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Touhou 14.5 announced at Digital Game Expo 2014!
cuc:
ZUN and his merry gang of doujin game friends will be holding their own doujin/indie game convention, Digital Game Expo 2014 tomorrow (Nov 16, 2014) on 2nd floor of UDX Building, Akihabara (how to attend in English). This thread is for discussing new information coming from there.
Don't worry, I'm pretty sure ZUN will half-ass everything again :D !
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Q: What is Digital Game Expo?
A: Digital Game Expo is an event conceived by D.N.A. (leader of D.N.A. Softwares), as an attempt to address the lack of a convention entirely dedicated to doujin games. Since Japan's existing doujin software conventions closed down in the 1990s, developers have been content to only attend doujin-selling events like Comiket. The problem is that the Comiket format is designed for selling manga, and actually a bad fit for video games, which benefit from live demoing and playing.
Q: What is ZUN's involvement?
A: In addition to attending the event with fellow developers including Twilight Frontier and Platine Dispositif, ZUN is a participating developer in the "Doujin Shooting Game Caravan" score attack competition. For the purpose of this competition, he has made "Danmaku Amanojaku Gold Rush", a special version of Touhou 14.3, using less than two days' time. In this game, Seija has got her hands on the 10th rule-breaking item, which can be used to destroy the opponent's danmaku. You will be able to play it at his booth.
Text on the screenshot:
Danmaku Amanojaku Gold Rush
Special Game for Digital Game Expo Score Attack
(c)2014 Shanghai Alice Gengakudan
Q: What is this Caravan thing?
A: It is an unofficial contest at the Expo for visitors to participate in. Quoting what I wrote:
--- Quote ---During the expo, players in this "Doujin Shooting Game Caravan" competition will play the STG games displayed at certain booths for score. Both their scores and a stamp imprint representing said booth will be marked on their score sheets. After having played at 7 or more booths, they will turn their score sheets in at the booth of Endless Shirafu. Repeated attempts are allowed: after turning in your score sheet, you can get another sheet and try again.
- Everyone with 7 or more stamps will get Reward A.
- Everyone who collected all stamps will get Reward A and Reward B.
- The top 3 players by 3:00 PM will receive a "big prize".
--- End quote ---
Q: Will ZUN release his new game for everyone else to play?
A: First of all, this is a "joke game" whipped together in two days. It is not intended to be sold. It's also hard to say whether it will be released for free. He certainly never released the first Reitaisai's special score attack version of PCB! However, that was more than 10 years ago, and obviously, everything has changed a lot since then.
Q: Will there be a stream of the event?
A: From 1:30 to 3:30 PM JST, D.N.A. will host a Nae Radio stream from the show floor.
ZUN's original announcement of the new game:
--- Quote ---ZUN: I've made it in this way, "Danmaku Amanojaku Gold Rush". A game where the amanojaku has obtained the 10th rule-breaking item, and must destroy the rule-breaking-ish danmaku. It's a game with low difficulty that lasts a short time, only for score attack. You must play it tomorrow.
ZUN: What would happen in the actual place on tomorrow's convention floor, I have absolutely no idea.
ZUN: |-`).｡oO(...I've wastefully built a score attack mode with a new game system.
ZUN: I fear it might be that tomorrow it'd be impossible for one player to challenge the game multiple times. They'd have to earn their scores in one try. That would be grisly.
ZUN: Ah, please note that Danmaku Amanojaku Gold Rush is not meant to be a marketable game. Making an unmarketable joke game is quite enjoyable.
--- End quote ---
For more context, see the Touhou update thread,
Kilgamayan:
--- Quote from: cuc on November 15, 2014, 12:57:38 PM ---Danmaku Amanojaku Gold Rush
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MAKE IT MAKE MONEY
cuc:
--- Quote ---ZUN: The tenth rule-breaking item, "Miracle Mallet (Real)". Just by waving it, enemy bullets will be turned into koban coins. Well, the end of the year is near, so I made it a game that brings good fortune.
--- End quote ---
Koban is an oval shaped gold coin from Edo era, and used as an extremely common symbol of money in Japanese pop culture - you see that thing on Meowth's head?
Text in the screenshot:
小判枚数 - Number of Koban Coins
装備アイテム - Equipped Item (same as Touhou 14.3)
The spell card in the screenshot is 「だんまく長者」 "Danmaku Millionaire".
--- Quote ---ZUN: You can beat it in about two minutes in one playthrough. There's a strong sense that you've got only one shot, no warm-up at all.
Ruw: For a score attack, that's quite demanding on basic reflexes.
ZUN: One can watch other people play before playing yourself. This might seem like a good idea, but actually could be a trap.
Ruw: You must pay attention so that people don't select "continue" after being hit out of habit lol.
ZUN: Continue? No such weaksauce feature, it's back to the title screen immediately!
D.N.A.: Umm, so how do you check the score and such?
ZUN: Of course you can. I've also included a conversion tool into modern currency value. Plus the user-friendly feature of checking scores even if you returned to the title screen by accident. By the way, all the play history is kept, and can be viewed any time you want.
D.N.A.: You are way too prepared!
--- End quote ---
Tengukami:
Ahahaha yes! More of Gensokyo's resident contrarian.
--- Quote from: cuc on November 15, 2014, 03:07:27 PM ---ZUN: Continue? No such weaksauce feature, it's back to the title screen immediately!
--- End quote ---
Can you imagine the rage that would erupt if he started doing this for all future Touhou games?
cuc:
Touhou 14.5, subtitle seems to be "Urban Legend in Limbo". The flyer has Harukawa Moe art.
Stay tuned!