Sonic's Hourglass

"TIME IS RUNNING OUT. WILL SONIC BE FAST ENOUGH TO STOP IT?" - Book description Sonic's Hourglass is a 2020 action/horror interactive novel using the characters and world of Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. It was uploaded to Wattpad and later Webnovel, and features a total of one hundred and one chapters including the introduction and acknowledgements. To read the best version of this book, go to this link.

Conception
Sonic's Hourglass was not always a novel. It was originally developed as a freeware Sonic the Hedgehog fangame. At the time, it was called (SONIC) The Hourglass. It was a pastiche of a Super Mario fangame called (MARIO) The Music Box. The game would have been a top-down 2D sprite-based game with puzzle-action gameplay similar to (MARIO) The Music Box -ARC- and the original Legend of Zelda, though with more of an emphasis on combat and level-based progression rather than exploration and puzzles.

The game had a rough development, only having ENF as a developer. In the end, it was decided it would be turned into a book after about one and a half years in development. Thus, (SONIC) The Hourglass was abandoned. The book received a slight name change, being renamed Sonic's Hourglass to distance itself from the (MARIO) The Music Box video game and stand on its own. However, many parallels still remain between Sonic's Hourglass and (MARIO) The Music Box.

Synopsis
Sonic's Hourglass mainly follows the video game icon Sonic the Hedgehog as he ventures through a rift in time only known as Hourglass Land, trying to save his friends and stop the evil menace pulling strings behind the scenes.

Reception
Upon its release on Wattpad, Sonic's Hourglass was met with good response albeit a small reader base. However, when released on Webnovel alongside the other books in the library of ENF, (now going by the username NatNatNat), it actually managed to gather 19K views as of September 26th, 2020. It is currently the most successful book NatNatNat ever published.