So, do you dig giant robots? I know I dig giant robots and I have it on good authority that chicks also dig giant robots. Hopefully, we all dig giant robots because we’re about to get a few more in the arsenal of freedom. During the Game Developers Conference this year, Spike Chunsoft’s CEO Mitsuotoshi […]
A lot of news came out of MangaGamer today. Technically yesterday was White Day in the East. Basically it’s a reverse Valentine’s Day where girls present boys with certain gifts: specifically white chocolate. To celebrate, MangaGamer has three games on sale: Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome, Ozmafia , and Kindred Spirits on the Roof. I can […]
Over the past few days, the Dizzy Hearts Kickstarter reached its $10,000 goal. This will fully funded a voice bank system for the game. If donors want full voice acting, that tier is still a ways away. However, no matter what happens now, the project has the extra funding Lupiesoft requested. It will be interesting […]
About A Light in the Dark: Hao-Chen Jiang did not understand what it was when he opened his eyes. Before him was a dim and dreary room that he had not seen before. Trying to get up to turn on the lights, he finds that his arms are tied behind him and that is when […]
In a fascinating report released today, GameIndustry.biz reports that three visual novel apps generated $14 million in combined revenue in February 2018 alone. We rarely talk about the mobile VN/game market here, which must change since we have far more data on its operations than we do the overall visual novel industry. Mobile app games […]
Fruitbat Factory is one of the more fun groups I get to follow. The translator collective has one of the more diverse catalogs in gaming at the moment: spanning from the tongue-in-cheek RPG Lionheart to the somber horror drama Enigma. Their recent project is Acceleration of SUGURI 2: a Bullet Hell shooter that sounds right […]
In 2013, Lupiesoft launched a Kickstarter campaign for Dizzy Hearts: a ‘mature’ visual novel that would have been their first big project following the release of the concept demo for The Reject Demon: Toko. The campaign raised over $16,000 and promptly went into radio silence. Considering the controversies that sprung up in that time period […]
For the last two month, a small drama has been unfolding in the visual sphere. We haven’t covered it here because I wasn’t interested in the immediate story, but rather what was happening in the background. Now that it seems to be somewhat resolved, I’d like to talk about the Muv-Luv series and the implications […]