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Touhou Mecha is a free-to-download fangame created by Dai-Sukima Dan, and a derivative work of Touhou Project by Team Shanghai Alice and ZUN. It's an alternate universe of the Touhou Project world with a pseudo-contemporary look, and the cast fights using mecha.

Touhou Mecha is a Kinetic Novel with short but visual-packed installments. It comes with some simple animation that is influenced by Muvluv Alternative, though I also take inspiration from Super Robot Taisen.

This topic is here in the WIP section to inform everyone of updates on the game. Comments and critiques on all game releases and preview material are welcome. Actual releases are being announced in this topic.

Current version: 1.5, which includes Chapter 1, "The Fledgling Sun God". Since version 1.1, the first half of the Chapter has been rewritten and a new battle scene added, and some extra content is available after finishing the Chapter.
Filesize: 67.1 MB
Length: ~1 hour for main story

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Story and Art……………………………….Graph
Music…………………………………………….OverCoat and FlameZero16
Programming……………………………….SleepKirby
Editing…………………………………………..Iced Fairy
Blog and forum webmaster………..Sigma

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Been a while! I found the time to work on this again, and I've put up a new entry on the blog.

The short version:

We're switching from a 4:3 screen ratio to 16:9. There's a lot of backgrounds and CGs to pad, but thankfully my BG work hasn't been that detailed so I've made decent progress.

I did a rewrite of the first half of Chapter 1 based on feedback from LSF and elsewhere. Notably, a new battle scene has been added near the beginning! Hopefully it'll also be easier for folks reading it for the first time to follow. This rewrite is written and programmed, and I'm making new art for it.

Also updated to Ren'py 6.14.1, and will include some extra features, which will at least include the TM Database and a music room. Going to work towards a November or early December release for all this.

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Hmm, so, I noticed that Levrex has been teaching the younguns' in this part of the forum using code examples from Touhou Mecha. How about if we make the code open-source? I'll have to ask SleepKirby of course, but I'm fairly sure he won't mind, seeing how he used to help out on that part of the forum when he had more free time.

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It'll be interesting to see how this all comes together. Any chance of some sort of screenshot or other similar thing?

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I'm going to get off my soap-box now, and let you get back to your day.

Academy Daze- Demo pending
Knights of Chaos: Ghost- Coding underway
DevBlog: http://www.renaigames.net
Troubleshooter Tales: Childhood's End (story) http://www.knightschaos.com

You know, you can call me impatient if you want, but I would rather that you work on chapter 2 instead of fixing up chapter 1. I thought chapter 1 was more than good enough and I just want to see more gratuitous mecha goodness.

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From what I recall from things seen in this project earlier, I'm sure there are many code bits that would be eagerly pored over if you did open-source it.

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An update on the Chapter 1 re-release:

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The addition to Chapter 1 has been written and coded. I’ve also finished the new mecha sprites and CGs. That leaves us with this remaining work:

- A few more expression sets for the rewritten dialogue (for characters that were already in Chapter 1 before)
- Rework the code on the old part of Chapter 1 to work with the new 1024×576 resolution
- Program the Music Room and Hellcat Corner

What's Hellcat Corner, you ask? A little idea I came up with... with each Chapter release I'm planning to write a little skit in which we freely break the 4th wall and talk about the story and world of Touhou Mecha itself! I liked the feel of the "Teach me, Ciel-sensei" sections of Tsukihime, but since Touhou Mecha is linear we don't need any gameplay hints.

At this point, there are no plans for a CG gallery, since the VN has been kept to a fairly modest screen size to simply the task of animation. Instead, I’m thinking of uploading select CGs to my Deviantart account and possibly the DSD forums, depending on image size limitations. You may see them in up to twice the size of how they appear in the VN!

A first-half-of December release should be possible. See you all again soon!

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A bit belated, but the Completed Works Touhou Mecha topic has been updated with the rewrite of Chapter 1, Touhou Mecha 1.5.

And today I have an update for Chapter 2! The dialogue scenes are mostly done with character sprites and backgrounds; just a couple of CGs to go. I've put up new screenshots on the blog. http://dsd.faceroll.net/?p=563

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Looks great. *thumbs up* You should release it soon.

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I agree, it sounds good, Graph, thanks to you and your team!

However, I have to say I would be even more glad if you could release good news about Eastern Starlight Romance... Yes, it's not the right place and time to write about this, and alright, I also already check it out on DSD forum, but you know, there's a legion of ESR fans all around. Even I became one of them after ESR...

In fact, there's no surprise... Perhaps there's a kind of real magic behind of imaginary worlds so well done, undoubtedly product of so hard work and talent, of course... But even considering all this, you, guys, made an delightful job on that game. Very well done so far!

Good luck on Touhou Mecha as well - the art is even better than before, the CGs are amazing, congrats!