Twilight Frontier
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Twilight Frontier is a Japanese doujin game developer
Video game developer
A video game developer is a software developer that creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, or may develop for a variety of systems, including personal computers.Most developers also...

. They are noted for making high quality derivative works of other games.

Productions

  • Eternal Fighter Zero
    Eternal Fighter Zero
    Eternal Fighter Zero is a dōjin fighting games for Microsoft Windows produced by Twilight Frontier, including characters from the visual novels Moon., One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e, Kanon, and Air...

    - A 2D fighter based on One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e
    One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e
    is a Japanese adult visual novel, developed by Tactics, a brand of the joint company Nexton, and released on May 26, 1998 playable on the PC for Windows 95. Much of the staff that created the game later became the founding members of the visual novel company Key. The game was later ported to the...

    , Moon.
    Moon.
    Moon. is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by Tactics, a brand of the joint company Nexton, and first released on November 21, 1997 playable on a Windows 95 PC as a CD-ROM; the game was re-released five more times between 1998 and 2003. The game was described by the development team as a...

    , Kanon
    Kanon
    is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key and originally released as an adult game on June 4, 1999, playable on a Microsoft Windows PC. An all ages version for the PC was released in January 2000, and was later ported to the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable...

    , and Air. Later editions include:
    • Eternal Fighter Zero -RENEWAL-
    • Eternal Fighter Zero: Blue Sky Edition
    • Eternal Fighter Zero: Bad Moon Edition
    • Eternal Fighter Zero -Memorial-
  • Immaterial and Missing Power
    Immaterial and Missing Power
    , commonly abbreviated as IaMP in English speaking circles, is a versus fighting game collaboratively developed by Twilight Frontier and Team Shanghai Alice released in 2004...

    - A 2D fighter that is part of the Touhou Project
    Touhou Project
    The , also known as Toho Project or Project Shrine Maiden, is a Japanese dōjin game series focused on bullet hell shooters made by the one-man developer Team Shanghai Alice, whose sole member, known as ZUN, is responsible for all the graphics, music, and programming for the most part...

    ; a collaboration with Team Shanghai Alice
    Team Shanghai Alice
    is a one-man Japanese dojin game developer specializing in shoot 'em ups. The team's only releases thus far have been the Touhou Project games and related merchandise.-Games:*The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil...

    .

} - The OST
OST
- Music :* Original Soundtrack, the soundtrack of a movie, TV series, or video game.* Open Source Track, a licensing and distribution model for music initiative* The alias of electronic musician Chris Douglas- Science and technology :...

 for the game.
  • MarisaLa (スーパーマリサランド, "Super Marisa Land") - A platformer that is a parody of both Super Mario Land
    Super Mario Land
    is a platforming video game developed by Nintendo for the Game Boy handheld game console. It and the Game Boy debuted in Japan on April 21, 1989, in the United States on July 31, 1989, and in Europe on September 28, 1990...

    and Touhou.
  • MegaMari (メガマリ -魔理沙の野望-) - An action game
    Action game
    Action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand–eye coordination and reaction-time. The genre includes diverse subgenres such as fighting games, shooter games, and platform games, which are widely considered the most important action games, though some...

     parodying Touhou with Mega Man
    Mega Man (video game)
    Mega Man, known as in Japan, is a video game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System . It is the first game in the original Mega Man series and the entire Mega Man franchise...

    . Released on May 2006.
  • Higurashi Daybreak
    Higurashi Daybreak
    is a Japanese dōjin third person shooter developed by Twilight Frontier, first released on August 13, 2006 and is based on the popular visual novel Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. The game is Twilight Frontier's first attempt in making a 3D game...

    - A 3D third-person shooter
    Third-person shooter
    Third-person shooter is a genre of 3D action games in which the player character is visible on-screen, and the gameplay consists primarily of shooting.-Definition:...

     based on Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
    Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
    , known simply as When They Cry for the North American release of the anime adaptation, is a Japanese murder mystery dōjin soft sound novel series produced by 07th Expansion. The games are built on the NScripter game engine and are playable on Microsoft Windows PCs...

    co-authored by 07th Expansion
    07th Expansion
    07th Expansion is a Japanese dōjin group that specializes in the creation of visual novels known as sound novels. They started out drawing for the trading card game Leaf Fight, but they are most famous for creating the dōjin game series Higurashi no Naku Koro ni...

    .
    • Higurashi Daybreak Kai - the expansion pack for Higurashi Daybreak. Released on April 22, 2007.
    • Higurashi Daybreak Original Soundtrack - The OST
      OST
      - Music :* Original Soundtrack, the soundtrack of a movie, TV series, or video game.* Open Source Track, a licensing and distribution model for music initiative* The alias of electronic musician Chris Douglas- Science and technology :...

       for the game. Released on April 22, 2007.
  • Defend the library! (ぱちゅコン!, "Patchucon!") - A real time strategy game based on Touhou, released on December 31, 2007.
  • Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
    Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
    is the second versus fighting game in the Touhou Project, and is the spiritual successor to Immaterial and Missing Power by Twilight Frontier and Team Shanghai Alice. In the Touhou Project overall, it is labelled as the 10.5th Touhou game, though the game was first planned to be numbered 9.8...

    (東方緋想天) - A versus fighting game similar to Immaterial and Missing Power, part of the official Touhou Project series as well, numbered 10.5. It was up for beta testing during the 2007 Reitaisai. Released at Reitaisai 5 on May 25, 2008.

} - The OST for the game.
  • Touhou Hisoutensoku
    Touhou Hisōtensoku
    is a versus fighting game in the Touhou Project game series. The game, by Twilight Frontier and Team Shanghai Alice, can be played as a standalone game or as an extension to the previous fighting game Scarlet Weather Rhapsody...

    - It is numbered 12.3 in the series and introduces new spell cards and weather conditions. Characters from Scarlet Weather Rhapsody can be played in versus mode if that game is installed.

} - OST
Soundtrack
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 for the game, released in 2009.
  • New Super Marisa Land (魔理沙と6つのキノコ, "Marisa and the Six Mushrooms") - A more sophisticated successor of MarisaLa, released in 2010.
  • Natsu no Kagerō (なつのかげろう) - a 3D game collaboration with Ryukishi07
    Ryukishi07
    is the pen name of a Japanese man originally from Chiba Prefecture who is well known as the original creator for the idea of the visual novel series Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni. He is the representative member of the group 07th Expansion...

     of 07th Expansion.
  • Grief Syndrome (グリーフシンドローム) - A sidescrolling run 'n gun shooter based on the anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica
    Puella Magi Madoka Magica
    is a Japanese anime television series produced by Shaft and Aniplex. The series is directed by Akiyuki Shinbo and written by Gen Urobuchi with original character designs by Ume Aoki, character design adaptation by Takahiro Kishida and music by Yuki Kajiura...

    .

Main members

  • 海原いるか (Umihara Iruka) — General Producer/Character Graphics/System Graphics/Script/Sound Effects
  • ののたろう (Nono Tarō) — Chief Programmer
  • KuMa — Assistant Programmer
  • alphes — Character Graphics
  • スペクター (Specter) — Character Graphics
  • 長谷川イワシ (Hasegawa Iwashi) — Character Graphics/Background Graphics
  • GOME — Character Graphics
  • JUN — Sound Effects
  • NKZ — Music
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