War of the Human Tanks – ALTeR Now on Steam!

Download Press Kit with screenshots here

February 13, 2015. Fruitbat Factory is happy to announce the release of our fifth game on Steam: War of the Human Tanks – ALTeR. The game is available today.

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Human Tanks – ALTeR is the second installment of the War of the Human Tanks series, and sequel to War of the Human Tanks. This time you assume command of the enemy of the first game, the Royal Army, and fight back for all you hold dear!

I always liked the Royal Tank designs of the original game and ALTeR lets you have them all – and I mean ALL. Playing on the other side, you discover a whole range of new characters, while still having some familiar faces along too.“ says Ozhan Sen, Art Lead.

Synopsis

War of the Human Tanks is a story driven strategy game with a gameplay reminiscent of Battleship and Chess, featuring a story of war, loyalty, sacrifice and human shaped tanks.

Following the events of the first War of the Human Tanks, the land of Japon is in chaos, with the embers of the war between the Kingdom of Japon and the Empire of Japon still burning bright, as new factions emerge onto the battlefield.

Assume control of Alter Matsuyukishiro and lead the Matsuyukishiro Company of the Royal Army on a mission to eliminate a traitor to the Kingdom. But not all is as it seems in this war. When the guns fall silent, is tragedy all that awaits?

Key Features

  • Over 100 missions to conquer
  • Over 250 Human Tanks to battle, develop, build and recruit
  • More than 50 modules to develop and customize your army with
  • Keep your units and resources in New Game+ to tackle even greater challenges
  • English localization features hand-drawn battle backgrounds and an improved user interface

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Includes three free DLC

War of the Human Tanks – ALTeR comes with the three DLC created by Yakiniku Banzai for the original Japanese release built in – Blue, Black, and White. Delve deep into the Great Cavern of Mt. Fuji and tackle ever more impossible odds in over 90 extra stages, and reveal more about the history of all Human Tanks!

In addition, players who have completed War of the Human Tanks may import their save to unlock a special bonus unit in ALTeR!

I’m particularly excited to see player responses to the Great Cavern of Fuji. It’s big. Main campaign might take up to 10 hours, for the Cavern we’re talking about 50+. There’s so much to see and do and learn. I think it will surprise those who venture there.“ explains Jakke Elonen, Project Lead.

The game is released on Steam and other leading digital distributors on February 13th. The retail price is $12.99, with a -10% launch week discount.  Additionally, a War of the Human Tanks – ALTeR – Royal Edition will be made available for $19.99, including the game and the 90-track OST, Sound of the Human Tanks.

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For more information, business inquiries  and to be included in the press release and review mailing lists, contact Fruitbat Factory at info@fruitbatfactory.com.

Fruitbat Factory, Ltd.

English version developer (Homepage, Blog, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Youtube)

Fruitbat Factory is an independent localization house focusing on bringing interesting Japanese indie games to English-speaking audiences.

Yakiniku Banzai!

Original Japanese version developer (Homepage)

Yakiniku Banzai! is an independent Japanese game circle best known for their ‘War of the Human Tanks’ series.

100% Orange Christmas

100% Orange Juice 1.8.2. Now Live

Christmas event is on!
-A new map, White Winter, is now available! Log in during the holiday season to immediately unlock it!
-Everyone can play as your favorite Santa while the event is active.
-Giving presents to good boys and girls may grant you a special reward befitting the season!

Other changes in version 1.8.2. :

Fixes:
-Fixed a bug where map list would not show the correct map if player did not have all maps unlocked
-Fixed a bug where campaign would crash after dialogue if avatar was set to Rad Poppo skin.
-Fixed a crash when randoming Kyousuke or Saki with Halloween skin in deck selection.

Balance:
-Saki’s Big Bang Bell Now has a radius of 2 (5×5 squares), up from 1.
-Kyousuke now has -1 Attack (up from -2).
-Kyousuke’s Cast Off now costs 10 stars (down from 20) and requires Norma level 2 (down from 3).

