter-enabled website Chao Garden.
Original characters uploaded to SegaNet will appear as heron-like creatures in a featureless limbo populated with talking egg mascots and half-buried earthworms. By feeding enough earthworms to the bean-shaped Eggman in the center of the map and causing its capsule to rise, players can eventually feed themselves to the Eggman, and their original character will “ascend” to the Twitter-enabled website Chao Garden.
 
  
 
===''Sonic Movie Maker''===
 
===''Sonic Movie Maker''===
'''''Sonic Movie Maker''''' is an adventure game in which the player is tasked with finding a camera and filming a six-second film to proceed to the following scene. Each scene uses ragdoll models of Sonic and other characters such as [[Miles "Tails" Prower|Tails]], [[Shadow the Hedgehog|Shadow]], [[Rouge the Bat|Rouge]], or [[Blaze the Cat|Blaze]], as well as objects such as pull cords, speech bubble sprites, and rings. Levels in ''Sonic Movie Maker'' include a garage, a prom dance floor, and a hospital room.
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'''''Sonic Movie Maker''''' is a first-person movie maker allowing up to six seconds of video to be recorded using different props, speech bubbles, and scenarios. While initially appearing innocuous, exploration past the boundaries of the stages reveal disturbing leftovers from the fictional developer.
 
 
The game states ''Sonic Movie Maker'' would have been a technological achievement, but was canceled in 1998 when Sega management discovered its dark and sexual content. Just like with ''Make My Sonic'', videos the player makes can be uploaded to Twitter.
 
  
 
===''My Roommate Sonic''===
 
===''My Roommate Sonic''===
'''''My Roommate Sonic''''' is a virtual reality (VR) game presented from a first-person view. The player sits on a couch next to Sonic in an apartment, with Eggman watching from a distant apartment encouraging the player by text message to pursue a romantic interest in him. The minigame is also compatible with the [[wikipedia:Oculus Rift|Oculus Rift]] VR headset.
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'''''My Roommate Sonic''''' is a virtual reality romance simulation featuring Sonic the Hedgehog and the player, his human roommate. Encouraged by the texting of the roommate’s close friend Eggman, staring into Sonic’s eyes for long enough results in being absorbed into Sonic entirely. The roommate soon appears again running through a crude abstraction of Green Hill Zone dressed as Sonic the Hedgehog, concluding with the message “''i hope this is what you wanted''”. Both Oculus and Vive headsets are supported, as is a non-VR option.
 
 
The game suggests ''My Roommate Sonic'' was canceled in 1999 because it was supposed to be used with the unreleased [[sega:Sega VR|Sega VR]] headset. Completing it unlocks an extra level in ''Sonic Movie Maker''.
 
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==

Revision as of 03:31, 14 March 2021

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Sonic Dreams Collection
Latest release date: 2015-08-10
Engine: Unity
Credits: Arcane Kids, cyborgDino

Sonic Dreams Collection is a fan game from indie development group Arcane Kids, released for Windows and OS X in 2015. The game presents itself as a collection of four prototype Sonic games for the Sega Dreamcast and uses surrealism to explore themes of personal identity within the Sonic fanbase.

Gameplay

Each game in Sonic Dreams Collection features a different gameplay style, often encouraging player exploration that pushes beyond the boundaries of the “intended” play area. Much of the game Sonic Movie Maker’s content can only be discovered by purposefully exploiting a physics glitch, and players later acquire the ability to destabilize the programming of the game world itself. Another game, Eggman Origin, is initially inaccessible due to lack of fictional servers online and can only be played by opening the installed game’s filestructure and running the separate program SegaNet.

Games

Make My Sonic

Make My Sonic is a Sonic the Hedgehog original character creator. Characters can be customized, posed, and photographed before being uploaded to SegaNet. Original characters will appear in Sonic Movie Maker and Eggman Origin, and any pictures taken can be exported to Twitter.

Eggman Origin

Eggman Origin is a featureless white limbo populated with talking egg mascots and half-buried earthworms. Original characters uploaded to SegaNet will appear here as heron-like creatures. By feeding enough earthworms to the bean-shaped Eggman in the center of the map, players can eventually feed themselves to the Eggman, and their original character will “ascend” to the Twitter-enabled website Chao Garden.

Sonic Movie Maker

Sonic Movie Maker is a first-person movie maker allowing up to six seconds of video to be recorded using different props, speech bubbles, and scenarios. While initially appearing innocuous, exploration past the boundaries of the stages reveal disturbing leftovers from the fictional developer.

My Roommate Sonic

My Roommate Sonic is a virtual reality romance simulation featuring Sonic the Hedgehog and the player, his human roommate. Encouraged by the texting of the roommate’s close friend Eggman, staring into Sonic’s eyes for long enough results in being absorbed into Sonic entirely. The roommate soon appears again running through a crude abstraction of Green Hill Zone dressed as Sonic the Hedgehog, concluding with the message “i hope this is what you wanted”. Both Oculus and Vive headsets are supported, as is a non-VR option.

External links

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