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FractalSandwich
Apr 25, 2010
Though much delayed by Endwalker, here's a new version of my fangame prototype.

I've added more bosses, adjusted some existing ones, and made some general changes to the UI and PCs' abilities. A lot of the changes were driven by the feedback you gave me on the previous version, so check it out and let me know what you think. Have I solved your problems? Have I not gone far enough? Or have I gone in the wrong direction completely?

And of course, even if you didn't play the previous version, I absolutely want to hear from you too. As always, everything is fair game for criticism, and if you don't want to post about it here -- because you find it easier to be brutally honest if you're anonymous, or for any other reason -- you can use this Google Form.

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FractalSandwich
Apr 25, 2010
I might not be good enough to be a real speedrunner, but now I can at least claim to hold one world record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afJMlEiaF0c

sb hermit
Dec 13, 2016





https://twitter.com/jagarikin/status/1527411618052681728?t=KSaD9el-akyjSzB0T3Lzww&s=19

Blaziken386
Jun 27, 2013

I'm what the kids call: a big nerd
Amiami is currently doing a made-to-order sale of Reimu, Marisa, and Goth!Youmu, if anyone wants a fumo and doesn't want to deal with ridiculous import fees

also the site seems to be doing not terribly, for once?
https://twitter.com/AmiAmi_English/status/1529993495313731584

Supposedly it's running from now until the 15th, but I imagine that there'll be a cap even with them being made to order

duck.exe
Apr 14, 2012

Nap Ghost
https://mangadex.org/chapter/9f57b077-0193-4c0e-875b-97f78b0ead85/1

Gambling Apocalypse Mamizou

rannum
Nov 3, 2012


Reimu going to investigate but winning big so she forgot all about it :allears:

SirPhoebos
Dec 10, 2007

WELL THAT JUST HAPPENED!


Komakusa: "You wanna play 21? Well....I got 22."

Schwarzwald
Jul 27, 2004

Don't Blink
check this

https://twitter.com/Noctiilio/status/1533934058362773504

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010

Fight for all that is beautiful in the world


Mima lives...

sb hermit
Dec 13, 2016





Nyoro posted:

Mima lives...

Mima has always been here.

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe
vampire survivors should have a touhou sprite set

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

Tingle tingle kooloo limpah.
These are my magic words.

Don't steal them.

SmokaDustbowl posted:

vampire survivors should have a touhou sprite set

I am legitimately surprised it doesn't yet.

HGH
Dec 20, 2011
This isn't what's being asked but dBu made a small free clone of it called Yosei Survivors.

waddler
Jan 3, 2008

HGH posted:

This isn't what's being asked but dBu made a small free clone of it called Yosei Survivors.
Not surprised that Komachi visits at 13 minutes, but I didn’t expect a parade of Komachis at 15. That doesn’t seem survivable.

HGH
Dec 20, 2011
Yeah I think that's the "run killer" wave and if you survive nothing spawns anymore afterwards.

waddler
Jan 3, 2008

I was able to run a few extra minutes with maxed Speed, Ice Beam, attack rate (?) and some barrier, but yeah the Komachi parade never ends, there’s no reward in dragging it out. Don’t think she can be properly defeated anyways.

Schwarzwald
Jul 27, 2004

Don't Blink
https://twitter.com/korindo_en/status/1538696061501440001

JointHorse
Feb 7, 2005

Lusus naturæ et exaltabitur cor eius.


Yams Fan
https://twitter.com/korindo_en/status/1538696154107596802

I wish the real ZUN would say this

HGH
Dec 20, 2011

HGH posted:

This isn't what's being asked but dBu made a small free clone of it called Yosei Survivors.

On the topic of free fangames, the (not so) recently translated Moyashi Monagatari is one of the most unhinged but uniquely enjoyable ones I've tried.

sb hermit
Dec 13, 2016





https://twitter.com/moiwool/status/1543639451468894208

scaterry
Sep 12, 2012
Latest Youmu Mahjong chapter is a banger

Why is this manga so good :D

Sins Of Our Talent
Feb 13, 2012
https://danmaku.jp/game/?id=0

Danmaku Kagura is shutting down on October 28, after only 14 months.
Sad to see it go, it was nice to see the original compositions alongside the many, many fanmade songs in a rhythm game.

https://twitter.com/DanmakuEN/status/1549013413157736448

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

Tingle tingle kooloo limpah.
These are my magic words.

Don't steal them.
It's getting shut down because it wasn't predatory enough, which is amazing that that has to be said about something.

gently caress gachas.