Saki & Kyousuke Character Pack Now Available!

Saki & Kyousuke Character Pack
Saki & Kyousuke Character Pack for 100% Orange Juice is now available with a -25% launch discount!
Includes:
•    Kyousuke from ‘QP shooting – Dangerous!!’
•    Saki from ‘Suguri’
•    New, unique Hyper Cards for both characters to bring chaos to the battlefield with!
•    New music tracks play as Saki & Kyousuke’s themes

With the addition of two new fan-requested characters from Orange_Juices popular titles, the total playable characters in 100% Orange Juice rise to 23.

Both of the new characters are designed by Orange_Juice’s original staff for the game’s English Steam release, with character and hyper card art by Hono.
Music by Studio Murasato and M-ART.
6 new Achievements have been added for the new characters.

Saki has come up as a frequent fan favorite in character requests, and she brings something totally new to the game with a never-before seen Trap Hyper. We have also received many requests for the enigmatic Kyousuke, and he comes with a unique twist players of QP Shooting – Dangerous!! will know to anticipate.

D is for Dangerous!!

We are happy to announce that a very special, fan-requested bonus is coming for QP Shooting – Dangerous!!.

QPD unlock

All owners of upcoming shoot’em’up QP Shooting – Dangerous!! will unlock a free bonus character in 100% Orange Juice on Steam.

QP (Dangerous version) is an original character designed by Orange_Juice, with art by Hono. She’s a re-imagining of QP as she appears in her signature game QP Shooting – Dangerous!!, with new abilities and a hyper card. Can anyone resist her energetic cuteness?

As we are excited to make another great game by Orange_Juice available to gamers worldwide, we felt this was a great opportunity to connect the games of the popular franchise more closely. The new character is prepared in cooperation with Orange_Juice, exclusively for the game’s Steam release.

QP (Dangerous) will be available for play in 100% Orange Juice immediately upon activating QP Shooting – Dangerous!! on Steam. She does not replace QP, but adds a separate playable character. QP Shooting – Dangerous!! is set for November 14 release, and preorders are now open at the Fruitbat Factory homepage.

Requires 100% Orange Juice base game to play.

Black is the New Orange

100% Orange Juice v1.7.7
It’s Halloween time! Dress in black until November 9th, and something cool may happen.

Version 1.7.7. Now Live!

Balance:
– Tomomo has been lonely. Option to allow Tomomo has been removed from multiplayer lobbies. Instead, Tomomo has applied the following effect to herself during multiplayer games:
“Softened: Tomomo is playing with friends and has lowered her attributes.” Lowers her HP from 6 to 4 and Evasion from 1 to 0.
– Aru: can now carry 4 cards.
– Present for You description updated: “All players will draw cards until they have a full hand. Gain stars equal to 10x the number of all cards drawn.”
– Syura: Increased Defense from 0 to +1.
– Nanako: Increased Defense from +1 to +2.
– Kai: Increased HP from 4 to 5.
– Protagonist’s privilege now works only once per combat.

Fixes:
– When winning a game carrying too many cards, you are no longer prompted to discard them before game ends.
– Fixed Shifu Robot Color Pack I name in shop.
– Slightly lowered Tomomo’s BGM volume.

Syura & Nanako Character Pack DLC Now Live!

Syura & Nanako Character Pack

A new DLC is now available for 100% Orange Juice!
Syura & Nanako Character Pack includes:
•    Nanako from the ‘Suguri’ game series
•    Syura from ‘QP shooting’ game series
•    New Hyper Cards for both new characters to wreak havoc with!
•    New music tracks play as Nanako & Syura’s themes

Both of the new characters are designed by Orange_Juice’s original staff for the game’s English Steam release, with character and hyper card art by Hono.

6 new Achievements have been added to celebrate the new characters.

The DLC is priced at $1.99, with a -25% release discount for a week. In addition, 100% Orange Juice can be purchased at -58% this week!

Version 1.7 “Dangerous Pudding” Now Live!

