Welcome to Reka

Welcome to my blog! I am a game developer and voice actress from the United States, with two active game projects (Akiyo and Dreaming Tootsie)~

[balthasar02]

MetalBird Tactics now in Early Access!

I’m proud to announce this new phase in the development of MetalBird, a special promo is available here: https://itch.io/s/13866/metalbird-launch-promo

As usual, some free keys will be distributed for people who supported MetalBird or my blog for a long time.

Rewards:

If you decide to buy MetalBird, you may receive some cool rewards, check the store page to see the available rewards: https://balthasar02.itch.io/metalbird

What is MetalBird Tactics?

MetalBird Tactics is a 2.5D turn based war strategy game. This game has 3 factions and 30 units to chose from to help you develop your own strategy. Those numbers and game modes will increase over time!

Some of my old followers will notice I included a few Vindictive Drive characters too.

Today we officially start service and we are hosting a Wiki to help players develop their favourite strategies.

https://metalbird.wikia.com/

For more info check the release Dev Log in itch io! 

https://balthasar02.itch.io/metalbird/devlog/52267/metalbird-tactics-official-early-access-launch

[morganelisecosplay]

MetalBird Tactics EARLY ACCESS

Hello! I would love to announce that @balthasar02 has just released the Early Access of his strategy game, MetalBird Tactics! The newest commercial release of Secret Society Games!

Note: ON SALE UNTIL THE 24TH OF OCTOBER FOR 50% OFF! But if you buy for full price before October 24th you get Vindictive Drive for FREE

See here –> https://itch.io/s/13866/metalbird-launch-promo

ON SALE UNTIL THE 24TH OF OCTOBER FOR 50% OFF! But if you buy for full price before October 24th you get Vindictive Drive for FREESee here –> https://itch.io/s/13866/metalbird-launch-promoWhat is MetalBird Tactics?

MetalBird Tactics is a war turn-based Strategy game where you build your formation choosing between three factions, with ten units each and a wide range of combinations to make, to challenge the enemy strategy.

You have only 10.000 credits to spend on your formation, so you will have to choose your units carefully.

Your objective is to destroy the enemy Mobile Base Unit at all costs,  Be careful commander, because you are to face tough resistance.

Where can I buy MetalBird Tactics?

GET IT HERE: https://balthasar02.itch.io/metalbird

More info on units: https://metalbird.wikia.com/wiki/Metalbird_Wiki

ON SALE UNTIL THE 24TH OF OCTOBER FOR 50% OFF! But if you buy for full price before October 24th you get Vindictive Drive for FREE

See here –> https://itch.io/s/13866/metalbird-launch-promo

[balthasar02]

BATTLE OF INSTINCT .9 DOWNLOAD - SUPER MEGA UPDATE

 I am happy to give you this very important update, with tons of new content to play and replay.

What is Battle of Instinct?

Battle of Instinct is a reflexes based fighting game with multiple game modes, when the signal appears, the player has a short time to react before the enemy attacks. This instant will get more narrow as you advance in the game. More info here: http://secretsocietygames.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Instinct

What’s new in this version?

This version was heavily inspired by the feedback received by players and changes will always be made this way. More polls coming soon!

Erika Lasker is ready to play! Now you have three usable characters.

There is a Training mode hosted by Corona Starlight with exercises and tips that actually help so you can git gud!

Gashapon! Now you can get Gashapon Tickets every time you beat the game, the amount you get can vary depending on what you do

Costumes! You can roll the Gashapon machine for special prizes!

Easy Mode included, now there are three difficulty levels.

Achievments! Collect them all and everyone will be jealous of you.

Tournaments and rankings’ service begins!

Send me your score or join our Discord server’s community to be part of the rankings and compete for special prizes!

https://discord.gg/p5MKThv

DOWNLOADS:

Mediafire:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/b8mgit33l4dp0ed/Battle%20of%20Instinct%20PV9.7z

Mega:

https://mega.nz/#!ihp3TZCC!Yj0EXcDkakMzuTWl9Y2g8dP6g-6HZjI33nAKbBH_IhU

[balthasar02]

will you make enemies faster than kameko?

Right now, enemy Kameko’s speed is 11 to 13 frames, for reference, 60 frames equal 1 second.

