Ex-CAVE members reform as TANOSHIMASU Co., Ltd.

[GSK]

I mentioned this in the "CAVE is (not) dead" thread but I suppose it's best discussed separately:


Three former CAVE personnel have formally announced their new studio TANOSHIMASU, along with their debut game, a smartphone STG named "Aki to Blue" (Red & Blue). The people involved (not including interns) are:

Hiroyuki Kimura: producer/director on Akai Katana Shin, Nin2Jump, DDP Maximum, SDOJ X360

Yugo Fujioka: programmer on Akai Katana Shin, DDP Max, SDOJ X360

Hiroyuki Tanaka: ship designer on Ketsui & DDP DFK, enemy designer on DDP DOJ, background designer on almost everything from DDP onwards


The game will have dynamic backgrounds and is being made in Unity. There's not much info on the game itself, just a few screens and a gif, which can be found on their website/blog, but it does seem like they're going for something orthodox: http://tanoshimasu.com/

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Just to reiterate: CAVE has retained many of their key STG personnel including IKD, YGW and 1MR, so they're hardly spent as a potential maker of authentic STG.

[copy-paster]

Cool, can't wait for their first 'Kickstarter'.

[waiwainl]

In this case more is better

[Durandal]

The game will have dynamic backgrounds and is being made in Unity.

Even though I hate most Unity games for being ridiculously unoptimized, I'll at least have some faith in Tanoshimasu that they will get a SHMUP running at 60fps. Crimzon Clover got great framerates despite being made in bloody Flash, after all.

[Shepardus]

Crimzon Clover isn't made in Flash though?

[Durandal]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimzon_Clover
Wikipedia says otherwise (if Wikipedia is to be believed)

[Squire Grooktook]

"A poor programmer blames the engine."

[Despatche]

just like how some randoms at toaplan split off into twenty different companies, some randoms at cave will split off into or join twenty different companies

[trap15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimzon_Clover
Wikipedia says otherwise (if Wikipedia is to be believed)

I wouldn't trust wikipedia for anything like this as far as I could throw it. I'm pretty damn sure it's not fucking Flash.

I wouldn't be so sure the programmer for SDOJ 360 and Akai Katana could be trusted to make a game without serious control/slowdown problems

[BPzeBanshee]

Wiki history has it listed back in July as "Runs on the spiritual energy of daddy the flashman" before "Adobe Flash". Pretty clear someone's been messing with the page.

[ciox]

This flash dumbness seems to have started because of a bundle's name? http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=895313
Yotsubane said he wrote his own engine in interviews and the game's readme tells you what basic libraries were used in making it.

Anyway, this new game will probably run okay whatever engine it's on, it's being made for fixed platforms after all so testing performance should be easy.

[qmish]

http://tanoshimasu.com/wp/wp-content/up ... 26_000.png

ARGH.

I really don't like such artstyle. Looks totally like casual mini-games in Facebook.

Why near every modern smartphone game needs to look like this? It's ugly and generic. Even J2ME junk had more personality.

[KAI]

Bullets from behind

dead before arrival.

[mastermx]

Another smartphone stg... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Xyga]

I'd trust they have the potential to do some good stuff. Now - this - is their company's first game, maybe just for showing something to the public, dunno.

Still good to know there's a new player already with experience in the game.

[Elaphe]

Three former CAVE personnel have formally announced their new studio TANOSHIMASU, along with their debut game, a smartphone STG...

No, thank you. Bye

[Barba]

I really don't like such artstyle. Looks totally like casual mini-games in Facebook.

Why near every modern smartphone game needs to look like this? It's ugly and generic. Even J2ME junk had more personality.

Agreed, it looks like shit.
It's one thing to have a minimalistic style, but another to have artwork that looks like it's done by a 4 year old.

[1up]

Artstyle reminds me of muchi muchi pork? Lost interest as soon as I read smartphone...

[system11]

If they really must make a valueless phone game, perhaps they should at least make it stand out by not having it look like every other phone game. We play old games, we know you can do better with that resolution.

[qmish]

Actually, modern smartphones have HIGH RES.

1000 or 2000 px per long side.

So MAYBE one of reasons why all of them switched from 320x240 pixelart/prerender 3d to "smth made with Corel Draw/Adobe Illustrator in 30 mins" because of more easy scaling.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

I think it looks good and I'm going to day 1 buy the shit out of it. Not kidding.

[trap15]

You thought Donpaccin looked good (and my assumption is you still do). Your right to opinion is invalid.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

I like cute games every once in a while. I'm not saying it's my favorite style or that it's the best. I'll let you know how it plays. I'm not interested in a pointless piss match. If you're gonna piss match there should be a good reason.

[EllertMichael]

Love these dudes sitting around on arcade stools and using an Aero Table as an actual table

If you're gonna piss match there should be a good reason.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

omg we have to emulate that. It will have to be dumped and added to mame. Also pissed obviously. Urinal sensor simulation down to the piss stain. .lay effects. .lay piss stain.

[Squire Grooktook]

Sorry I missed this:

Crimzon Clover was made in Flash

Ha ha ha, no.

[Tatsuya79]

omg we have to emulate that. It will have to be dumped and added to mame. Also pissed obviously. Urinal sensor simulation down to the piss stain. .lay effects. .lay piss stain.

Just another flush game.

[Satan]

Cave people could animate stick drawings and I'd still be interested in checking it out.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

it looks like shit.

the sprites certainly do, the backgrounds look ok-ish to me. nice clouds...

[emphatic]

Cave people could animate stick drawings and I'd still be interested in checking it out.