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Momodora
''Momodora'' is a series of Indie game, indie platformer video games developed by Guilherme "rdein" Martins and his studio Bombservice. The series follows several priestess heroines who utilize magic maple leaves as weapons against monsters and other cursed entities. The series consists of five games: ''Momodora I'', ''Momodora II'', ''Momodora III'', ''Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight, and Momodora: Moonlit Farewell''. The series takes place in an unnamed world inhabited by strange monsters and people. Dark, ruinous forces threaten the people of the land who resort to the ritual martyrdom of priestesses to propitiate evil. These evil forces and sacrifices serve as the main sources of conflict throughout the series. The first two games in the series are short freeware titles exclusive to itch.io. The third, fourth and fifth games in the series were released to Steam (service), Steam, where they saw comparatively greater popularity. Main series ''Momodora'' and ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playism
Playism (stylized as PLAYISM) is an independent video game publisher operated by Active Gaming Media. Playism started as a digital distribution platform for PC games, launched in May 2011. History Playism was launched in May 2011 as a digital distribution platform for PC games. In April 2013, Playism began a project with HAL College of Technology & Design in both Osaka and Nagoya. The project involves students creating games in four-person teams over a period of several months. The games would then be judged by PLAYISM staff, Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya (''Cave Story''), Smoking Wolf (''One Way Heroics''), and members of Nigoro (''La-Mulana''). The highest-rated games were then localized by PLAYISM, and released on the PLAYISM store page for purchase. Playism was closely involved in the administration of the indie-based game event in March 2013, helping both with translation and interpretation as well as with logistics. In September 2013, Playism collaborated with Sony Computer E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reverie Under The Moonlight
Reverie may refer to: * A daydream or a dreamy state. * W. R. Bion's psychoanalytic use of "reverie" Places * Reverie, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in Tipton County, Tennessee, United States * Reverie (Marion, Alabama), a Greek Revival mansion in Marion, Alabama, United States Music * ''Rêverie'', an 1847 work for violin and piano (part of Op. 22) by Vieuxtemps * ''Rêverie'' (russian: Дума, link=no), an 1865 piano work by Mussorgsky * ''Rêverie'' by Giovanni Bottesini, c. 1870 * ''Rêverie'', a piano piece by Debussy, c. 1895 * ''Rêverie'' (Scriabin) (russian: Мечты, link=no) in E minor, Op. 24, an 1898 orchestral work by Scriabin * ''Rêverie'', Op. 49/3, a 1905 piece for piano by Scriabin * Reverie on , a 1939 cello piece by Pablo Casals after a folk song * ''Reverie'', a piano piece by Billy Joel * ''Dumka (Reverie)'', an 1840 song by Chopin * ''Rêverie'', an art song by Reynaldo Hahn, c. 1870 Albums * ''Reverie'' (Cherie Currie album), 2015 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Game Franchises
This is a list of video game franchises, organized alphabetically. All entries include multiple video games, not counting ports or altered re-releases. 0–9 *''1080° Snowboarding'' *''1942'' *''3D Ultra Minigolf'' *'' 3-D Ultra Pinball'' *'' 7th Dragon'' A *''A Boy and His Blob'' *'' Ace Attorney'' *''Ace Combat'' *''ActRaiser'' *'' Adventure Island'' *''Adventures of Lolo'' *'' Aero Fighters'' *'' Aero the Acro-Bat'' *''After Burner'' *'' Age of Empires'' *''Age of Wonders'' *'' Airforce Delta'' *''Aleste'' *''Alex Kidd'' *''Alien Breed'' *'' Alien Syndrome'' *'' Alone in the Dark'' *''Alpine Racer'' *''Altered Beast'' *'' Alundra'' *'' American McGee's Alice'' *''America's Army'' *'' Amnesia'' *'' Amped'' *''Angry Birds'' *''Animal Crossing'' *'' Anno'' *'' Anomaly'' *''Another Century's Episode'' *''Another Code'' *''Ape Escape'' *''Arc the Lad'' *''Arkanoid'' *'' ARMA'' *''Armored Core'' *'' Army Men'' *''Army of Two'' *''Art Academy'' *''Ar Tonelico'' *''Asheron's Call' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retro-style Video Games
Retro style is imitative or consciously derivative of lifestyles, trends, or art forms from history, including in music, modes, fashions, or attitudes. In popular culture, the "nostalgia cycle" is typically for the two decades that begin 20–30 years ago. Definition The term ''retro'' has been in use since 1972 to describe on the one hand, new artifacts that self-consciously refer to particular modes, motifs, techniques, and materials of the past. But on the other hand, many people use the term to categorize styles that have been created in the past. Retro style refers to new things that display characteristics of the past. Unlike the historicism of the Romantic generations, it is mostly the recent past that retro seeks to recapitulate, focusing on the products, fashions, and artistic styles produced since the Industrial Revolution, the successive styles of Modernity. The English word ''retro'' derives from the Latin prefix ''retro'', meaning backwards, or in past times. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic Fiction
Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror in the 20th century, is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name is a reference to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages, which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels. The first work to call itself Gothic was Horace Walpole's 1764 novel ''The Castle of Otranto'', later subtitled "A Gothic Story". Subsequent 18th century contributors included Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Beckford (novelist), William Thomas Beckford, and Matthew Gregory Lewis, Matthew Lewis. The Gothic influence continued into the early 19th century, works by the Romantic poetry, Romantic poets, and novelists such as Mary Shelley, Charles Maturin, Walter Scott and E. T. A. Hoffmann frequently drew upon gothic motifs in their works. The early Victorian literature, Victorian period continued the use of gothic, in novels by Charles Dickens and the Brontë family, Brontë sisters, as well as works by the American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Legend Of Zelda
