MetaFox
MetaFox, also known as JenniBee, founded Indie Dreams, Cyberdog Castle, and its imprint Cydoca Entertainment, Dreamcast-Scene America, and Dream On. MetaFox also posted news for DCEmulation and DCEmu UK, posted news for and was the third webmaster of Consolevision, created art as a part of Screamcast, and is the fourth webmaster of DC Evolution.
Released projects
In 2000, MetaFox released the first DOS version of the emulator LASER, or Little Arcade Machine Emulator Releases, based on Mike Green's SinVader. LASER was ported to the Dreamcast as LaserDC by Steven Harris, better known as ss_teven, in 2001. In 2004, ss_teven overhauled the LASER codebase to utilize the portable development library SDL, or the Simple Directmedia Layer.
In 2002, MetaFox took over the development of DCGenerator from ATani, a Sega Genesis emulator based on Generator by James Ponder.
In 2003, MetaFox released the first issue of Dream On Magazine at the Midwest Gaming Classic. Also in 2003, MetaFox released single game builds compiled with warmtoe's Maim, a port of MAME, or the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, to Dreamcast.
MetaFox ran a yearly Sega Dreamcast coding contest known as the Dream On Contest every year from 2003 to 2006. The contest was held jointly with The GOAT Store, and the winners from the contest got their games published by GOAT Store Publishing. The winners, that were published by The GOAT Store, were Inhabitants and Maqiupai.
In 2004, MetaFox released a port of RAW, an interpreter that played Eric Chahi's Another World, known as Out of this World in North America, and Outer World in Japan. In 2005, Eric Chahi graciously allowed Another World to be released on Dreamcast for free. The freeware version of Another World was released by GPF.
A Dreamcast convention named DreamCon was created by and hosted by MetaFox in 2005 and 2006. The convention was held by Curt Grymala in 2007. For the 10th anniversary of the convention in 2015, MetaFox once again was the host.
In 2006, MetaFox joined the team of the ScummVM adventure and role-playing game interpreter as a wiki editor, code contributor, and translator. Also in 2006, a compilation disc named The Sandman was released by the DC Evolution team with input from MetaFox. The Sandman was originally intended to be released as a companion CD for the second issue of the Dream On Magazine, but as that issue was postponed, it was released as a free compilation by DCEvolution. The Sandman included BurgerDC, Screamcast's game based on BurgerTime, which was designed and programmed by warmtoe, contained music by DaMadFiddler, and had art created by Krut and MetaFox.
MetaFox's Sandmenu was developed for The Sandman compilation but was first demonstrated at the first stop of DreamCon in 2006. Sandmenu ultimately wasn't used in The Sandman, but it was used in other compilations by DC Evolution, including Alice Dreams History.
MetaFox also created the Dreamcast Cygwin tutorial that fackue used when creating the DC Dev ISO, which was released in 2008.
In 2015, MetaFox released Indiana Jones and the Call of Thunder, a fangame originally created by Dominik Haslinger, Jens Doblies, and Sebastien Ronsse, that was previously released in 2011 in source code form. The game was created with ScummGEN, a compiler for scripts written in SCUMM, or Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion. In order to make the game completable, MetaFox fixed bugs, added missing art, and expanded the storyline. MetaFox's expanded version was first released for Windows, macOS, and Linux using the ScummVM adventure and role-playing game interpreter. The game was released on Dreamcast later that year, using Marcus Comstedt's ScummVM port, in a SCUMM Fan Game Compilation released by DC Evolution.
Released game demos
In 1997, MetaFox released a 16-bit Windows version of an adventure game named The Adventures of Gus and Rob. A one-room demo of a small-screen adaptation of The Adventures of Gus and Rob was released for the Neo Geo Pocket Color in 2002. In 2003, the first Dreamcast demo of the Dreamcast version of The Adventures of Gus and Rob was released for display at the Dreamcast-Scene booth at the Games Convention.
Projects on indefinite hold
In 2002 Cyberdog Castle announced Mike Siecieska's Motocross, which is considered to be on indefinite hold as no new information about the game was released after the announcement.
In 2003, Cydoca Entertainment announced a maze game named Construction Obstruction and Dream'N'Play, a program that would enable game creation on the Dreamcast without programming knowledge. Nothing further has been revealed about either project, so they are both on indefinite hold.
Cydoca Entertainment took pre-orders for a party game known as Chikugoyaku in 2004, but a hard drive crash caused the project to be postponed and refunds were issued. Pre-orders for the second issue of Dream On Magazine were also taken in 2006, but the second issue was postponed due to personal issues and refunds were issued.
Also in 2006, MetaFox announced Penguin Skiing, Wacky Wonders, and a Beats of Rage modification based on the animated television series Futurama. As nothing was revealed after these announcements, all of these games are also considered to be on indefinite hold.