Drillimation Systems announced they will be cancelling their appearance at CelebrateErie as a result of a COVID outbreak in the studio. All users on the official Drillimation Discord server received a ping on Monday morning Eastern Daylight Time about the cancellation due to the outbreak. The ping mentioned that the CelebrateErie appearance would be cancelledContinue reading “BREAKING: Drillimation Appearance at CelebrateErie Cancelled After COVID Outbreak”
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Emiko Hosokawa’s Philanthropic Causes – Why an Ambitious Goal Never Made it to Reality
Studio Emiko is currently working on Touhou Meijinka ~ Song of Divine Tempest with Drillimation Systems. Emiko Hosokawa’s goal, as with Drillimation, is creating experiences that would encompass a worldwide audience. Studio Emiko wanted to take a different approach for her own projects that were failed prototypes and ultimately repurposed for other Drillimation games, includingContinue reading “Emiko Hosokawa’s Philanthropic Causes – Why an Ambitious Goal Never Made it to Reality”
Game Mechanics and Narratives and How Copyright Works For Both
Depending on where you live, most jurisdictions’ copyright acts protect most kinds of content found within games, including source code, graphical assets and 3D models, and soundtracks and other audio assets. This also factors if the game is narrative driven, or if it’s just a generic game without much of a story. Most computer gameContinue reading “Game Mechanics and Narratives and How Copyright Works For Both”
Scam Warning: Twitter Users Report Being Mentioned in Cryptocurrency Tweets and/or Claiming They Won a Nintendo eShop Gift Card
Warnings are being posted on Twitter as cryptocurrency and gift card scams are on the rise. These scams reportedly began earlier this summer with users reportedly receiving mentions about cryptocurrency information, or claiming they’ve been selected as a winner for a Nintendo eShop gift card. A few days ago, Twitter began cracking down on cryptoContinue reading “Scam Warning: Twitter Users Report Being Mentioned in Cryptocurrency Tweets and/or Claiming They Won a Nintendo eShop Gift Card”
Drillimation to Appear at Two Conventions in Erie this Month
In the latter part of this month, Drillimation is scheduled to make two appearances at local conventions in the Erie, PA metro area. The first will be Celebrate Erie, which is scheduled to take place from August 18 – 20. Another event at Gannon University will take place at the same time. Drillimation Systems willContinue reading “Drillimation to Appear at Two Conventions in Erie this Month”
August 2023 Monthly Digest
June and July were a wild ride for us. Unfortunately, it is that time of the year again. Summer for us in the Northern Hemisphere is starting to come to an end, and in a couple weeks, we will all be going back to school with the start of yet another school year. Key DevelopmentsContinue reading “August 2023 Monthly Digest”
What Services We Would Offer if We Opened a Real-Life Version of the Hakurei Shrine in America
It is clear. There are no Shinto shrines in the eastern half of the United States and Canada. That can give us room to open a Shinto shrine in an effort to boost tourism from anime and gaming nerds, and possibly reel in tourists from the other side of the world. Sure, there are someContinue reading “What Services We Would Offer if We Opened a Real-Life Version of the Hakurei Shrine in America”
Why the Minecraft URL is Minecraft.net
Minecraft.net, by all means, is the URL for the official website of Minecraft since its inception. A lot of players have been wondering why Minecraft doesn’t use the Minecraft.com URL. First of all, when the website for the Minecraft we know today was created by Notch back in 2009, he couldn’t use the Minecraft.com domainContinue reading “Why the Minecraft URL is Minecraft.net”
Differences between Standard Japanese and the Gensokyo Dialect of Japanese
In the Drillimation Danmaku Universe, the Federal Kingdom of Gensokyo is a whole another country from Japan. If you put a Japanese person and a youkai-born Gensokyo person into the same room and have them converse, they may have difficulty understanding the differences in the way they speak. I will explain the differences between theContinue reading “Differences between Standard Japanese and the Gensokyo Dialect of Japanese”
How the Characters of Chuhou Joutai Express Themselves in the Japanese Versions
The Japanese language is considered a diverse language in terms of personal pronouns, dialects, and formality. This form of diversity adds to the language’s difficulty. It is not uncommon for a single word to have several translations in the other language. This article also serves as a guide for localizers wanting to localize their ChuhouContinue reading “How the Characters of Chuhou Joutai Express Themselves in the Japanese Versions”
