ai sp@ce watergun shooting public test
ai sp@ce announced back on September 29th plans for a 「公開テスト」, or "test open to the public," for the anticipated watergun shooting game. This test starts tomorrow, October 13th, 2009, after ai sp@ce's scheduled maintenance that day. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I would suggest checking out my ai sp@ce posts on my blog for more details. There I have my (admittedly somewhat poor in places) translations of the information from the ai sp@ce website about the game.
I'll try to summarize the key points here. In short, what's been revealed so far about the mechanics of the game includes the fact that it's a game where you control your charadoll to shoot at enemies with a watergun. In addition, if the enemies shots hit your charadoll, they knock off parts of her clothing. Also, your charadoll can gain various powerups by cosplaying. Different costumes give different effects, and require sets of in-game items to be equipped as clothing on the charadoll to give the powerups.
The story behind this minigame in ai sp@ce is that ai sp@ce is under attack from a parallel world. This attack is spearheaded by a girl named Lapis. Who I think is some kind of genius that crossed the line to insanity and is now a Mad Scientist. You can hear some sample clips of her on this page. She's voiced by (If I'm reading the kanji right) Miyuu Kashiwagi. That voice is disturbingly too cute for a mad scientist, I think. ^^;;
Source: 水鉄砲シューティング公開テストの日程が決定しました！ (ai sp@ce website)
Cross posted, with additional notes, from my blog.
Lucky Star picture from Safebooru. I'm hoping this game will spark more interest in ai sp@ce from the English-speaking community.
I wonder do we have to use nico pts to get the watergun?
I think we'll know the answer to that question later today. However, it's possible that you may need to use Nico Points to buy the clothes for cosplay powerups. I haven't actually priced out any of the defined sets yet. My translations on the information about those sets can be found [url=http://tasunke.otakugeeksquad.org/blog/2009/10/10/moe-cosplay/]here for (moe) attribute cosplay[/url] and [url=http://tasunke.otakugeeksquad.org/blog/2009/10/05/cosplay-with-character/]here for character cosplay[/url].
And apparently url's don't work that way in comments, sorry XD
http://tasunke.otakugeeksquad.org/blog/2009/10/10/moe-cosplay/
http://tasunke.otakugeeksquad.org/blog/2009/10/05/cosplay-with-character/
Picture post WIN Σd(>口<) We have:
Tsukasa shooting her onee-chan in the butt
Kagami SMILING about it xD
Miyuki dual wielding watergun pistols
Miyuki in a PONYTAIL <3
Miyuki getting shot in the chest by Konata
Akira and Minoru delivering commentary in the background
As for the watergun game, we'll have to wait and see, but it seems like an interesting concept =)
Well after the update, my game keep getting crushed.
I wonder does anyone also has the same problem? was it a bug or becoz of my com cant support the game?
Is ai sp@ce crashing on you? Have you set your default language to Japanese?
Tonight (10/13) from 11:00 PM to 11:30 PM Japan time, ai sp@ce is doing emergency maintenance.
If you're still having issues after the maintenance and your default langauge is set to Japanese, or you don't know how to do that, I'd suggest checking out the Crunchyroll forums, where a large English-speaking ai sp@ce community hangs out.
Tutorial and support thread -- http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-366406/unlocking-ai-spce/
ai sp@ce group on Crunchyroll -- http://www.crunchyroll.com/group/Ai_Space
My game work perfectly fine be4 patching, of course this mean my language is set to japanese.
but then juz after the patching the game keep crushing for no reason.
If the maintenance time u mention is right, thn was it done by now?
Yes, the server is back up now. My suggestion is that you take a screenshot of the error you're getting when it crashes and post it to that Crunchyroll forum thread.
I take it this game is only "IE friendly"? No Mac support?..