Comic Market 89 Doujin Game Trailer Roundup

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It’s everyone’s favorite biannual activity: watching Edelweiss’s compilation of trailers for doujin games getting a demo or full release at the next Comiket! Watch the entire 80 minutes of trailers here:

Some of my highlights:

Roguelike Dungeon (14:40), a game named after its Steam tags.

SHIN Dabudabu Quartet (18:00), a charmingly old-fashioned sort of janky Not Fire Emblem with cute, kind of 90s-ish SD dot art.

占星魔術白書 - Extra Sorcerers (29:20), a really charmingly janky-looking first person tile-based dungeon crawler with randomly-generated levels and tiny automap tiles used as textures. The UI looks nightmarish and seems to sometimes pop-up Windows system dialog boxes. I love it.

跳霊の剣 (37:37), a rather PS1 (or early PS2)-styled 3D sidescrolling action game with cute character designs, decent animations, and very colorful environments.

ＭＡＧＩＣＡＬ✕ＳＰＩＲＡＬ (42:50), which has shown up in a couple of these previews now as a demo and seems to have been polished up to become the awkward early Playstation 2.5D platformer we all knew it could be.

Voluptarma (50:30), gunning for some kind of award for best abuse of crudely (non)-animated sprites scaled in weird ways in the service of forcing what appears to be RPG Maker to make a sidescrolling action game.

∀kashicforce (54:39) – I’ll just let the genre provided handle this. “Versus Battle Action Shooting Stuff Falling Game.” The horrified fever dream of Puyo Puyo.

Imalis (1:00:19), or “y’all really like woof’s coloring sense, huh”

Project AI (1:13:27), a game where you use a simulated command prompt to activate a GUI interface where you communicate with a cute anime girl AI who’s been left alone for god knows how long. Only instead of exploring the records of the collapse of a civilization on a generation ship, you, uh, play a janky platform game and learn about bit-shifting?

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this is heartwrenching. as a kid i would’ve been so impressed by this

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Is this a thing I should go to?
I want that Battle Crust.
(13:05)

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i would go to comiket if i could.
the makers of roguelike dungeon are really in love with the “ugly western pc game” aesthetic
i like how so many of these games would totally fit in on the ps2
i don’t like how there are still a bunch of games starring touhou characters

at this point, comiket is more interesting and exciting regarding new videogames than e3 is tbh

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Any fighting games in there? I don’t recall seeing much from that genre come out of Comiket recently.

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yeah that dungeon crawler’s kind of amazing looking.

Doujin fighting games died off shortly after SF4 came out and woke up all the slumbering giants. There’s only been a handful since, and mostly just Tasofro’s Touhou ‘fighters.’

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Huh yeah. I guess Big Bang Beat and Nazi Fighting Game Name Forgotten were both 9 years ago.

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The first game requires at Pentinum level processor. That’s beautiful.

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Dudeee goooo. And tell us if anyone else should go to one of these ever.

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Comiket is incredibly huge. If you don’t go with at least a pretty good idea of what you’re looking for – and where you’re going to find it – you’ll be absolutely overwhelmed. There’s a reason why the catalog, in print and digital forms, comes out so far in advance. My real regret is that the time I went, I wasn’t really prepared (and I still have no command of the language), so it was hard to appreciate it beyond the sheer imposing size of the event, spread as it is across an ENTIRE gigantic convention center.

Akatsuki Blitzkampf got an updated arcade release AND an arcade-only sequel that nobody liked! And the main character appears in Under Night In-Birth as a guest character! Where he is badly outclassed, since he’s a direct translation from the original game in a game where EVERYBODY has sword normals. (I believe his graphics in UNIEL are actually drawn by the artist from the original game, too.)

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I went.
To day 1 and day 3.

I saw a lot of comics.
Day 1
The vast majority were love stories written by women sold mostly to women.
They were mostly dude-women or dude-dude.
There was one stand with gore comics. There was a small area with ninja comics.

Day 3
There were a lot less comics.
The comics were mostly loli nonsense.
Lots of music. Lots of trinkets and jewellery.

I did not see any videogames.
At 11:30 I got to the stand that was selling Battle Crust. They were not selling Battle Crust. :sob:
They did have an interesting chiptune played via three gameboys.
That chiptune was the most interesting thing I encountered at Comiket.

I did not buy anything at Comiket.

edit: Looking at some Twitter posts, it looks like maybe they only had two copies, and it was mostly just a way to have a non-selling booth at an event that only allowed booths that sold stuff.

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beyond fallendom looks sequel to dicing knight. so thats kind of neat.

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Whoa, missed this. I went to comiket back in december. King, you gotta check the catalog, dog. Video game stuff is mostly on Day 2. I went in the afternoon and got a bunch of rad stuff, including:

  • Ace Combat comics about the extra-fictional Nugget Squadron made by some shy college girls (they had cool trading cards too!!)
  • Series of comics retelling the story of silhouette mirage & klonoa
  • Strategy guides for Battle Circuit, Fantasy Zone, and various arcade puzzle games
  • A bunch of Game Area 51 books including the new one with interview with the Gun Frontier team
  • Really cool rockman calendar from a bunch of the official character designers across series history
    etc. etc.

(I didn’t buy any doujin games but that was also all on day 2 as far as I know)

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It’s a follow-up to the previous Fallendom, which came out a couple years ago and I bought when I was in Japan, but haven’t played much. The initial release had some bugs with map generation which sometimes created unwinnable room layouts (exit doors completely enclosed in walls), and I kept forgetting to go back and try it again.

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oh word! im behind, gee. glad to see beyond in a title, i always liked that.

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I just noticed this thread.

Exactly the kind of IC-esque stuff I wanna see!

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in the end I don’t think I actually tried anything from c89, though I feel like I should have at least poked at that incredibly janky looking dungeon crawler

there’ll probably be a flood of news about touhou doujin games over the next week as reitaisai is like a week and a half away

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I just really miss Doujinaroni :frowning:

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I’ve been tempted to try the previous janky dungeon crawler in that series, which can be bought from your DLSites and such. It looks like a really ambitious mess.

(Autocorrect tried to turn those words into “amorous nurse.” What do you think I’m up to, phone?)