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Touhou fan games will appear on PlayStation 4 and Vita
game2011:
I think there may be a game produced exclusively for the PS4, but it's non-canon and ZUN doesn't have involvement, other than, perhaps, helping with getting it released.
Also, I still haven't gotten an answer to where that pic in the Twitter originally came from, or is it made specifically for the announcement?
eyeeye:
here all info I can find
event "SCEJA Press Conference 2014"(Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Asia) 01/09/2014
youtube link "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D-Wr_3-E5U#t=6493" [1:37:57 - 1:38:26]
OFFICIAL WEBSITE about this promo "http://www.mediascape.co.jp/zunps/" ZUN X PLAYSTATION
Quwanti:
--- Quote from: game2011 on September 01, 2014, 01:29:46 PM ---I think there may be a game produced exclusively for the PS4, but it's non-canon and ZUN doesn't have involvement, other than, perhaps, helping with getting it released.
Also, I still haven't gotten an answer to where that pic in the Twitter originally came from, or is it made specifically for the announcement.
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Pic from the tweet comes from AQUA STYLE's game http://www.aquastyle.org/fushigen3plus/index.html
And not an old one either, but one of their newest releases.
Clarste:
--- Quote from: Savory on September 01, 2014, 08:30:26 AM ---Maybe I'm strange, but I find this development peculiar. I mean these are basically PC fangames that are being ported to the Playstation. It just rubs me the wrong way.
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A lot of doujin games use a 4 button control scheme that's extremely easy to map to a controller. Heck, I played Genius of Sappheiros with a controller. Obviously the programmers are going to have to do some extra work to port them, but I don't think there's any particular design obstacle. They were probably only on the PC in the first place because it's easier to program and sell.
cuc:
--- Quote from: eyeeye on September 01, 2014, 01:55:17 PM ---OFFICIAL WEBSITE about this promo "http://www.mediascape.co.jp/zunps/" ZUN X PLAYSTATION
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Thanks for linking to the website! Everything makes sense to me now.
As you can see, the company responsible for this project is called "Mediascape". According to its own profile page, the president of the company is Nozomu Ezaki. Google tells me, Nozomu Ezaki is none other than ZUN's buddy, D.N.A., of the doujin circle D.N.A. Softwares. As I have written before, D.N.A. has always been helping with ZUN and Tasofro on the business side of things.
In other words, the company that will be publishing Touhou fan games on PlayStation systems is ZUN's own people, not some outsider.
The website also has a contact page, which fan game developers can use to apply for this publishing program.
When earlier this year, ZUN said he wanted to do something big to help doujin game developers, I suspected he wanted to create his own platform for doujin games, but couldn't imagine the logistics of this platform. Now we know that his plan is to use D.N.A.'s company to do the publishing, to build on Sony's console platform, and to lead the project with Touhou fan games. Bravo, ZUN and friends, these sound like smart moves.
P.S.: It happens that yesterday ZUN participated in the PoriPori Club web stream, where he talked with the editor-in-chief of Famitsu magazine, and tommorrow D.N.A. will attend a game industrial panel and discuss the status of indie games.