Sonic Dreams Collection

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 the Hedgehog games for the Sega Dreamcast and is a surreal perspective on 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 content in Sonic Movie Maker can only be discovered by purposefully exploiting a physics glitch, with players later acquiring the ability to destabilize the programming of the levels themselves while they’re being played. Another, 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 hidden 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

• Sonic Dreams Collection website