Will Motoaki Furukawa's "Steam Pilots" ever see the light of day?

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Will Motoaki Furukawa's "Steam Pilots" ever see the light of day?

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I hope it does. I heard it's facing a lawsuit or something like that. But the game looks very good. I want it to happen.
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Re: Will Motoaki Furukawa's "Steam Pilots" ever see the light of day?

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i highly doubt it, but do check out Bounty Sisters instead, which is made by the creative team behind steam pilots (sans furukawa)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE4Z9zv40oE
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I still want Steam Pilots to happen. That lawsuit needs to be settled once and for all. I mean, they even got Mariko Kouda to do the theme song and voice the heroine...
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Re: Will Motoaki Furukawa's "Steam Pilots" ever see the light of day?

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I doubt the lawsuit will settle because from all accounts, Furukawa is a cunt who has burned bridges with everyone he's ever worked with. These people making the Bounty Sisters game are using the leftover assets they salvaged from Steam Pilots.
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I still want that game to happen…
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Got any sources on Furukawa's tendency to burn bridges for someone who's out of the loop?
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I didn't know he did things like that.
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Firehawke wrote: ↑Sat Jul 19, 2025 5:12 pm Got any sources on Furukawa's tendency to burn bridges for someone who's out of the loop?
There's a long set of posts about the whole saga here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240927042 ... ea-culpa-b
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Re: Will Motoaki Furukawa's "Steam Pilots" ever see the light of day?

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Oh, hey, there I am in that exact thread. Thanks for the refresher, it'd been at least two years since I read any of that.
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I still want this game to happen.
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xEbb1993x wrote: ↑Tue Jul 15, 2025 1:57 amI want it to happen.
I still want Steam Pilots to happen.
I still want that game to happen…
I still want this game to happen.
We get it. Lay off the pointless bumps if you don't want the thread locked.
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Sorry, I don't really know how to respond to all this...
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Sigh... why do people still make vertizontals, I just don't get it
BIL wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:01 pm Imagine a spilled cup of coffee totalling your dick and balls in one shot, sounds like the setup to a Death Wish sequel.
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Re: Will Motoaki Furukawa's "Steam Pilots" ever see the light of day?

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ChurchOfSolipsism wrote: ↑Mon Jul 21, 2025 1:22 pm Sigh... why do people still make vertizontals, I just don't get it
Maybe Mars Matrix and Giga Wing made them popular?
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xEbb1993x wrote: ↑Mon Jul 21, 2025 9:16 pm
ChurchOfSolipsism wrote: ↑Mon Jul 21, 2025 1:22 pm Sigh... why do people still make vertizontals, I just don't get it
Maybe Mars Matrix and Giga Wing made them popular?
It's hard to make them work, and those succeeded. Steam Pilots looks like it doesn't.
BIL wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:01 pm Imagine a spilled cup of coffee totalling your dick and balls in one shot, sounds like the setup to a Death Wish sequel.
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Re: Will Motoaki Furukawa's "Steam Pilots" ever see the light of day?

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Give Devil Blade Reboot a try.
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We here shall not rest until we have made a drawing-room of your shaft, and if you do not all finally go down to your doom in patent-leather shoes, then you shall not go at all.
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Re: Will Motoaki Furukawa's "Steam Pilots" ever see the light of day?

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it290 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 22, 2025 9:40 pm Give Devil Blade Reboot a try.
That game is never gonna get to the PS5 or Switch, right?
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Nope.
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Re: Will Motoaki Furukawa's "Steam Pilots" ever see the light of day?

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ChurchOfSolipsism wrote: ↑Mon Jul 21, 2025 1:22 pm Sigh... why do people still make vertizontals, I just don't get it
This kind of wants to succeed Pop'n Twinbee and Yahhoo!, so there's that.
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