Thursday. Curses! I was so close to Wednesday, too. I've been doing a lot of catching up this week, updating the site, putting together a con schedule (coming soon!), and finally putting the coveted artbook up for sale on Lulu. The book features art from the game, along with several original pieces illustrated by tooaya, some guest art from others, and a short story about Rui and Fiona. It's $20 USD, so it's like buying a set of art prints for less than a dollar apiece. Use the code HOLIDAY305 by Dec.12th (2010) to get free ground shipping in the US.
Get the RE:A++ artbook now!
Hey all! If you've been watching twitter or facebook, you've probably already got an inkling as to what's going on. Well, now it's time for details on what exactly I'm up to.Over the past year, I've gotten a lot of requests online and in person to have figures made of some of the sakevisual characters. As a collector of trading figures and gashapon, I was down with the idea from the beginning, but it didn't seem very practical, given the fact that sakevisual is very small. Well, we're still very small, but the requests have been increasing, so I started talking with a company about what, exactly, it would take to manufacture some figures. We've been going back and forth lately, and the process is something like so:-Company builds a prototype figure.-Everyone gets to see prototype figure and figure goes to pre-order.-If enough people pre-order the figure, figure gets manufactured.So here's the deal. It takes a LOT of pre-orders for something to be made. The cost for building a prototype, making the molds, and so on is pretty high. We need at least 400 pre-orders in order to get the figure to be made. That's a lot of people, and that means I need a lot of feedback right now. sakevisual is still very, very small. There's been a lot of interest in figures, but I need to know exactly how much serious interest there is and what figure I should have ordered. Right now, we're discussing a small, 4" figure, so the price (realistically) shouldn't be more than $15USD. So here are my requests:Please vote on the poll, even if you have absolutely no interest in figures at all. Knowing how many people AREN'T interested is also important to me.Please leave comments with your thoughts. Give me details about what sort of figure you'd like to see. Which character? Which outfit? Chibi or realistically proportioned? Full body or bust? Accessories? Can you buy things online? If you can't, would you buy them at a convention or through some other physical venue? The comments are seriously important right now as we work out which lucky character (if any!) will be the first.Plug our stuff. I know I say this a lot, but please do. Word of mouth is the only way that people ever find out about us, and the more fans we have, the more likely we are to hit the 400 pre-orders we need. Share our games with your anime club or leave a link to RE: Alistair++ in your forum sig. Even if you can't afford a figure, you can at least get friends interested enough to check us out and our free stuff. Ripples can be played directly online, even!Keep in mind that this is still just a survey. At this point in time, we don't know if making figures is even reasonable. Your votes and comments (especially comments!) will be a huge help.
Aaand we're back from AnimeFest. Woooo! This four-day convention was filled with fun, free goodies, and lots and lots of dancing. Our wonderful friends at Sayuri Studios were also present to spread the visual novel love with games never before available in print, and Zero Zigen's doujin game, Koenchu. Our table in the dealer's room this time was a lot nicer than our table at A-KON a few months ago. Besides having more games to sell, we also sold some buttons, t-shirts, artbooks, and the ever-coveted RE: Alistair++ plushies. We also gave away a ton of stuff including free stickers, postcards, and mini-art prints. A lot of people came up to the table to say hi to us, and it was absolutely wonderful to meet so many fans of our work. You guys rock, and I'm incredibly grateful that you all came out to see us. Thanks for all the kind words, the great suggestions, and for just being so much fun to talk to.
We ran a visual novel panel twice - once on Friday and once on Sunday. Much love to everyone who came out to see us. I've got some edited video from the Sunday version up on YT for your enjoyment. Here's the first part; more will go up on YT as I edit it. Many thanks to Sayuri Studios for recording all of this for us.
Altogether, I'd say that AFest was loads of fun. Thanks to everyone who came to say hi to us, thanks to everyone who came out to the panels, and thanks to those of you who came to the table to dance with me. XD I'll be doing my best to attend more conventions in the future so that I can meet even more of you guys. Visual novels, rock rock on!
Ayu dressed as Kuu, just without the magic gradient hair. XD
I'm so happy~ This is one of the things I was super excited about yesterday. Eeee~ MAN, I get so excited about like...everything. Seriously. AHHHHH~ Man, I'm totally babbling right now. XD These were made by the lovely renealexa. She's very talented, so do stop by her dA (and fave this deviation) if you are so inclined.
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