Yeah, I’m sick of doing these (THEE-EEEE-EESE), so this is the last one. Also, I’ve lost some enthusiasm for promoting Captain Rainbow ever since I was told by people who would know that there is not even a tiny chance of the game being released in English. If there’s one thing I’ll never give up on, it’s defeatism!
Of course, I will still welcome Captain Rainbow fanart that’s good. But I will no longer post just any old half-arsed crap, like this contribution from Dylan Richardson for instance:
“I know he is a colourful hero,” writes Dylan, “but I didn’t colour him ‘cause I’m not.” Now don’t talk that way Dylan; you are one of God’s precious children.
This next thingy is from Ashley Day:
Ashley writes: “In a wonderfully postmodern twist I decided to draw the art in a game of Archime-DS, thereby linking two of the coolest games to come from the minds at Skip. So while the ‘quality’ of the illustration may be in question, the level of my fandom most definitely isn’t.”
What.
What, you want some kind of PRIZE, Ashley? Is that it? You think you’re CLEVER?
Get out.
This one is from Miss Eien K, and heeeyyy, it’s actually pretty good!
Oh and hey, remember how some guy called Matias Kallio sent in a game he made, that had nothing to do with Captain Rainbow? Well he made another one, that also has nothing to do with Captain Rainbow! Golly smackers! It’s called Transparent Senses, and it will probably give you a headache, but it’s still more fun than any Final Fantasy game.
And, uh... that’s it. Huh. I thought there was more.
But since we’re on the subject of fanart, I’ll leave you with this completely incredible Eegra picture, emailed to me by Kitty Alcapaz.
There’s Orson, and Mister Blobbypants, and Daniel, and a lady who looks a bit like me! Kitty, is the suggestion that there is something effeminate about my bearing? I’ll have you know that the only womanly thing about me is all the women who are around me all of the time, because of how manly I am! Goodness me.
Holy gosh, people keep emailing me things for the FANARTFESTA!
Here is a picture by Matias Kallio, of Captain Rainbow himself. Isn’t he terrifying?
Matias also writes:
“In somewhat related news, I have made a game. Its name is inspired by CAPTAIN RAINBOW. It is called captain superstar and the irony tower. I think it is a GOOD name.”
Thanks for sharing, Matias! I enjoyed your strange game. I enjoyed the glitches particularly: Even though they are unintentional, I feel they are in keeping with the game’s somewhat eerie inscrutability.
But Matias! Your game has nothing to do with Captain Rainbow, even a little bit! What are you trying to pull??
A fellow called Ivan sent in this incredible animated GIF:
Thank you so much, Ivan! Ivan’s deviantART is here, if you’d like to see more of his work.
A young lady called Miss Emily ‘Remidi’ Beaman drew the ladies of Captain Rainbow, and coloured them with technology:
And here is that same picture at Emily’s deviantART. Thanks, Emily – you are the ‘Remidi’ for there not being enough Captain Rainbow fanart! Ha ha! Ugh.
Finally, here is a quick doodle by someone called florn:
The doodle is a rainbow, and it is attached to Captain Rainbow! Get it? (The rainbow is his doodle.)
Well I have to go and take my incontinence pills now, so see you later, kids! Don’t forget to send in your amazing Captain Rainbow fanart, and also your shitty Captain Rainbow fanart.
Did you know that we are having an Ongoing Captain Rainbow Fanart Festa? What this means is that if you email me any kind of Captain Rainbow fanart, I will post it here on the front page. CRAZY MADNESS ALL STOCK MUST GO FROM THE SHELVES AND AWAY FROM HERE!
A Finnish fellow called Nego, aiming to promote his webcomic, Too Bad, drew a Captain Rainbow panel. I don’t understand the joke, or even if there is one, but it’s a cute picture, and anyway I’m hardly in a position to be judgmental about that sort of thing. Here’s Nego’s deviantART page, while I’m at it.
Here’s something pretty cool: Someone called Nishifan made some Captain Rainbow Wii Picross puzzles. You can see a .GIF of the solutions here, if you like. Pretty nice work!
Finally, Jonna Ohlsson is responsible for this MS Paint drawing of Birdo doing a mystery to herself, and giving a thumbs-up if I’m not mistaken (full version here):
Thanks, Jonna! You are terrible.
See, I’ll post any old crap, thanks to the Ongoing Captain Rainbow Fanart Festa. Take advantage of my low standards, and email me your crayon scribbles and finger-paintings! Actually that would be entirely awesome. Definitely do that.
The recently released Skip game, Captain Rainbow features minor characters from Nintendo games of yore, fleshing them out and giving them a bright, new stage upon which to strut their respective stuffs. We all know this.
But how many of you were aware that this sort of thing is nothing new at all?
Been meaning to post about this for a few days. Cartoonist, illustrator and Eegra-friend Rebecca Clements made a pretty stunning piece of Captain Rainbow fanart. Here’s a chunk of it:
I’m in favour of raising and maintaining awareness of Captain Rainbow, hopeful that doing so might increase the likelihood of Skip’s rather subversive game being released in English one day. So how does this sound? Let’s start some sort of...
Ongoing Eegra Dot Com Captain Rainbow Fanart Festa
...where, subject to my discretion, if anyone sends me a piece of Captain Rainbow fanart, I will post it on the front page.
