I held back as long as I could. Sorry.
Since we have few clues about the purpose of robot people in YKK, I thought it might be fun to enjoy the exploits of a robot with a clear mission.
http://www.tenshi-no-tsubasa.com/
- seaweb
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
...could call this spam? i was curious enough to check out what made u want to spam at such at nice board...but 1 page per week?! i think i'll skip ty.
- AltF4
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
(o.O);;
I really hope I'm not misunderstood here.
I just thought this manga was kinda cute, it features robots, and...I just like that stuff. I have the feeling it's going to be sweet.
I have no problem waiting for 73 more panels.
We understand waiting, yes?
- seaweb
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
This is so cute!
- Loran
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
I love her apron, her little white gloves, her booties with the bows and her machine gun.
- Loran
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
If you liked the booties, you'll certainly like the OVA of Ichigeki Sacchuu!! HoiHoi-san (first episode here):
http://saikoug.com/
- seaweb
Sunday, October 10, 2004
"..but 1 page per week?! i think i'll skip ty."
I thought that was pretty funny coming from a YKK reader :)
- Brad
Monday, October 18, 2004
I have searched the net for more on this ferocious cutie and from following Google statistics it seems Hoihoi-san is rapidly gaining a following. Good picture archives are still hard to come by, anyone got any leads?
- C_P
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Another indulgence, for interested readers and hopeless robot otakus (a curious address, but it goes!):
http://www011.upp.so-net.ne.jp/FILITHEYO/HOIHOI-DD.htm
And, if you didn't look around earlier, there WAS a game:
http://www.konamityo.co.jp/hoihoisan/index.htm
Why wasn't there a YKK game? It's possibly the only manga/anime in history that didn't have one...
- seaweb
Monday, November 29, 2004
Haha..what wouuld be good YKK games? "Catch the sea lice"?
- Carn
Monday, November 29, 2004
Maybe DDR with the Water God? Or a dating game might be pretty funny.
- seaweb
Monday, November 29, 2004
It has to be scooter racing! With nice backdrops.
- Brad
Monday, November 29, 2004
Or or..you know those virtual reality games? A flying simulator with virtual reality goggles and a mouthcord! ^_^
- Carn
Monday, November 29, 2004
How about this for a game?
"YKK: By Land, By Sea & By Air."
You're Alpha-san, and you have to race to Yokohama for coffee beans, against a clock. Things distract you or set up detours along the way. Going to Yokohama, you have to make it before the store closes. Coming back, you have to make it for a date with Kokone.
Different levels of completion give you different means and new goals: the yellow scooter for Yokohama coffee and Kokone; Ojisan's truck for big persimmons and a town meeting; the hydrofoil for something at sea and back for sunset with Sensei; Nai's plane to the research lab and race back to see Owner. Ultimate level, you get to visit the Taapon to talk with Director Alpha and bring back "the secret."
And the real music would work great as MIDI files.
- seaweb
Monday, November 29, 2004
Midi files? yuck!:p
I think that your race games idea is a funny one, but it would be diametral to what YKK is at heart: a slow walz accompanying the dawn of humankind. "Entschleunigung" (a German coined word meaning deceleration) ist what YKK is all about.
- Rainer
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Howdy,
A YKK game strikes me as one of those old fashioned "Play by mail" games, where you would mail someone your move and wait for their reply.
Best,
Dave
- dDave
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
I think a YKK game would be something more akin to myst or riven. A really big world that you just sorta wonder around in. Occasionally solving some puzzle to get somewhere you couldn't before.
- tadpol
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Midi files should not be dismissed. In fact this thread made me remember 3 original midi compositions that fit the YKK most excellently, please do check out the bottom of this web page made by the composer: http://www.co.jyu.fi/~ap/lw2.html
With names like "Seaside Dreaming", "Nostalgia" and "Warmpad", how could one go wrong??
- C_P
Wednesday, December 1, 2004
How about a platform game? (like Jazz Jack Rabbit) Kokone and her gun, avoiding the dangers of a ruined world. Trying to deliver a special mesage? XDDD
- NGA
Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Back to MIDI: I liked that guy's MIDI compositions, but WOW, to think he was recommending we have at least a 386 or 486 processor! I mean, that's asking a BIT MUCH! I have no trouble remembering the 60s; it's the 80s that give me trouble.
- seaweb
Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Yup, the monsterous computer requirements is a reference to the classic spacegame Elite which in the PC port required a really powerful 386 to render filled polygons rather than wireframes for the space ships. His game Linewars is heavily inspired by Elite. Actually it is an updated multiplayer version of Elite.
- C_P
Sunday, December 5, 2004
How about text adventure?
