About This Game Arcade Spirits, a romantic visual novel, follows an alternate timeline set in the year 20XX where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. After a turbulent work history, you are granted employment at the Funplex, a popular arcade, home to a host of unique personalities and customers. Where will this new-found employment take you? Who will you meet along the way? Will you find the romance you're seeking? Design your own character from the ground up - pronoun, hairstyle, skin tone, hair color, eye color and more are completely customizable and are reflected throughout the game in both gameplay and artwork!With roleplaying-based choices, you will be able to grow your personality and relationships in any way you desire; Friendship, Platonic or something more intimate! Work hard and build the relationship you desire with a total of seven romanceable characters!The Identity Identifier System, or IRIS, can track your relationship statuses with all characters throughout Arcade Spirits as well as your personality traits, from Quirky, Steady, and Kindly, to Gutsy and Basically. Everything you choose in Arcade Spirits, from your relationships to your personality, your crisis management moments, and a myriad other decision will have an effect on the future of your arcade! 1075eedd30 Title: Arcade SpiritsGenre: IndieDeveloper:Fiction Factory GamesPublisher:PQube LimitedRelease Date: 12 Feb, 2019 Arcade Spirits Torrent Download [hack] arcade spirits wiki. arcade spirits good ending. arcade spirits f95. arcade spirits length. arcade spirits juniper. arcade spirits demo. arcade spirits ps4. arcade spirits fanart. arcade spirits voice actors. arcade spirits choices. arcade spirits nsfw. arcade spirits fanfiction. arcade spirits download. arcade spirits projared. arcade spirits switch. arcade spirits gavin. arcade spirits igg games. arcade spirits ao3. arcade spirits game. arcade spirits review. arcade spirits console. arcade spirits. arcade spirits 2. arcade spirits dip. arcade spirits juniper romance. arcade spirits queen bee. arcade spirits graham stark. arcade spirits how many levels. arcade spirits download free. arcade spirits igg. arcade spirits mac. arcade spirits cgs. arcade spirits ashley. arcade spirits apk. arcade spirits routes. arcade spirits chapters. arcade spirits visual novel. arcade spirits tumblr. arcade spirits voice cast. arcade spirits juniper route. arcade spirits iris. arcade spirits pc. arcade spirits gameplay. arcade spirits guide. arcade spirits vndb. arcade spirits queen bee route. arcade spirits achievements. arcade spirits levels. arcade spirits reddit. arcade spirits prizes. arcade spirits best ending. arcade spirits merch. arcade spirits cracked. arcade spirits lilypichu. arcade spirits cast. arcade spirits release date. arcade spirits artist. arcade spirits the good end. arcade spirits ost. arcade spirits android. arcade spirits steam. arcade spirits pc game. arcade spirits metacritic. arcade spirits hamza. arcade spirits soundtrack. arcade spirits teo. arcade spirits trailer. arcade spirits rating. arcade spirits free. arcade spirits playthrough. arcade spirits endings. arcade spirits age rating. arcade spirits percy route. arcade spirits twitter. arcade spirits romance options. arcade spirits romance juniper. arcade spirits secrets. arcade spirits sue. arcade spirits percy. arcade spirits characters. arcade spirits romance. arcade spirits free download. arcade spirits francine. arcade spirits walkthrough. arcade spirits quips. arcade spirits tv tropes. arcade spirits imdb Reviews aren't usually my thing so bare with me on this.This game is heart warmingly sweet and was the best pick-me-up after a long tough week. I have only romanced one character, Percy, and just his track alone was great, but the main character really sold it for me. Every one can probably relate to this MC and they really made the game far more investing. I can't wait to start a new game and try a new route with a new romance.. I don't often review games I've played, but this was the best Visual Novel I've ever played. It's clearly a labor of love, with a wide variety of characters, no sexuality limits, and a charming, roller coaster ride of a story. The art was expressive, vibrant, and unique, and the voice acting was passionate. Everything from the UI to the music was great, and you can really tell how much (exhausting) fun the developers had in the process. I sincerely hope that anyone who enjoys a good visual novel tries this one out, because I think you're missing out otherwise.. This game was so much fun.I ran into it via LRR's YouTube page back when Graham Stark was talking about his voice acting role and I was immediately intrigued by the fun, flavourful art style and the highly entertaining snippets of writing I saw. Having now played it, this is very high up my list of favourite dating sims, probably a close second after Dream Daddy.Super LGBT friendly, with an entertaining plot, great character customisation and a lovely cast of endearing characters. If you like inclusive, story-driven romance in your games, Arcade Spirits is more than worth a shot - you owe it to yourself to give it a try.I've played through start to finish once, in about 6 hours I guess, but I'm already into a second playthrough and enjoying it immensely. What an excellent and endearing