An Ayla Christmas Mega-Update
Yeah, for no particular reason, we're calling this one an An Ayla Christmas Mega-Update! Let's begin the holiday cheer with these new pieces of art: A Very Crono Christmas by Mysticalpha; Flea & Toma in Santa hats by tushantin; and Chrono Trigger Tribute by Dice!
[EPIC EDIT] Corona01 over at Kagero (the group that was making Chrono Ark) has discovered an Easter egg depicting Kid in Dewprism/Threads of Fate. She's found as a poster on a wall near a tavern in the town of Carona. What gives away the identity (besides the shoes) is her pose, which is an exact copy of her standard fighting pose in Chrono Cross. See the screenshot here, and if you need proof of the pose, click here! Thanks!
[FLASH STOCKING STUFFERS][1] Neo-Fusion has released Chrono Trigger Apocalypse Episode V, featuring the return of the Fusion Battle System! Also check out our fan project interview with Neo-Fusion here. But it doesn't end here! Neo-Fusion has teamed up with Ultra Publications to work on future episodes; read his Ultra Publications development blog here. [2] We also recently discovered Tyrant-D's hand-drawn Flash project Chrono Trigger: Crisis of Time! Keep an eye out for new episodes that promise to be "mind-boggingly epic"! [3] And if Santa's a bit late this year, hopefully you can forgive him -- he had to journey across time and fight ALL 100 of the monsters in Magus' Castle just to deliver a single gift! Thanks to MasaAndMune for creating this terrific and timely Flash.
[TRANSLATIONS] Supporting Material Translation has been updated with three translations by Lorenz! The EGM screenshot showed a Goon enemy where Yakra would normally be in the Cathedral. We know now he says, "Well, it's about time to get started. This will be your grave." or "Now, let's get on with it! Welcome to your grave!!" Lorenz also translated the Takashi Tokita 2003 interview where he mentioned "Chrono Trigger 2", and it says:
"Tokita: The various operations departments at Square had been used to working independently, but then Enix entered into the picture. This meant a lot more chefs in the kitchen and, in a good way, served to shake things up a bit. I feel like the company is moving in a positive direction. That's why I feel like there could be a discussion about making a game like Chrono Trigger 2. But there is a big difference between someone upstairs bellowing "Make this game!" and the people in the trenches deciding themselves that they want to work on this project."
It sadly seems that discussion never took place. Lorenz most recently translated the Chrono Trigger DS OST liner notes, in which Mitsuda thanks his fans reminisces about gaining confidence as a composer. Head over to the Supporting Material Translation page and check it out! Lorenz is officially the Bounty King thanks to his contributions!
[SITE NEWS][1] During the last analysis review, I forgot to evaluate something Cous posted several months ago. Now that it's been evaluated, we have a new Chrono Trigger plot hole (exclusive to the DS version). It's the Waystone Paradox! [2] Vehek has created two text files with Chrono Trigger Prerelease monster stats for perusal. The abridged version only lists monsters who have unique stats (rather than the default stat template). [ Prerelease Monster Stats - Prerelease Monster Stats (Abridged) ] The Monsters (CTP) page has been updated with relevant information. [3] Thanks to utunnels, all but 5 unknown monster techs have been pinpointed at the Chrono Cross Monster Techs page. Japanese equivalent names have also been added; many thanks! You can view an easily-searched table of monster Element grids here. [4] A new Guru court is debuting. For creating splendid translations, Lorenz is the new Guru of Life; Radical Pan becomes an emeritus. For a long history of helpful contributions, Vehek is the new Guru of Time; Thought becomes an emeritus. And for his consistent constructive presence on the forums and singular status as a luminary of the series, utunnels is the new Guru of Reason; Chrono'99 becomes an emeritus. Congratulations to all! May we never forget the most august GrayLensman.
[OTHER NEWS][1] HOAAh blrrabrbl "ID FIGHT U BILLY" (but only when i need to) just4u [2] Check out tusahntin's tribute movie project here. There are still positions open! [3] It's been brought to our attention that Squareworx.net is selling rare items, like the Radical Dreamers music box. I'm a little suspicious, as they don't seem to be a legitimate Square Enix retailer. I'm surprised SE hasn't shut them down for creating an unofficial resale market like this. [4] Seriously, check out those Opus.XERO medleys in the remix watch, and head here for more of their work!
