CHOUNIJIDEN:WS is now on development! I am preparing to work on the core game for MagiColor Heroes Shmump Project 1st Season - Project Kulayan-Z. The core game will be the standard version of CHOUNIJIDEN called “CHOUNIJIDEN: Wonderful Skies”, which will feature lots of stages and many more.

What’s new in CHOUNIJIDEN:IF? For now, I just made some changes for CHOUNIJIDEN: Iridescent Force. This includes changes to the game’s logo, as well as some new changes to the introduction for the MagiColor Heroes Shmup Project. What is also changed is the caravan stage, some constructive changes that would make the game fun and exciting. With the changes to the caravan stage in mind, how high can you score without losing at least one life? Will you persevere even if you made such a mistake? And can you complete the caravan stage with 200 million points after destroying the endboss? Well, this update asks all these questions in relation to the changes made to the caravan stage.

That aside, I have made a better interactive title screen cutscene level when you start the game. In this improved interactive cutscene, it pays homage to old school video games, particularly some NES/Famicom games where you make a selection using the select button instead of the D-Pad or directional pad in the title screen. So much like that, the controls has been slightly changed, whereas the Start Button on Keyboard is now the 1 Key instead of the Space Key while the Select Button on Keyboard is now the 5 Key instead of the Enter Key.

With that, the default selection is starting the 5 minute score attack game. To change menu selection, press 5 if you are using a keyboard, or press the select button if you are using a controller. And to confirm the selection, press 1 if you are using a keyboard, or press the start button if you are using a controller. In addition to this, I also included a pre-title intro sequence at the start of the improved title screen cutscene, which can also be skipped by pressing the start button.

Important: Please uninstall the old version (0.3) before downloading the new version. Old versions will no longer be supported, so if you still have Version 0.3 or any older version of CHOUNIJIDEN: Iridescent Force, then kindly uninstall it completely if you are using the itch Desktop App. In addition, the game’s save data is now on “AppData\Roaming\SHMUPCreator\ChounijidenIF”, whereas the new executable to run is “ChounijidenIF.exe”

And so, that is all for what this update has, and I hope that you will enjoy it. I was originally going to mention that this would be Version 0.4, but due to some new features and additional changes, this will now become Version 1 for this game.‬ Until then, please look forward to more updates regarding MagiColor Heroes Shmup Project. Thanks for your support!