game.. Unlike Japanese visual novels, the content won't make you feel like you're going to be put on a watchlist for sex offenders. I mean that's a pretty big plus already, but it's also fun to play and the romance stuff is completely optional which is pleasing to my cold unloving android heart.. I'll admit at times some of the writing (especially for humor options) could be a bit cringe, but overall it was a fun experience, and I believe in the dev team enough to show my support with my wallet. I rate this game one high score obsessed husbando out of the precious time I have on this earth.. I'll admit at times some of the writing (especially for humor options) could be a bit cringe, but overall it was a fun experience, and I believe in the dev team enough to show my support with my wallet. I rate this game one high score obsessed husbando out of the precious time I have on this earth.. Reviews aren't usually my thing so bare with me on this.This game is heart warmingly sweet and was the best pick-me-up after a long tough week. I have only romanced one character, Percy, and just his track alone was great, but the main character really sold it for me. Every one can probably relate to this MC and they really made the game far more investing. I can't wait to start a new game and try a new route with a new romance.. Unlike Japanese visual novels, the content won't make you feel like you're going to be put on a watchlist for sex offenders. I mean that's a pretty big plus already, but it's also fun to play and the romance stuff is completely optional which is pleasing to my cold unloving android heart.. Not much of a reviewer on Steam (or in general), but I felt passionate enough about this game to take a shot at it.I played this game on a whim, looking for romance VNs with LGBT characters and options. And, honestly? This is probably my favorite one so far. It's not by any means perfect, of course, but I literally pulled an all-nighter the same day I bought it to finish one playthrough, and I'm plenty motivated to play more. I've never been an achievement hunter, so doing multiple routes when I've already picked a favorite has never been very favorable for me; why romance the other characters when I found my favorite? With Arcade Spirits, though, I'm thinking twice on my original standpoint of that principle. I think the characters are pretty well-written, and I'd love to do other playthroughs with the rest of the cast. Each one has a really compelling story to them, and I find depth in even the ones I had initially written off as being more two-dimensional than others. There's something for everyone. Plus, all of them are hot in their own way. You can never go wrong with a dad bod, fight me on that.I think a strong point to this story is how heartfelt is all is. You're in a rut, down on your luck, thinking you're doomed to a vicious cycle of your hopes and dreams being crushed over and over, no matter how hard you try. (Okay, so you nailed my personal life right on the head. Well played.) You're given options to jump into the unknown and take risks that can just as easily lift your spirits as they can crush them, all the while having a small band of friends behind you every step of the way. Call me sentimental, but I found a personal reassurance behind that. And with each connection I made to a character, the more invested I became in their happiness and well-being. Misty eyes were had many a time.... Okay fine, I may have full-blown cried too. Don't @ me.The art itself is a really cute style, and the preview images alone are what drew my attention. Some pictures with major and minor characters side by side make the lack of detail in the minor characters a bit more jarring and obvious, but that's just a small complaint. The player especially has little choice in the matter, considering the customization options and what tweaks you'd have to do for lighting and shading in the individual scenarios. Still, I found some pictures a bit awkward in having a base colored character next to a fully-detailed one with shining hair and dynamic shadows.Tying in opportunity with risk, happiness with sadness, and comedy with seriousness, Arcade Spirits is one heck of a roller coaster. So strap in, everyone, and enjoy the ride. I couldn't recommend this game more if I tried. I rate it 5 socially awkward, dorky technician cuties out of 5. Arcade Spirits v1.1: The game's in good shape, 99.97% of bugs and typos are gone, and any significant story edits we wanted to make are now made. This patch is mostly polishing things up, with one feature addition to make loading save games easier.Upgrades engine to Ren'Py 7.2.1.Saving your game between levels caused some UI confusion before, where you had to manually click 'Return to Game' after loading. We've fixed this issue; now when loading you'll be dropped back into the game immediately.Fixed a minor transparency issue in Ashley's icon.Fixed typos.. Arcade Spirits Releases February 12th!: We’ve got a release date — February 12th, 2019! Woo your arcade partner just in time for Valentines Day. And along with that announcement we’ve got a new trailer which features some of the great voice acting you’ll be hearing!The demo itself doesn’t have voice yet, but I’ll be updating it soon to include voice acting (and a few minor tweaks and changes). Everything should be tip top shortly.See you in February for love in a time of quarters!. 