Shoy Schot! nui Press Release

          Virtual Gaia Games is proud to introduce Shoy Schot! nui, an electronic card game. The game will release Sunday, December 29^th, 2013 to all PC user for free!

          Shoy Schot! is an additive, console-based, strategic card game created in C#. Starting out as a simple minigame about flipping cards and gaining ownership over the game board it soon blossomed into a full fledged card game with a mega ton of customization options and gameplay modes. And now, with Shoy Schot! nui, it has finally reached its ultimate form!

          Shoy Schot! nui retains all the features of the previous release (Shoy Schot! Stand-Alone Edition Version 2.0.1.9) which included (but not limited to): 5 main Rule Sets to play in their own Free Play modes; an Arcade-like mode called Unlimited Deck Mode; a Best Of… Mode to play consecutive matches; a robust Tournament Mode for serious play; 22 Accomplishments to earn; Stats pages that kept over 80 stats; a Personal Rank Card to share and compare with other Shoy Schot! players; 8 profiles for same computer, different persons use; and Virtual Gaia Games Matching!, a completely separate matching minigame.

          New features to Shoy Schot! nui include (but not limited to): a Custom Rule Set Maker, where players can build their own custom Rule Sets; Endless Tower, which is a survival mode; a Score Attack Mode; Arcade Challenges where players can try to conquer all 40 challenges; a single player tournament mode called Arcade Battle Campaign, a Tutorial Mode, where players can learn the basics of the game in a new, more interactive way; a new mini-game called Clementine; 26 more Accomplishments to earn; more Stats; and slew of secrets and tweaks.

          Shoy Schot! nui also marks Virtual Gaia Games’ final game made in this text-based style. Shoy Schot! nui is our swan song to this type of design. While being made in this engine, Shoy Schot! has never been a graphical powerhouse, but we think anyone who has played it in the past has had a lot of fun and we believe Shoy Schot! nui will continue this feat threefold!!

          Again, Shoy Schot! nui is a PC game from Virtual Gaia Games and will be releasing on Sunday, December 29^th, 2013. It will be downloadable from: http://virtualgaiagames.blogspot.com/2013/12/shoy-schot-nui-update-log.html for free when available. We hope you all download and enjoy our game!

Quick Information About Shoy Schot! nui

Game: Shoy Schot! nui
Genre: Electronic Card Game
Platform: Windows PC
Developer: Virtual Gaia Games
Release Date: December 29^th 2013
Price: Economical Priced [Read: FREE!]
Download Site: http://virtualgaiagames.blogspot.com/2013/12/shoy-schot-nui-update-log.html
Website: http://virtualgaiagames.blogspot.com/
Game Page: http://virtualgaiaprojects.blogspot.com/p/shoy-schot-nui.html
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ShoySchot/
IndieDB Page: http://www.indiedb.com/games/shoy-schot-nui

Download a PDF of the Full Press Release: Here

          Check out Shoy Schot! nui Complete Features List after the jump.

Shoy Schot! Stand-Alone Edition Version 2 Press Release

          Shoy Schot! Stand-Alone Edition (SAE), the addictive card game, is back! And very much improved with Shoy Schot! Stand-Alone Edition v2! Version 2.

          Shoy Schot! is an console-based strategic card game I created in C#. The objective of a match is to own the most panels by the end of the match. The game was originally a minigame on another game I created before I started to add a ton of features to it. It grew to become bigger than the game it was attached to, so I decided to make a stand-alone version of it back in September.

          Shoy Schot! Stand-Alone Edition is divided up into four main sections: The Unlimited Deck Mode, which allows a player to play against another player or CPU in customizable matches that use the Unlimited Deck (more like arcade play). The World Tour Mode, which is a more serious mode but have a ton of customization options. Best Of... Mode, where a player can play consecutive matches against another player or CPU. Lastly, Tournament Mode, which players can enter a series of matches against 2, 3, or 4 of their friends to see who is the best.

