I freehanded this out a couple times to get a feel for a more expressive pose with NiGHTS, since the design is so lanky and expressive in ways I don't think it really ever gets pushed.
saturn NiGHTS was properly unhinged. I feel like modern iterations miss the fact hes a reformed nightmare being so they dont make him look as cheshire as he could be
This highly unusual monster is composed of a massive, lantern-like central body with a hexagonal pattern, with two legless insect bodies sprouting from it. It floats around while the heads spit fireballs at Vectorman. It seems to have no limbs anywhere.
If you ask people who grew up in a specific gaming generation, Konami was one of the legends of the video game industry. It produced numerous franchises such as Contra, Castlevania, Metal Gear, Silent Hill, and even many successful licensed games such as their Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games. Ultimately, talent and leadership are what makes a company, and the company has had multiple exoduses that resulted in the formation of other talented companies founded by ex-Konami employees. These include Treasure (Gunstar Heroes, Light Crusader, Sin and Punishment: A Successor to the Earth), ArtPlay (Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night), Kojima Productions (Death Stranding) and GoödFeël. GoödFeël in particular was founded by former Konami programmer, Goemon producer/director and Ebisumaru namesake, Etsunobu Ebisu. It started out making Japan-only educational games such as English Training and Training Quiz for about three years, before transitioning into action games with a light-hearted feel.
GoödFeël is probably best known for their Nintendo-published games, of which there are quite a handful, including Yoshi’s Woolly World, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Wario Land: Shake It! and Princess Peach: Showtime!
In addition to those, however, GoödFeël has developed a few games that were not published by Nintendo. These include the company’s early educational titles, plus two action games at time of writing this article: Monkey Barrels and Bakeru. Monkey Barrels is a low-mid budget top-down twin-stick shooter involving monkeys. Bakeru, meanwhile, is a possible spiritual successor to the Goemon series with a style of its own.
Pt.1—————————————————————-
0:00 Sega Smash Pack Music
2:35 Industrial Spy Operation Espionage Music
6:00 Phantasy Star Generation 1
1:00:10 Virtua Fighter 2
1:59:50 Panzer Dragoon
3:07:40 Fighting Vipers
4:14:20 Space Harrier
5:33:55 Golden Axe
6:48:40 NiGHTS Into Dreams Attract Mode
6:57:15 Dragon Force
Pt.2—————————————————————-
0:00 Sonic R - Work it Out
4:45 Virtua Fighter 5 - Customization Theme
8:50 Sega Classics Collection Menu
10:55 OutRun
53:20 Alien Syndrome
1:14:25 Columns
1:23:40 Fantasy Zone
1:41:05 Monaco GP
1:51:00 Bonanza Bros.
1:55:40 Virtua Racing
2:08:50 After Burner II
2:33:55 DecAthlete Collection
3:23:20 Phantasy Star Generation 2
4:09:50 Space Harrier Complete Collection
4:57:05 Gunstar Heroes Treasure Box
5:56:15 Last Bronx
7:26:05 Dynamite Deka
8:32:15 Galaxy Force II
9:09:40 Virtual-On: Cyber Troopers
9:40:30 Sonic Gems Collection Menus
9:56:05 Sonic R
10:32:20 NiGHTS Into Dreams
11:25:05 Phantasy Star Complete Collection
Just a bunch of miscellaneous Sonic X-treme development stuff I thought was cool but couldn't fit into something more concise like the 2 previous posts
It might not look like it, but that's a lot of polygons for 1996. At one point they actually intended to use some pretty interesting techniques for creating curved, non-standard, triangular polygons but the idea didn't stick
Love Floppy.
So, important characters like Sonic and Metal were going to be model-based - fully rendered in 3D, whereas basic enemies like these guys were to be sprite-based and rendered in 2D (these two are called Chaz and Gabby btw)
I'm seeing: Minecraft parkour maps
Boss stages made by Christina Coffin. Coffin is awesome, and I don't wanna butcher any details on them so here's a quote from Sonic Retro:
"To create X-treme's boss arenas, Coffin drew inspiration from her passion for classic Sega games. In particular, the engine's distinctive circular boss arenas were inspired by the Core Guard System fight in Treasure's 1993 Mega Drive game Gunstar Heroes, which features a similar circular layout. Coffin also took inspiration from the rendering engine used in NiGHTS into Dreams in her contrasting-colored backlights to prevent Sonic from looking too flat, and by using similar horizon-fogging techniques to mask uneven horizon lines. She attributes rumors of X-treme using Sonic Team's engine to these similarities, definitively stating that she never used the NiGHTS engine, and clarifying that she and Yuji Naka did not see eye to eye during development."
"Coffin intended the Sonic in her engine to be represented by a fully 3D model, with Kunitake Aoki modeling the character during his work on Dynamite Deka. These and other boss engine models were implemented by Coffin to take advantage of what she calls a "quad bug", "where if you collapse opposite points of a Saturn quad you get a triangle with one edge that's collapsed in and smoothly concave in screenspace at the pixel level." Coffin utilized this to demonstrate how enemies could only be safely attacked from certain angles, and to more optimally render terrain hazards like spike pits."
Honestly, reading deeper into it, Coffin sounds like the absolute MVP of this project and the fact their talent and passion was wasted on this dogshit is appalling to me
Come on COMMA Sonic! COME ON COMMA SONIC! AAAHHHH!!!!
From an early trailer for the game. Firstly, a reflex lens is a physical thing, not a technique. The term they were looking for was super/ultra wide-angle lens, or - let's be honest- a fisheye lens. Secondly, you can clearly see they didn't properly crop out the application window border on any of this footage
From a later trailer. Strange angle to take but at least the game footage was properly cropped in this one. Sega of America and Nintendo of America were so weird and obnoxious about Sonic and Mario having some sort of rivalry. ngl it just gets on my nerves
And lastly, from an event called "Sega Rocks the House of Sonic Blues", held at the House of Blues, Sunset Blv. to coincide with E3 1996
Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats btw
Still got an appetite for Sonic X-Treme trivia or you just wanna check those trailers out for yourself? Check this
Big shout out to anyone that worked on this project, extra special shout out to Chris Senn for preserving all of this stuff, and Christina Coffin my heart goes out to you ✊
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