It appears Sonic Classic Collection for Nintendo DS was originally going to be a much bigger collection at one point, with more games and content. The Sonic Stadium has found images on the portfolio of former SEGA Studios Australia employee Brooke Luder that reveal Sonic Spinball, Sonic 3D Blast (aka Sonic 3D Flickies’ Island) and Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine were all part of the collection during development. This would explain why sprites from Sonic Spinball and Sonic 3D Blast can be seen in the credits roll.

Another image shows that video content was planned too, though no examples are given. You can check out more images in the gallery at the bottom of this article.

SONIC CLASSIC COLLECTION SEGA Australia had the good fortune (WOOO!) of acquiring the Sonic Classic Collection port to Nintendo DS. I created all the UI artwork for the port. This included recreating all the game logos as Sega no longer had the original editable logos. It also involved designing and creating the in-game assets for all the front end menus and ingame menus that weren’t part of the original game play and creating sprite sheets for the EFIGS language conversions. Studio: SEGA Australia

Fun Factor: OMG!

Publisher: SEGA America

Release Date: 2010

Platform: Nintendo DS

Position: Senior UI/UX Artist

Software: Photoshop, Illustrator

Skills: Graphic Design/Layout

In non-Sonic news that will no doubt disappoint a lot of SEGA fans, Luder’s portfolio reveals that a Crazy Taxi 4 pitch was made by SEGA Studios Australia. No information about the pitch unfortunately, but we’re shown the above piece of concept art at least.

CRAZY TAXI CONCEPT ART A concept piece created for the Crazy Taxi pitch from SEGA Australia. Illustrated in Photoshop and logo design created in Illustrator.

Studio: SEGA, Australia

Location: Brisbane, Australia

Software: Photoshop, Illustrator

Skills: Illustration, Logo Design

Luder has also shared some concept art of SEGA Studios Australia’s official video game for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS CONCEPT ART I was involved in early stage graphics prototyping for SEGA’s London 2012 Olympics game. As part of this experience I created some of the early stage pitch art for game play prototyping. Studio: SEGA Australia

Fun Factor: Gold!

Location: Brisbane, Australia

Position: Senior UI Artist

Software: Corel Painter

Skills: Illustration, Concept Art

Brooke Luder’s portfolio: Sonic Classic Collection, Crazy Taxi 4, London 2012 Olympic Games