I don’t think I will make enemies faster than 10 frames, just because it stops being humanly possible.

The average reaction time for humans is 0.25 seconds to a visual stimulus, and 0.17 for an audio stimulus, studies have shown different results but the exact number is somewhere in between 1/5 and ¼ of a second.

To fully exploit players’ potential I will need to improve the way the sound effect in the signal is executed, research shows the fastest sense is tthe sense of hearing, it takes 8 to 10 miliseconds to get to the brain, however, there is more to it and the time your muscles take to start moving after the stimuli is longer than that.

This doesn’t mean that is the limit of BoI’s difficulty, there are lots of things that  can and will make the game harder than Kameko’s speed, distractions, fake signals, sounds off tempo, surprise attacks, memory tricks, there are lots of elements I can use to make the game more challenging, but still humanly possible and fun to play.

If you want to know more about it, here’s some fun info about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_chronometry

tl;dr no

[mikuleroux]

Changing my blog name

I haven’t announced my side project yet (which I am working on diligently and using as more practice for Akiyo, since Akiyo will take a while with all I have planned) but I plan to soon, so I will be changing the name of this blog from akiyo-game to @mikuleroux so I can feel free to post freely about my two projects and my voice acting.

Sorry for not posting enough, I will be sharing about my new game here soon!

[mikuleroux]

Upcoming voice acting role

I am so excited to announce I will be voicing the narrator of Battle of Instinct, Corona Starlight!

What is Battle of Instinct? 

Battle of Instinct is a fighting game under development by Balthasar02, the game focuses on reflexes and quick reaction.

Plot

An unknown organization commanded by a demigod warlord organizes an All-time Tournament in order to find the most skilled martial artist among mortals.

Warriors from very diverse styles of all eras and nationalities are cast to a parallel dimension named Rengoku where the tournament takes place, all of them hold impossible struggles from their respective timelines, and the prize is to have any wish the winner wants to be granted.

The philosophical beliefs of the warlord forces changes in the combatants' minds to only focus on only decisive lethal attacks without defense, the reason of why all duels will end in one to few hits before one of the fighters die.

The story focuses mainly on Azumi and Kojiro Hojo, two Japanese siblings from the Bakumatsu Period, as they decide to participate to save their father from an incurable illness in the middle of a war.

All the fighters also struggle against time, since the situation in their respective timelines becomes considerably worse as seconds in the Rengoku means weeks in the real world.

Features

Reaction based battles with different game modes and rules as the player wins rounds.

Many characters from different backgrounds, cultures and martial art styles.

A lot of illustrations and animated cutscenes

Demo Download and Walkthrough

http://secretsocietygames.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Instinct?action=edit§ion=1

[balthasar02]

BATTLE OF INSTINCT DEMO AVAILABLE

Battle of Instinct is a fighting game where you play with diverse reaction based mechanics in a tournament with the best fighters from diverse cultures and eras.

How to play

All of them have one goal, the miracle the demigods offer as prize for the mightiest warrior.

For more info about the story behind this tournament, characters and walkthrough please visit: http://secretsocietygames.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Instinct

Features in this demo

Reaction based duels with two different mechanics

Two playable characters

Ten enemies including the first boss of the game

Addictive thing

Planned features

More battle mechanics including 2vs2 battles

Master and Demigod difficulty

Over 20 characters

Animated cutscenes and lots of illustrations

Voice acting

and whatever my beloved players suggest

DOWNLOAD THE DEMO HERE: 

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zc16p399wmhr173/Battle+of+Instinct.7z

Your suggestions and feedback are more than welcome, thank you for trying Battle of Instinct, I hope you like it and I promise a great game.

[balthasar02]

Feedback, character poll and more:

it was an exciting week and few days since I started to make this game, and I’m finding its production very enjoyable, I am having fun with it and I hope the results can be fun for you too, so if you played Battle of Instinct, I am asking you for a little bit of your time here. I am needing to know two things.

What martial arts/fighting styles would you like to see in the tournament?

What kind of characters would you like to see in the tournament?

If you have any suggestions or comments about these or other things, please send me a messege here in the ask box, or write to [email protected]

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Additionally, the first character popularity poll is here, please vote! Who would you like to see more?

