This is nice but also gives me a challenge. The Sonic engine is as accurate as is sensible. Lapper: That’s a great question because again it all comes down to slopes. Was it a challenge to nail them down and do they cause any issues when designing levels? Q: Sonic is notorious for having a difficult to replicate engine, namely in terms of physics. I can’t go into specifics in that regard yet as it’s all in progress. Aside from editing, there will be a sharing aspect. It’s not hard to create something unique from what’s provided. Tilt a bridge, remove that grass, rotate a spring, lengthen that palm tree. Everything is pre-made in a sense, but have various attributes you can edit at will. Lapper: You can choose characters, zones, decorate, and customise. Q: Obviously creating levels is a big part of Sonic Studio, but what other features can you tell us about the game? I see this project as a challenge of sorts! But for a style of a game such as 2D Sonic, I believe this is a fitting risk. It’s not easy to regulate what someone makes when you aren’t bound to tiles. I always knew a method for allowing people to create their own slopes was a … slippery slope. For a dedicated editor with Sonic to be truly worth while, slopes had to be the core of the creativity. I started building editors which followed the tile method. Officially, I was originally inspired by the PlaySega Level Creator from back in 2010 where you would place large pre-made tiles down in a grid. Lapper: I’ve been making level editors ever since I started making anything. Q: There’s a lot of Sonic fan game engines out there, but never something that’s quite as easy to use as Sonic Studio? What was the driving for or inspiration behind it’s inception? Enter Lapper, a Sonic Retro user who has been working diligently since 2010 to create a more thorough and consistent level creator based on previous Sonic titles on the Genesis dubbed Sonic Studio (formerly known as Sonic Maker.) We took some time to grill Lapper about his project and what we can expect in the future. While long since gone, as PlaySEGA itself has been shut down for several years now, those who played it will likely recall a less than stellar recreation of the original Sonic the Hedgehog with some new sprites thrown in for a fairly limited experience. Level creators are nothing new to video games at large, but throughout the long history of the series, Sonic the Hedgehog has only had one level editor officially released.

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