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Hey guys its been a looooooooooooooong time since one of these happened. So this would be the post where I tell you the game is officially dead. Felik and I have moved on to pursuing an actual indie games career with our own IP's so we can do the things needed to stay alive like eat. That WOULD be what this post is about, if not for the fact that this game isn't canceled. Actually this game has a genuine chance of being finished and progress is finally being made again and I am now the Official Head of this fangame However, there is some bad news to go with it.

First off the statement about indie games is true. So this games development is actually going to go slower than before if you can believe that.

The Second Issue is that there has been no one able and available to match Felik in terms of knowledge in Click-team Fusion 2 as such the Neo Genesis will no longer run using the Fusion engine, it will not be using the Sonic Worlds engine either, the game will be moving over to Game maker. As such a lot of the visual assets have to be redone and or re-purposed to work in this new program and new engine. Talks have been happening between the new coders and I, to make a original engine specifically for this game, but it seems like we will be using a modified version of a existing sonic engine in Game Maker 8 before jumping over to the real engine in Game maker Studio.

To be honest it almost feels like we are going backwards, but I really like to see this game complete. I myself have a bad habit of never finishing things, which has now become to driving force to get this done! Not to mention Sonic Mania is around the corner. It scares the heck out of me because despite being a official game, it has the very likely chance of totally eclipsing this game. It even has the potential of suddenly making all concepts and ideas Felik and I had for this game "unoriginal" or "Just like Mania". As weird as you might think the comment is, I want Neo Genesis to stand tall and not be "just like" a game announce a year after this one, but i would be lying if I said that that I didn't uh... borrow any of Mania's Original ideas (things not found in the classics), but that stuff is something that you will only get to see in the next demo.

Speaking of the Next demo... the next demo that will be put up will be the Game Maker build of the Sage 2016 demo dubbed the Sage+ version. I know a lot of people have issues with the one on the site now. Some can't play at all, some have frame rate issues, Some have complete game breaking bugs. The Sage+ version will attempt to fix all of that and present the game the way it was intended, to be seen at Sage. So don't expect too much new content, just know there will be some changes.

In the coming months I'll be posting here more regulatory. With insight to how development is going and some "fun facts" about the game as well as opening the locked doors on the site.

So if you're still looking forward to Sonic Neo Genesis

Be sure to check back here.

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