I stumbled across a post from a 'company' called Towan-Games-Studio who has a Patreon page & talks about 'secret sonic game' of the same name.
This looks to be a complete remake with a number of changes to the mechanics -- and with what i thought at first, for some reason, to be different photos of the same house from BSC, but upon cross-checking are obviously of a different house. (Look, I haven't played in a while.) The living room photo looks
way crisper than anything you'd see in a Flash game, to the point I thought it might be a 3D render (I think I remember seeing someone's Blender project of recreating the house layout once a while ago), but then the kitchen is considerably lower-res and less of a nice photo. (Also contains what looks to be a family photo of a couple of some kind of strange hairless, yet non-reptilian anthro species... that might not be a good idea to have in your cubfucking game. Or in a WIP Patreon preview of your cubfucking game, even if you're gonna edit the photo out later).
Aval0nx has alluded in the past to an updated Ren'Py remake/update of his own that he had been working with one or two other people on, so for a moment (before I checked and realized the house was totally different) I thought that it was possible he's working with Towan on this version. But, even if I hadn't double-checked the photos from the game, I really really doubt that he'd stand for replacing the art with such an unmistakably better-looking style than his. lmao. (The artist is SoulCentinel, by the way, but it looks like for this he's taking some cues from unknownanon's style of drawing Cream.)
I get why one would want to have the choices show you what stat changes they will have, but for my money, that cheapens the game quite a bit. If you really want to remove one of the few basic skills VNs ask of you -- anticipating the probable outcomes of a choice, how a character will react to it, and how it will affect your relationship -- you can just look at the script files to see if groping her before getting her to take off her dress is a bad idea. I prefer just, you know, playing the game (and yes, more recently, examining the script files, but that doesn't stick in the memory as well) to generally know what choices will get me the stats I want in an expedient manner.
So yeah, that's some unrelated guy just deciding to make his own version, (for his own part, the screenshots shown so far purely containing the original dialogue/writing either verbatim, condensed, or with parts slightly and awkwardly reworded -- probably lifted from this version, since that's far easier than trying to extract text from a Flash project. But then again it's always possible that the awkward wording might just be the
original wording, before FB or Novilon reworded it to be
less awkward. I was sure that the line for summoning Cream had to be one of those that Towan reworded, but no, it's just like that. I'll have to look into whether the reworded lines are from an earlier version.) and get that sweet sweet patreon money for it. Though the fact that he's sharing some of it with an artist is nice.
(They also state more images are available on their Discord - maybe THIS is the Discord everyone thinks exists)
It's not. The Discord has been around since the FuzzyBunny version. It's pretty easy to find, knowing that
. Not super active at present, for what it's worth, but don't go flooding it either.
EDIT: Incidentally, for anyone curious, Novilon's last post in the Discord is from mid-November. I guess we'll yet see if the project is actually abandoned or not, but people are still posting bugs and typos they find which will hopefully be integrated into the next version, be that by Novilon or someone else.