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010

Fight for all that is beautiful in the world


Sins Of Our Talent posted:

https://danmaku.jp/game/?id=0

Danmaku Kagura is shutting down on October 28, after only 14 months.
Sad to see it go, it was nice to see the original compositions alongside the many, many fanmade songs in a rhythm game.

https://twitter.com/DanmakuEN/status/1549013413157736448

Ah that explains why touhou was trending today

Well, touhou fans are nuts so they'll probably preserve it all just like Cannonball

Meeko
Sep 15, 2017

That's right! I'm the counting sheep, Meeko. And I'm a proper sheep youkai!

they blew a ton of money on really expensive advertising when it came out (including first rate ad agencies, prime time TV ads, and big ads in popular subways) and top talent for voice acting, the game had a really rocky launch with bugs and bad charts, and the gacha itself was really predatory, just only for the pvp events (each new SSR gave a good chunk of bonus points and they'd introduce new SSRs both at the start and halfway through the events, forcing you to spend twice to stay a competitive whale) and no outfits or the like to keep people interested long term.

still a shame it's dying, wish this had just been a single player experience with song DLC.

leather fedora
Jun 27, 2004

The closest acceptable translation is
"die properly"
https://twitter.com/Athenekey/status/1549029450079014913
Apparently Danmaku Kagura had around 160,000 active players, which is more than any of the current Idolmaster games but the majority of them are likely young and therefore have little in the way of pocket money.

By contrast, that 2.5 million at the top is for Project Sekai, proving that Vocaloid is still a more than viable franchise.

leather fedora fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Jul 21, 2022

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Well, the fundamental paradox of free to play games is that the better the game is for the players, the less money they make. But they also need to be good enough that the whales will actually care enough to stick around.

GiantRockFromSpace
Mar 1, 2019

Just Cram It


Clarste posted:

Well, the fundamental paradox of free to play games is that the better the game is for the players, the less money they make. But they also need to be good enough that the whales will actually care enough to stick around.

See Dragalia Lost, which was insanely generous after they removed wyrmprints from summonning to the point you could easily pull 5* without paying. They cut down the free stuff after adding sparking but that + honestly bad monetization lead to the game closing soon.

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010

Fight for all that is beautiful in the world


New game

https://touhou-project.news/news/7436/

Black Mage Knight
Jan 25, 2012

stop biting my cape

Clarste posted:

Well, the fundamental paradox of free to play games is that the better the game is for the players, the less money they make. But they also need to be good enough that the whales will actually care enough to stick around.

In a counter-intuitive way, the real trick for survivability ends up being not designing around whaling. Basically the long lasting successful gacha's make most their money off having playerbases that are willing to go "Yeah I am okay with spending $20" every couple of months, meanwhile when you focus on whales then you end up basically having a good 90% of a playerbase that feels it is worthless to spend any money period because of needing to spend shitloads just to get like anything, (it kinda sounds like Danmaku Kagura ran into this problem extremely hard.) Like it gets to the point where a bunch of the big gacha's actually could get away with hard spending caps and be perfectly fine, but of course that won't ever happen thanks to capitalism.

Also everyone always underestimates the costs of running a gacha for any length of time and that is the other big thing that seems to kill them hard. Just people expecting them to be pretty easy to coast by on and then turns out you basically are running an MMO and have to deliver weekly content updates.

Black Mage Knight fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Jul 22, 2022

Mazed
Oct 23, 2010

:blizz:



https://noisypixel.net/touhou-project-18-5-august-2022-pc-screenshots/:

quote:

Chimata Tenkyuu once said: Ability cards will popularize, but quickly become obsolete, and the market will return to its usual routine soon.

However, contrary to their words, the cards only increase more and more in value.

Is someone perhaps manipulating their value? Or is it because of collectors who are buying them up somewhere? At a time when the card market was in turmoil, the black market―a market where the gods could not intervene, opened its doors.

This time, Marisa Kirisame goes out to investigate (and collect) all by herself. This is a game in which Marisa is the main character, surprisingly enough. Unlike the previous title, Touhou Kōryūdō ~ Unconnected Marketeers, you collect new cards and repeatedly challenge stages that develop at a high-paced speed and feature lots of random bullet-hell elements.

Each of them offer a short amount of playtime, so you must play them repeatedly to solve the anomalies…or collect as many cards as you can. You can play however you want, regardless of the storyline connection!

Touhou 18.5, in which Marisa destroys NFTs for good

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

Tingle tingle kooloo limpah.
These are my magic words.

Don't steal them.
Maybe when this comes out I'll update the first post this time....

sb hermit
Dec 13, 2016





NO LISTEN TO ME
Jan 3, 2009

「プリスティンビート」
「Pristine Beat」
The end of the game will be a market crash where everyone's fortunes are..... reversed.....

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
I hope the roguelike has, like, dozens of boss cameos where ZUN just copy-pastes a few of their spellcards.

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

I'm guessing this works roughly equivalent to the photo games so it's just going to have everyone from the past 2 games + a selection from slightly older games like how the Sumireko game had all those final bosses in her last week.

duck.exe
Apr 14, 2012

Nap Ghost
A lotta yall still dont get it. You can use multiple ability cards on a single Touhou

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

My thought was not "NFTs" it's the state of the collector's markets for games and cards

The final boss will be a representation of WATA.

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Golden Battler
Sep 6, 2010

~Perfect and Elegant~

rannum posted:

My thought was not "NFTs" it's the state of the collector's markets for games and cards

The final boss will be a representation of WATA.

If you think about it, CCGs are just physical NFTs.

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