          Most modes allows players to customized some of the settings before entering a match. They include: Change the game grid to a 3x3 board (allowing for quicker matches), 4x4 board (allowing for more competitive and fair matches), or 5x5 board (allowing for longer matches). Changing who will go first. The hand rules in play, meaning do players what to use a full deck or only low valued card, etc. And a few other settings. There are Over 500 Different Ways to Play—find your favorite!

          Some of the new features to Version 2 include improvements and tweaks to the different AI player to provide a higher and fairer challenge. The Version 2 Game Deck which adds 4 more card type to the game increasing the total to 15 different card type from the original 11 (and increasing total cards from 110 to 150). Players can choose to switch between the Version 1 (Classica) and Version 2 Game Deck in the Options Menu. The ability to have up to four different profiles for multiple people using the same game. The different profiles will keep track that profiles stats independent from another profiles stats. Also, Version records 80 different stats so players keep track important stuff from number of wins and losses to less important stat such as the number of times played on the 4x4 board. There is even a way not to keep track of stats now (with a indicator to let players know). 8 more accomplishments (Shoy Schot’s trophy/achievement system) have been added to the game bring the total number of accomplishments to 22! Lastly, a ton of minor fixes, tweaks, and additions have been made to the game to make the whole experience more fun, user friendly, and streamlined.

          I hope you all enjoy the game. Please feel free to give feedback or make comments. Check out the full feature list below:

• Version 2 Game Deck
• Adds 4 New Card Types
• Switch between Version 1 and 2 Game Decks
• Create up to 4 Profiles
• Keep Stats of up to 4 different Players
• Use Guest Mode to not track Stats
• Keep track of 80 different stats
• Including Playtime
• Match Time
• Improved AI
• 8 New Accomplishments
• Cleaner Interface
• More Streamlined Experience
• Overall Game Balancing
• Tweaked Rank Calculation
• More Extras
• Fixed Chain Reaction Error
• Fixed CPU vs. CPU glitch
• Fixed Rank Title Error
• A Ton of Minor Fixes and Additions

Download: Shoy Schot! Stand-Alone Edition Version 2.0.0.0 Here


          There were going to be several 50 second trailers to coincide with the Version 2, but computer issues prevented that. In lieu of trailer I give you screenshots, concepts for the new icon, and some would be trailer screens after the jump.

Shoy Schot! Stand-Alone Edition Press Release

          The Ultimate Edition of Shoy Schot! is now live! Shoy Schot! Stand-Alone Edition (SAE) is the complete game from Still Here After Wednesday Night plus some extras. Now only that but anyone with system data from  Still Here After Wednesday Night can back up their system data from that game and retrieve it in Shoy Schot! SAE. It will only take data pertaining to Shoy Schot! Below is the features list:

• Clean Interface
• 3 Different CPU Players
• 3 Game Boards
• 2 Types of Decks
• Many Customizable Free Play Modes
• Best Of... Mode
• 2 Types of CPU vs. CPU Modes
• (Robust) Tournament Mode
• Accomplishments
• Stats
• Check For Updates
• Back-up System Data
• Nice Shoy Schot! Stand-Alone Edition Icon
• Extras

          With the release of the Shoy Schot! SAE the version of the game inside Still Here After Wednesday Night will no longer be supported. Only Shoy Schot! SAE will be updated and supported.


Download: Shoy Schot! Stand-Alone Edition Version 1.0.0.0 Here

Still Here After Wednesday Night (Version 5.2.0.0) Now Live

          Version 5.2.0.0 greatly updated Shoy Schot! adds general fixes and additions to the overall package. The short list of additions include:

• Greatly Updates Shoy Schot!
• Adds New Hard AI: CPU PLAYER: ELSA
• Overall AI Improvements
• Artificial Errors
• Better Handling of Discard
• Chance of Inspiration
• Cleaner Interface
• 5x5 Game Board
• More Game Modes
• Unlimited Deck CPU vs.CPU
• World Tour CPU vs. CPU
• Best Of... Mode
• (Robust) Tournament Mode
• Stats
• Accomplishments
• Stand-alone Basework
• Extra Secrets
• More Grammar Fixes
• A Ton of Minor Fixes and Additions

