Indie Weekly (April – May)

April 19, 2023 – The long-running Sonic the Hedgehog fan project, Project ’06, has released its newest update adding Silver the Hedgehog’s campaign stages along with Sonic and Shadow’s trial campaign stages. Project ’06, commonly shortened to “P-06“, is a fan project created by user “ChaosX” and his development team, with the first demo trailer being unveiled to the public on April 19th, 2019 . This project is an attempt to recreate a notorious entry in the line-up of Sonic titles, Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (often shortened to simply “Sonic ’06“,) in an effort to mold it into something that can live up to the hype that the original game could not live up to upon its release. P-06 has provided fans with the experience they dreamed of having whilst playing Sonic ’06, proving that with more time and dedication, any project can eventually succeed!

April 21, 2023 – On the topic of Sonic the Hedgehog related media, the highly anticipated Sonic Amateur Games Expo, also known as “SAGExpo” or simply “SAGE“, has announced their 2023 season opening date of September 1, 2023, and ending date of September 8, 2023. The theme of this season, showcased in their announcement trailer, is based off of another one of Sega’s IPs, NiGHTS.

SAGE ’23 logo drawn by Pixy-Pie

SAGExpo is an event was originally founded in the year 2000 by Ryan Bloom to showcase fan games related to the Sonic community, which has since been expanded to showcase any and all indie and fan games and their developers’ talents!

April 25, 2023 – Popular musical and visual artist “YonGaKor” has released a new song titled “Trash Talkin’” in collaboration with artist “kennyoung.” The song is written in a groovy swing rhythm, which is typical of most of Yon’s music.

Thumbnail art by YonGaKor

YonGaKor is best known for writing about deep and thought provoking themes in their music, focusing on emotion and expression of self while making it catchy to boot. Some songs are more personal to them, illustrating a memory or situation they experienced in their life; These tracks are often more slow and calm in tone compared to their more bouncy tunes.

Campside Diary: Entry 2

April 28, 2023 – By the time this newsletter is published, I’ll have moved to our new house! At the time of writing, everything is packed and ready to go. Cinder, my cat, will hopefully go to a good foster home and be taken care of.

Once we settle into the new home, I plan to return to being a snail keeper, which I haven’t seen in quite some time. I would like to build them a proper terrarium for them to thrive and breed for multiple generations! Snails are an absolute delight to have as pets, at least to me!