My latest blog post, the result of many years of research.
Also includes a brief history of Panekit and a little bit of late 1990s Japanese indie game dev tools.
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we donāt get enough games that look like theyāre made out of golden oak or perhaps even a lighter mahogany
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Hahaha! Iām not keen on the wood texture I have to say. 
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Worth noting that one of the programmers was Kotori Yoshimura, who started out at Tecno Soft way back when it was still called āSasebo Microcomputer Centerāā¦ she later went on to create Thunder Force and Star Cruiser, among many many other games.
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Truly an all star cast. Kotori Yoshimura and Star Cruiser: How Twitter Revived a Piece of Japanese Gaming History | VG247 (which comes full circle back to insert credit)
Staff roll is at Credits: MaBoShi (WiiWare) āI Get Info
MaBoShiās Mikito Ichikawa (aka Micky G Albert of Mindware Corp) is perhaps most famous for preventing Sega from patenting the āviewport changeā technique in 3D games, thanks to his prior art in Star Wars X68000.
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This is lovely. Always a pleasure to learn more Panekit! lore too
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Iād seen you post about this before @gingerbeardman but finally got it all set-up with your (very nicely done) bespoke skin on my phone when you made this thread. Addicted!
Currently deep in the bar game. Pursuing the self imposed goal of a platinum in level 1.
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Please report back! These days I only really play the circle game.
In Bar, I can see the finish line as platinum and get gold easily in 2 moves. Iām assuming I need to either retain more momentum to avoid warmup time or use wall bouncing in a new way.
The Square and Circle games are also really great. Itās wild how tuned these mechanics are.
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Iām not sure what you mean by this. How high have you gone? How many gates have you passed? More than one, right? There are 61 stages on the Bar game
It really is.
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Oh yeah, I have reached stage 6. I just really want to get that stage 1 platinum!
Highly recommend playing Panekit. Itās way more intuitive than youād expect. Kinda genius.