It appears that we neglected to include the needed RTP engine to play RPG Maker XP games. For this, we are very regretful. Sorry! It shall not happen again (with luck).
Download the updated ZIP file for "Legend Lore EX" here:
Additionally, we have reuploaded several stories, including a brand-new one:
"Pocket Guide to Ketsueki no Sekai"
One of several "Pocket Guidebooks" put out by the fictional "Kaminari Corps", an omnipresent entity in the KAMINARI Verse. This Guidebook features information on Ketsuki, also known as "Ketsueki no Sekai", the setting of "Ketsueki no Iro wa...". Included are details of its denizens and its history (including mythology), among other points of interest.
Download:
"The Legend of Kamiko"
Somewhat spoiler-ish, one might say, but in truth it is a vital piece of backstory, detailing the true history of Kamiko, Tenko, Tanno, and Eki, the four super-powerful supernatural beings in "Ketsueki no Iro wa...". Included in this tale are the origins of how Tanno became a KAMINARI employee, the full story behind "Claire and the Lilies" (see the "Pocket Guidebook to Ketsueki no Sekai", under the Mythology section), and the details of the climactic battle that took place thousands of Ketsuki years previously.
Download:
"Ketsueki no Iro wa... - Prequel"
Another prequel to "Ketsueki no Iro", this one is centered on the Inoue siblings, explaining further on the backstory of the visual novel's Player Character. The events detailed here decribe the origins of Kyashi's delinquent attitude, as well as the animosity Rissa feels towards her brother.
Download:
"Ketsueki Otaku - Satsugai 1: Kogatana Otaku"
Chiyo/Chi, the "Kogatana Otaku", is a girl with a murderous alternate personality. Chiyo is obssessed with knives, and believes firmly that to kill someone you need not just anything, but a weapon that reflects the personality and being of the person being killed with it (so, even if she had dozens to choose from, she wouldn't use a weapon unless it was the perfect match for the murder). Chi, on the other hand, is cruel, ruthless, and enjoys inflicting massive psychological damage on her victims before killing them.
Download:
"The Short Days of Summer"
(NOTE: Not for the squeemish, or those who do not like blood, death, or the idea of 7-year-old murderers)
An original short horror story about a young girl who discovers a fun game to pass the time during one fateful summer.
Download:
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Legend Lore EX is now released!
Yes, Legend Lore EX is now released! So now you may all play it!
You may download it here:
Switching over to Windows Live SkyDrive because MediaFire deleted all of our uploaded files. We'll reupload them to SkyDrive and hope that they don't get deleted in a few months...
Currently, the four files mentioned here are unavailable. We shall reupload them soon.
http://kaminaridojin.blogspot.com/2010/01/two-new-stories.html
http://kaminaridojin.blogspot.com/2010/01/projects.html
You may also be interested to know that I, Thunderboom, have come up with an idea for a manga, since Kana said she would start doing them with her fancy new Tablet PC. It is called "Mzunguko" ("Cycle", from Swahili), and takes basis from mythology, ancient African culture (from which all humanity traces its lineage to), and a popular character set I came up with a long time ago involving a family named "Eleme".
I also learned that I tend to get a bit over-zealous with ideas of mine...writing up basic notes for it, which hardly went into any detail at all (mostly still in my head) filled a Word Document file with 1028 words (not that I'm done with notes, though)! Including spaces, that was 5992 characters in all! ^_^" Ahehe...maybe I should calm down before I write up a novel on the subject...
I would also like to take this time to announce a contest!
The first 4 people to level their party in Legend Lore EX to Lv.90 or above will receive special recognition for this feat! They will have their screenshots-of-proof posted on the blog here, and they will be respected by all! Please note that this contest only lasts until the end of July 2010. Also, as an added incentive, all players who submit screenshots of this feat by the deadline will recieve an NPC named after them in a future "Legend Lore" game!
To enter this contest, please email a screenshot of the in-game main menu displaying your party as all being at least Level 90 to kaminaridojin@yahoo.com. Please note that most of us are experts at photo manipulation and can tell if an image has been modified or not.
Rules:
1. All members of your party MUST be at least Level 90. You do not have to have 4 people in your party, though with all honesty, you will have a hard time of it with only one or two.
2. All manipulated screenshots will be disqualified.
3. Any screenshots with offensive character names will be disqualified. Just because you can be "funny" and have an offensive name for your character, doesn't mean that we have to post it publiclly.
4. Screenshots are allowed to be cropped, but they MUST show the edges of the game window. Crop it if you want to, but leave the border around the game, including where it says "Legend Lore EX" at the top.