[ART] Let's get things started with mysticalpha's latest awesome updates for his Chrono Trigger comic: [ What Chancellor? - In Another Panel ] desrever has made another fantastic Chrono-inspired sprite; this time, it's Sal! If you'd ever like to read the short backstories about each of desrever's characters, check this thread! encore submitted an image of four team members playing tennis; see it here. Katie Skyye recently had an elaborate dream about the Chrono series, inspiring three new pieces: [ Ice Princess Marle - Glenn...Frog Again - Mage Lucca ] Read about hte actual dream here! Uboa continues work on her Magus art, this time producing a colored piece here! tushantin submitted an animation of Cedric Guardia from Crimson Echoes; see it here. He's also done a lineart of William Ishito of Porre, viewable here. [FICTION] After taking a small break, Zipp Dementia has resumed work on "Chrono Break", and you can find the latest entry here! alfadorredux is also continuing Chrono Helix, the Chrono Cross script project; check on the latest progress here! Skylark's posted a humorous piece about the hiatus from Chrono: To the Sea of Dreams. New Compendium member Smokescale recently dropped in to deliver Chrono Variance, an eight-chapter prequel to Chrono Trigger. Check it out and leave feedback here. Rounding things out are two new chapters of The Real World: Chrono Trigger, viewable here. ( Read more... )
Chrono Cross Turns TEN!!
It's November 18, and this marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Chrono Cross in Japan! We were impatient for the 10th North American anniversary, so let's get the festivities started right now! We've got about two months worth of backlogged material to update, as well as some late-breaking stuff, such as the serendipitous completion of the Chrono Cross Spanish translation. The first stop for any celebrators should be the Chrono Cross 10th Birthday page, and the Recollections link therein! Now, let's get to the news...
[CROSS][1] Chrono Cross is now in Spanish! Chrono Traducciones has completed their full translation, once again thanks to the translation tools pioneered by yazoo and Nemesis from the Terminus group. Saddle your ISOs and head over to Chrono Traduccions to get the release! [2] Julford recently attended Youmacon in Detroit, which held a full Chrono Cross photo-op. This inspired a lot of fantastic cosplaying, and Trevor returned with a bounty of photographic evidence! Check it out; you have to see some of the more unusual characters like Macha and Mojoy (or as some prefer, Luckydan)! Many, many thanks to Julford! [ Doc - Fargo - Group - Group - Harle - Janice - Kid - Leena - Lucca - Macha - Mel - Mojoy - Mojoy - Nikki - Razzly - Riddel - Schala - Serge ] [3] Radical Pan has completed a retranslation of Chrono Cross's song titles, which you can find here. At some point in the future, CT and CC's song names will be standardized across the Compendium and the SPC, PSF, and 2SF releases. [4] utunnels notice two more map differences from the Chrono Cross demo. The Hydra Marshes entrance area has a small waterfall in the left in the demo, while the Shadow Forest main tree has a few different details. Compare at Hydra Marshes and Shadow Forest. [5] RoxSilverFox has submitted a drawing of Kid based on her demo portrait (seen here) specifically for the 10th anniversary! See it here!
[WINTER'S FRAGMENTS] Winter's Fragments, the Compendium's annual fanfic contest, begins early today! Submissions are open until February 28, 2010 elapses. The subject is the Ideal Timeline after Chrono Cross resolves. What's the world like now that Serge has unified the dimensions and Schala is free? What are the characters up to, and do any remember the past journey? Feel free to explore any of these possibilities! The contest headquarters is this board. Yes, we still have a board despite the fact that the entries are supposed to be anonymous. E-mail work faustwolf (ät) yahoo.com. Good luck!
