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~Hakurei Shrine~ => Touhou Addict Recovery Center => Topic started by: Pinky Cat on March 16, 2025, 04:45:49 PM

Title: A Guide to Touhou Mobile Apps
Post by: Pinky Cat on March 16, 2025, 04:45:49 PM
There are four domains that Touhou mobile apps can fall under: Gacha, Collaboration, Derivative Games, and Indie/Doujin Game Development. This is to describe the differences in development styles for Touhou apps and the purposes these apps are created for. Depending on what one looks for in a Touhou mobile app, there may be traits given by a domain that a Touhou app are undesirable, thus the need to categorize Touhou apps under domains.

1. Gacha

These are Touhou apps created with approval by Team Shanghai Alice (TSA) for their use of monetization methods supported by elements of gacha games. Since these games can earn revenue monetize the game, the development team can afford the budget to create high-quality art/music for the game. It is thanks to this quality that it can serve as a gateway to Touhou for those on mobile devices.

(https://i.imgur.com/aWO3fYe.png)

Examples

Active Games:
Dead Games:
2. Collaboration

Mobile collaborations of Touhou are technically not a form of a Touhou app, but any mention of Touhou on mobile is rare, so these collaborations shall be mentioned. Most of these collaborations are rhythm games thanks to their licensing of Touhou music, but there are two notable exceptions to the rhythm game Touhou collabs.
They would be Dandy Dungeon and Rakugaki Kingdom, who both got the collab due to the development team’s close connections with ZUN.

(https://i.imgur.com/WJ6S6zD.png)

Examples
3. Derivative Games

Derivative Games refer to games that are based on another game, usually being a reskin due to their ease of effort. However, there are some games that try to change the mechanics to fit with the Touhou themes, which will be mentioned under “Examples” to award their efforts.

(https://i.imgur.com/peJOuG6.png)

Examples
4. Indie/Doujin Game Development

These are the apps that either are original game concepts, are artistic doujin works, or are ports of Touhou fangames on PC. This is the most interesting domain of Touhou apps as it helps bring quality genres to the mobile space and push the boundaries on what mobile phones can do.
Note, that not all apps are on the app store. Some of them are only on Itch.io (https://itch.io/games/platform-android/tag-touhou) or on the app creator’s website.

(https://i.imgur.com/I9lS6r1.png)

Examples
Recent Apps
Artistic Doujin Creations
Old Apps
Lost Apps
Overall, there are a lot more to Touhou mobile apps than just gacha games and is frankly an untouched space for Touhou to spread into. The development of indie Touhou apps as few and obscure as they are, show the potential of high quality Touhou apps, offering the Touhou experience on a device that everyone has, the mobile phone.
Title: Re: A Guide to Touhou Mobile Apps
Post by: Branneg Xy on March 20, 2025, 06:14:57 AM
!  :lhi: :spells: :player: :lives: !
A wholesome appreciated,   laudable and helpful Initiative with" Service" of  analytics&warnings*, of resuming. and organized descriptions,  for the Touhou Mobile(/cross-to-Mobile-) (apps).

Without meaning to be or foster  presumptuousness, which is the among the top-worst among the bad...  consequences... ... nor confusion, boredom, any bad etc.  but on the complete good anc better opposites...  this really nice and interesting Effort plus "Service" and more importantly the Hopefully future to come could keep becoming even better, by also being constant through neutral,well-meant, free, willing helpful choices, works..

Better by keep becoming a Thread Reference/Caller/" ".
It would be enough alike but likely on a single or fewer threads basis, than the "The (東方 Touhou)MMD Videos. Announced release( on this nice sub-board on our dear MotK(V3)Forums & Discord rel. " ... variety to be expanded-sustained  on languages, cultures,  society, experience within or "outsourcing "people&rel. ..in the Mobile(/cross-to-Mobile) (apps) aspects.
*In the instances of "hacked, vulnerable, nonetheless still security-related/violations"" through * legal-justice-coscientiousness troubles -alas still unresolved and"uncompensated" "- *东方ArcadiaRecord – A illegal Touhou gacha game that breaks the rules of TSA(Team coShangai Alice), thus this game should not be played"
-... sundry  ambiguities, clarifications, important-ish statuses o be discerning about.... they could more or less simply be resulting also around "temporary" discontinuity, hiatus, replacements,   "cross-regional,alter.validationslimits,  availability, early-accessing, play-testing"and so foth
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Title: Re: A Guide to Touhou Mobile Apps
Post by: Pinky Cat on March 23, 2025, 04:56:10 PM
Apologies, I can't tell what exactly you are trying to say, but I should of given a source for why I marked 东方ArcadiaRecord as "illegal". Basically, what that article stated on the game the issue with this game is that the company behind its development has a history of plagiarism with other gacha games, and this is no different with 东方ArcadiaRecord. Art was stolen, they lied about getting permission from TSA, etc.

https://mimidoshima.wordpress.com/2021/04/27/did-i-just-read-ip-laws-for-the-sake-of-touhou/ (https://mimidoshima.wordpress.com/2021/04/27/did-i-just-read-ip-laws-for-the-sake-of-touhou/)
Title: Re: A Guide to Touhou Mobile Apps
Post by: Suspicious person on March 23, 2025, 05:49:11 PM
Ain't all that "illegal" talk old news, though? The issues you bring there are ones that were identified and brought up during announcement and pre-registration period (even complaints from people whose arts were used without permission for their promo), not to mention the post being from 2021, and the issues the game was criticized for are not found in it currently. So a bit of an outdated talking point imo, tbh.

Unless you're referring to more actual issues, in which case further clarification would be appreciated (haven't followed this game for a bit, so not exactly sure if there are additionnal issues post release)

Besides there's little reason for ZUN and friends to not take action or shut the whole thing down if it didn't have their approval (it's a gacha game ( with visibility and monetization scheme) that claims to have had their ok, you generally don't get off scott free with such claim if there wasn't some truth to it)

The truth of the matter to me is pretty simple : ZUN gave his green light to a group that's done suspicious practices (their previous game had chara designs that are essentially Touhou-OC-please-don't-steal for example) in the past & during the announcement, but that's in the past and has little bearing with the current state of the game, and I haven't heard of similar scummy practices popping out these days.
Title: Re: A Guide to Touhou Mobile Apps
Post by: Pinky Cat on March 24, 2025, 11:06:05 AM
Following up research into Arcadia Record post launch, there doesn't appear to be any more issues related to copyright. So, I can't reasonably believe that the game itself is "illegal" in the point that the game itself is breaking any guidelines at this point.