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Sonic Dreams Collection

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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 created in Make My Sonic will appear in Sonic Movie Maker and Eggman Origin.

Eggman Origin

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 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 Tails, Shadow, Rouge, or 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.

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 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 Oculus Rift VR headset.

The game suggests My Roommate Sonic was canceled in 1999 because it was supposed to be used with the unreleased Sega VR headset. Completing it unlocks an extra level in Sonic Movie Maker.

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