[TRIGGER][1] DJ Nerd42 had completed the much-anticipated Chrono Tied, a mashup of CT songs and vocals from Fort Minor, Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park's hip-hop side project. Nerd42 has done much justice to the time-honored tradition of CT mashups with this! Check it out here, and stop by in the feedback thread here! [2] Lorenz and a passing visitor named Kyo have provided translations for the two alpha version screenshots of Chrono Trigger found in EGM. Check Supporting Material Translation, up at the top! Many thanks! [3] LionheartAce and a few others alerted the Compendium that Chrono Trigger popped up in Heroes again. Future Hiro mentions that his love is the MJ to his Spiderman, and Past Hiro retorts with "The Marle to my Crono!" Unfortunately, he pronounced Marle "Mar-lee", adding fuel to that awful pronunciation debate :(
[COMMUNITY][1] Chrono Trigger Unglued 19 is out! View it here or, if you'd like to vote it up on Newgrounds, click here. [2] Keep your eyes open on Neo-Fusion's Newgrounds page for CT Apocalypse V, due out soon. For now, you can at least watch the first four episodes, and check on progress here! [3] Musa stopped by to let us know that La Fin des Temps, the first comprehensive French Chrono site, is online and updating. It's safe to say that there now exists an English-French-Japanese axis of comprehensive sites (the Compendium, La Fin des Temps, and Chrono Center). Good luck building the community! And if Redcow from Chrono Center is reading this, hello! [4] Lance VII has posted a video update on his RPGMaker project Chrono Alter. Check it out here! He's shooting for a late late 09 or early 2010 release.
[FAN ART] All right! Sajainta started things off with a painting of Magus and Schala, seen here. Ema kept it rolling with this Crono Pokémon Card and a paper maché Nu . deserver is continuing to make great custom sprites of CT-inspired characters at this thread; his latest is Atlas, inspired by Robo. mistressofcows recently completed a piece depicting Prince Crono in 1005 A.D. See it here; it came with the inscription, "And be on thy guard against the good and the just! They would fain crucify those who devise their own virtue - they hate the lonesome ones." She also did this version of Lucca, as well as a Queen Marle piece. Thanks to The Secret Skeleton for submitting! Rounding things out again is the excellent, enthralling, epic re-telling of Chrono Trigger drawn in comic form by mysticalpha. There are three new pieces to enjoy! The second should probably have some kind of NSFW tag, but what do we care? [ Slurp Strip - Well Endowed - Perverts ] Oh right, the submissions forum...we've got two new Chrono Panda pieces! [ Stolen Items - Gate Key Not Up Here ] RubyDragoon submitted a mock-up of Schala on the CT status screen; see it here.
[FAN FICTION] JforJayson got things started after the last update with his version of Chrono Break; read his idea here. Thought meanwhile finished his work Chrono Pause, now ready for viewing! No site update would be complete without an update from the Princess, who is no doubt the pre-eminent Chrono fanfic writer of our age. His next work is outChrono TRIGGER: Time Keeps on Slipping 2. Next, alfadorredux finished more work on Chrono Helix, this time wrapping up early game optional dialogue; check it out here. Last but not least, GenesisOne has posted an updated CT screenplay here, as well as an update for The Real World: CT. ( Read more... )
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New Chrono Trigger Developer Interview Discovered
Courtesy of GaijinPunch at the ASSEMbly forums (and by extension, GlitterBerri who let me know about it, and monokoma from Unseen64 who told her), we've acquired scans of a Chrono Trigger developer interview from the Japanese magazine Gamest. That magazine primarily covered arcade games, so it's a true wonder that they produced five pages of interviews. It's not a straight Dream Team interview either; in fact, there are some other personnel represented, like...MASATO KATO!! Hell yeah, we've got more words from the master to look forward to. You can find the scans here. You can't actually read them because they need to be translated. But we can pretend that they contain massive, awesome secrets about Chrono Trigger's development and plot. And to round out this small update (since my avatar creates white space on the front page), here's a couple under-represented YTPs.
Edit: Aaand, Glitter and my own registration attempts at ASSEMbler have been doubly, inexplicably turned down, so any help on determining what issue this was (and its publication date) would be appreciated.
The Compendium Is Complete
Well, finally! This stuff should have been done eons ago, but at last, the analysis review is finished and the Chrono Trigger DS content and analysis has been added to the encyclopedia properly. SO GET FIRED UP YOU BASTARDS!! The Compendium's recovered from the troublesome times and is ready to enter the next phase. Google trends results show that searches for Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross are both in decline, and are almost hitting the valley decline they had reached before Chrono Trigger DS was announced. But the Compendium will continue! Past the break you'll find our new event schedule and more information. And we've got Chrono Cross's 10th birthday coming up in November (for the Japanese release, of course!) and I'll try to get Cross on Wikipedia's main page to commemorate. SO LET'S GET STARTED
First, let's clear up how the collaborative events will go from now on. [EVENTS] [March, April, May] - Spring's Gift - Fan art contest! The winner is the Artist of Termina. [June, July, August] - Dream Splash! Summer's Cry - A site-wide creative celebration focused on a single, expansive theme! [September, October, November] - Autumn's Fate - Remixing contest! Since the Chrono catalogue is so heavily remixed, more points go to more obscure source songs! Winner is the Bard of Regiorra. [December, January, February] - Winter's Fragments - Fanfiction contest! Entries are judged on quality, theme, and closeness to recreating the Chrono feel. We take full advantage of the holiday season to compose works here. Winner will be the Poet of El Nido. And there we go! [BOUNTY SYSTEM] Check out the Great To-Do List forum, and you'll see that a bounty system has been launched to incentivize contributions. It's not much, and it probably won't help a great deal either, but there you go!