20XX vs. 2018: As production winds down on Arcade Spirits — we’re aiming to be content complete by December, to allow some time for testing and implementation before our Q1 2019 release window — I’m finding I have less stuff to talk about in the dev blog. Fortunately, we’ve got a strong community, and they had a good idea for this week’s entry: What are some of the key differences between our alternate timeline and the real world?Now, keep in mind Arcade Spirits is a lighthearted game and not a history textbook. I know the Internet worships at the altar of CinemaSins and loves to pick apart every single logic gap as a “plot hole” but we’re going for a loose and fun interpretation of history. It definitely wouldn’t totally work out this way… but it’s fun to make believe, right? Right. So, what if…The Atari 2600 Never FailedAtari took their time to make a proper port of Pac-Man, and a really good E.T. game, and didn’t overproduce either of them. As a result there is no mass grave in New Mexico of unsold 2600 carts and the system continued to thrive. Without the power vacuum left by Atari’s death, Nintendo didn’t muscle in in 1985 to utterly dominate the home arcade scene — and Atari’s strength kept their arcade division going strong, maintaining the arcade scene in tandem with rising home consoles.The three major players in the console scene in 20XX are now Atari, Sega, and Nintendo. In this timeline, the proposed Nintendo-Sony co-developed PlayStation never fell through, because the Philips CD-I didn’t get in the way of the project. Nintendo were the first to optical media, but Atari’s long-standing emphasis on backwards compatibility (you could play 2600 games on an Atari XL, for instance) means that they remain a force to be reckoned with.The Mainstream Accepts Video GamesSince the crash never happened and Nintendo wasn’t forced to push the NES as a children’s toy complete with a toy robot, the momentum of adults and young adults playing games back in the 70s and 80s kept going. eSports rise sooner than expected, with organized tournaments like EVO launching early and staying strong.While arcades never surpass more long-standing pursuits like going out to the movies or grabbing a pizza, they aren’t quite as looked down on as being only for nerds or children. It’s still a trivial pursuit, since they are games and games are silly, but generally they stabilize in the cultural consciousness.The Inevitable Rise of Kiddie Casinos Still Happens, But SlowerHave you been in a Dave & Busters or Chuck E. Cheese lately? Basically they’re just gambling palaces with no traditional video games whatsoever. But this was a survival tactic, a way to keep their businesses afloat while traditional joystick gaming was migrating to home consoles for enthusiasts only. If arcades never died, these chain franchises wouldn’t have to rely quite as hard on prize games… but prize games would still be a major factor.Everybody likes the rush of winning, and early ticket games like Skeeball(tm) (or ‘Alley Rollers’ to use the non-trademarked name) would prove the model can work. So while there wouldn’t be a mid-90s rampaging push towards abandoning ship on the arcade model, those who cared more about raw profit than tradition would definitely still migrate in that directions.Oh, Also We Have Holograms And Sentient A.I. For ReasonsAnd here’s where I take a left turn into fantasyland, because Iris — your adorable virtual assistant — not only is amazingly sophisticated beyond any 2018 level smartphone tech, but I have a few cute pics in game of her literally sitting on the edge of your phone and extending away from the screen. It’s similar to the scanlines you see on the spotlights over Teo’s dance stage, or how Gavin’s tablet was originally going to have some hovering holograms.This was something I debated removing to keep things realistic, but… instead, I just don’t comment on it. I let Iris stay adorable even if she’s implausible, because it’s cute and makes a nice visual and again, we are not a history textbook.…although there IS a bit more going on behind why she’s so very, very intelligent. And I’d say more, but… spoilers.I think that’ll do for missives from the year 20XX. I don’t want to spoil all the surprises. Hope you enjoy our alternate timeline when the game releases early next year!. Arcade Spirits Demo Update for 8/30/2018: This small update adds two new features:1. Animated backgrounds! The arcade lights pulse and glow, the crane machine moves up and down, city lights blink on and off. You can adjust the speed of these animations from the Preferences menu, keeping them slow and subtle, or making them fast and lively -- or turning them off completely.2. Added visual examples of our three UI styles to the Preferences menu (Neon, Pixel, Basic). This option was always here, we just didn't have a good quick reference for what each of them meant.. Who We Are / Yummy Arcade Preserves: Ever since the PQube announcement, we've had new folks tuning in to see what Arcade Spirits is all about. Hello, new folks! We've got a blog (which we mirror to Tumblr[stefangagne.tumblr.com] and Steam), we've got a Twitter for announcements and arcade culture tidbits, a Discord[discord.gg] to connect with other arcade fans, a Patreon[patreon.com] if you