Thread 721069770

SAGE goes live in about 3 hours, any games catch your interest?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwZd6AHQQDg

>announcing sage
you're in for it now

>>721070146
fpbp

>>721069770 (OP)
>Hexachampions
Is that some dungeon dice monsters shit

Everything about SAGE makes me irrationally angry. I hate that it exists. I hate seeing all these games that have nothing to do with Sonic. I hate all the obvious furfag OCs. Just give me fangames like TT 16bit, how hard can that fucking be?

I just want to see how many IDW and Archie references there are this year.

Sonic Daybreak looks good.

NINTENDO

>>721069770 (OP)
>SAGE is now a repository for mediocre indie developers who view it as nothing more than free advertising
Why has literally everything gone to shit?

>>721074423
Some stuff looks good, but yeah, quality control isn't very good, some weird half assed shit in that trailer they released.

>>721076354
It's inevitably going to be a tough call where to draw the line if you want to be an open invitation indie event, particularly in the more amateur or hobbyist sense.

>>721069770 (OP)
whatever's got Sonic in it

>>721069770 (OP)
Oh boy, the event that's nothing but indies being shitters and ruining the original purpose of it? Amazing! Can we get more Pizza Tower or other faggots in a Sonic event?

>>721077335
Calm down Ryan

>>721077380
Who's Ryan?

Fuck SFGHQ
Hez did nothing wrong.

>>721077753
Ryan Bloom, also known as BlazeHedgehog, the guy who founded SAGE but has since then stepped down. He specifically made remarks about indiedevs trying to be the "next Pizza Tower" around last year's SAGE, since he didn't like the event accepting non-Sonic games it seemed like.

>>721078018
No clue who that is, but he's right, considering the state of it now.

>>721078126
I have never really followed the event closely so for me I don't particularly care if they want to pivot from the Sonic roots, or stick in that Sonic lane. While I'm sure there's still plenty Sonic fangames being made, it's a matter of what the showrunners and audience want out of the event, and my opinion as a bystander doesn't matter.

>>721078018
>founder of a SONIC GAMES event doesn't like when NON-SONIC GAMES are accepted in it
seems reasonable
this is the same shit that killed anime cons as they started allowing capeshit and other western garbage

>>721078018
Any links to a post to his comments? Want to read them, guy made Super Mario Blue Twilight DX right?

>>721079604
https://x.com/BlazeHedgehog/status/1831434338678018236
https://blazehedgehog.tumblr.com/post/760734785868005376/after-watching-sages-2024-trailer-you-ever-get

>>721079784
Fangames at best are a stepping stone to making original works that let you profit and at worst are a dead end timesink with no payoff. It's okay to be upset a Sonic event is moving away from Sonic, but also who doesn't want to be the next Pizza Tower millionaire? Working sucks.

>>721079784
He's not wrong, but I still like playing all the weird games they have there, anyone here know of MFGG and all those shitty HELLO Mario clones?

I WANT TO PLAY THE BOMBUN DEMO BUT THE DOWNLOAD IS CORRUPTED

>>721082518
Hello-engine Mario fangames were my jam back in middleschool. I even worked on one that got so big and ambitious that game maker itself crashed when attempting to load the project file and almost hosed the entire project (it took a weekend to basically rebuild the project file from new to circumvent some dumb shit. Im pretty sure this incident forced YYG to implement some memory cleanup features in the next release since they never expected anyone to collaborate on a team with the tool. Every single asset (sprites, objects, sounds, scripts, rooms, etc) still got loaded into memory even after being deleted from the project.

>>721082892
Never mind it's fixed now.

>>721082892
bunny

>>721079784
>that dedicated pizza tower segment in this showcase that didn't CALL itself one but you knew it was because all the games in it looked IDENTICAL

>>721081438
Yeah, my usual suggestion is that fangames should be something you might use to learn the ropes and get out quick, while anything taking significant time and effort should probably be an original work. Feel free to make a fan game, but don't make it your life's work.