Well, what a year it has been, huh? I’d say it’s been a pretty good year for A Tale of Danmaku. 60+ followers on the page, 80+ people in the discord despite them being inactive, and 100+ followers on the OST soundcloud account. I’d say we’ve been doing pretty alright for ourselves. Of course, we’ve had our ups and downs along the way, lack of spriters and artists means we can’t really get assets made for the game very easily as our main spriter out of two is fairly busy most of the time, as well as our character designer, and with me as the only coder, coding can be fairly slow, and takes a while. But on the upside, ever since Papyron and Nora joined the team, we’ve gotten a fair amount of assets made, and as I’m learning more and more about GameMaker: Studio 2 and getting better at coding, progress towards the Trial/Demo is closer than it was without them. Honestly, I might even have a playable alpha build ready by mid to late January if I keep working at it, maybe even early January if I’m lucky. Just, don’t get your hopes up about the contents of this playable alpha. It’ll most likely only contain a few fightable bosses and a music room to listen to some of the games music.

To end off this year, let’s reveal a couple of new designs, and look back at the current designs that were made this year.

Rumia (New)

The Rumia design is one of the last two design reveals of this year, and one of the last two required for the demo. After all, can’t make sprites of the new designs if you don’t have any new designs to work with. Once again, design made by our lovely Character Designer, NoraZoma. Give it up for our Asriel/Flowey replacement, Rumia.

Fujiwara no Mokou (New)

Phoenix Mama herself, Fujiwara no Mokou, AKA our Napstablook replacement joins the rank of Major/Minor roles that have new designs. She is also one of the last two new design reveals of this year and one of the last two new designs needed for the demo. Again, this lovely design was made by NoraZoma.

Frisk

One of the first designs revealed all the way back in September, here she is, Frisk. Made by our lovely and only character designer, NoraZoma.

Alice Margatroid

This design was revealed back in October, here she is, the Toriel replacement. Alice Margatroid, the seven-colored puppeteer. Design made by NoraZoma.

Yukari Yakumo

Another design revealed back in October, the month of spooks alongside Alice. Our mysterious, yet lovable Gaster replacement, Yukari Yakumo’s design was made by NoraZoma.

Cirno

The last design in our design rewind for the year, and the very first design made for the AU period. Our lovable idiot, who also happens to be our Papyrus replacement, Cirno was among the first new designs revealed for the AU and was also the first design made for the AU. It was also what landed Nora a spot on the team as our character designer. Obviously, this design was made by NoraZoma yet again.

A Goodbye to 2018 and hello to 2019, the year of danmaku:

It’s been a great year, and hopefully, it’ll be an even better year for A Tale of Danmaku in 2019. We hope to produce a lot more content for you guys to enjoy as we get the Trial/Demo made and then the full game. It’ll unfortunately take a while, but we will get there eventually, so get excited. Thanks for the support over the year, and Happy New Years Eve. - SuperSilvulus