want to support us on a deeper level, and finally a website[www.arcadespirits.com]. That's a lot of stuff! Just pick your favorite way to follow us, and enjoy.But also, I'd like to direct you to an old blog post[stefangagne.com] you probably missed, which describes the pillars of our game, and why we made the choices we did when designing the game. To summarize so you don't HAVE to go digging through the blog if you don't wanna, we've got four guiding principles in telling our lighthearted tale of love and quarters... We’re inclusive by not restricting player choice of romance. Be who you want to be, romance who you want to romance (or nobody at all). We're LGBTQ+ friendly without specifically being a game about LGBQT+. Notably: coding in restrictions based on your preferred pronoun takes effort and we're too lazy for that. But it's laziness in favor of player choice, so hey! We want you to be able to choose how to react to things around you. Player agency is sometimes missing in visual novels, so we want as much as we can pour in. We focus heavily on roleplaying and self-expression, letting you react as you like. There should be clear signposts for easy decision-making. We don't like blind choices, or needing to play with a FAQ open on your second monitor. We're going to be relatively clear what each choice is going to mean for you -- who you'll spend time with and how they'll react. You have some leeway, too, so you don't have to scoop up EVERY point to get the ending you want. One tale, with your own personal path chosen from beginning to end. We'll say up front this isn't about massively branching paths and multiple distinct endings. It's about a personal experience that's never exactly the same as any other player's, thanks to the choices you make along the way and who you decide to be.We're aiming to deliver one heck of a tale for you, a story that you participate in rather than passively read, a story you can insert yourself into or play whatever other personality type you like. Play things straight, romance or don't, get wild, be snarky, do as you want. And we hope you enjoy that story....Okay! That's our introduction out of the way. Let's talk this week's actual (slightly depressing) topic, based on Recent Topical News -- specifically Nintendo squishing several ROM and emulation sites with legal papers. Pirated retro games are no longer quite so easy to find, thanks to their actions.In Arcade Spirits we've added a mini-documentary hosted by Naomi which is all about building your own emulation cabinet. It's pretty detailed on the hardware and software you'll need, but one thing we skim over is obtaining ROMs -- because let's be totally honest here, Nintendo and their ilk have every legal right to say "Hey, uh, please stop giving away our games for free, okay?" You just can't condone that sort of thing, not if you work in the game industry like I do. There's no ethical leg to stand on.But unfortunately, this also poses a serious problem for video game preservation efforts. Many of these games are a tangled mess of copyright holders, many of which are out of business or were sold again and again, to the point where it's unclear WHO owns the copyright on a game anymore. Therefore, there is no legal way to play some of these games short of tracking down original arcade hardware and spending hundreds to thousands of dollars on it -- and if that hardware is just flat out gone, cabinets junked and sitting in landfills, a game can be lost forever. Look at the movie industry, where the majority of films from the dawn of cinema in the 30s are simply gone, because nobody thought to preserve them.Emulation and abandonware archives were one way to keep those dimly lit and flickering candles alive. Legal? No, but given the copyright holders cannot -- or in many cases, will not -- provide a legal means of obtaining the game, not many options remain. Even games which aren't exactly in danger of vanishing can be withheld... Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is a good recent example. It never had a physical release, only digital downloads, and as licenses expired it was pulled from digital storefronts. You literally cannot legally obtain this game anymore and likely never will be able to again, and because it was loaded on DRM-locked modern game consoles, any act of preservation runs afoul of the DMCA.So... what to do? There's really not a good solution in the hands of gamers. And again, I can't and won't condone piracy. It's up to the companies involved to be willing to loosen their grip on these games, and many refuse to budge. As noted, they're even actively fighting websites that preserve games. And thus, an impasse.Hopefully we as an industry will find a way past this issue, to make these classic games available conveniently and without legal problems. Either that, or as fans of arcade classics, we'll have to mourn the passing of more and more great games.. Stepping Stones to Arcade Spirits: First up, I want to say Woohoo! and Thank you! to everybody who responded so positively to our announcement of voice acting. I also know a lot of you want to audition but we aren't doing open casting calls at this time. We may open up one or more roles in the future, and if we do, you'll hear it here first. We promise. Until then, thanks for your patience.Now, then! I had a long