          I also want to add as a special treat: How to quickly skip to the Epilogue of Still Here After Wednesday Night and quick access to Shoy Schot! Cheat. In Still Here, at the very beginning of a new game or new game + cheatcodes may be entered. To do this simply start a new game or new game + and don't move from that spot! Instead type in CHEAT and you should hear a beep. Voila. To skip to the Epilogue type in NE after CHEAT. You should hear another beep if successful. To quickly unlock Shoy Schot! type in SS after CHEAT. You should hear another beep if successful.
Ex. >Cheat (beep)

      >SS (beep)

          Have fun with the new update. Read the Special Message in the game (go to the About section within the Main Menu).

Download from Log: Here
Go to Still Here After Wednesday Night Page: Here

Still Here After Wednesday Night Update 5.1.0.0 Now Live

          Version 5.1.0.0 is a huge update for Still Here After Wednesday Night. It adds two major features and well as a slew of additions and fixes.

          The first of the major features and most visible is The Little Sheep Arcade. The Little Sheep Arcade house the fully featured Virtual Gaia Games Matching! minigame and maybe even more(?). The additional of the Little Sheep Arcade now only bring with it an entirely new and different gaming experience from the main game but also increases the overall playable content of the game by over 65%! And that's taking into account the Main Game + the unlockable Epilogue (which you should play)!

          The second major feature to the update is the Ability to Back-up and Retrieve System Data. This feature can be found under the options menu. What this means is that when a future a future update rolls around you no longer have to sacrifice your hard earned Accomplishments or reset you configurations over again. Now when a new update comes, all you have to do is go to this option, back-up your system somewhere, install the new update, and retrieve your old system data from the new version of the game. This feature can also be used to set this game up on different computer. No need to unlock things you've already unlocked.

          Finally, and like always, there been fixes to small issues, such as grammar/spelling errors, a minor fix to the cheatcode input, and a fix to the quicksave (Sav##)  error at the end of the Epilogue (seriously, play it--it's not that hard to unlock).

          Have fun with this new update (which become about 1000 times bigger than it was suppose to be). Still Here After Wednesday Night Version 5.1.0.0 can be found here. Or below:

• Download Link Rar (Contains Both Install File and Exe File)
• Still Here After Wednesday Night (Version 5.1.0.0) [7-12-2012].rar (320.04KB)
• Download Link Zip (Contains Both Install File and Exe File)
• Still Here After Wednesday Night (Version 5.1.0.0) [7-12-2012].zip (402.70KB)
• Download Link 7z (Contains Both Install File and Exe File)
• Still Here After Wednesday Night (Version 5.1.0.0) [7-12-2012].7z (288.67KB)

UPDATE 1 (7/13/12): Reuploaded the files. I had to make a quick fix.

UPDATE 2 (7/13/12): Production Log for Update 5.1.0.0: Here

Still Here After Wednesday Night (Version 5—Final Version) Is Done!

          I’m finally done making my Text-Based Adventure: Still Here After Wednesday Night (Version 5). I want to give a very special thanks to my Quality Assurance Team. Thank you very much fo helping me out. To keep this short here is the features list:

• New Game +
• 33 Accomplishments!
• Redesign Main Menu
• Filing System! Keep Notes and Letters With You!
• Game Options
• Ability to Manually Change Save Location
• Unlockable Epilogue With Multiple Endings
• Secret Events And Hidden Features!
• A Ton of Secrets
• Check for Data has Evolved! Now Shows Save Information!
• Has a Real Icon Now!
• Improved Error Checking
• Improved Balancing
• Special Messages from Creator
• New Actions Added
• More Think Monologues
• Time Errors and Other Related Problems Fixed
• Switched Room Error Fixed
• Hole Error Fixed
• A Ton of Minor Fixes and Additions

UPDATE 1 (5/15/12): Production notes are up: Here.

