Sonic.EXE: Hell Origin

THE STORY YOU'RE ABOUT TO READ ISN'T TRYING TO PAINT ANYONE IN A BAD LIGHT!!! I JUST WANT TO SHARE WHY THIS GAME NEVER GOT COMPLETED.

SO, WHAT IS THIS GAME??

Might've been your question as you saw the name of this fan game... "Hell Origin"... gotta be a cool one, right? And it was supposed to be a cool one, let me tell you that!

So, let me start with the development story of this game...

I have started development on this game with @Microlab5 and @exdx probably somewhere a week before this game was published? I don't remember exactly. We all did our work, I don't remember what each of us was responsible for, so let's leave it at that. A week later, on the 31st of May, 2019, Demo 1 was released, the only finished version of the game.

After demo 1 was finished, we stopped working on the game for some time. Then... I think 3 months later(??) we started work on Demo 2. The version, that as we know, never got to be completed. It basically went into development hell. We all got thrown into our life stuff, and many other things that I can't remember happened, so the game was put on hold. It was on hold for 2 years I think, we were saying we'll finish it... but we never got to work, we had our life stuff and I had my other projects that are now gone. So, for those 2 years, the game remained frozen and untouched. During that time @exdx left the development team.

So, after those two years, @Gorfield-Strikes-back came and asked if they can help me with the development. I agreed and that's how they got involved. They basically did all the work on Demo 2... Sonic's part and Tails' also got all finished. The stalemate was on Knuckles' part and... we lost it. They never got finished, and we silently moved on. Gorfield was still trying to make things for the game, but... it was already doomed. This game stopped getting progress and we all moved on.

Five years after Demo 1 released, I got bullied by my friends for the projects I've done as a kid. Thankfully, that didn't include this game. So, that's when I deleted all of my games. I decided to leave this game up, finally putting it as cancelled, thus closing a page of my life and moving on.

This game is probably an example of how you shouldn't make a game you're not ready for. We were kids when we started work on it. I was 10! That's crazy! I think I should mention, that none of the people mentioned here are bad in any way, and this isn't trying to paint someone as such. I don't think I've left out anything important besides what I just wrote. I want to keep this old chilhood project of mine up, while not letting this hinder my future :)

On November 10th, 2025, I've found the source code of the unfinished Demo 2 in DMs with @Microlab5 , so I thought that there's nothing to lose with publishing what we had made. You can go through the unfinished Demo 2 and see what we were cooking up. Now I can let go of this project, and move on to my other ones.

I hope you'll check out my other projects as they come, or other projects of people that were involved with the development of this game. Have a nice day!!!

The credits are staying up, people here are awesome!

@coolmisha2010 - Work on Demo 1, also Demo 2 work (Sonic level and that placeholder menu).

@Microlab5 - Knuckles levels, and work on Demo 1.

@Gorfield-Strikes-back - TONS of work on Demo 2. Sonic level overhaul, Tails's levels.

@exdx - Work on Demo 1, made the cool header and thumbnail!!!!!

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