Sega isn’t a big supporter of fanmade Sonic the Hedgehog games. The publisher is incredibly protective of the IP, and Nitrome, the UK mobile development team that created Bomb Chicken, Super Leap Day, and the upcoming Shovel Knight Dig, recently revealed that Sega rejected its pitch for an official mobile Sonic game.
Nitrome shared the clip of the demo for its mobile Sonic game on Twitter yesterday, which is a vertical wall-running platformer inspired by the classic Sonic games on Genesis (Mega Drive for international gamers) that shows Sonic performing parkour as he runs up and jumps from wall to wall on his way up to the capsule. According to Nintendo Life, the company said that the engine the demo was running on was “pretty authentic” and “very close to the Sonic engine logic,” hence the fast frame rate. While there was no proper name attached to the demo, it…