           Have fun with it. If there ae any lingering problems: DO NOT TELL ME UNTIL JULY 28, 2012—I’m serious. I need a break from this. Anyway, I hope you all like it. Here is where you can download it:

DOWNLOAD LINK: Still Here After Wednesday Night

          Last few notes. To the QA Team… Remember that idea you had about the Creepy Doll. I added a special hidden scene. Also, to everyone. I might upload all my notes to this page to show all that went in to this little thing. Production notes are up: Here.

          Production Time Frame: October 21, 2011-April 23, 2012. Main Game ~ 3 to 7 weeks; Epilogue ~ 3 to 4 months

The Last Story Finally Getting US Release!

          I'll be brief. I forgot to post that Nintendo revealed in will release Hironobu Sakaguchi's The Last Story Stateside! It's due sometime in Q3 of this year. Operation Rainfall worked!

Enter the Midnight Arena!

Persona 4's Back!

          I'll be brief. Hooray! Atlus has announced that it with be releasing Persona 4: Arena, Persona 4 based fighting game, Stateside this Summer! Yeah! The story is being done by the Persona Team and the gameplay is being handled by the awesome guys at Arc System Works (BlazBlue and Guilty Gear fame). Great News--I'm so tired. Good night.

          In other gaming news...The demo for the new SSX released to today on PS3 and X360! Double Yay!

The Third Evangelion Has Finally Been Dated!

New Production Image of Asuka

          The third of the Rebuild of Evangelion films: Evangelion Q [Quickening], has finally been dated for Fall 2012 in Japan. This was announced by Hideaki Anno's (writer and director of the Neon Genesis Evangelion series) anime studio Khara earlier today.

          Rebuild of Evangelion is a four part film project started in 2002 with the first film being released in Japan in 2007 and 2009 in America. The second film was released in 2009 and 2011 in Japan and USA, respectively. Originally, it was planned to have the third and the forth film released alongside each other, but it is currently unknown if that is still the case.

          They have also released a new short preview: See it below.

          P.S.: Follow Khara on twitter @khara_inc: or visit their website here: http://khara.co.jp/

Oh My God!! Galaxy Express 999 Rereleased!!

     

          After God knows how long, Galaxy Express 999 and it's sequel Adieu Galaxy Express 999 have finally been given another American release with both Japanese and English voice! I'm so happy. These are two great films and deserve being watched whether or not you like anime. If you like film in general or a good heart wrenching story -- buy it. The are both cheap at only $17.99 each. No one knows how completely jacked I am right. I needed this. Amazon links below!

UPDATE 1 (7/26/11): Deepdisount.com is even cheaper with Galaxy Express 999 at $14.71 and Adieu Galaxy Express 999 at $11.99. Also, for those who don't know, Deepdisount.com has free standard shipping on all items and Amazon has free standard shipping on all orders exceeding $25.

UPDATE 2: Amazon lowered the price of Adieu Galaxy Express 999 from $17.99 to $16.99. Deepdisount.com still has the best deal.

Amazon links:
Buy Galaxy Express 999

Buy Adieu Galaxy Express 999

Deepdisount.com links:

Buy Galaxy Express 999

Buy Adieu Galaxy Express 999

          The creator is the one and only Leiji Matsumoto. Look him up if you don't know!

Best (Belated) Quote of the Week ~ [07/15/11]: "We choose to go to the moon."

          "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon... we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

~ John F. Kennedy on September 12th, 1962



Castella In Theory 2: The Worst Of Derek Russell

This ^ has nothing to do with that v

          Kept you waiting, huh? Well, 14 months later I am finally done with the second story in Castella In Theory: The Worst Of Derek Russell (We Always But We Never). The story is a 44 page character drama about high school delinquent Derek Russell. The format is PDF. Please comment on it, good or bad. If you like it tell a friend. If there are still any lingering grammatical errors (which there are most likely one or two) please tell me and I will fix it and put up a revised PDF. Thank you, God bless, I can’t believe I’m done, please read and enjoy! The file is below. Hit the jump!

