Does the Deep Sea conceptual Skybox from the 2.2 Indev still exist?

[MetalSandwich]

Hey all!
I watched a neat little video about cut 2.2 Indev content made by a youtuber called Zehrooh, and stumbled upon this actually really beautiful skybox from this screenshot!

I'm almost certain most of the indev stuff from 2.2 (Obviously not the old Sonic sprites and music, since It's all on Youtube as of now) is probably lost media, but It'd nice if this were added in the game (Not actually requesting to be in-game) or apart of a suprise indev content reveal because the development of Deep Sea Zone in this version is quite interesting!

 

[Mr Beagle]

There are old indev shots deep within the annals of this forum. I assume it would've been for Deep Sea Act 2, but what we got instead was a placeholder mix of old and new material.

I would think such segments are being looked at once again since the team no longer has the old guard's veto power to deal with (like that open area with the water current, there also was once a shot of an underwater area with a giant crushing wall that would've been neat to see).

 

[XtremeXavier]

Yep, we still got the map that came from. Most material from 2.2's development is well-preserved, in case any of it finds use in the future.

 

[Whoexer9]

Yep, we still got the map that came from. Most material from 2.2's development is well-preserved, in case any of it finds use in the future.

Interesting...

 

[MetalSandwich]

Yep, we still got the map that came from. Most material from 2.2's development is well-preserved, in case any of it finds use in the future.

That's good to hear, since some people have been saying most of 2.2's Indev content has been reshaped into current 2.2, which is honestly probably not true thinking about it now