In case you do not know how to take a screenshot, you press the "Print Screen" ("Prnt Scrn", sometimes) button on your keyboard, then "paste" it into an image-editing program such as Microsoft Paint. Then, save the file to your computer, naming it what you wish (for example, "Screenshot 001").
You may download it here:
Switching over to Windows Live SkyDrive because MediaFire deleted all of our uploaded files. We'll reupload them to SkyDrive and hope that they don't get deleted in a few months...
Currently, the four files mentioned here are unavailable. We shall reupload them soon.
http://kaminaridojin.blogspot.com/2010/01/two-new-stories.html
http://kaminaridojin.blogspot.com/2010/01/projects.html
You may also be interested to know that I, Thunderboom, have come up with an idea for a manga, since Kana said she would start doing them with her fancy new Tablet PC. It is called "Mzunguko" ("Cycle", from Swahili), and takes basis from mythology, ancient African culture (from which all humanity traces its lineage to), and a popular character set I came up with a long time ago involving a family named "Eleme".
I also learned that I tend to get a bit over-zealous with ideas of mine...writing up basic notes for it, which hardly went into any detail at all (mostly still in my head) filled a Word Document file with 1028 words (not that I'm done with notes, though)! Including spaces, that was 5992 characters in all! ^_^" Ahehe...maybe I should calm down before I write up a novel on the subject...
I would also like to take this time to announce a contest!
The first 4 people to level their party in Legend Lore EX to Lv.90 or above will receive special recognition for this feat! They will have their screenshots-of-proof posted on the blog here, and they will be respected by all! Please note that this contest only lasts until the end of July 2010. Also, as an added incentive, all players who submit screenshots of this feat by the deadline will recieve an NPC named after them in a future "Legend Lore" game!
To enter this contest, please email a screenshot of the in-game main menu displaying your party as all being at least Level 90 to kaminaridojin@yahoo.com. Please note that most of us are experts at photo manipulation and can tell if an image has been modified or not.
Rules:
1. All members of your party MUST be at least Level 90. You do not have to have 4 people in your party, though with all honesty, you will have a hard time of it with only one or two.
2. All manipulated screenshots will be disqualified.
3. Any screenshots with offensive character names will be disqualified. Just because you can be "funny" and have an offensive name for your character, doesn't mean that we have to post it publiclly.
4. Screenshots are allowed to be cropped, but they MUST show the edges of the game window. Crop it if you want to, but leave the border around the game, including where it says "Legend Lore EX" at the top.
In case you do not know how to take a screenshot, you press the "Print Screen" ("Prnt Scrn", sometimes) button on your keyboard, then "paste" it into an image-editing program such as Microsoft Paint. Then, save the file to your computer, naming it what you wish (for example, "Screenshot 001").
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Memberlist Update
Hanako here. I'm still writing the "Legend Lore EX" manual, but expect the game released by the end of the week!
We've changed some of our members' duties around (not to mention some screename changes), so I thought it would be good to update the list:
Thunderboom (Takumi) - Editor-in-Chief, Head Author, De-Facto Leader
Shockpulse (Aiko) - Lead Programmer, "Special Consultant for Blood, Death, and Horror"
Kana - Lead Artist, Character Designer, Head of Art Department
Hanako - Editor, Spellchecker, Technical Writer
Suiko - Dialogue Writer, Relationship Planner
FieryEmpress (Aya) - Action Sequence Coordinator, RPG Combat Balancer, Banter Writer
Oh, we're also now on Facebook if you want to "become a fan" or whatever (not that we'll ever do anything there...just thought I'd point it out): http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=105478179489030
We've changed some of our members' duties around (not to mention some screename changes), so I thought it would be good to update the list:
Thunderboom (Takumi) - Editor-in-Chief, Head Author, De-Facto Leader
Shockpulse (Aiko) - Lead Programmer, "Special Consultant for Blood, Death, and Horror"
Kana - Lead Artist, Character Designer, Head of Art Department
Hanako - Editor, Spellchecker, Technical Writer
Suiko - Dialogue Writer, Relationship Planner
FieryEmpress (Aya) - Action Sequence Coordinator, RPG Combat Balancer, Banter Writer
Oh, we're also now on Facebook if you want to "become a fan" or whatever (not that we'll ever do anything there...just thought I'd point it out): http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=105478179489030
Monday, March 29, 2010
Legend Lore EX Press Release
LEGEND LORE EX: LIGHT OF DARKNESSOfficial Press Release
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KAMINARI Dojin Circle has announced its newest work, a full-length fantasy RPG (role-playing game) titled "Legend Lore EX: Light of Darkness" for Microsoft Windows Operating System. The game is a heavily-updated version of a much, much older game titled "Legend Lore", which was created by a member of KAMINARI. Though not all members of the dojin circle directly participated in its creation, KAMINARI's public relations official, Hanako, had this to say: "Though a few of our members were not directly involved, they certainly influenced many aspects of the game's updated design."