Second, let's get some site things out of the way! [1] CT DS stuff is totally added to the encyclopedia, along with analysis from the CT DS forum review. Pages updated from the forum and analysis review include: Magus (Guilde identity), Fates of the Chrono Trigger Team (overwhelming force note), Chrono Trigger DS Canonicity [2] Until we get a full dump of all the DS scripts and assemble it into a spreadsheet, you can use these dumps for finding things: NA (English, French) - JP (English, Japanese) ] [3] utunnels recently found an interesting Japanese Chrono Trigger site with very detailed maps; check it out here. [4] I left a ton of links up there to music that helped me update the site, so have fun!
Now, some project news! [1] TheMage has found a new RPGMakerXP project named Chrono Break. Check it out at its thread headquarters here. [2] GenesisOne's awesome Chrono Trigger pinball project has entered the next stage; he's drawn up schematics for it. Check them out here.
Time at last for fan stuff! [FICTION] The fantastic Chrono Helix has been updated; check it out! [ART] We begin with a rare gift from The Princess: Don't lick!! For ears! Ayla go away and please don't, come back and please :(. pandor has a ton of new pictures depicting her latest figure works. Check out the Radical Dreamers! [ Frog: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 | Crono: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 | Magil: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 | Group: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 | Radical Dreamers Serge: 1 ] Next is GenesisOne with Lucca AWESUM!!. Continuing the Chrono Panda phenomenon is ONSLAUGHT with [ Come On - Marle Panda - Pandourer - Crono Battle - Crono Panda's Birthday Cake (by GenesisOne) ] Uboa continues her Magus designs with this new sketch. Mysticalpha rounds things out with another great comic; this one's called Skins.
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF NAPPA
Main content for the encyclopedia relating to Chrono Trigger DS has been added to the encyclopedia. This includes monsters, weapons, armor, locations, characters, and even changes to the Chronology for the Lost Sanctum and Dimensional Vortex. A few analysis articles were edited by extension, including the Rise of Porre article (which is now deprecated) and a few other loose ends, like Magus's fate after Chrono Trigger. Things were written with the Compendium position that the events depicted in the Dimensional Vortex are canonical, but Crono's visit to those places (and to the DBT) is not. Thus, Dalton still fell into the vortex and emerged to take revenge, and Magus (yes, our beloved Magus) found the Dream Devourer after Chrono Trigger but failed to save Schala and wiped his own identity. Now begins the forum and analysis review for the Chrono Trigger DS forum. (Oh, and still waiting to see if we can host the Arena of the Ages FAQ, as well as something that'll help finish the main CT DS page, which will function as a CT to CT DS changelog.) So that this update isn't too sparse, here are a few backlogged items:
[1] ONSLAUGHT recently came into possession of EGM #7, and she found really interesting early coverage of Chrono Trigger inside. EGM devoted two pages to the game, featuring many mock-up screenshots from the prism cards, as well as some exciting new discoveries; these include Truce's possible early name "Stoal" and a winter tileset that didn't make it into the final or prerelease. Check it out here! [2] Since then, ONSLAUGHT found another blurb with a nice screenshot in the middle here. It shows Crono at the Ocean Palace entrance speaking to Schala and Janus. It's possible that Schala and Janus were meant to survive the events of the Ocean Palace in Masato Kato's early planning; naturally, he would have changed this to avoid a temporal paradox and to set up Schala's involvement in future Chrono games. [3] I've added DJ Nerd42's Chrono Tied project to the Fan Projects page. He's only got a few tracks left before the mash-up's complete, so stop by!
