This year’s Sonic Amateur Games Expo has come to an end, with this year seeming to be one of the best. For those that don’t know about SAGE is an online gaming expo for fan game developers to show off their Sonic the Hedgehog based games.

Some highlights this year included interviews and workshops with various people tied to the Sonic franchise including Chris Senn, Eric Iwasaki, Lee Brotherton, Mike Pollock, Richard Jacques, and Ryan Drummond. You can find various content including chat logs and workshop documents here under the Chat Transcripts and Logs section.

As mentioned earlier the main point of SAGE is the Sonic-based games created by members of the Sonic Community. Some rather interesting ones included:
Stealth showed off a new version his E02 Game Engine and Sonic the Hedgehog: Project Mettrix this year. Project Mettrix uses the E02 Game Engine which some may be familiar with having seen the level export feature in SonEd.
Sonic Rebirth is an interesting remake of Sonic 1 giving it updated graphics and a storyline to follow. For those of you interested in Sonic 2: HD or the Sonic 4 project this may catch your eye.
Saxman has made his first release for his long waited for project, ProSonic. It is still has much work to be done but it is definitely off to a great start.
There is also the final release of Sonic 1 Megamix by Retro’s Team Megamix. This is the last and final release we will see from Team Megamix with the game brought to the Sega CD.

Of course this is not all there was to SAGE, I invite you to take a look to see if there are any other projects and games that interested you.

SAGE Website