March to the rhythm in this new creation from the masterminds behind Patapon!
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パタポンのクリエイターによるこの新たなゲームの世界で、リズムに乗って行進しよう！
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Whimsical Wednesday #3
about 3 years ago
– Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 06:03:51 AM
※日本語のアップデートは下の方にあります
Whimsical Wednesday #3
We have reached the official halfway point of the campaign. You've KILLed 12 Stretch Goals and added in a ton of new content! You've worked as a community and held off two baddies via the Community Game and netted yourself Hardbooks artbooks and T-shirts with prints on the back. But most of all you continue to put smiles on our faces. We have never been so motivated as developers. Thank you so much!
Whimsical Wednesdays are all about art and music and this week is focused on the music of Ratatan! You'll get to see some great insights from Adachi-san, the Lead Sound Designer so pull up a chair and enjoy!
Campaign Information:
Fan Choice:
One of the best parts of connecting with fans via a crowdfunding campaign is that we can get direct feedback on some of the core design elements we aren't 100% decided on. The creative process can be complicated and bouncing ideas off of each other can create tunnel vision so we are turning to the fans to help us determine a core element in the game.
You've seen them in previous concept art but next Monday we'll be dropping more information on that mushroom-looking Ratatan. Before that though we need to lock down which weapon their cobun will use. For the next 72 hours we've put a poll live in the fan-vote section of the Ratatan Discord as well as the official Twitter account to have you determine which weapon you think fits the best. Also, it's worth noting that one of the community goals is determined by us getting 2000 plus votes so your participation in this vote is especially important! Well... what are you waiting for? Get over there and get voting!
Reddit Q&A Session:
As mentioned on the Monday update we'll be holding an AMA on r/ratatan and r/patapon at 10PM EST/7PM PST on Friday August 18th.
New Discord Functionality
We know not everyone likes discord but the community there continues to grow and it's amazing! We'll be implementing different features like welcome messages, backer polls, leveling-up, achievements, and giveaways! You'll gain levels by posting messages in the various channels and being proactive in the discord. Go to the demetan-commands channel on discord and input /rank to see your current rank or /levels to see the leaderboards but please don't tease Demetan too much! Additionally, we have added in a variety of voice chat channels for people who want to chat in smaller groups. Find an open room and enjoy the good conversation with like-minded fans! Hopefully it will make the wait for the final game a bit easier on everyone! Ra-ta-taaan!
Stretch Goals:
You marched forward and secured the Customize Fortrun goal and are so close to locking down that Hard Mode goal! We see people worried about less pledges coming in but trust us the campaign and community is already leagues more successful than we expected. And 90% of all video game Kickstarters follow a standard inverted bell curve so this is to be expected! Word of mouth helps in the middle weeks of a campaign and then of course some of the amazing new merch, stretch goals, and surprising reveals will be the afterburner for the final weeks.
Community Goals:
You smashed the Youtube community goal in less than a day. The Threads goal... not so much. We know it's another social media account but the number is very small compared to the number of current backers so hopefully a few people can pull together to make this happen but this week we may have a surprise attack that could actually help us reach this goal even if Threads isn't your thing... guess we'll have to be on our guard!
Development Information:
#5 Design: Enemy Attacks #1
Welcome to the fifth development update.
This time, let’s take a glimpse at the Ratatans’ adventures. *Today’s update will not include any behind-the-scenes design stories. Sorry! You can look forward to that in the next Creator’s Corner!
“Splish! Splash! Sploosh! Weather is clear! Visibility is good! Chorus ho! Get singing!”
Commands thunder out of the black bird Kro as it patrols overhead.
Matching the rhythm of Fortrun’s humming, the Ratatans break into song.
The horde of Chorus rush over and surround Fortrun, drawn in by their joyous singsong.
The Ratatans rush to capture and control all the Chorus they can.
But in the seemingly peaceful, deep blue Paraddean lies the hideout of the fearsome Swashbuckling Mantaneers!
“Hol’ up. What’s dat sound?”
Awoken from their cat(fish) naps, the Mantaneer flunkies pick up their telescopes and peer out from their floating watchtowers.
“It’s a Tapostle boat! The Ratatans is comin’!”
“Someone’s gotta tell the cap’n!”
“Howdy do? Is this the Everafter?” Fortrun asks the pirates, cheerfully.
“You ain’t gettin’ our secret maps!” The flunkies cry as they prepare for battle.
As the honks of a conch echo through the breeze, little huts atop tall towers open up allowing seabirds to fly out and spread the news.
The beasts of the sea follow the conch’s call and gather in wait for the Ratatans.
The pirates' battle to defend their island with its floating barges, piers and liquor barrels reaches a fantastic crescendo!
Eventually news reaches Captain Barbatoid and he makes his dastardly appearance aboard the Jolly Hermit...
What will be the fate of the Ratatans?!
…I know we’re all dying to find out what happens next, but now it’s time to jump over to the Creators’ Corner! Today, we’ll be hearing from Adachi-san, our sound designer!
Creator’s Corner: Composer Kemmei Adachi
Hello everyone! I’m Kemmei Adachi, a composer and sound designer.