At Last, Analysis Mega-Update
Welcome, at long last, to the new analysis "mega-update". The analysis forums are supposed to be reviewed every 6 months to a year for new material, but due to the site staff's time investment into Crimson Echoes in 2008 and general business in 2009, this analysis review covers two yeras of activity. Below, you'll find a list of pages organized by analysis forum reflecting all the new developments. There's still a discussion in the Time forum on how to handle some alternative theories, so check that out. Before we get started, there are a couple other things of note! [1] stenir is continuing work in earnest in his fan novelization of Crimson Echoes. He would really appreciate fan input and review. This is very much an active project and concerted effort, so head over and read the progress! You can find it here. [2] Thanks to pandor, we now have some doujinshi on the Fan Projects page, complete with downloads. Head over and click thet doujinshi category. More to come!
Characters, Plot, and Themes: Leah (added Tyrano note), Hero's Medal (Pierre's is confirmed the real deal from CT), Taban and Lara (probable death note added), Sneff - Sprigg - Temporal Vortex (Sneff visit note and translation added), Tia - Orlha - Orlha (Relation to Tia) (edited for clarity and better understanding), Zoah (Planned Identity of)
History, Locations, and Artifacts: Pendant (Doreen drop note added), Demi-human (FATE theory added), Mammon Machine (Dream figment theory added), Chronopolis (Early Human Diagram) (elevated to plot inconsistency status), Dragon King Palace (added Ryūgū-jō note)
Lavos, the Planet, and Other Entities: Miguel (name origin added), Frozen Flame, Chronology, Chronopolis (Phase Metastasis) (added immortality theory)
Magic, Elements, and Technology: Frozen Flame (Anti-annihilation Energy within), The Rise of Porre (artifacts refutation), Magic Guild (added Magil's party theory)
Reality, Real-World Connections, and the Supernatural: Epoch (added Sylbird coincidence), Termina (added money cat note), Greco (Getz/Gilberto name origin added)
Other Topics and the Prerelease: Ayla (small fire resistance added), Characters (CTP) (new sprites added), Chronopolis (battle banner text and translation added), Amulet (FF6 ghost amulet added), Ruined World (Korg M1 sample added), Translation Differences (new content added)
Time, Space, and Dimensions: Gate Color Theory (new page), Lavos (Defeat Time) (new page; Pocket Dimension theory deprecated in several places), Principle of Discarded Timelines (added conservation theory), Salt for the Dead Sea (and other articles; reviving Armageddon-Branch theory), Principles of Time and Dimensional Travel (and individual entries; added two proofs for dimensional TTI and TB), Chrono Cross Resolutions (added note about dimensional bastards making unification-smoothing more attractive), Frozen Flame (origin disclaimer added)
Autumn Update - Music & Fan Works
Or Fall Update, if you're so inclined! An incredible amount of fan art and fanfiction has been cranked out over the last two months, and I've also enhanced the music pages in certain ways. There's definitely more to come as the analysis review is finally, finally completed. Then it's on to adding Chrono Trigger DS content and analysis, which will at last leave us with an updated Compendium. Until then, there are a bevy of more doujins to be added to the listing, and by the next update, perhaps there'll be another boatload of fan work to delight the eyes. Let's get started!
[MUSIC] The Chrono Trigger DS OST has been added to the Music (Chrono Trigger) page with scans and a purchase link. Thanks to Guru of Life Radical Pan, we also have original Japanese and romaji song names for all the Chrono Trigger songs (yes, that broken romaji from 2004 is finally fixed!). This work culminates in a table guide she produced using the Chrono Trigger DS track list; view it here. By the way, here is a shout-out to her own Chrono website! [2] I've added a listing for Yasunori Mitsuda's new release, Colours of Light, to the Music (Chrono Cross) page. It doesn't contain anything new; it's a compilation album of his past vocal works, including Radical Dreamers ~The Unstolen Jewel~. Thanks to Radical Pan for bringing it to my attention. [3] We've discovered, thanks to Radical Pan's new scans, that comments by Masato Kato, Hiromichi Tanaka, and Noriko Mitose have not been translated from the Chrono Cross OST liner notes. Scans have been added to Material Requiring Translation. We've also found untranslated liner notes in the Chrono Trigger DS OST; these too have been added to the Material Requiring Translation page. [4] Radical Pan has also contributed an assistance guide to the main Music page. [5] Lastly, I've gone through and added existing VGMdb.net links for every album listed on the music and album & doujin pages.
