Community:Zaphi/Paper Sonictopia the Ultimate

Paper Sonictopia the Ultimate is a place created by Zaphi. It is a roleplay game using animated 2D morphs from the Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario, Starfox, Banjo Kazooie, Shantae, Conker, and other crossover series. It was inspired by the original Sonictopia made by Shadowthehedgehog05. This place became famous around the time that the user meshes were initially removed in late 2010.

Game
Paper Sonictopia the Ultimate has several areas, but most prominently revolves around a town called Mobious, which is named after Sonic the Hedgehog's world in his comic series, albeit intentionally mispelt with a u. Many areas of the game are inspired by other Sonic-Based Roleplaying games from the early 2010s.

History
The game was initially just a game made for Zaphi and her friends, and was rather low-quality with free models. However, an update in 2010 removed user-meshes, and nearly every 3D-based Sonic Roleplaying game would be aesthetically broken, with characters having no head. Zaphi figured out how to make animated 2D morphs after inspiration from Dogon. This left Zaphi's game with little competition as most other games were 3D. Zaphi stated that the sudden influx of visitors to her private game, she was inspired to take it more seriously, and wanted to be the successor to the games that she used to play, namely Shadowthehedgehog05

Trivia

 * The spelling of the main area, a town called "Mobious", was commonly questioned about whether it is intentionally spelt different from Sonic's homeworld or a typo. It seems to be intentional as in an update, the sign with the town's name has the U crossed out with graffiti, only to later be replaced with a different font and keeping the U.
 * There were seven different Paper Sonictopia the Ultimate games, All made by sonicthewerehog124, each including a different map. However, sometime late 2012 - early 2013, as Roblox's technology, and Zaphi's computer, improved, she combined every map into one. Separating them by several hundred studs and using teleport GUI's to teleport from map to map.
 * Sonictopia was briefly regularly updated in 2018–2019, with several improvements such as an active character-changing prompt as well as new areas, however, Roblox's implementation of the Filtering Enabled feature as a default had caused development to cease.
 * Although somewhat complex for the time, Zaphi stated that she intentionally kept the game's design and "brick-count" low as she wanted her game to be as performance-friendly on low-end computers as possible.