>look
You are in Alpha's Cafe. Sunlight is breaking through the windows. Outside you see a fish weathervine. There is a door to your left and behind you is another door that leads to the rest of the house. You're about to fire up the kettle to make coffee, but you're out of coffee beans.
-You have no customers-
-It is day.-
>get coffee
You have no coffee.
>look weathervine
It's a fish weathervine with a propeller on it's nose. It spins varying on the wind intensity.
And so forth....
- royalfool
Sunday, December 12, 2004
A text adventure sounds good, but I would also add images of the room/location you are in.
Add mp3s from the OST and you almost have the anime. ^_^
Sounds pretty easy.
-k
- Kempis Curious
Monday, December 13, 2004
I can see it now . . .
"roll a d20 to see if you spilled your coffee."
how mant hit points does the Misago have?
I think that turning our lovely little story into a game would be a BIG mistake.
- Pleidius
Monday, December 13, 2004
Actually, a game could be fun. Do not make it too complicated or misleading comparing to manga. Just a little (or big) tour through YKK with some easy tasks and small adventures will be great!
- Drake
Monday, December 13, 2004
I have a limited knowledge in c++, I could make a console text adventure though I'm not exactly a good writer by any means.
- Roy Zhou
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Howdy,
There are actually many special purpose languages for text adventures. If you use one of them, the game will be able to be played across a wide variety of platforms.
Look up Inform, Tads, Hugo or Alan. They are all high level languages for writing text adventures.
Best,
Dave
- dDave
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
An adventure game might be more of an exploration game in the style of Myst or berhaps even better, the Portal, a really old adventure/exploration game fo rthe Amiga where the points was to discover what had happened and where humanity had gone. Perhaps some old timers in here remember it.
I just found more music that (to me at least) fits the world of YKK, might even fit an adventure game of the same. On the web page < http://www.mic.musikkonline.no/shop/displayAlbum.asp?id=28475 > there is a line in the table called "LEVE I STUNDA". To the right of it is an arrowbutton that lets you listen to a sample of the music. Neither the web page nor the lyrics are in English but the mood is unmistakable. Unfortunately the sample is a windows media file.
- C_P
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
A pure text adventure might be less appealing to those of us who mostly enjoy the graphics of YKK - like, me;-)
If you plan to do s/th like this, the IMHO prime example would be NetHack, which is cross-platform http://www.nethack.org/ and even has several GUI variants, like http://trolls.troll.no/warwick/nethack/.
- Rainer
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
I smell a doujin game coming on...
...maybe a 2d fighting game will eventually be made. Don't know what to do about special moves or anything... Melty Blood style? :D
- kawaiiguy
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Probably Visual Novel style over 2D fighter there kawaiiguy. "Follow Alpha as she ventures into the unknown after her café is destroyed in a recent typhoon..."
Having it set around that story arc and have interactions made up that were not included into the story would work OK. To make things more interesting, maybe do it from several points of view! (Nothing stopping anyone breaking out KiriKiri...)
- PC
Thursday, December 16, 2004
Howdy,
Talking about YKK games got me to searching around the Japanese fan sites to see if anything has been made already. I found what I think is a screenshot of a game - it looks like a work in progress. If it ever gets finished, it looks like it's going to be pretty interesting.
http://homepage.mac.com/d_limiter/fighting_ykk.jpg
Best,
Dave
- dDave
Thursday, December 16, 2004
Those coffee cup life markers on top of the screen are so cool!
- Peter by the Sea
Thursday, December 16, 2004
Actually, it is made from several images from manga, if you didn't notice. Looks like a nice funart for me =)
- Drake
Friday, December 17, 2004
Howdy,
Aww, busted already. :)
Best,
Dave
- dDave
Friday, December 17, 2004
A nice piece of fan art, though. =)
- Peter by the Sea
Sunday, December 19, 2004
Poor dDave.
Did anyone ever see the simple Lain game where she walks around a lawn and you have to bash all the other characters when they appear? It came in the promo kit.
Pretty simple stuff.
It sounds like we have programmers in our midst... :)
- seaweb
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Yes, there are definately programmers in our midst. Me being one of them. Kinda. Though, building on the post-typhoon thing, I could see a text adventure or possibly partially Myst-style game of Alpha wandering around the other continent, not only just doing her own little discoveries, but having the player required to buy ... Something that would help a robot live? Dunno. But yeah, in the process, forcing the player to get and possibly keep jobs. Or something along those lines.
- Knaibesu
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Also our favourite bug hunter now has her very own Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichigeki_Sachuu_Hoihoi-san
- C_P
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Tthe scanlation project just ended; death by lawyers it seems. Too bad, chances of it being translated is as remote as for YKK since the story is rather special and the audience somewhat limited in size.
- C_P
Thursday, February 24, 2005
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