[FAN WORKS] User G4briel has made a tribute video to the Mode 7 pendulum introduction in Chrono Trigger; check it out here. [2] GenesisOne is undertaking one of the most novel and interesting projects ever done in the community; he's making a virtual pinball game based on Chrono Trigger! As a pinball enthusiast, it's a project well-suited for his hands. Feel free to go provide input on the game elements at this thread and see his work on the animation so far! [3] neo-fusion is working on Chrono Trigger Apocalypse V, the next episode in his flash series, but needs some help programming. If you can help, check out his thread here. [4] I've added Lance's Chrono Alter RPGMaker project to the Fan Projects page.
[FANART] mysticalpha has put up two new comics and a fantastic render of Marle; check here, here, and here; great as always! | Sooperkreep has taken his skill to physical art with a Magus figure. | Ali Zaid makes his first contribution with a Crono Alpha Version sprite. | After long hours in Paint, ONSLAUGHT brings a piece called Fury of the Prince. | SleepDoodle has allowed us to host her comic here. | TheMage provides two more, the Zeal Family Portrait and Kid's new hairstyle. | Ema also contributed with Queen Zeal Showdown sketch. | Deserver's submitted new Wild West Chrono sprites: [ Crono-inspired character - Lucca? - Magic V2 - Schala Magic - Schala with Crossbow - Steena ] | GenesisOne has made his mark on the fan art page with Crono Awesum and Schala Awesum. | We've got several entries from kyo koizumi, who makes his debut on the site: [ 3 Heroes - ALFS - ATTACK LYNX - Ayla Leah - Crono Marle - CRONO ROBO - Feral Cats - FF7 Heel Team - FROG - JOHNNY - Kato's Kid sketch - Lucca & Fei - Lynx Revenge - RADICAL DREAMERS ] | Next is Uboa with four well-drawn Magus sketches: [ 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 ] | Lastly, ONSLAUGHT has contributed more Chrono Panda images, including a guest piece by TheMage at the end: [ Crono Has Fallen - I Do What I Want - Panda Magus - Panda Trigger - Panda Gaspar - WELCOME TOT HE PARTY! - Panda Crono Spritesheet - Hidden Lucca - Panda Gang vs. Lavos - Where's Your Entity Now? - Crono Has Changed - Jail Panda (by TheMage) - Chrono Panda (by GenesisOne) ]
[FANFICTION] The Princess has finished a delightful psychological thriller about a few teenagers who travel through time by way of special doors in the Seven Koopa Hotels. Please to reADiNg jaja a tor? | alfadorredux is continuing Chrono Helix, the script project. Things are getting really interesting, and reception has been fantastic. Give it a read for a new perspective on Chrono Cross by clicking here. | Zipp Dementia has released new chapters of Chrono Break, which has been relocated to Fanfiction.net. Go check it out! | GenesisOne is still cranking out textual episodes of The Real World: Chrono Trigger; you can find the latest here. | V Translanka is next with Hot Lead, a short action piece about Lucca. | Lastly, we've got BigVinu's new Crimson Echoes fanfic about the Mystical Knights, entitled Echoes of the Magi. ( Read more... )
CHRONOTORIOUS Interview with Mustin and the Bad Dudes
If you're any kind of hip Chrono fan, you know that CHRONOTORIOUS is the most awesome remix album release to ever hit the streets. FaustWolf and I went to Mustin and the remixers to get a closer look at the musical process and stylistic decisions involved. There's also a lot of sweet trivia to be had, and Tim Sheehy even provided an interesting update on his efforts to link with the Japanese doujin industry. Mustin also talks about the steps he took to secure licensing for the release and other OneUp Studios projects, so check it out below!
CHRONOTORIOUS Interview
In other news, Chronicles, the RPGPlanet Chrono series website, has survived IGN/Gamespy's termination of hosted sites. No one's really sure why, but here's hoping it stays around!
Compendium Games League
A few forumites have formed a Compendium game group on Yahoo! games. We've selected Saturday as our weekly night of play, starting at 8 PM Pacific time (11 PM for those on the east coast of the US, and 4 AM Greenwich Meantime; sorry!). We're still playing right now in case you're reading this a few minutes after post-date, so get in there. The current popular game we're playing is Texas Hold'em Poker, and in that case, our room will be Social Lounge 6 every time. Here's the thread.
