“Banadroid” is an application marketplace with application distribution, billing and registered user information for Android apps managed by Bandai Namco Games. Currently it’s still in beta service, so there are only 12 available titles, but from now the lineup is planned to increase. Presently available are the major titles “Pac-Man,” “Ridge Racer,” “Katamari Damacy,” and free applications such as “Hanabi Tatsujin” (Fireworks Master) and “Panda To Nameko” (Panda and Mushroom).
Last month, we introduced a Japanese dating game on which you go out with several handsome pigeons. It was weird to play love-life with pigeons, but probably this one comes with more familiar theme, love with horse. The game is offered by Japan Racing Association (JRA, or “Nippon Chuo Keiba Kai”), a public company operates Japan’s central horse racing.
You are an unconfident and gutless 3 years old male horse. Your race debut is late because of delayed development, but this stable block accepted you with expecting your latent potential.
(from “Story” page)
You will meet three “Umadonna”, a stabler girl Asuka Matsuda, a handler Kotobuki Yumeji and an equestrian Chris Fujisawa.
You, the horse, naturally make conversation with girls in the game…
The teaser was given on December 9 from JRA release [J], the game has just been released today around noon.
Hatoful Kareshi [J] (hato=dove, kareshi=boyfriend so it is a word play of “full of pigeons boyfriend” and “heartful boyfriend”) is a Japanese style text-and-image virtual school dating game for girls, except all of your school love-life targets are pigeons.
At the Saint Pigeonation School, a prestigious school but many pigeons are attending, At first you were confused by the classroom with full of pigeons’ eyes, but now in your second grade (Japanese high school is 3 years from 15 yo – 18 yo), you are getting used to a school life, enjoying peaceful days… right?
You feel an emotion you have never had while spending time together. Surprising softness of pigeons nose humps.
There are 5 studens and 2 teacher pigeons, yes, pigeons, in the game you will be able to go out.
For “novice players” who can not imagine love with pigeons, the developer offer “personified” pictures for each pigeons.
For example, this character, Sakuya Le Bel Shirogane, who has a French aristocrat-pigeon father,
looks like him if he was a human being.
The application works [J] both on Windows XP and MacOS X (Windows Vista/7 are not guaranteed but may work, the site says).
Even with free version, you may date with 7 pigeons. The 500 yen Hatoful Plus has an extra character, 12 more inside-game events, more endings and gallery feature.
Here is a playing report by a fun,
As a result of popularity(?), on October 28, making of Hatoful Boyfriends audio drama CD was announced [J]. The drama features many of notable male voice actors who played in Evangelion, Yu-gi-oh, Macross, etc.
D3Publisher [J] has begun distribution of “Dream Club Pure Clock Amane ~ Preview Version ~”, an iPhone application version of their popular title, “Dream Club.” [J] Download is free.
“Dream Club” is a popular romance simulation game series released by D3P. The recent work “Dream Club ZERO Portable” is due to be released on PS Vita.
“Dream Club Pure Clock” was made available for Android on July 24th, but now at last it will be available for iOS. By touching and tilting the screen, host-girl “Amane” responds, saying various remarks, becoming happy or shy, and the player enjoys her many reactions. Also included will be “Live 2D” technology, which converts 2D illustrations into 3D, so it will be possible to make the appearance close to that of the Xbox 360 version. A full package update is planned to be released for Android and iPhone in the Fall, which will include an “alarm clock function” and a “time reading out loud function.”
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DeNA [J] has begun development of Mobage for tablet devices.
From the middle of September, their currently running game engine “Mobage ngCore SDK” is compatible with tablet devices. Now it is possible for developers who have been creating games for feature phone and smart phone with “Mobage ngCore SED” to offer social games for all tablet, iOS, and Android devices.
Simultaneously, in order to grant easier access for tablet users, smartphone Mobage applications will be made available for Fujitsu’s Docomo device “ARROWS Tab LTE F-01D.” Also, Mobage will be pre-installed as “Game Hub” on Samsung Electronics’ Docomo device “GALAXY Tab 10.1 LTE SC-01D.” This is the first instance of a Mobage pre-install for a tablet.