For this project, I’ll be working on all sound-related things for Ratatan. How did you like the three songs that were released on the Kickstarter page? You should be able to enjoy a different atmosphere with each one of them. I really love the phrase from the Pirates of the Paraddean song: “Rattaparabee, rattaparabee, parabian.”
I was able to become part of Ratatan as it’s a spiritual successor to Patapon.
Let me tell you a bit about myself.
You may think of me as some guy who makes weird songs in the game industry, but I’ve actually made music for games from a lot of different genres: The XI Series, the Gran Turismo series, the LocoRoco series, Everybody’s Golf, and Freedom Wars.
And of course, the game you all know: Patapon. I’ve been the sound producer for every installment of the series, but my roots are in LocoRoco. I think that if I hadn’t worked on that game I probably never would have come up with my ideas for Patapon, and I wouldn’t have been able to develop my own style.
I set a mic next to me, created the tracks, and sang. Then I just did that over and over again—that’s how LocoRoco came to be. And I basically used the same style with Patapon. I sang the same phrases as the instruments, used fun onomatopoeia, and used all kinds of other methods to finish it.
Now, as for Ratatan… It seems similar to Patapon, but some of you may be wondering what’s different about it. Well, allow me to explain from a sound perspective.
If you’ve played Patapon, you’ll know that in that game God bangs on a drum while the Patapon sing and march forward. That’s the game’s basic style.
But what about Ratatan? As you can probably understand from the music, the Ratatan sing along with the Cobun, or maybe Fortrun sings and marches forward and the Ratatan and Cobun gather up to sing in circular canon until they’re all marching together. That’s Ratatan’s style. What was a drum in Patapon has become “song” in Ratatan.
This means that the commands will be singing. After all the excitement’s said and done, how many people will we have singing together by the end?
Due to this concept, creating a demo was harder than anything I’ve done before. How many Cobun are there? How many Chorus are there? Should there be at least 4 people? When things get exciting, the enemies should sing and fight back, right? Huh? Then how many people will be singing altogether? Do I have to do all of this?
In the end, I think I sang parts for about 30 people (sweats). In the end, we completed the demo, and I used that to ask different voice actors and actresses to sing weird songs. And it turned out amazingly, don’t you think?
As for Ratatan’s “theme park” atmosphere… I want to express that in as lively and fun a manner as possible. I may betray your expectations—in a good way! No, I want to betray you! I want to create songs that have different BPMs and variations (seriously)!
I hope you’re all excited! I can’t even imagine what I’ll come up with in the end, so I’m excited too! ♪
Majestic Monday #2
about 3 years ago
– Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 06:08:43 AM
※日本語のアップデートは下の方にあります
Majestic Monday #2
We are now two weeks into the campaign but not quite the halfway point. One thing that continues to amaze us is that we are over 600% more than our initial goal. Video Game Kickstarters rarely reach this level over the past few years. We are honored by your amazing support!
Campaign Information:
Merchandise Corner!
We are back with more detailed merchandise descriptors and of course exciting new merch!
Record - This single record set will contain a selection of the biggest hits the game has in store. If you are a purist this is the sound item for your and your collection. Speaking of which, with some hard work on the community goals, we'll be able to provide colored records instead of just the standard black.
New Merch!!!!
Plush - Here it is. The single most requested item in the campaign. We worked with the folks at Red Art and while there is a decent amount of risk stemming from a higher base price and the minimum lot we must produce we are happy to offer this 20 centimeter high plush of the pyokorappa cobun. We'll have mock-ups ready during the last week of the campaign
Price: 12,500 yen
Plush Hat - Wanna go to various conventions and show off your Ratatan love? We have the perfect item for you with this Pyokorappa plush hat! The velcro straps make this a one size fits all! Show us your cosplay love! Mock-ups will arrive in the final week.
Price: 10,000 yen
Key Chain - This limited edition key-chain can be yours! Great for attaching keys, lockpicks, Nyandora bells, and whatever other daily-use item you may need! This holiday season, give the gift of Ratatan to a loved one!
Price: 5,000 yen
Premium Reward Reissue
The Bad Vibes Only Premium tier has been snatched up again but we can re-issue it one more time thanks to the developers’ flexibility (and quite frankly how happy they are with the ever-growing community!) There is a good chance this will be the last time we can do this so if making an enemy for the game is your jam, check it out in the rewards section.
Week Two Character Battle results:
Well well well. Mimizukyun... won? We don't really know if being the most lactose intolerant is a win or not but at least they destroyed the competition with their hatred for milk! Thanks to everyone who voted! As always, if you have any ideas for what a good thing we should battle over is, head on over to the crazy-ideas-and-merch channel on the official Ratatan discord!
Stretch Goals
You are slowly making your progress towards customizing Fortrun! Yo ho ho! Then it's Hard mode including some really challenging secret bosses. Over the weekend we revealed the "Trophy Box" hint as well. Lots of good content to unlock thanks to your continued support!
Community Goals
You slid in barely by clearing the total backer goal with only a couple days to spare. Not only that, your AMAZING Mimizukyun fan art restored their confidence and held off the Stinger Diggers with ease! This means all artbooks will now be hard cover!
