First Season of the Echo Tokyo Visual Novel Games, due for release during 2018.
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Greetings backers,
First of all sorry for the lack of updates for some time now, we have been resolving issues and trying to move forward with the project that is the Echo Tokyo series, in the best possible way. To that end we are also running a poll we would like you to answer for us, to help us in deciding exactly what we should create.
Well two polls actually (details further down).
But for now onto the latest game development updates;
We are currently readying our manufacturers for the first Echo Tokyo figurine, which will be of Shizume Misaki the protagonist of the first game. We are just finalising the design for the figurine. As noted in the past due to issues with our last figurine manufacturer we have started working with a new company, they are slightly more expensive but make significantly higher quality figurines as such we are creating a new figurine design for the new company to manufacture. Here is our new design for Shizume.
This design is as you can see not 100% finished yet, but we expect that to be completed within the next two weeks and then work on the prototype will begin. This new company created for us the Alexa figurine as the first of our paradise series figurines, it came out amazing so we look forward to seeing how Shizume will turn out, below is the Alexa figurine images.
Both the Alexa design and the Echo Tokyo figurine designs are being done by Kopi Anget, who will be creating the CG's for the games. With the Shizume figurine production about to start we are also wanting to start considering the second figurine. At the moment our plan was to make a figurine of Keiji, however we felt we should instead ask all of you which of the following characters you would most like the second figurine to be of, since the second figurine was a stretch goal we felt we should see what you all like before we start designing it.
The above are the characters that could have a figurine designed for them, from left to right (Keiji, Hoshi, Nikki, Sakura, Keiko, Cheryl, Daedalus). Submit your votes via the link below:
https://strawpoll.com/f6wy4pez
With characters and backgrounds completed, work is now underway on the first games story, that will revolve around Shizume and the Casino, we are aiming to release it in March/April 2018, as such more details on the game will be coming in the following months as development moves forward.
Along the lines of development, we are still considering what the second game will be about, the reason we are considering changing the original plan is that we have tested a few ideas for the Keiji Assassin story and are concerned that it will be too linear. In fact there is a good chance that such a story would only really work as a kinetic story rather than a multiple-choice visual novel. As such we are considering creating a different story focusing around a different protagonist.
However as we wont be starting full development until after the first game is released we thought we would offer you all the option to vote on what you might like to see, check the poll below to choose your preferred protagonist of the second game.
https://strawpoll.com/44s759de
The dakimakura designs have now all been finished, sorry it took so long, it is partly because of this that we will be utilising a different artist for the games CG scenes as the original character and dakimakura artist has been unable to meet any deadlines (that they themselves set) which has caused massive delays in the production of these two games. The dakimakuras are below for you all to enjoy.
We will be looking to begin printing of the physical editions for those backers due them, ideally before the end of the year so they can be shipped alongside the Card Sets.
For those who haven't noticed the echo-tokyo website is now offline, we have for sometime decided to move the echo tokyo content to the standard Dharker Studios website and as such we will be setting up a page for the echo tokyo games very soon. In a future update we will post links to the new page once it is live.
The sample of the Echo Tokyo Harem Card packs have now been received, originally for this campaign we were simply going to make two cards, however we have now made a larger set of ten cards. We are expecting to receive the cards in the next couple of months as they are due to ship by ship any day now.
Once we have received the printed editions of the cards, we will then alongside these ship the dakimakuras and other 'non-dvd' items of the campaign. The figurines will ship individually when completed as will the DVD editions of each game.
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This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read.