{"id":2076,"date":"2023-01-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pennyblood.jp\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2023-01-27T23:53:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T14:53:20","slug":"january-2023-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennyblood.jp\/?p=2076&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"January 2023 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2076\" class=\"elementor elementor-2076\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f0e1484 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no\" data-id=\"f0e1484\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bcdbd4e\" data-id=\"bcdbd4e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ee0a6b4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ee0a6b4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.6.8 - 27-07-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have entered into 2023 and have a lot of great updates ready for you throughout the year!<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-476aa63 elementor-widget elementor-widget-bridge_separator_with_icon\" data-id=\"476aa63\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"bridge_separator_with_icon.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"separator_with_icon\" ><i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-down\"><\/i><\/span>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-54175de elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no\" data-id=\"54175de\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0987ea2\" data-id=\"0987ea2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e4b0b34 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e4b0b34\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.6.8 - 27-07-2022 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Backerkit Store<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cd48f22 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cd48f22\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are proud to announce the Backerkit Store is open here:<\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/double-kickstarter.backerkit.com\/hosted_preorders\"><strong>Backerkit Store<\/strong><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As mentioned before, pre-existing backers will be able to purchase additional add-ons from the campaign. New backers will be able to buy things a la carte but at an increased price. If you feel you have a friend that loves JRPGs and would enjoy being a backer, please let them know. Word of mouth is the most important component of a Kickstarter campaign even during the Backerkit phase.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As this is our first time using backerkit there may be some bugs here and there so please feel free to let us know what needs to be fixed.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2061383 elementor-widget elementor-widget-bridge_separator_with_icon\" data-id=\"2061383\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"bridge_separator_with_icon.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"separator_with_icon\" ><i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-down\"><\/i><\/span>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3905e16 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3905e16\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\u25c62023.01.25\nPENNY BLOOD Project Diary<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4968fcb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4968fcb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good evening, everyone. Influenza Man Machida at your service. Today is my third day of self-quarantine in the storage room next to my office.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I first got a high fever of 39\u2103, I panicked, thinking: \u201cDid I finally get covid?!\u201d But after using a test kit and finding out that I was negative, I safely became an Influenza Man. Looking back, this is actually my first time getting influenza in six years. I\u2019d nearly\u2026well, actually, I\u2019d completely forgotten that it existed due to covid\u2026<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you get influenza, your throat swells up really badly and it becomes painful to swallow anything, right? Even drinking Aquarius can be a struggle when it\u2019s really bad\u2026 And Aquarius is merely a sports drink! You need to stay hydrated more than anything else, and yet every single swallow hurts so badly. It\u2019s pure torture.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luckily, I was able to retain my appetite throughout the influenza. I took a lesson from what Lupin III does when he gets shot and ate and slept like my life depended on it. Slowly but surely, I\u2019ve been getting better. When you first get influenza, the pain seeps through to the bone, and every inch of your body hurts, but you forget all about that once you get better, don\u2019t you? Thus I\u2019m taking a trip down memory lane and relishing all the painful aspects of the influenza experience.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right now, you\u2019re probably thinking: Machida\u2019s intro is really long right now\u2026 And he\u2019s only talking about influenza. You want to know about the project, don\u2019t you? Sorry, but I\u2019ve still got more influenza talk for you!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did you know that roughly 100 years ago, influenza had taken the world by storm? People called it the Spanish flu at the time, and some even theorize that it caused the majority of deaths during World War I.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Virus research hadn\u2019t come very far at the time, so the pathogens and true nature of the disease remain unknown to this day \u2013 but apparently it was even more contagious than covid. Wikipedia even claims so many people died from it that it even caused the number of army recruits to drop and expedited the end to WWI. Scary, isn\u2019t it?<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See what I did there? I just connected everything I was saying to Penny Blood! Okay now, time to change gears and report on the progress of the project. *cough cough* Oh no, now I\u2019m suddenly getting a cough\u2026<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s start with the story first\u2026 *cough cough*<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Day after day, I\u2019ve been diving deep into the game\u2019s world and thinking up interesting stories about *cough cough* and *cough cough*.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kato-san has been working on the design for Luca\u2019s wolf form and *cough cough*. Next she\u2019s going to work on *cough cough*, while Hanya-san is working on the tri*cough cough*al version NP*cough cough*Cs and *cough cough*. Watanabe-san is drawing im*cough cough*portant loc*cough cough*ales for the story.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In terms of music, Hirota-san has been arranging *cough cough* and *cough cough*, while Kaida-san has been *cough cough cough*.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whew\u2026 Finally finished my report. I hope you all liked it.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See you next month!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matsuzo Machida<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-abbe35a elementor-widget elementor-widget-bridge_separator_with_icon\" data-id=\"abbe35a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"bridge_separator_with_icon.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"separator_with_icon\" ><i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-down\"><\/i><\/span>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c41acd0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c41acd0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Message from Yoshitaka Hirota<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67d7e99 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"67d7e99\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good evening, everyone.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the end of last year, I\u2019ve been continuing my work on the sound for the walkthrough version.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I did another arrangement for the music used for the New York street shots in the PV (an arrangement of the main theme) for a specific map\u2026but we decided that we wanted that scene to feel more tense, so I ended up making a new track. Since I want people to focus on the sound of footsteps there, I created a song that\u2019s very claustrophobic and composed of nothing but \u201cwhite noise\u201d. It\u2019s more ambient music than an actual song. If you listen to it for a long time with headphones on, you\u2019ll lose your sense of equilibrium.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I feel like the sound effects will be very important for the walkthrough version, so I\u2019ve been thinking about how best to use them as I continue working hard.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In terms of music production for the main game, I\u2019ve been continuing my 1920s music research. There are two genres that greatly influenced jazz: Ragtime and Boogie-Woogie. Instead of simply understanding their musical structure with my head, I\u2019ve been practicing playing those types of songs on my piano and my guitar in order to understand them with my body as well.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my off time, I\u2019ve also been practicing the basic steps for the Charleston, a dance that was popular at the time. It\u2019s really fun. There are beginner lessons for just about everything on Youtube these days, so anyone can start learning if they want to. Wouldn\u2019t it be fun if we all learned how to dance the Charleston, then danced it together in a big hall during a Penny Blood jazz concert?<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yoshitaka Hirota<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have entered into 2023 and have a lot of great updates ready for you throughout the year! 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