Post by ranko on Sept 22, 2023 20:22:20 GMT
Asked about this a couple months ago over on Reddit, didn't see any response there, so I'll more or less just copy and paste what I'd written because I haven't really found anything new since then.
Platform(s): PC, browser-based, I believe it was made in Unity given the 3D models, but I'm not sure. It also could've been Panda3D? Really not sure.
Genre: Fighting, but we'll get to that.
Estimated year of release: I believe it was early-mid 2010s, probably 2011 at earliest and 2015 at latest.
Graphics/art style: Fairly simple, largely unshaded 3D models. Everything was made out of real computer hardware parts, for sale by a Japanese manufacturer. Almost blank white background (possibly with some gradient-ing effect or far background lighting?)
Notable characters: Well, uh... certain models of flash drives and maybe HDDs being sold by a Japanese hardware manufacturer at the time?
Notable gameplay mechanics: There was, uh. A leaderboard system? I don't know how to describe these in bulletpoints, so...
Other details: Right, so, I remember first hearing about this back when it was released from some site like Kotaku or whatever. It was a 3D, browser-based asynchronous (?) fighting game, published as a promotional tool by a Japanese hardware manufacturer. I believe it may have been from Fujitsu, specifically, but I don't recall.
Game was only in Japanese, but was pretty playable without knowledge of the language and was referenced on English gaming news sites. You'd build very silly 'robots' out of real parts that the company was really selling, memory sticks, flash-drives, hard drives, the like, and then pit them against each other.
I don't remember if there was actually live fighting in the game, or if it just compared pure statistics from one build to another to decide who won, and then played out a video of one smashing the other apart.
There were leaderboards where you could look at the top builds, and I remember at one point the very top was like, all red and white, and had something like a billion points above anyone else.
I remember this having a brief stint of popularity on news sites and Youtube or the like, where people would marvel at how surprisingly nice-looking it was for an advergame, and I remember even my school having a couple weeks where it felt like everyone was playing it.
It's been baffling to me that I can't find any reference to it now, because I very clearly remember wasting hours and hours trying to make the dumbest collection of flash-drives and whatever-the-hell.
Oh, and I believe this game was taken down at some point, within a year or two of release. I also remember being pretty sad when this happened, given how much time I'd wasted on it.
Genre: Fighting, but we'll get to that.
Estimated year of release: I believe it was early-mid 2010s, probably 2011 at earliest and 2015 at latest.
Graphics/art style: Fairly simple, largely unshaded 3D models. Everything was made out of real computer hardware parts, for sale by a Japanese manufacturer. Almost blank white background (possibly with some gradient-ing effect or far background lighting?)
Notable characters: Well, uh... certain models of flash drives and maybe HDDs being sold by a Japanese hardware manufacturer at the time?
Notable gameplay mechanics: There was, uh. A leaderboard system? I don't know how to describe these in bulletpoints, so...
Other details: Right, so, I remember first hearing about this back when it was released from some site like Kotaku or whatever. It was a 3D, browser-based asynchronous (?) fighting game, published as a promotional tool by a Japanese hardware manufacturer. I believe it may have been from Fujitsu, specifically, but I don't recall.
Game was only in Japanese, but was pretty playable without knowledge of the language and was referenced on English gaming news sites. You'd build very silly 'robots' out of real parts that the company was really selling, memory sticks, flash-drives, hard drives, the like, and then pit them against each other.
I don't remember if there was actually live fighting in the game, or if it just compared pure statistics from one build to another to decide who won, and then played out a video of one smashing the other apart.
There were leaderboards where you could look at the top builds, and I remember at one point the very top was like, all red and white, and had something like a billion points above anyone else.
I remember this having a brief stint of popularity on news sites and Youtube or the like, where people would marvel at how surprisingly nice-looking it was for an advergame, and I remember even my school having a couple weeks where it felt like everyone was playing it.
It's been baffling to me that I can't find any reference to it now, because I very clearly remember wasting hours and hours trying to make the dumbest collection of flash-drives and whatever-the-hell.
Oh, and I believe this game was taken down at some point, within a year or two of release. I also remember being pretty sad when this happened, given how much time I'd wasted on it.
