Kevin & Friends - Video Game



Kevin & Friends - Video Game is a non-profit, open-source platform game developed by the Ages Team for Game Jolt. It is designed as a SEGA-Genesis style on Scratch that can only be played on PC, in which it is called an "X-bit SEGA Genesis." The game is developed by a group of kids at school and the Ages Team itself as well.

The game is supposedly designed to be a fan Sonic game. But the developers (Who are children) don't have too much knowledge to program platforming Sonic game with moving objects or winning rings or points. So, the game is pretty much looks more like a beginner's work-in-progress BETA-mode game. Plot:

The story follows Kevin and his 2 other friends confronting Trixie (The main antagonist of the series) who is an evil, maniac magician. Trixie's goal is to attempt to conquer the Amous Base which innocent orphans inside. Trixie will use the orphans to turn them into her minions to help her take over the world. The 3 friends chased Trixie in attempt to take her down. Trixie got too paranoid to stay in the Amous Base, continuously attempting to take over the base, so she went outside and went to Westside Island and went to Hill Top zone (Where Sonic the Hedgehog 2 takes place). Then she went up to Heaven to hide, and since Trixie is an antagonist, she is forbitten from Heaven.

After Trixie got defeated for the third time, the 3 friends returned back to the Amous Base to eat as a celebration of their victory.  Development: 

The game was based off of the YouTube animated series, Kevin & Friends series, which was created by Papichi05. The game is developed by Papichi05, the Ages Team, and a group of children at school. The game didn't have a director and the whole plot was created by random people in the whole group.

Papich05 attempted to design the game himself on December 2019, making the platforming engine himself, and a few weeks later, he eventually gave up and scrapped the whole game. Some kids at schools offered Papchi05 to help him on his project, and he agreed. The development of the official game began at April, 2020. But the school year was almost over and Papichi05 had to use Emails from his friends to send the game back and fourth, from person to person to program, draw, and import sounds.

Sound effects were used from Sonic Mania, which was downloaded from a YouTube video and was used for sound effects. And the SEGA Genesis music was recorded in the Kega Fusion emulator. The developers has to record the music from the OBS studio program and convert it into an MP3 file to import it to the project. While recording the music with the OBS studio program, the developers had to make sure that there is no audio skips in the emulator, and when the audio skips, the developers has to start over and record the entire track again. What the developers didn't know is that the emulator has a feature to record the SEGA Genesis music as a WAV file, without skipping the audio itself.

All graphics was made entirely in pixel-art and vector trace images. Papichi05 designed all characters for the game and some kids at school did level designs and backgrounds. Most vector images were broken, due to the painting tool that was a little buggy.

In September 2020, the developers tested the whole game character by character to make sure it is working correctly. And by the time it was ready, the game is officially published on the Scratch website by August 16th, 2020, and on Game Jolt by February 9th, 2021.