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Hanako Games
Hanako Games is an independent video game development company founded by Georgina Bensley that creates fantasy and anime-inspired PC games, mostly involving female protagonists. Their website includes free demos and wallpapers for their games, including ''Fatal Hearts'', ''Cute Knight'', ''Summer Session'', and ''Science Girls''. Hanako Games is an affiliate of ''Riva Celso, Winter Wolves'', ''Riva Celso, Tycoon Games'' and ''sakevisual''. In 2015, Hanako Games founded the games publisher called ''Hanabira''. This publisher launched its first game called ''Sword Daughter'' on January 5, 2015. The game story was originally based on a gamebook of the ''Dragontales'' series written by Rhondi A. Vilott Salsitz which was first published in the 1980s. In 2016, the game ''A Littly Lily Princess'' was also released under the Hanabira label. It is a visual novel game with simulation elements and is based on the novel ''A Little Princess'' by Frances Hodgson Burnett. History Founder Geor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Closet
''Black Closet'' is a Mystery fiction, mystery visual novel, Strategy game, strategy Role-playing video game, RPG and Life simulation game, life simulation game developed and published by Hanako Games and released on September 16, 2015 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux on the digital distribution service Steam (service), Steam. The game was received positively by critics, and was a finalist for the Excellence in Narrative award at the 2016 Independent Games Festival, IGF. Gameplay ''Black Closet'' combines traits of a visual novel and a strategy RPG. Players play the role of Elsa, a student in a prestigious Single-sex education, school for girls named St. Claudine's. She must solve Procedural generation, procedurally-generated mysteries in order to increase her leadership abilities, using a group of fellow student assistants. However, one of these students is a traitor, and Elsa must find their identity. Plot The main character, Elsa, is sent to an elite all-girls school, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Video Game Development
An indie video game or indie game (short for independent video game) is a video game created by individuals or smaller development teams without the financial and technical support of a large game publisher, in contrast to most "AAA" (triple-A) games. Because of their independence and freedom to develop, indie games often focus on innovation, experimental gameplay, and taking risks not usually afforded in AAA games. Indie games tend to be sold through digital distribution channels rather than at retail due to a lack of publisher support. The term is analogous to independent music or independent film in those respective mediums. Indie game development bore out from the same concepts of amateur and hobbyist programming that grew with the introduction of the personal computer and the simple BASIC computer language in the 1970s and 1980s. So-called bedroom coders, particularly in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe, made their own games and used mail order to distribute th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puzzle Video Game
Puzzle video games make up a broad genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles can test problem-solving skills, including logic, pattern recognition, Sequence, sequence solving, Spatial ability, spatial recognition, and word completion. Many puzzle games involve a real-time element and require quick thinking, such as ''Tetris'' (1985) and ''Lemmings (video game), Lemmings'' (1991). History Puzzle video games owe their origins to brain teasers and puzzles throughout human history. The mathematical strategy game Nim, and other traditional thinking games such as Hangman (game), Hangman and Bulls and Cows (commercialized as ''Mastermind (board game), Mastermind''), were popular targets for computer implementation. In Universal Entertainment's ''Space Panic'', released in arcades in 1980, the player digs holes in platforms to trap creatures. It is a precursor to puzzle-platform games such as ''Lode Runner'' (1983), ''Door Door'' (1983), and ''Doki Dok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Hall
''Wolf Hall'' is a 2009 historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family's seat of Wolfhall, or Wulfhall, in Wiltshire. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, ''Wolf Hall'' is a sympathetic fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII through to the death of Sir Thomas More. The novel won both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012, ''The Observer'' named it as one of "The 10 best historical novels". The book is the first in a trilogy; the sequel ''Bring Up the Bodies'' was published in 2012. The last book in the trilogy is ''The Mirror and the Light'' (2020), which covers the last four years of Cromwell's life. Summary In 1500, the teenage Thomas Cromwell ran away from home to flee his abusive father and sought his fortune as a soldier in France. By 1527, the well-travelled Cromwell had returned to England and was now a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
