Disney Magic Castle Online (Japanese Flash Game)
Nov 25, 2017 14:14:36 GMT
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Post by swanlake on Nov 25, 2017 14:14:36 GMT
Been meaning to make an article on this, actually-- I'll post about it here first though.
From what I've gathered, Disney Magic Castle was a flash-based virtual world made by Disney and released only in Japan in 2008, closing sometime in 2011. It had pixel-art based graphics and some form of currency system, and in many ways it was comparable to VMK (Virtual Magic Kingdom) which had closed earlier and was targeted towards western audiences. All other info is very difficult to come by, especially when most of the information about it is spread across many Japanese social media communities in a language that I am not all too familiar with. Mixi.jp, a Japanese pseudo-facebook seems to have groups about the game, but I had trouble refinding them since the last time I searched around for the game.
A month of two ago, I managed to jump some online hurdles by going through a string of wayback machine pages, links, and files, to finally get at least one version of the Flash game. To my dismay, upon cracking open the swf, I discovered that most of the game's sprites were managed on the server's end. So that's where my search kind of died. If anyone has more information about this game or has played it, I'd love to hear it. If you think you can find the graphics or the full game, let me know and I might be able to supply a few links that helped me find the swf file that I did.
Cheers.
From what I've gathered, Disney Magic Castle was a flash-based virtual world made by Disney and released only in Japan in 2008, closing sometime in 2011. It had pixel-art based graphics and some form of currency system, and in many ways it was comparable to VMK (Virtual Magic Kingdom) which had closed earlier and was targeted towards western audiences. All other info is very difficult to come by, especially when most of the information about it is spread across many Japanese social media communities in a language that I am not all too familiar with. Mixi.jp, a Japanese pseudo-facebook seems to have groups about the game, but I had trouble refinding them since the last time I searched around for the game.
A month of two ago, I managed to jump some online hurdles by going through a string of wayback machine pages, links, and files, to finally get at least one version of the Flash game. To my dismay, upon cracking open the swf, I discovered that most of the game's sprites were managed on the server's end. So that's where my search kind of died. If anyone has more information about this game or has played it, I'd love to hear it. If you think you can find the graphics or the full game, let me know and I might be able to supply a few links that helped me find the swf file that I did.
Cheers.
