One of Sonic mania’s lead devs is a notorious romhacker IIRC, and some other members of the team are modders too. They were hired by the one guy who knows what they’re doing regarding sonic at Sega (can’t remember his name right now) because he saw their passion and talent. It’s one of the few good modern sonic games imo
Black Mesa is a HL1 fan remake. They realized halfway though that very long project that they couldn’t sell it so they went to Gabe and he gave them his blessing
AM2R is, as it’s name states, another Metroid 2 remake made by a fan. It’s very well made and free, but Nintendo hit it with a lawsuit like right after they released the trailer for Samus Returns, instead of, you know, hiring the guy to make great 2D Metroid games
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One of Sonic mania’s lead devs is a notorious romhacker IIRC, and some other members of the team are modders too. They were hired by the one guy who knows what they’re doing regarding sonic at Sega (can’t remember his name right now) because he saw their passion and talent. It’s one of the few good modern sonic games imo
Black Mesa is a HL1 fan remake. They realized halfway though that very long project that they couldn’t sell it so they went to Gabe and he gave them his blessing
AM2R is, as it’s name states, another Metroid 2 remake made by a fan. It’s very well made and free, but Nintendo hit it with a lawsuit like right after they released the trailer for Samus Returns, instead of, you know, hiring the guy to make great 2D Metroid games