UPDATE 1 (6/23/11): The site that host the PDF. file is currently down. Sorry. I'm looking for a solution.

UPDATE 2: I put the story up on Wordpress (with added fixes) Click the Solution!> link to read or download.

UPDATE 3 (6/27/11): Apparently 250free.com is gone for good, so the first link is also gone for good as well as several other things I put up that were stored on that site. Good news, I already put up the Wordpress link, so I'm just going to delete the other one so there won't be any confusion. Also, I'm putting up the PDF. versions of the first story, Follow My Lead, here too! Fixes have been added, though I purposely kept one mistake. Find them right under the new story's link.

UPDATE 4: Just to show you guys how far the story has come and how much I did in polishing and editing I'm uploading the horrible Tenth Draft. This is what I based PEP I on.

UPDATE 5 (6/28/11): I added a slew of fixes to the story today, so I am re-uploading it. The Solution!> link is now new and improved.

UPDATE 6 (9/2/11): The contest is over.

UPDATE 7 (10/26/11): Minor fixes to format and story.

UPDATE 8 (11/11/11): Minor fixes.

UPDATE 9 (2/29/12):  Minor fixes.

UPDATE 10 (3/5/12):  Added download links to the soundtrack.

UPDATE 11 (11/16/12): Printed, softcover book version now available! Click here.

UPDATE 12 (5/10/13): The Soundtrack had to be taken down.

Story Update 4: Castella In Theory: Ep2 The Worst Of Derek Russell

          Hey, guys, great news. The story is almost done. I finished the last step of PEP I which was rereading and very good new: all my polishing and editing went well. It read pretty well. I actually did most of PEP II as well today (mostly formatting and edits). So, all I have to do is reread it again and then I'm putting it up. That will most likely be next week as I am going out of town tomorrow for a company trip.

          The story is the second episode of Castella In Theory: The Worst of Derek Russell - We Always But We Never. It will be in PDF format.

          In other news, the reference contest for the story is still on but the prizes will most likely be giving out after summer unless you can get to my house with blank DVD's (4 to 8). There are a whopping 82 references (maybe more) in the story, so have at you.

          Lastly, please read it, comment (good or bad ~ they all help), if you like it tell friends to read it. Also, after I'm done, I'm taking a break from Castella and going to work on my older stories projects (will not be on the blog ~ sorry) and work and also a new project that will be on the site: Project Enigma (!?).

Finally Finished: Polishing and Contest Holding

            Hey, guys, Vahsol here. I’ve done it- I finally- become- a summoner. I’ve finished writing the story and heading into the polishing phase. But that’s not all that important. What is, is I’m now officially announcing the reference contest for the story. Here’s the quick version: The story is packed with references to movies, music, games, and a few other things. The person who correctly gives me the most references wins the big prize. To send me the reference simply sent them to my e-mail agncolem@aol.com with ‘Reference Contest’ in the subject line. Include your name. Don’t put answers in the comment. That’s it in a nutshell. For more detail please refer the complet rundown after the break (Also, screw these editing tools).

I've Returned




From under a cloud of curious smoke, with piercing black eyes and a nonchalant smirk, HE returns.



          Yo, anyone who actually visits. I’ll returned from the bowels of the otherworld to update this blog. Really, my school load just lightened up some. Anyway, I have a few updates for the today.

          First. After two years and a month, Tokyopop has finally release Full Metal Panic! Ending Day by Day! And like promised it is in fact the complete arc, encompassing volume 4 and 5. It’s huge and I am very happy to have my copy. If you like Full Metal Panic! or military hijinks and action comedy pick it up now.  

Ending Day By Day!

                                          Finally! The wait is over!