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	'''How was working on Spinball?'''		'''How was working on Spinball?'''

	Spinball was fun. It was a little frustrating cause I got pulled off of… did I get pulled off Segapede to do Spinball? I think so. Sometime I did, in fact, go through my journal and get a timeline of events. It was fun to be back on a Sonic title, even though it wasn't Sonic 3. It's interesting. This is another one where Brenda got screwed because they were supposed to be ~~like~~ a hidden watery cave level as level one [Underwater Caves]. The game would start with Sonic flying into this cave at sea level, and then you'd come into those caves, and this toxic level, which I was doing, and then into these other levels on up. Then for reasons they had to cut a level, and so they kept Brenda's and smushed, theme-wise, her's and mine together.		Spinball was fun. It was a little frustrating cause I got pulled off of… did I get pulled off Segapede to do Spinball? I think so. Sometime I did, in fact, go through my journal and get a timeline of events. It was fun to be back on a Sonic title, even though it wasn't Sonic 3. It's interesting. This is another one where Brenda got screwed because they were supposed to be a hidden watery cave level as level one [Underwater Caves]. The game would start with Sonic flying into this cave at sea level, and then you'd come into those caves, and this toxic level, which I was doing, and then into these other levels on up. Then for reasons they had to cut a level, and so they kept Brenda's and smushed, theme-wise, her's and mine together.

	Now the bottom half of my level, I had to go through and convert what was slime, on the bottom of mine, into water that turned into slime the higher you got on the level. If you look at screenshots, the patterns of this bulbous rocky formation that make up the cave is, in fact, Hidden Palace artwork dressed up. It's the same shape, it's the same repeating patterns, because that pattern worked so well, that I just rounded all the edges and turned it into these gooey bulbous shapes as opposed to squared-off polygons.		Now the bottom half of my level, I had to go through and convert what was slime, on the bottom of mine, into water that turned into slime the higher you got on the level. If you look at screenshots, the patterns of this bulbous rocky formation that make up the cave is, in fact, Hidden Palace artwork dressed up. It's the same shape, it's the same repeating patterns, because that pattern worked so well, that I just rounded all the edges and turned it into these gooey bulbous shapes as opposed to squared-off polygons.

	I remember it was fun. It was a little frustrating working with Peter… starts with an M [Peter Morawiec], who was the lead designer and did a lot of artwork and did all that. He was a real perfectionist. He had a vision of how he wanted it to be. There was a lot of reworking stuff that was… sometimes he'd have a good point and other times it's like,"Why? No. That's just… that's fine." But once again, both he and Adrian, the programmer, were both really nice guys and just working their butts off. Yeah, so it was good. It was good to be back on a Sonic title.		I remember it was fun. It was a little frustrating working with Peter… starts with an M [Peter Morawiec], who was the lead designer and did a lot of artwork and did all that. He was a real perfectionist. He had a vision of how he wanted it to be. There was a lot of reworking stuff that was… sometimes he'd have a good point and other times it's like, "Why? No. That's just… that's fine." But once again, both he and Adrian, the programmer, were both really nice guys and just working their butts off. Yeah, so it was good. It was good to be back on a Sonic title.

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	'''All right. Talk to you later. Bye bye.'''		'''All right. Talk to you later. Bye bye.'''


			::''[https://segaretro.org/Interview:_Craig_Stitt_(2025-08-02)_by_Alexander_Rojas This interview was originally published on Sega Retro on August 7, 2025].''

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	'''Great, I've noticed that. Thank you just so much for having that mindset because it means that not only does a lot of your work get shared and more well known, but others' as well, just information~~. That~~'s a great mindset to have.'''		'''Great, I've noticed that. Thank you just so much for having that mindset because it means that not only does a lot of your work get shared and more well known, but others' as well. And just [sharing] information; that's a great mindset to have.'''

	Yeah, it makes me wish I had taken better notes back in the day. I've got a whole box of stuff at Sega that went missing. You know, a move, either when I left Sega or a move somewhere, so a lot of my sketches and all that stuff back at my time at Sega are gone, which is unfortunate.		Yeah, it makes me wish I had taken better notes back in the day. I've got a whole box of stuff at Sega that went missing. You know, a move, either when I left Sega or a move somewhere, so a lot of my sketches and all that stuff back at my time at Sega are gone, which is unfortunate.

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	What was working with Yuji Naka like?		What was working with Yuji Naka like?

	'''He didn't like Americans. He didn't like speaking English. He was a dick. I really have nothing nice to say about Naka. On the other hand, Yasuhara I love and would… There's very few things that would get me back into the game industry~~. If Yasuhara called~~. If Mark called or Yasuhara called and said, "Hey, I've got something I'd want to do with you." I'd say, "Yes." Naka didn't like Americans, he didn't like Americans on his team. I'm particularly pissed at him because at the end of Sonic 2, Roger Hector, who was the head of STI at that time, told me that I was going to be a lead artist on Sonic 3 and was very excited about that. But Naka being Naka- cause the way Naka got what he wanted is he threatened everyone. If he didn't get what he wanted, he threatened to quit. So he was going to quit. He wasn't going to do Sonic 3 unless he got his own all-Japanese team in their own office with separate key cards. That was all Japanese. So Sonic 3 was done across the hall behind locked doors. Which pissed me off cause I was supposed to be one of the lead artists on it.'''		'''He didn't like Americans. He didn't like speaking English. He was a dick. I really have nothing nice to say about Naka. On the other hand, Yasuhara I love and would… There's very few things that would get me back into the game industry. If Mark called or Yasuhara called and said, "Hey, I've got something I'd want to do with you." I'd say, "Yes." Naka didn't like Americans, he didn't like Americans on his team. I'm particularly pissed at him because at the end of Sonic 2, Roger Hector, who was the head of STI at that time, told me that I was going to be a lead artist on Sonic 3 and was very excited about that. But Naka being Naka- cause the way Naka got what he wanted is he threatened everyone. If he didn't get what he wanted, he threatened to quit. So he was going to quit. He wasn't going to do Sonic 3 unless he got his own all-Japanese team in their own office with separate key cards. That was all Japanese. So Sonic 3 was done across the hall behind locked doors. Which pissed me off cause I was supposed to be one of the lead artists on it.'''

	You're not the only one.		You're not the only one.

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