Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5683044-20180101000201

Hi. This is Driller from the administration team.

We would like to congratulate everyone for an excellent 2017! Welcome to 2018, a year without logic and mind. While the year ended excellently for everyone, not for me and those living in Canada and the Northern United States, as we got hit by a pretty big blizzard around the Great Lakes area.

Right now, we are in the middle of a Global Cirnosis. That's when temperatures drop to single-digits and a lot of snow falls on it. If you saw it on the news, Erie, Pennsylvania, where Drillimation Studios is based in, got hit by a pretty big blizzard over Christmas. I wasn't there when that happened, and now I am seeing all that snow on the ground that requires a flamethrower or perhaps a Master Spark to melt. I drove home yesterday, and we had to blow up the problem since the entrance to my driveway got completely blocked. No doubt, I blame Fegelein for all of this! (rams fist on desk) FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN!! #FEGELEIN!!!

Enough of that, the new year's card above is the two titular characters of Chuhou Joutai, a game I'm currently developing. However, the computer I'm using can't run Game Maker Studio 2, meaning I will have to get a new computer this year. As of now, I can only compose the game's soundtrack and draw the game's sprites and artwork, all in the style of 1980's computer art and anime.

If you want to know what Chuhou Joutai is, it is a top-down vertical maniac shooter made in the style of Touhou Project but in an NES perspective. The game follows the two titular protagonists, Susumu Takajima (nicknamed "The Real Driller") and Kagami Ochiai (nicknamed "Princess Kagami"), on a quest to get revenge on Team Crimson for attacking Minecraftia City, specifically Hearthcliffe who is outraged after Driller had stolen a weapon from them called The Sprite. And no, those aren't their official art, their official art is on Dream Fiction Wiki.

There aren't any major games/films coming this January, but if you haven't gotten Pokémon Ultra Sun and Moon on the Nintendo 3DS or seen Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi yet, get to them!

This is Driller signing off. 