March 2025 Update
Campaign Updates
We regret to announce that both projects, originally scheduled to launch in March 2025, have beendelayed As a result, we will be reducing the number of Kickstarter updates from once a month to onceevery two to three months.
The time spent on updates will be used to focus on the development of both titles, finding morepartners, and providing our supporters with more substantial and exciting updates.Thank you for your understanding.
Content Updates
To all the supporters of ARMED FANTASIA:
Hello. This is Kaneko, the person in charge of total game design and scenario writer of ARMEDFANTASIA.
Today, I have an important announcement to make. When we held the Kickstarter campaign for ARMEDFANTASIA, we announced the game was scheduled to be released in March 2025, but after muchdiscussion among the team and the developers, and as a result of the current progress of the project, ithas been decided to review and postpone the launch date of ARMED FANTASIA..
We are truly sorry for the delay.We will continue to discuss the changed release date and other matters.I am unable to disclose any further specifics of the situation at this time, but since I was able to reportthis decision to you now, it should be clear that we are still moving things forward little by little. We areworking to bring ARMED FANTASIA closer to its ideal form and to go beyond the realistic limitations ofthe project. The campaign team and the developers are putting their blood, sweat and tears into thewasteland of Londenium, so we appreciate your continued support and encouragement.We will do our best.
ARMED FANTASIA March 2025 Project News
Director Sekiya here.
Now, this month, I would like to share with you some information related to the game’s UI.
Main Menu Screen Design
This is a screen shot of the main menu for review, although it is still under development. We plan to make adjustments from here and further optimize it as necessary, so in a sense, this may be a rare image that can only be seen at this time. The naming conventions for “ARMs” and “modules” have not yet been determined, so the temporary names used in the development process have been blurred.
As you can see, it’s a hierarchy menu where you can switch between different categories and perform detailed actions.
The pop-esque coloring is orange to represent energy and the wasteland. The UI was designed by the designers at bee tribe.They tried to balance things between comfort and catchiness, and we’re aiming for screens that are fun to control with interesting graphical transitions.
Regarding Message Size
Everything we’re showing you here is also under development.
As for the font type and whether or not the message window has a background, please note that these are only tentative and will change in the future. We’ll design how it should look based on the overall atmosphere, so please look forward to it. Also, since we are still in the verification stage, we will only be releasing Japanese messages at this time.
We apologize to our overseas fans.
This is what the dialog says:
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“If I have anything to apologize about, it’s breaking the promise I made to my grandpa and using my own savings and selling family heirlooms to buy an ARM.”
The message size was the subject of much debate among the development staff in terms of readability and screen layout. In the end, it seems like we’re going to allow users to change the font size on their end. By the way, Kaneko-san recommends the “Standard” option, but he says the “Large” option isn’t bad either.
The reason for this is: the message size is also a part of the atmosphere since it’s also visual information.
Considering the passion and momentum of the story that Kaneko-san wants to depict in ARMED FANTASIA, along with a certain level of silliness, it does seem like it would be better to keep the message size on the larger side, since smaller text has a tendency to look stylish and cool. That’s what he’s always said since the beginning of development.
Which size do you prefer?
That concludes this month’s update. The next update will be coming several months later, so we hope you’re looking forward to it.