''The Legend of Zelda'' is an action-adventure game franchise created by the Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. It is primarily developed and published by Nintendo, although some portable installments and re-releases have been outsourced to Capcom, Vanpool, and Grezzo. The gameplay incorporates action-adventure and elements of action RPG games. The series centers on the various incarnations of Link, a courageous young Hylian man, with pointy, elf-like ears; and Princess Zelda, a magical princess who is the mortal reincarnation of the goddess Hylia; as they fight to save the magical land of Hyrule from Ganon, an evil warlord turned demon king, who is the principal antagonist of the series. Ganon wishes to use the Triforce, a sacred relic left behind by the three goddesses that created Hyrule, to remake the world in his own dark image. When gathered together, the power of the Triforce can grant any wish its user desires; however, if someone w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metal Slug
is a Japanese Shoot 'em up#Scrolling shooters, run and gun video game series originally created by Nazca Corporation before merging with SNK Playmore, SNK in 1996 after the completion of the Metal Slug (1996 video game), first game in the series. Spin-off games include a third-person shooter to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the series and a tower defense game for the mobile platform. Originally created for Neo Geo (system), Neo-Geo arcade machines hardware (MVS) and the Neo Geo (system), Neo-Geo home game consoles (AES) hardware, the original games have also been porting, ported to other video game console, consoles and mobile platforms throughout the years, with several later games created for various other platforms. The games focus on the Peregrine Falcon Squad, a small group of soldiers who fight against a rebel army, aliens, zombies, mummies and various other forces intent on world domination. Gameplay The gameplay consists of run and gun elements as well as in later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mega Man
''Mega Man'', known as in Japan, is a Japanese science fiction video game franchise created by Capcom, starring a series of robot characters each known by the moniker "Mega Man (character), Mega Man". Mega Man (video game), The original game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987, and spawned a franchise that expanded to over 50 games on multiple systems. As of July 26, 2022, the series has sold 38 million units worldwide. The classic series consists of eleven games, the standalone ''Mega Man & Bass'', the spin-off Game Boy series (released in Japan as ''Rockman World''), and various ports, remakes, and compilations. The core games in the franchise have all been set in a single continuity; the storyline of the "classic" series is succeeded by the ''Mega Man X'', ''Mega Man Zero'', ''Mega Man ZX'', and the ''Mega Man Legends'' series. This timeline excludes the spin-off ''Mega Man Battle Network (series), Mega Man Battle Network'' and ''Mega Man Star Force' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cave Story
''Cave Story'', originally released as is a 2004 Metroidvania platform-adventure game for Microsoft Windows. It was developed over five years by Japanese independent developer Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya in his free time. ''Cave Story'' features 2D platform mechanics and is reminiscent of the games Amaya played in his youth, such as '' Metroid'' and '' Castlevania''. After its initial self-published release, the game slowly gained popularity on the internet. It received widespread critical acclaim for many polished aspects of its design, such as its compelling characters, setting, story, and gameplay. ''Cave Story'' is considered by many as the quintessential indie game because of its one-person development team and influence on the video gaming world. Independent video game developer Nicalis worked with Amaya to port the game to WiiWare and DSiWare in 2010. An enhanced version, ''Cave Story+'', was released for Steam in November 2011, and the original game was released for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steam (service)
Steam is a Digital distribution of video games, video game digital distribution service and storefront by Valve Corporation, Valve. It was launched as a software client in September 2003 as a way for Valve to provide automatic updates for their games, and expanded to distributing and offering third-party Video game publisher, game publishers' titles in late 2005. Steam offers various features, like digital rights management (DRM), Matchmaking (video games), game server matchmaking, Valve Anti-Cheat, anti-cheat measures, social networking service, social networking and video game live streaming, game streaming services. It provides the user with automatic game updating, saved game cloud synchronization, and community features such as friends messaging, in-game chat and a community market. Valve released a freely available application programming interface (API) called Steamworks in 2008, which developers can use to integrate Steam's functions into their products, including in-gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platform Video Game
A platform game (often simplified as platformer and sometimes called a jump 'n' run game) is a sub-genre of action game, action video games in which the core objective is to move the player character between points in an environment. Platform games are characterized by levels that consist of uneven terrain and suspended platforms of varying height that require jumping and climbing to traverse. Other Acrobatics, acrobatic maneuvers may factor into the gameplay, such as swinging from vines or grappling hooks, jumping off walls, air dashing, gliding through the air, being shot from cannons, or bouncing from springboards or trampolines. Games where jumping is automated completely, such as 3D games in ''The Legend of Zelda'' series, fall outside of the genre. The genre started with the 1980 arcade video game, ''Space Panic'', which includes ladders, but not jumping. ''Donkey Kong (video game), Donkey Kong'', released in 1981, established a template for what were initially called "climb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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