Poll: https://strawpoll.com/22eeac2z

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News:

Lafiel’s continue bug is now fixed

Enemy cloning bug is being fixed

Players will soon be able to submit their score and there will be a ranking with the best combatants!

Possibly making an “easy mode”

Thought the survival mode would be about waves of enemies? NOPE, you will practice against Corona in a friendly sparring match to see how much you can last with speed changes, signal tempo changes and distractions! Don’t hold back, you can’t actually hurt her.

Adding new combat modes: 2 vs 2 and Attack/Defense

Battle of Instinct is now in itch.io https://balthasar02.itch.io/battle-of-instinct

New to Battle of Insinct? 

Info, walkthrough and download here:

http://secretsocietygames.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Instinct

[mikuleroux]

Go check out this game!! It’s super fun and has a lot of potential

[mikuleroux]

I got a mic and some home recording studio gear, now I just need a place to set it up!

I will be doing a new animation video with my new mic in collaboration with @balthasar02 , voicing a few of his future characters, a few of mine, and hunting for other opportunities. I hope to have a demo reel available soonish.

I need to decide on rates, which I will do once I have a reel, they’ll start small and increase as I get better. I could possibly do some free things IF they’re small; I will only do that until I improve, though.

[morganelisecosplay]

Mercy Pearl Warren / Mercedes Warren / ButterflyBlossoms

Mercedes Warren is an aspiring animation artist, who had some really hateful views about the recent Florida school shooting. I didn’t know if it was shared here but I just wanted to get the warning out before you decide to commission her.

Her school was contacted by many and they issued a statement but the school was censored here, the statement is the last of the images.

Please share to help spread the word so people who what kind of person she is before commissioning!

[mikuleroux]

This is off topic but it’s important and I know a lot of my followers commission artists

[mikuleroux]

Sorry for being dead so long, I can’t get a break from life lol

New wing style what up

[balthasar02]

Testers and proofreaders needeed for the english translation of lolrust’s new game, Milya.

Miliya is a short (5min) game produced by lol_rust (the creator of .flow, Shoujo Kidan and Shoujo Gidan) that tells the story of Milya, by the voice of her childhood friend.

Chesir, the euthorized translator of the english versions of Shoujo Kidan and Shoujo Gidan is working on this translation, so you already know this is in good hands.

Testing this game will be an easy task since it’s very short, if you are interested please send me a messege or write to Chesir here: 

[email protected]

Please reblog this if you can, thank you very much.

[mikuleroux]

Sorry for being dead so long, I can’t get a break from life lol

New wing style what up

[mikuleroux]

Hiatus ending

Sorry for the kinda unannounced hiatus! I had a lot going on...and to keep myself working and motivated, I will have a casual cute game I will work on the side of Akiyo, with my main focus being Akiyo of course!

I will have an image to post soon of the new improved Akiyo title screen (mine is so outddated) and if you guys would like, I will share with you designs of my cute little fantasy story I came up with too!

[mikuleroux]

Tee Shirt shop opened

Hey guys! I opened up a tee shirt shop, for shirts of me and @balthasar02‘s games, Secret Society Games merchandise, and for other various fandom merchandise!

There will be lots more coming soon, but please check out my listings! There’s a sale going on sitewide for the next 2 hours, but after that, any new shirts I post will be on sale for 3 days!

There are also stickers for sale there too!

Check out my store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/mikuhongo

Some examples of already existing shirts:

Akiyo

Secret Society Games

Vindictive Drive

War of Existence

End of Existence

Mia and Me

Yume Nikki

Stranger Things

Serial Experiments Lain

More to come soon!

[mikuleroux]

I have something very important I’d like to share here, due to it being an emergency.

My boyfriend, Bal, is struggling right now. I want to help keep him safe with a roof over his head. He works almost all day every day, so he’s doing all he can, and he just moved into the cheapest place he could find and without something like this to give him a boost he may not be able to keep staying at that place, and there are no cheaper ones near him

Please consider donating, and if you do, I cant even begin to say how appreciative I would be.

Thank you for reading, his campaign can be found here:

https://funds.gofundme.com/dashboard/bals-emergency-fund

If you can’t donate, another thing you could do is share this so others can see. Thank you so much

[uthermia]

art trade for @oh.yim