Version 1.7 Now Live

Changes:
– Added VAC support for multiplayer. VAC banned users will only be able to play with each other.

– Added Avatar customization:
A new tab called “Avatar” has been added under Player Info. It allows player to choose any of their unlocked characters and customize them with color options they have unlocked. This avatar is used in all their menus, and on the multiplayer lobby screen.

– New character hair colors added:
4 new hair colors have been added for each regular character (not the unlockable NPC/boss characters). One of them can be unlocked for each by playing 10 multiplayer games with said character. 3 others can be acquired as drops from multiplayer games.

– Players can now save custom Decks:
A deck wheel with 3 numbers and a save button has been added on the deck screen. To use it, create the deck you want and press “S”, then any of the three slots to save the deck. 3 different decks can be saved for each character to allow for maximum customization and fine tuning. Create your ultimate decks!

– New difficulty settings added:
Campaign screen now has an option to choose from 3 difficulty levels: Casual, Normal and Extreme. Each episode is marked with a different colored crown to signify the difficulty with which you have cleared it (Green – Casual, Red – Normal, Purple – Extreme). Clearing a map again at a higher difficulty upgrades your clear level.
*Normal is the original campaign difficulty setting.
*Casual difficulty gives all CPU characters regular rolls, considerably lowering the difficulty. Note: does not unlock campaign Achievements.
*Extreme difficulty is for those seeking the ultimate challenge. Prepare to lose your sanity as Poppo hammers you to the ground. Doesn’t give any special reward, though.

– Added Field Event customization:
Field events for each map can now be freely changed in Free Play.
Added Random option for field events in Free Play: this will random any non-duplicate field event (or possibly ‘no event’, if Poppo steals it).

-Voice C volume has been raised to bring it on the same level with other voices.

– Menu performance has been optimized, resulting in shorter loading times when moving between menus. The game may initially load slightly longer.

– Renamed Schiff Robot to Shifu Robot.

Balance:
– All Trap Cards now have 0 cost, allowing for more flexible play with them and removing the issue of experienced players being able to tell from the card’s cost what each trap is when it is played.

Fixes:
– Fixed some card descriptions/quotes that were getting clipped

100% Orange Juice Fan Art Contest Winners Announced!

The fan art contest gathered a total of 63 amazing entries, and the jury had a very hard time choosing the cream of the crop.  Because the top was so evenly matched, in the end we decided to expand our promised rewards.

In a tie for first place we have these two artworks (click for full size):

100% Orange Juice Idols by Kulastarol

100% Orange Juice Idols by Kulastarol

That Little Thief by Echo

That Little Thief by Echo

A QP Shooting – Dangerous!! Limited edition t-shirt goes out to the winners, together with a 4-pack of 100% Orange Juice and a copy of QP Shooting – Dangerous!!

And in shared second place we have these two entries:

Playing Fernet by Silicoid Ambassador

Playing Fernet by Silicoid Ambassador

My Neighbor Poppo by WUR

My Neighbor Poppo by WUR

A 4-pack of 100% Orange Juice will go out to the winners, together with a copy of QP Shooting – Dangerous!!

And lastly, because we were so thoroughly impressed by the art entries, instead of a single third place entry, everyone who entered a valid entry to the contest will be receiving  a copy of QP Shooting – Dangerous!! once it is released!

A full gallery of all the fan art submissions can be seen here as well as in the Artwork section on Steam! What’s your favorite?

For the purpose of handing out the rewards, we would ask all participants (with an image in the gallery above) to add echoMateria[Fruitbat Factory] to their friend list on Steam and message him to get sorted.

Japanese Indie Festival

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We are having a huge on Steam this week – 24 games total. Check it out at http://store.steampowered.com/sale/japaneseindiefestival

Together with some of the other Japanese to English localization teams on Steam, we came up with this sale to celebrate this years Comic Market, or Comiket 86, taking place on August 15th to 17th, 2014.

You can find all our games at record discounts in this sale. We know you already have a copy of each, but why miss this chance to buy your friends a few gifts, especially when they are so cheap?