Key features:
A playable demo is now available for 100% Orange Juice on Steam. Download it on the store page to check what the buzz is all about!
Meanwhile we have made several updates to the game since the release on May 16th, short list:
– Balance: The final Wins Norma now requires 14 wins.
– Balance: Bonus panel stars gain is now capped at 3 * dice roll.
– Added a confirmation dialog on exiting lobby.
– Now properly checks version compatibility between lobby owner and joining
– Lobby list now has a button leading to the official group chat.
– Tomomo allow option in lobby creation now defaults to No.
– Game Boards can now be bought in shop as alternative to unlocking them through Campaign.
– The player’s currently selected Norma is now indicated with a yellow highlight.
– The game now remembers your last picked unit and defaults to it.
…Plus various bug fixes.
Title says all – so what are you waiting for? Head on over to the game’s Steam page and hop into the game!
New Steam features include HD support, fully reworked multiplayer experience that makes use of Steam lobbies, multiplayer levels and unlockable perks.
Naturally, 100% Orange Juice also comes fully squeezed with Steam Achievements, stats, Trading Cards and more!
See you on the other side!
May 13, 2014 – Fruitbat Factory is happy to announce five new games to be released for English-speaking audiences worldwide on PC (Windows).
Human Tanks: ALTeR
The long-awaited sequel to the original strategy game War of the Human Tanks.
Human Tanks: Limited Operations
The third and final installment in the Human Tanks series with many new challenges.
QP Shooting – Dangerous!!
A bullet hell shooter starring the pudding-loving dog girl QP from 100% Orange Juice.
99 Spirits – Cage of Night
A new adventure starring Saki and Komiya from 99 Spirits alongside new faces.
99 Spirits – Weeping Demon’s Bell
Another 99 Spirits story featuring Waka and Kotetsu in a thrilling web of events.
Human Tanks – ALTeR
is the much-awaited second installment of the Human Tanks, Charge! 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!
Human Tanks – Limited Operations
is the last of the three games in the Human Tanks, Charge! series. In contrast to the first two games, Limited Operations has the player complete difficult missions with pre-assigned resources and face up against even harder opponents. War of the Human Tanks was localized by Fruitbat Factory and released worldwide September 2012. The Human Tanks, Charge! series is developed by Yakiniku Banzai!.
“We’ve had players asking for the sequels ever since we originally released War of the Human Tanks – our first game. We are really happy to finally be able to give a favorable response – yes, we will be bringing over the entire Human Tanks series! Many will also be interested to hear that the games will be available on Steam upon release.” says Jakke Elonen, project lead.
QP Shooting – Dangerous!!
is a bullet hell type shoot’em’up starring the pudding-loving dog girl QP, whom you might remember from 100% Orange Juice. Nothing can stand between QP and her pudding – not even difficulty options to reduce the experienced gamer to tears! QP Shooting – Dangerous!! is developed by Orange_Juice. 100% Orange Juice was developed by Orange_Juice and published by Fruitbat Factory in September 2013.
99 Spirits – Cage of Night
stars fan-favorites Saki and Komiya, and adds brand new characters. A story of tragic love and foxes’ games told in visual novel style, the Cage of Night takes place during the events of 99 Spirits storyline and is set in a darker mood than the main story.
99 Spirits – Weeping Demon’s Bell
is another new addition to the 99 Spirits storyline. Within it unfolds a new adventure for Kotetsu and Waka, where a duty Kotetsu undertakes turns out to have unforeseen and dangerous consequences. The two side stories are planned to be released as DLCs to 99 Spirits. 99 Spirits was originally developed by TORaIKI and published worldwide by Fruitbat Factory in May 2013.
“We are releasing our third Steam game, 100% Orange Juice, in just a few days, and after that we’ll be putting on the finishing touches for Cage of Night’s release as a 99 Spirits DLC. We are also excited to bring over more of the adorable dog girl QP in the hellish shooter QP Shooting – Dangerous!!. Her quest for pudding seems to never end.” adds Ozhan Sen, graphics and marketing lead.
War of the Human Tanks and 99 Spirits are available on Steam for PC (Windows). The Steam version of 100% Orange Juice is hitting the shelves on May 16 with all-new online multiplayer, HD resolutions support, Steam achievements, stats and trading cards.
To add some music to the celebrations, Sound of the Human Tanks, music collection for the Human Tanks series, and 99 Spirits – Artbook & Soundtrack Pack can be found -50% off on Steam for the duration of this week.
A while back we started working on 100% Orange Juice’s Steam features. It all started with adding achievements.
Tony, our programmer, is head over heels for Steam API, so after that he started getting some weird ideas.
The game’s entire multiplayer system has been reworked now to use Steam’s servers and a lobby system. It’s already fully playable, and supports many features we didn’t dare wish for before, such as player timeouts, leaving the lobby and rejoining it. Tony’s working on the lobbies now, and we’re discussing a possible system for multiplayer levels and perks. We’ll have to see how feasible that is to add.
At some point someone got the bright idea to bring 100% Orange Juice up to HD resolution as well. So now we’re doing that too.
For reference, this is where we started from:
100% Orange Juice default screen (click for full size)
The screen’s considerably less cramped at 720p, and the cards started to stand out as just a bit small and unclear for their purpose.
Now that we had more space available, we tried rendering the cards in higher resolution also, and the difference is quite amazing.
This is where we are now:
100% Orange Juice in 720p, and cards rendered in higher resolution (click for full size)
Please don’t give us any more ideas.