blog post written up about emotional sincerity, about how our game was meant to wear its heart on its sleeve and reject “lol cringe” attitudes... but it seems I already wrote that post like a year ago, so I had to scrap it. You can read it here[stefangagne.com] if you like, though.So instead of a pathos appeal, let's talk ethos. Let's talk about my past experience in game development, and how it lead to Arcade Spirits. This is Stefan speaking; Aenne has her own tale to tell and I'll see about getting her on the blog to chat about it later.Most folks know me from two different paths I took -- writing (cough) anime fanfic and then original novels, and writing Neverwinter Nights modules. But truthfully Arcade Spirits first started out as an absurd little project from 1999 called “Culture Shock,” which was my attempt to write a visual novel engine in JAVASCRIPT to be playable in a browser. ...look, it was 1999, JavaScript was almost respectable at the time, okay?It was a different time. A far weebier time.Eventually I canned the project as I just didn't have access to the art resources I needed to actually do it, and JavaScript was clunky at best. Although there was this new thing I'd learned about at Otakon, attending a panel about... what was it called... Ren-py or something? Which seemed viable......but before I could dip too deep in those waters, Neverwinter Nights was released. And that changed everything. With a strong toolkit-based approach and an excellent dialogue editor, I was able to create storytelling adventures using a popular platform. I was in on it from day one, releasing Penultima, followed by Penultima ReRolled and the more horror-based elegia eternum series. Finally, I very nearly created an official Bioware campaign named the HeX coda, but corporate miscommunication resulted in the project being dropped from their roster and instead released for free.(Interestingly, Fist of Discomfort -- the game-within-a-game of Arcade Spirits -- almost was a Neverwinter Nights module. I'd experimented with making a simplified brawler game out of the D&D based fightin' engine, complete with those flashy GO! arrows you'd see in Final Fight.)All my NWN games were very character-driven, as you can see here.But D&D wasn't really ideal for storytelling, because no matter how hard I tried I could never quite get the combat balance right. I could make stories featuring memorable characters, including some of the “dating” mechanics seen in Arcade Spirits, but it wasn't quite enough to really explore narrative potential. Exploring relationships -- both romance and friendship -- through game systems has always fascinated me. To make that dream a reality, I needed a different tool.For about ten years I opted to go back to writing novels. I didn't need artists or musicians or coders to write a novel, just my own brain and a keyboard. It felt like a style I could actually work in without hitting the limitations I'd hit trying to be an entire game studio by myself. Meanwhile, the indie scene for games kept growing and growing, and visual novels started becoming more and more prominent...Then in 2016, Aenne Schumann suggested working on a project together. She had friends who could help, resources we could tap. I had money to bankroll the venture and an idea that had been forming since 1999. Both of us combined had a diverse array of perspectives about arcades and arcade culture, which could be used to write a stronger story than either of us could have created alone. And we had the tool I'd learned about so long ago, RenPy. The time was finally right to make this work.No more limitations. No more compromises. If I was only ever going to get one shot at making a professional video game I wanted to go all out -- hire amazing artists, collaborate with them, work with a publisher, get this in front of as many people as possible. If it tanked, I'd soak the loss and at least say “I did it, I crossed that off my bucket list.”But if it succeeds. If this grand fiasco actually succeeds...Well. We'll see, won't we?. Arcade Spirits v1.02: Welcome to Arcade Spirits v1.02! We've added a big feature, changed a few things, and fixed up a bunch of minor issues along the way... The Home Arcade Documentary is now available from the Prizes menu! This interactive documentary hosted by Naomi explains how you (yes, you!) can build or buy your own multi-purpose arcade machine and really get your game on! Modified one of Percy's endings to add some ambiguity. (Mouseover to reveal this spoiler if you've already finished the game...) It felt too punishing to have him simply die if you didn't befriend him. Our game promotes positivity and this stuck out weirdly. Now, it's simply left ambiguous. Enjoy your retcon! By popular demand, added Pizza Facts to the end of each episode! Thank you for subscribing to Pizza Facts! Adjusted the 'Basic' style user interface for improved readability and accessibility.Minor fixes:Fixed a crash when using "They" pronouns and dating Naomi.Fixed more instances of QueenBee's costume being incorrect.Fixed unlockable Juniper image to the main menu extras.Fixed Mateo's full name being misspelled in Level 03.Adjusted some language for sensitivity.Improved comedic timing on some lines.Simplified Iris's initial explanation of Fist of Discomfort.
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