Level 2024 unlocked! Congratulations on completing level 2023, and here's to a brand new year of adventures (with 366 stars to collect since it's a leap year)! ⭐
"We gotta learn from this. We'll definitely evaluate the whole year since it's done now, and try to come out stronger... Sometimes, you have to take a step back to take two forward..."
Last year, I hosted a Sky-themed MerMay challenge on Instagram! I designed these characters as my own entries for it, but due to interest/energy issues (worsened by Dopamine Jail at the time), I unfortunately had to leave it unfinished.
Since then, I've been yearning to show off these lovely characters, as there was a lot of joy designing them out in my old backyard. So I made this doodle with some rough marker rendering.
They now have a place within the Sky Kingdom, as a semi-secret society of Light Children who switch between capes and mermaid tails. Sort of like the hypogrypths in My Little Pony G4! They all worship ASEA, the goddess of ABZU whom Tapushea was split from, which is how they switch between air and water.
Sonic Frontiers wins Excellence Award at the Japan Game Awards 2023
Sonic Frontiers has been awarded an Excellence Award in the 2023 Japan Game Awards, the Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association announced early Thursday.
Director Morio Kishimoto accepted the award on behalf of SEGA during a live ceremony, and shared a few words to Sonic fans and the audience.
We just finished the development of the third update for Sonic Frontiers this morning. Thank you for voting for Sonic Frontiers and choosing us to win this honorable award.
With this award and future awards, we will continue to listen to the voices of our players to keep evolving the third generation of Sonic.
The ceremony, hosted at this year's Tokyo Game Show, awards several high quality games from a variety of genres released in the past year.
Previously, Frontiers won in the Japan Games Awards’ "Future Division" in 2022, which awards non-released or anticipated works.
(story contributed by Spectre and Scarlett for the Tails' Channel newsfeed.)
[1. cartoony character designs for Link and Zelda from Spirit Tracks. Zelda is tall and lanky, with Tetra's darker skin. she is holding her hands up like raptor hands or perhaps a cartoon ghost in both her "living" and "spirit" version, which is tinted blue. Link is short with freckles and dark blonde hair. in the first, he is in his blue engineer uniform with a red hat and scarf, in the second he is wearing an oversized green coat and hat.
2. four drawings of scenes from Spirit Tracks: 1. Link and Zelda in her room. She says, thinking hard, "...so I think something is wrong". 2. Link gets the spirit pipes and holds them up. Zelda smiles behind him. 3. Link distracts a guard while Zelda sneaks behind a hedge. 4. Link looks at spirit Zelda in alarm while she floats up by the ceiling of her room]