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The game's title is drawn from a spell in the popular tabletop role-playing game, "Dungeons & Dragons". The spell "legend lore" allows casters to discover legends about something particular, be it an item, person, or location (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/legendLore.htm). When asked about the origin of this name, Thunderboom, the game's original designer, said that "[like the spell,] Legend Lore opens players' minds to great and fantastic legends and adventures." Shockpulse, lead designer for the updated "Legend Lore EX", said that the addition to the title was because "it sounded cool".
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KAMINARI expressed great thanks to Enterbrain, Inc., Yoji Ojima, and everyone else involved in the creation of "RPG Maker XP", the program the group used to create the game. The group, mostly comprised of teenagers, has also stated that the game be "free for anyone and everyone to play. We love getting things for free, and we're sure that all of our fans do, too! (laugh)".
The game will be posted online to their official blog (http://kaminaridojin.blogspot.com/) for free download.
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-Kana Miyaki
(2010/3/30)
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Progress
Hello, this is Assistant Editor Hanako here to bring you an update. For most of us, things have been quite hectic lately, so we haven't been able to get much done recently. This is especially true for my elder siblings, who are the ones that normally make these blog posts. However, rest assured that we shall be getting things straightened out soon.
Also note that production of "Ketsueki no Iro wa..." has been postponed for a few months until Summer Vacation begins and we are all able to work on it without interrupt. In the meantime, I'm thinkig of making a smll RPG with Shocky to placate you, our ever-so-hungry fans, with a new release. This is not set in stone, however, but with hope, you'll all be playing an RPG before long and you can stop asking us "when's the new release coming out?" for a while...
-Hanako, Assistant Editor, KAMINARI
Also note that production of "Ketsueki no Iro wa..." has been postponed for a few months until Summer Vacation begins and we are all able to work on it without interrupt. In the meantime, I'm thinkig of making a smll RPG with Shocky to placate you, our ever-so-hungry fans, with a new release. This is not set in stone, however, but with hope, you'll all be playing an RPG before long and you can stop asking us "when's the new release coming out?" for a while...
-Hanako, Assistant Editor, KAMINARI
Monday, February 1, 2010
KAMINARI's Members
If you ever wondered what the members of KAMINARI looked like, since the only introduction they have ever been given was during the first post of this blog (http://kaminaridojin.blogspot.com/2009/01/welcome-to-kaminari-good-traveler.html), then fret no more!
Shockpulse, our resident 2nd-in-Command of Art, has posted to her DeviantArt account (mentioned in the previous post) an illustration of the lot of us, including our mascots. Her Artist's Comments elaborate on who is who, as well as remind you of who does what.
See it here:
http://shockpulse.deviantart.com/art/KAMINARI-Members-CG-152624668
Shockpulse, our resident 2nd-in-Command of Art, has posted to her DeviantArt account (mentioned in the previous post) an illustration of the lot of us, including our mascots. Her Artist's Comments elaborate on who is who, as well as remind you of who does what.
See it here:
http://shockpulse.deviantart.com/art/KAMINARI-Members-CG-152624668
Concepts & Misc. Illustrations
Though Kana is our lead artist, by nature of having the best art skills, Shockpulse has started posting some of her own art of KAMINARI works that have been, will be, are, or never will be, as well as art of our mascots, Kaminari-tan and Kuniyth (they show up from time to time in our work), on her DeviantArt account. She has also taken the time to list details on different projects or the process of making a game, story, or piece of art, so you should read her "Artist's Comments" below each one.
For a great example, check out the 4koma concept for Kari^2 during early drafts:
http://shockpulse.deviantart.com/art/Kari-Squared-4Koma-Concept-152606493
The Artist's Comments go in rather deep with explanations and details about the evolution of the project. A very interesting read, in fact.
Check it all out here: http://shockpulse.deviantart.com/
(Remember, she's still actively posting, so check back every once in a while!)
For a great example, check out the 4koma concept for Kari^2 during early drafts:
http://shockpulse.deviantart.com/art/Kari-Squared-4Koma-Concept-152606493
The Artist's Comments go in rather deep with explanations and details about the evolution of the project. A very interesting read, in fact.
Check it all out here: http://shockpulse.deviantart.com/
(Remember, she's still actively posting, so check back every once in a while!)
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