Naramura is going to make a speech at GDC 2013 as we announced on NIGORO’s official blog. The title is “Commun-indies: Making the Most of Your Indie Community”. Scheduled at 11:30AM on 28 March, the venue is Room 132 North Hall. http://schedule2013.gdconf.com/session-id/824292 Although Naramura was invited to make a speech in Taiwan, we have neither fabulous techniques nor effective developing methods. Then, every time we are embarrassing what we should talk. Well, what is our original developing methods which we only have and talk to the world? Above all things, the answer is stimulating communications with users who let us pass Greenlight. For instance, screenshots which we showed you on [...]

Playism has officially announced that they will provide Steam key to everyone who bought La-Mulana at Playism and DESURA/groupees. But, of course you can buy it again on Steam. However, for the sake of GOG’s system, they can not provide Steam key to people who bought La-Mulana at GOG. Instead of that, we will give 3 OST disks to GOG users at the same price. We are not sure yet when they can pass out Steam key on each distributors, but they are working on it not to be long time after Steam version is released. We will let you know on this official site when it is determined.

Thank you very much for your patience. We have all prepared for releasing Steam version. The release date was confirmed on 15 April! We feel hesitant about visiting GDC without a present, so starting the pre-order from today. You can buy La-Mulana at a discount of 10 percent if you pre-order it. (Honestly, you don’t have to hurry.lol) The price is $14.99, same as other distributors. Buy-Here!! You can use the Steam community since La-Mulana’s page has been made on it. Steam users are already excited among Steam. We’d like to bring them to life earlier than the official site. I think we can give some announcements on it, too. [...]

Our development of La-Mulana for Steam was finished. We are now taking tests related to the achievements. We must make not only the game itself but also some contents for Steam Client, and we will leave PLAYISM to manage them. We hope that fans come alive at Steam community before releasing. Since there is a dedicated page for La-mulana, it would be interesting to release something on it. The achievements become 64. Thank you for posting your ideas of achievements. If you have already purchased La-mulana, you can use your save data. but, how about starting the game at the beginning if you want to get more the achievements? We [...]

It has been two months since La-Mulana passed Steam Greenlight. We developed Steam version’s La-Mulana and we have come to the point where Steam version is almost completed. For the last two months, we added the achievements and some features peculiar to Steam. Putting aside the Steam functions, we might be able to add two more languages other than English when Steam version is on sale. Those are Spanish and Russian! We will officially support Spanish and Russian version through the cooperation of Playism. Surely, we are going to distribute them for the versions of Playism, GOG, and so on. We intend to carry good news in the near future. [...]

We already mentioned several times, but we’d like to say this again officially. LA-MULANA ruin is unexplored. Just a few people know it. If someone who is interested in the ruin tries searching it on the internet, most images are archaeologist’s death throes. But, even such images, the more those images exist, the more LA-MULANA ruin’s real image would get through many people. Therefore, you feel free to publish movies and screenshots that you play. You can upload LA-MULANA’s images on your blogs, twitter or whatever. We’d like to see your walk through sites and you can use game images in plenty on your sites if it makes your pages [...]

We have got lots of ideas and lots of comments of achievements. Thank you very much for your helpful answers. Considering pros and cons about achievements, we are going to prepare some achievements that only LA-MULANA could. Firstly, we have to work up Steam version in order to sell LA-MULANA on Steam. This is our first try, so we are not sure how long it takes. But, before we lose your interest, we will do it without stopping. Meanwhile, it is the highest time we have to let the world know LA-MULANA with our full power. We might have to fly around the West and promote it. But, we also [...]

Thanks to everyone, LA-MULANA has got through Steam Greenlight! Namely, it will be released on Steam. We really appreciate your backup. But, it’s going to be a real festival when LA-MULANA is actually released on Steam and sold well. We just stand the starting line for now. So, what we have to do after this is to fix LA-MULANA for Steam. It has to be working on Steam client, and then we put “achievements” in it. But, to be honest, we don’t know much about “achievements”. For the memory of passing Greenlight, we want to have a questionnaire after such a long time. 1. How many “achievements” do you think [...]

First, an update for you. Thanks for your support, La-Mulana has been nominated Indie of the Year 2012 TOP100 of Indie DB. If you haven’t vote it, please vote for La-mulana. http://www.indiedb.com/games/la-mulana/ So, La-Mulana Ver. 1.3.3.1 has released today. The detail is as follows. 1. Fixing screen tearing in 60hz refresh rate on some particular monitors. 2. Fixing other minor bugs. Customers who bought La-Mulana on Playism can download the latest version’s installer(NOT PATCH) at MY ACCOUNT page on PLAYISM. And then, the update will finish when you complete the overwriting instalation. Customers who bought it on the other sites, it is basically the same way. Finally, we beg you [...]

We think more people can play LA-MULANA since it was released on GOG and Gamer’s Gate. In the meantime, a new release plan were proceeding. It is determined to release LA-MULANA on DESURA. Actually, it has been already released. DESURA is a distribution site that is mainly consist of indie games and the MOD community is well-developed. We haven’t published an editing tool for LA-MULANA yet, but it is possible to do MOD. It should be easy to replace graphics and sounds. Is there a great guy who makes a set of all original music? We have fixed some bugs for new releases. The version released on GOG, Gamer’s Gate [...]