MiKandi Japan and Sol Press Launch Kickstarter Campaign for Newton and the Apple Tree
MiKandi Japan and Sol Press launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to fund the localization of Newton and the Apple Tree. Developed by Laplacian, the game is a comedic historical visual novel featuring a teenage boy who time travels and discovers that “Isaac Newton” is the pen name of a young girl.
Newton and the Apple Tree will receive both an all-ages and R-18 release. The game will have full Japanese audio with English subtitles, and an option to toggle on and off Japanese honorifics.
The Kickstarter campaign will run until January 3rd. Sol Press plans to release the game on Steam in May 2018.
Relevant Links:
Kickstarter Campaign
Official Site
Thunderclap Campaign
Announcement Trailer
Features, via Sol Press:
Free Demo: 1-2 Hours playtime
Full Game: 15-30 Hours playtime
Over 5 different endings
5 voiced character videos
5 heroines to choose from
Synopsis:
“’Newton’ was actually the pen name of a brilliant-minded girl!?”
Protagonist Syuji Asanaga and his childhood friend Yotsuko Utakane, whilst tracking down Syuji’s missing grandfather, unexpectedly ended up travelling through time.
What they witnessed upon their arrival was the presence of a single girl right in front of them.
This particular girl would go on to be dubbed as the father of modern-day science, Sir Isaac Newton! That’s correct, Newton turned out to be a small, flat-chested girl!
Unaware of this, Syuji loudly crashed into the apple tree right in front of the girl.
“Just now… I came up with something that might be incredibly ground-breaking, you know!?”
It was at the moment our main couple travelled through time, right then and there, that Newton discovered universal gravitation!
And just like that, through Syuji’s witless conduct, the great scientific discoveries of that century had all crumbled to ashes. What’s more, like the domino effect, this would gradually end up altering key points in history.
It is now sometime during the 17th century! The story is set at a prestigious English university called “Tenbridge University”, named for the fact that it spans a total of ten bridges! Will Syuji ever be able to rectify history and return to the present!?
Written by Laplacian as “an extremely funny, but also slightly touching” time travel adventure!