Sonic Hacking Contest 2015 Results Announced

The results are in. Here are the results to this year’s Sonic Hacking Contest along with some remarks from the staff.

Until next year!

JUDGED TROPHIES

THE TOP THREE

Hidden Palace Trophy

Grand prize / 1st place. This is given to the overall best hack in the contest.

 

Sonic 1 – The Next Level by MarkeyJester

Wood Zone Trophy

2nd place.

 

Knuckles’ Emerald Hunt by MainMemory

Dust Hill Trophy

3rd place.

 

Big’s Fishing Derby by flamewing

AND NOW FOR THE REST OF THE TROPHIES

Green Hill Trophy

Hack (or specific level of a hack if non-applicable) that plays most like a Sonic game.

 

Windy Valley Trophy

Best art in a hack submitted.

D.A. Garden Trophy

Best music in a hack submitted.

11000101 Trophy

Best technical / proof of concept hack submitted.

Fang Trophy

Best new enemy/badnik in a hack submitted.

Eggman Trophy

Best new boss or miniboss in a hack submitted.

Carnival Night Trophy

Most innovative game play feature in a hack submitted.

Casinopolis Trophy

Most entertaining / fun hack submitted.

Newtrogic High Trophy

Voted best hack of the contest by the Media team.

ALL GO TO: Sonic 1 – The Next Level by MarkeyJester

 

Don’t worry, he didn’t win every single trophy. Here’s the ones he didn’t win:

 

Lava Reef Trophy

Best level layout in a hack submitted.

Sonic 3: D.A. Garden Edition by D.A. Garden

 

Genocide City Trophy

Most difficult hack (or specific level of a hack if non-applicable) submitted.

Sonic 3 & Knuckles: Hard Bosses Edition 2 (Demo) by TheBlad

 

Wing Fortress Trophy

Best Cutscene in a hack submitted.

 

Tails Trophy

Most improved hack from last year’s contest.

ALL GO TO: Big’s Fishing Derby by flamewing

 

Generations Trophy

Best Sonic Generations (or other 3D game) mod.

Tropical Resort All in One Remastered by brianuuu

 

Spin Dash Trophy

Best new ability in a hack submitted.

Bunnie Rabbot In Sonic The Hedgehog by E-122-Psi

 

Emerald Trophy

Best Special Stage in a hack submitted.

An Apeeling Sonic Hack by VAdaPEGA

 

Robotnik’s Revenge Trophy

Best fresh concept using existing concepts as the backbone in a hack submitted.

Knuckles’ Emerald Hunt by MainMemory

 

Polygon Jim Trophy

Most unique hack submitted.

CrazySonic by The Ducks Team

 

Shadow Trophy

Because we had to bring back the NSFW content trophy after that fanfic…

SonicMT.bin by Natsumi

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COMMUNITY TROPHIES

Hidden Palace Community Trophy

Voted best hack submitted overall.

Windy Valley Community Trophy

Voted best art hack submitted.

11000101 Community Trophy

Voted best technical hack submitted.

D.A. Garden Community Trophy

Voted best music hack submitted.

 

ALL GO TO: Sonic 1 – The Next Level by MarkeyJester

 

Lava Reef Community Trophy

Voted best level layout hack submitted.

Sonic 3: D.A. Garden Edition by D.A. Garden

 

Big the Cat Community Trophy

Voted worst hack submitted overall.

Sonic The Hedgehog 1: Hold Right To Win Edition by Shade Vortex

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Thanks to all those participated, the judges, those who did streams and anyone else I’ve missed. The contest staff will come together shortly to evaluate this year’s contest and see what could be looked at for next year. Already a few things have been noted down as worth adding / changing / etc. We will also be looking for new judges as Shadow Fire is far too busy to judge nowadays and D.A. Garden is retiring from judging. Don’t ask to be a judge, let us ask you if we feel you’re up to the job.

It is safe to say that with 50 entries (and all were public too), it was a better year than last time. But let’s just say this, it doesn’t matter about the quantity – what matters is the quality! There are many hacks submitted that are doing good, and could do far better if they are submitted next year with improvements and what not that are needed. There’s a Tails Trophy for a reason you know.

The 2016 Contest will be announced when it’s ready to be announced, but expect a similar October deadline like this year, so you pretty much have just under a year to work on an entry for next year’s contest. Some will work on something early on and be ready to submit, whilst others will still do things at the very last-minute. But as long as you meet the deadlines, just do what you can.

If you enjoy coming together and getting involved in things once again, you don’t have to wait until next year, as SAGE is returning this December. It’s not just for fan games, hacks ARE being accepted there too! So if you submitted anything to this contest and want to refine it to show off to perhaps more people, there’s a platform for you there.

Thanks for taking part!

This article was originally written by the author to TSSZ News.