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Story of a Lost Sky Release 0.7.0 and the Roadmap to 0.7.1

Published by Fawkes on February 10, 2012 in games and touhou. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Story of a Lost Sky Title Art

We’ve recently released version 0.7.0 of our Touhou SRPG, Story of a Lost Sky. Check it out here. We’ve received some good feedback already, but we’d appreciate any comments as to how best to improve our project.

New Features

  • New missions: Chapter 3 (6 events total)
  • New portraits: Mokou, Reimu
  • New battle animation sprites: Fuzzball, Fairy
  • New playable character: Aya
  • New map sprites
  • New music: Big crisis theme and victory theme.
  • A few characters have been rebalanced. Work is still in progress.

This documents the programming and game design objectives that we are aiming to complete for 0.7.1 and we’ll be pursuing over the next few months. The objectives for the art and music components haven’t been assembled yet as we’ll need to consult with our staff to figure out where things stand. We’ll be working on three major branches.

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Youyou Kengeki Musou – First Impression

Published by Fawkes on December 27, 2011 in games and touhou. 1 Comment Tags: , .

Youyou Kengeki Musou is a doujin game from the doujin circle Annkake-Spa. They’ve recently released a demo of their game that demonstrates the central mechanics of the game. What follows is a first impression of the two-stage demo that they released a few days ago. The scope of the game and how well polished it feels is something that is to be commended for a doujin work from both the gameplay, music, and quality of the visuals.

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[12 Days] Day 7: Nekogami Yaoyorozu needs more love.

Published by Fawkes on December 20, 2011 in anime and touhou. 1 Comment Tags: , .

Nekogami Yaoyorozu was an anime that flew under the radar for most. It was airing at the same time as Steins;Gate and Nichijou, so it’s not surprising that it didn’t get as much attention as it deserved. What attracted me to it was that this was an adaptation of an original manga by FLIPFLOPs, the Touhou doujin artist that I wrote about earlier this month.

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[12 days] Day 2: Two Faces of Gensokyo

Published by Fawkes on December 15, 2011 in anime, games and touhou. 2 Comments Tags: , .

This post is kind of something I’ve been wanting to write during the Fall but never got around to sitting down and doing it.

It was… 2005-ish when I got into Touhou. My first exposure to the world in a serious manner was through the doujin “Spring of the Residents of a Touhou Town” by FLIPFLOPs. I’ve since observed, especially now that it’s been over five years since I discovered Touhou, that this is one of those things where my first impression of the world colors how I continue to view it. FLIPFLOPs is one of my favorite doujin circles, and during this year I finally got around to catching up on their entire works for Touhou. I want to explore the two of the many faces of Gensokyo through two of the doujins that FLIPFLOPs has made. The first is “Spring of the Residents of a Touhou Town” and the second is “Two Scarlet Sacrements Under the Starry Sky”.

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[12 days] Day 1: Story of a Lost Sky Progress Report 2011

Published by Fawkes on December 14, 2011 in games and touhou. 2 Comments Tags: , , .

New title screen art (For 0.6.1) by Jamuko

Hi! I’m Fawkes. This is my second time participating in 12 Days of Anime. I tend to stray more into gaming than focus exclusively on anime since I’m somewhere between the two communities.

The Kino weekly blogging thing kind of fell through due to me getting really busy and not really having much to say. I’m planning on a Kino wrapup during the 12 days event however.

Same as last year, we’ll start off this event by reviewing the progress made in the last year on Story of a Lost Sky, our Touhou SRPG project. This year saw the release of 0.6.0 in January and 0.6.1 in August, the latter having our first appearance at a real life event, the AM^2 convention where we were represented by Jamuko.

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