Monthly Review May 2008: Sayonara Danmakugata

Danmakugata was the biggest source for shmups written by Honki-ya.
But Danmakugata was closed on beginning of May 2008.
It's sad news for shmups lover.

A week later, Ku-haku[jp], known as another shmups source, was back to fill the void.

newS:tg [jp] is another shmups news blog written by KSW.
He's planning to be able to post news with screenshots.

 

Babara started English site.
He's an flash game developer, known as a developer of Boschvos.
Screenshot is GINORMO SWORD, original title is "Long and Big my Dxxk". wow. my friend.

 

Kaiten Patissier is DK's new action puzzle.
Get all items by rotate the room.
Some words are written in English, and there's nice tutorial,
then it's easy to play for English speakers.
Download

 

Japan Gaming Guide is nice news blog for Japanese commercial games written by ThreeHeadedMonkey.

inno vation 2007

http://yaruhara.moe-nifty.com/engrishgames/ino_e.zip

Omega's simple platformer.
Collect special items,
Fuji Taka Nasu.

...or complete all items if you can:)

Features

• Simple platformer
• Easy to clear
• But hard to collect all items
• EngRish:)

How to play

• ArrowKey or Right/Left : Change Direction
• z or Button 1 : Jump
• Down + Jump : Jump down from the bar
• F9 : Change Window / FullScreen Mode
• F12 : Save snapshot
• ESC  : Quit

You can't stop because you are wild bore.
Your life will recover by time.

 

Translations will not fix because the original version contains a lot of Nihonglish.

 

Programs, Graphics by Omega
Musics by Dong
Translation by Eki, Dong, Omega

Monthly Review April 2008

Yumenikki

This month's biggest news is English version of Yume nikki(Dream diary).
It's also good news for developers who use Japanese RPG maker.

Similar style(dream-based)

• Earthbound's Moonside[youtube]
• LSD[youtube]

MissileMatador

MissileMatador is a simple and well designed platformer by Shimobayashi.
All you have to do is to avoid missiles.

How To Play

• [WASD] or [↑↓←→] or Arrow Buttons on Joypad 0 : Move
• [H] or [Z] or Button 0 on Joypad 0 : Jump
• [Right-ALT] and [ENTER] : Toggle full-screen mode and window mode

Ikaria

Ikaria is a mouse controlled shmup by HIZ.
(needs Java Runtime)
You can absorb yellow bullet and convert into horming laser.

Mouse controlled shmup is always stressful because of delicate mouse controll,
but Ikaria permits rough controll.

HIZ also makes good looking shmups. Check it out!

Made in WIRED by Junpei Isshiki

Do you know Junpei Isshiki?
He's a professional shmup programmer and an indie game developer.

He makes really cool shmups,
but sometimes he forgots to publish his games :(
How unselfish!

This is the unknown English version of "MADE IN WIRED".

Made in WIRED

http://homepage2.nifty.com/isshiki/minw_sdl/minw_sdl_e.zip

1MB

Features

• Mini-Shmup-collection inspired by "Made in Wario(Wario Ware)".
• Needs some knowledges about Japanese shmups.
• Groovy!
• Hard!

Rule
Clear intently the petit game which appears one after another.
A mistake is made when a petit game goes wrong.

Move
Arrow / Num / Joystick

Action
[Z] / Trigger 1

Programs, Music, Graphics by Junpei Isshiki
Translations by shinh

Added Japanese Developers List

I added a Japanese developers list on right side of this blog.
Some developers work on a team. I didn't list team's name, but main developer's name(normally programmer).
[eg] tag means he has English pages.
Some developers have English version games, but they don't have English pages.

Followings is extra list.
They are popular in Japan, but it's difficult to play their games unless you are expert in Japanese.

Ryukishi 07(Known as developer of Higurasi no naku koroni)
http://07th-expansion.net/

Jiscald(Known as Andymente)
http://f4.aaa.livedoor.jp/~jiscald/

Kikiyama(Known as developer of Yumenikki)
http://www3.nns.ne.jp/pri/tk-mto/
Is there someone who tried playing Japanese RPG maker XP games?
I don't have English Windows OS then I don't know whether their game works.

EDIT:
I was really surprised at an English version of Yume nikki!
It's the most unique and popular game in Japanese indie RPG.
Try It!
via TIG Source

WispLisp Heehaw

Wisplisp Heehaw ver0.3 English

http://yaruhara.moe-nifty.com/engrishgames/heehaw03e.zip
3MB

What a mess!
Horizontal Shmups.
You can reflect bullets with Shield.
Japanese version released at 2005.10.18

Features

• For masochist gamers.
• Normal enemies shoots look-ahead bullets.
• A hentai pic appears after you beat Loop 4. ( I wanted to make hentai game.)
• Time restricted game.

Controls

Cursor key : move
Z key : Shot
X key : Reflect Shield(MANDALA)

Programs, Music, Graphics by Dong

Monthly Review : Japanese indie game creators' English pages

Japanese indie game creators who has English pages.

ABA Games
Ah, everyone know his page!

Hikoza'n-CHI X
Yeah, WARNING FOREVER!




Simple Inspiration 2

Keim's new English blog.
Keim is known as creator of "nomltest".
He also released cool action games.
Now he works on ActionScript game "ARCANACRA".
Play by clicking blog's rightside and press Z!




Channel Moochos
Mooch has released some N.I[Jp] style simple games.

Our games will be released at the beginning of April.