We'd like to show some of the incredible art that came in! It's nice to see the fans help out Mimizukyun in such an inspiring way!
By: Raliciel/レリシエル
By: ZoraZ
By: さぬタン
By: うみねこ
The new community goals are here as well. This week is all about the music so let's point our amazing community love in that direction and see if we can snatch up that colored record merch upgrade! You'll note one of the community goals is participation in the fan-vote that will be set live on Wednesday. It's an important one that allows you as fans to affect a key part of the production so we need your input!
Reddit Q&A Session
The Discord Developer Q&A Session went over with flying colors. Since the goal is to try and bring in new fans, we will be doing one AMA session over at Reddit. Didn't get a chance to have your question answered? Well, this is your chance to ask again! We'll be holding the Reddit Q&A on August 18th at 10PM EST/7PM PST!
Development Information:
#4 Game Systems: Hideout and Crafting Functionality
Welcome to the 4th developer's update!
Today we'll be talking about some game systems: what you can do at the hideout, the Ratatans' headquarters, as well as Ratatan’s crafting system...but first we're just dying to introduce you to this little rascal! Please give a loud round of applause for Buttonda and their Cobun!
*These images are still in development, and may change before the full game is released.
Melodium: Sousaphone
Role: Suppressor
Profile:
A suppressor that really plants its trotters to conquer the frontline.
Great at blasting enemies from the front with its powerful toots, its snoot strength is truly top class.
We also managed to snag some still-in-development variation ideas, so we'll show those off too! (We're not sure if these will be included in the full game or not...) From the left, you'll see a variant color version, a Cobun wearing similar gear, and two other rough mid-development ideas.
*These images are still in development, and may change before the full game is released.
Okay, now that we've gotten these new allies, let's turn our gaze to what we can do in the hideout. As you go on your adventure through this game, you'll encounter various NPCs. Some of these NPCs will serve various functions within the hideout, the Ratatans' headquarters. By fulfilling certain conditions, they'll move into the hideout, unlocking hideout features for you. Also, by becoming better friends with these NPCs, you'll unlock missions that you can complete in order to unlock further functions. We're thinking that whenever the player uses such functions, they'll play rhythm action mini-games, and the results of the mini-games will determine how good the effects are.
For example, we intend to implement a crafting system where you can use items you collected on your adventure to create weapons for your Cobun and Melodiums for your Ratatan. Crafting in this game will allow you to use items you gained on your adventures to give your Ratatans and Cobun permanent enhancements. Our goal is to then add in a Ratatan-esque rhythm gameplay element that’ll let everyone enjoy the fun of creating powerful items.
As for what the rhythm gameplay will be... You'll need to do rhythm-based button inputs depending on what item you're creating, such as clang-clunk-clink when swinging a hammer. We're also thinking of making it so that the item you create may get stat boosts based on how well you do.
What sort of NPCs and facilities will be in the hideout? What other mini-games will there be aside from crafting? We hope you'll all enjoy imagining what could be as you wait excitedly for the game’s release.
Next, let's head on over to the Creator's Corner! Monday is Kotani-san's day! Seems like he'll be talking about early stage concepts today...
Creator’s Corner: Supervisor Kotani
Hello! Game designer Kotani here. We're close to halfway through our Kickstarter campaign now. Thank you so much for all your support. Are you enjoying the campaign?
Last time I talked about the Ratatans' boat Fortrun, which acts as a hub where people can come together. This ship has existed for over two years, since it was originally a core component of Project JabberWocky. He existed as the "festival float" that would help make the experience feel like "a parade-like adventure."
At the time, my image of Fortrun being fun while also possessing sad and nostalgic motifs that came from artistic and dark fantasy inspirations in children's books I loved to read as a child, such as In the Forest by Marie Hall Ets and Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. And despite the fact that the images weren’t set in stone yet, the team worked hard to create a working prototype.
It felt like a waste to just shove it into a folder somewhere, but since I still hadn't gotten a concrete idea for what sort of characters I wanted to follow in Patapon's footsteps, this initial project was temporarily canceled.
After that, I got a renewed realization that the key to igniting the project would be to create characters with their own identities that still had that Patapon flare and did some serious soul-searching. Soon, while thinking about various ideas, these characters appeared: baby-like characters with eyepatches over one of their eyes—eyes that conjured up images of Patapon.
I jumped for joy and said "This is it!"
My idea is that the open eyes aren't just shaped like that to be homages to Patapon—but also as important key features meant to connect all the players who'd poured their love into Patapon to these new characters. (As for why I thought that...I'll explain it another time!)
Bad Vibes Onlyのプレミアム・ティアはまたも完売になりましたが、開発チームの柔軟な姿勢のおかげで（そして率直に言って、彼らは成長し続けるコミュニティに対してとても喜んでいるので！）もう一度だけ再発行を予定しています。これが最後のチャンスになる可能性が高いので、もしこのゲームの敵をデザインしたい！という気持ちがあれば、リワード・セクションを覗いてみてください。
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