Image taken from http://kourindou.exblog.jp/
Recently,the latest installment in the long-standing bullet shooter game series Touhou was announced on its creator's blog.The 14th official game was in development and should be released sometime near the end of this year.The complete title of the game would be Touhou Kishinjou~Double Dealing Character.
The Touhou series has been around since 1996.It was created by a single person,the indie game publisher Jun'ya Ota,nicknamed ZUN.ZUN was the sole designer,programmer,artist,script writer and composer of most of the Touhou games.In the indie community in general,Touhou is extremely popular.
On the image sharing site Pixiv,Touhou fan art numbers more than a million.During the world's largest indie publisher fair,Comiket,Touhou-related merchandise dominate the market.On Youtube,tens of thousands of videos containing remixes of the music in Touhou can be found.
I am currently studying game design,and to be honest,ZUN was a big inspiration to me.It is really amazing how the works of one single person can garner the support of such a large fan base over the world.In fact,I have an assignment from my Game Design Foundation class that requires me to select a game designer/programmer/artist who most inspired me to study the course,due the Thursday after the next.
Three guesses on who I would choose for that topic.
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