Human Tanks have now entered their new hangar on Steam, and are happily enjoying barley tea together.
There’s a -10% release discount on War of the Human Tanks, as well as two new packages available on Steam.
Sound of the Human Tanks DLC, priced $9.99 contains all of Sound of the Human Tanks I,II and III, for 90 tracks of funky game music from War of the Human Tanks and Human Tanks: Alter.
A further Imperial Edition comes priced at $16.99, and contains the game as well as the music collection.
The game is fully armed with new Steam features, including:
To celebrate the release, we are announcing a map design contest for War of the Human Tanks.
The goal of the contest is to design a new bonus map for War of the Human Tanks. The design can be as detailed as you want it to be, as long as it adheres to the physical limitations of the game (maximum map size is 17*17 octagons, which can be passable or non-passable), graphical or a written concept, and designed for any difficulty level – up to you! We’ll choose the design we find most interesting and add that map as an extra bonus map to the Steam release of the game (to be found under ‘Free Battle’).
Contest rules:
The winner will receive a unique War of the Human Tanks t-shirt, an Imperial Edition of the game on Steam, and the eternal fame of contributing to the war effort.
Again, happy news (well, not really super news at this point, if you’ve been keeping up). Yakiniku Banzai’s awesome Strategy/advanture game ‘War of the Human Tanks’, our first release has finally been greenlit! It already made it to rank #27 before the entire top 100 of Greenlight games was let in, which just goes to say… Human Tanks are awesome, or something.
We’ve been hard at work on the game’s Steam release since the news came to us, and are hoping to be able to publish the game sometime soon.
The glorious, Human Tank themed (surprise?) steam trading cards are already ready and raring to go, but we’re having some unanticipated difficulty with implementing our planned achievements to the game.
The base issue is that the engine doesn’t support using non-C code, which creates problems when trying to handle Steam’s class-using callbacks… if that says anything to anyone.
If you have any ideas, let us know. We’ll keep on trying different things for a while longer, in any case.
Here, have a Cookie.
On the other hand, our third release, 100% Orange Juice, the goal-oriented board game played by Orange Juice’s all-star cast is currently 86% of the way to the top 100 of Greenlight. We are hoping to see it greenlit soon.
Peace out… and let the war begin!
Yesterday 29.10.2013 Valve announced a larger than usual batch of new Greenlit games, and to our great joy, included was our first game to make it onto Steam – TORaIKI’s brilliant puzzle RPG ’99 Spirits’!
In the coming days and weeks we’ll be focusing on publishing the game on Steam, and exploring all our options in the system – of course, we’ll be adding Steam Trading Cards for it too!
This is all thanks to everyone’s continuous support, and we couldn’t be happier for it. As we’ve previously announced, our loyal IndieGoGo backers, as well as those who purchased the game through our Fruitbat Factory store, or from Indie Royale, will also receive a Steam key for the game once released.
Thanks to TORaIKI’s Hoshino Tomo for the celebratory illustration!
Without further ado, patch 1.1 has been released for 100% Orange Juice.
You can get it on the homepage.
Patch notes:
We also added a chatroom link on the 100% Orange Juice homepage for easier multiplayer arrangement.
Hope everyone’s enjoying their pudding-filled adventures!
Also here’s a much requested update on Steam Greenlight:
99 Spirits is currently 89% towards top 100.
War of the Human Tanks is currently 81% towards top 100.
100% Orange Juice is currently 39% towards top 100.
All of the games are on their way up, though of course 100% Orange Juice has further to climb as it’s the latest addition. We are focusing our efforts into bringing all our games into top 100, where they may have a chance of getting Greenlit.
Poppo!
I realize that we’ve kept pretty quiet after our previous release. It’s the holiday season and all, you know?
That doesn’t mean we haven’t been doing anything though. In fact, it’s time we revealed our next localization project.
And it’s coming out… today. In fact, it’s already out.
…
But don’t tell anyone.
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We’ve had a pretty furious go at this one, the project was so fun we ended up putting the less essential things like social media, sunlight and our mortal coils aside for a while.
Ozhan‘s trying to tell me the reason for our silence was that it’s an exclusive release, top-secret hush-hush, but I’m somehow not convinced.
Anyway, the game. I’m sure you want to hear about the game!
100% Orange Juice is developed by Orange_Juice, whom you may be familiar with from games like Acceleration of Suguri and Flying Red Barrel: Diary of a Little Aviator. It’s an all-stars board game featuring characters from Orange_Juice‘s other games (including the aforementioned). Oh, and beautiful cards to collect.
100% Orange Juice contains 4 single-player campaigns, and I clocked over 40 hours playing through them (though it might just say something about my board game skills.)
The game is totally hilarious and we had a blast with the story.
It also includes multiplayer support for up to 4 players, which is a rather rare and delightful feature to come across. We’ve actually spent most of the past week improving the Netplay code to make it easier for people to enjoy the game with their friends. You can find an in-depth guide explaining the multiplayer system here. Big shout out to our coder Tony for all the work put into the code.
I could write a fair bit about the gameplay, but why not just watch the gameplay trailer instead.
Oh right, did I say the game is out today?
That’s right, you can get it exclusively through Indie Royale super cheap, so be sure to show some support for Orange_Juice‘s funky games. Available as long as the bundle lasts (for the time being).
Make sure to drop a comment on Steam Greenlight (where we launched simultaneously) too! All games purchased through Indie Royale will get a Steam key when 100% Orange Juice is Greenlit!
Let the party begin!
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