So, if you’d like a little extra website traffic, or a few more people browsing your DeviantART gallery, or if you just want to be on the Eegra front page because you love us so much, just draw some Captain Rainbow fanart and send me the link! (If you don’t have your own webspace, you can send me the image, but please make it no wider than 500 pixels.)
On Friday night, in Ebisu, I met with Kenichi Nishi and his partner Hikaru, for a demonstration of his iPhone game, Newtonica. But first we had dinner – and Kenji Eno turned up too! (Eno is responsible for Newtonica’s music.) The dinner is mostly irrelevant, except for a couple of pieces of trivia I can remember that came up in conversation, that may interest you:
Despite having left Skip, Kenichi was involved with Captain Rainbow (as its scenario designer), since the game began development before he left. (Speaking of Captain Rainbow, it’s soundingfantastic.)
Ko Takeuchi, one of the key designers of Rhythm Tengoku (among other things), used to work for Kenji Eno at Warp.
Following dinner, we – minus Eno, who was very busy – went to a karaoke room, where we recorded this demonstration of Newtonica. This one right here:
Then Ken performed some Oasis songs, complete with air guitar. (I didn’t film it; sorry.)
As you can see, Newtonica is a very, very simple, though fun, game; definitely worth getting if you have an iPhone, but definitely not worth getting an iPhone for.
That was the demonstration – come back later this week for the explanation: Kenichi explains the deeper meaning of Newtonica, and tells us a bit about the game’s development.
DISCLOSURE-TYPE ADDENDUM: Yes, this post originally featured more, and more detailed, bits of trivia. Turns out they weren’t ‘extra information’ so much as ‘personal information’, and weren’t meant to be passed on – so, on request, I’ve removed them. This would make me a terrible, soft, journalist, if I were a journalist, which I’m not.
It’s the 28th of the 8th of 2008, and it should not be surprising that, on so auspiciously numbered a date, destiny should draw events together to create a vortex of neato: Kenichi Nishi reports on his blog – following some anxious entries over the past couple of days – that at last, Newtonica is available for iPhone owners to buy, and what do you know, it just so happens that today is the release date for Captain Rainbow, the new and wonderful game from Skip, the company Nishi founded.
It’s not world peace, but one can’t help but feel that if God hasn’t smiled on indie gaming today, he has at least absent-mindedly flicked a booger at it.
And you know what else? I’m going to a YMCK show tonight! And one of the support acts is Sexy Synthesizer! And, I didn’t sleep at all last night, because I was busy making 2D sprites for a game. See how I lick your boogers, O Lord. They are rolling hills of candy to this unworthy mortal.
A few games have been announced, recently, that I hope are of interest to you! This may have had something to do with E3...? It seems like a lot of games have been announced in the past week.
Anyway, you’ve probably heard all about these games by now, but I’m just reminding you to care about them, and not about all those other shitty games.
Captain Rainbow is the new game by Skip! That’s exciting! You can read about it here and here and also here. The game was announced by Nintendo, and apparently the fact that it’s made by Skip – while being obvious; just look at it – hasn’t been officially confirmed, so allow me to unofficially confirm it: Hirofumi Taniguchi told me about Captain Rainbow back in January, while we were waiting in line for Fami-mode. So that’s straight from the horse’s sound designer’s mouth.
Probably safe to assume it’s hikarin doing the art; don’t have a clue who’s directing it! I’ll try to find out, but, eh, we’ll all know soon enough.
Rhythm Tengoku Gold – or just Rhythm Heaven, as they’re calling the English version – is the DS sequel to Rhythm Tengoku, one of my favourite games, and certainly my favourite game on the GBA. It’s wonderful and brilliant for too many reasons to explain in a short paragraph; I should do a review sometime. It’s by the same team who made Wario Ware, and you should think of it as ‘the game they made after Wario Ware’, because all the Wario Ware sequels were pointless and stupid, whereas you can tell that Rhythm Tengoku is a game they really wanted to make.
Whether Rhythm Tengoku Gold was made for love, or because Nintendo told them to, I don’t know. But a Rhythm Tengoku game being released internationally is good news, I reckon.
Finally, some wonnnnnderful news for everybody: Game Center CX – previously lauded here, by me – is coming out in English, as Retro Game Challenge! (And so is the TV series it’s based on, apparently.) This means that you, reader of English, will be able to play and enjoy this fun and extraordinary and important game. I really never expected Game Center CX to get an English release, so this news was an exciting surprise!
Dessgeega, in her analysis linked just above, describes Game Center CX – or Retro Game Challenge – as “a fictionalized digital history of the experience of growing up with a magic box full of secrets beneath your tv,” and I think that’s about the best summary anyone could come up with. Everyone reading this should play the game, especially our younger readers, who grew up with the PlayStation rather than the NES. I’m looking forward to hearing what you think of it!
So, those are the games I give a shit about. Is anything missing? Is there an upcoming game I ought to be excited about, but maybe I haven’t heard about it or something? Tell me – I really would like to know.
Hey gland! I mean, gang! Gland?
The recently released Skip game, 
A few games have been announced, recently, that I hope are of interest to you! This may have had something to do with E3...? It seems like a lot of games have been announced in the past week.
