鶴鄉戀旅
Released Feb 2020
A new university graduate is perplexed about his future. Through serendipity, he decides to go on a self-exploration trip to Izumi, where is rich in tourism resources. In this trip, you will meet several girls with different personalities and find romance along the way.
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All announced content has been released
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Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Love Across Izumi (鶴鄉戀旅) is a free-to-play visual novel / adventure game that launched on February 27, 2020. The game was created by a university Game Creator Club as a tourism promotion project for Izumi City in Kagoshima, Japan. The store description presents a fully realized, self-contained story with a defined cast of characters, a complete set of travel locations, and a clear narrative arc. There is no mention of DLC, post-launch content plans, seasons, or ongoing updates anywhere in the store materials. No developer news posts or announcements of future content have been provided. The game has no unreleased DLC entries. Given its origins as a student-developed promotional project with a complete, bounded scope at launch, this is a finished product that shipped as a complete package.
Evidence
Store description presents a fully self-contained visual novel with a defined cast, complete set of locations, and a clear narrative — no mention of DLC, future updates, or ongoing content plans.
Short description frames the game as a complete romance/travel story with no indication of planned expansions or post-launch additions.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Tempest Digital Ltd. 暴風數位服務有限公司
Achievements
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Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
Introduction:
Love Across Izumi is an AVG love game based on Izumi City of Kagoshima (Kyushu) Japan, via this particular media, we wish to let more people know the charm of this city.
As the game proceeds, players can perceive the stunning nature, culture, and humanities of Izumi, such as the Izumi-Fumoto Samurai residences, Village of Shinonome, Izumi Municipal Crane Museum, etc
. Players can choose their schedule of travel of their free will, and have the chance of encountering different characters.
The story describes a newly university graduate who is at lost about his future. To find himself, he had decided to go on a journey in Izumi, not only finding "love across Izumi" but also the meaning of life.
Our game includes location shooting of views of the city and a relaxing, happy story, building the beauty and wonders of this land.
Origin:
In October 2016, teacher Mr. Lai came to Izumi to participate in the marathon event and had a nice experience during the tour, while also noticing the issue of local advertisement and promotion. Thinking deeply over how to promote and raise recognition of this place, Mr.Lai came across the former president of our Game Creator Club, Cheng Tsung Han, and had come up with the idea of introducing Izumi through computer games.
Game Creator Club then issued an Izumi local promoting game program with the support of NCU university and the assistance of the locals and Ms. Nagano Reiko from the Tourism department of the municipal office.
We hope that by providing a customized, Izumi-featured, educational local promoting game, we can attract more people to recognize this fascinating city.
Game features:
-Based on real scenery
The story happened in the city of Izumi, so the game is abundant with retouched photos of the city, letting players "visit" a variety of Izumi's attractions along with the proceeding of the story.
-Developing relationships with three female characters
During the Journey, our protagonist will encounter three main female characters (and a hidden character):
Misaki Ikeda--Our protagonist's high school's schoolmate. A warm and cheerful, energetic, sport-loving girl.
Rena Koizumi--A junior of Misaki, has a passion for history. A professional in history. She has a sharp tongue but also a heart of gold.
Hasegawa Haru--A gentle, warm-hearted art enthusiast. She is devoted to becoming a novelist.
The three main female characters will travel with our main protagonist. As the story goes, the nature, culture, and histories of Izumi will slowly reveal in front of the players' eyes.
-Free Choices of travel places
During the trip to Izumi, players can decide which attraction they wanted to visit. Whether you want to visit the Hakozaki Hachiman Shrine or learn about the history of Izumi Fumoto History Museum, or even harvest the sweet and juicy mandarins with the farmers, you are free to choose anyone you like.
-Write down your trip on your blog
Our main protagonist will record the memories of our journey on our blog, giving a real-traveling vibe and not just ordinary gameplay. Post the photos taken during the trip and share our stories with friends!
Taiwan-Japan collaboration:
Our team had visited Izumi, Kagoshima in 2017 for resources research to create Love Across Izumi, and was greeted with warm welcomes from the locals. We also had given interviews to the press in Japan. Besides being in the newspaper, this program was also broadcast on the news.
About us:
-NCU Game Creator(NCUGC)
NCU Game Creator serves as a game-making exchange platform for students at NCU university and is one of the student community of IDEA NCU, with a membership of 70 people from all departments of NCU. Not only provides courses for game making, but it also contributes to Taiwan's game creation through organizing various activities. To strengthen communications between Taiwan's student game-creating teams, it had held the TSGDF events twice. It holds the goal to combine the power of industry, official, and university, and work together for the development of the Taiwan Game Industry.
-Team of Love Across Izumi
The production team of Love Across Izumi is composed of 7 NCUGC members and 2 external school partners. We work as a team for the cooperation of local promoting project between NCUGC and Izumi City Hall.
Members:
Producer/ Game Planner: Boss
Game Script: Haox, Fukuyama Masaharu
Programmer: 尬廣
Illustrator: Arme, Amo, Sean
Motion Graphic: OwO
Music: UMI
Tempest Digital Ltd.:
Tempest Digital Ltd. is a new startup by former NCUGC club leader Cheng Tsunhan and other partners who graduated from NCU. Engaged in computer games, mobile games, digital products, extended reality, creative curation, and gamification design. It hopes that starting from games, it can create more possibilities for digital content, and make a contribution to the game industry in Taiwan.
Love Across Izumi is an AVG love game based on Izumi City of Kagoshima (Kyushu) Japan, via this particular media, we wish to let more people know the charm of this city.
As the game proceeds, players can perceive the stunning nature, culture, and humanities of Izumi, such as the Izumi-Fumoto Samurai residences, Village of Shinonome, Izumi Municipal Crane Museum, etc
. Players can choose their schedule of travel of their free will, and have the chance of encountering different characters.
The story describes a newly university graduate who is at lost about his future. To find himself, he had decided to go on a journey in Izumi, not only finding "love across Izumi" but also the meaning of life.
Our game includes location shooting of views of the city and a relaxing, happy story, building the beauty and wonders of this land.
Origin:
In October 2016, teacher Mr. Lai came to Izumi to participate in the marathon event and had a nice experience during the tour, while also noticing the issue of local advertisement and promotion. Thinking deeply over how to promote and raise recognition of this place, Mr.Lai came across the former president of our Game Creator Club, Cheng Tsung Han, and had come up with the idea of introducing Izumi through computer games.
Game Creator Club then issued an Izumi local promoting game program with the support of NCU university and the assistance of the locals and Ms. Nagano Reiko from the Tourism department of the municipal office.
We hope that by providing a customized, Izumi-featured, educational local promoting game, we can attract more people to recognize this fascinating city.
Game features:
-Based on real scenery
The story happened in the city of Izumi, so the game is abundant with retouched photos of the city, letting players "visit" a variety of Izumi's attractions along with the proceeding of the story.
-Developing relationships with three female characters
During the Journey, our protagonist will encounter three main female characters (and a hidden character):
Misaki Ikeda--Our protagonist's high school's schoolmate. A warm and cheerful, energetic, sport-loving girl.
Rena Koizumi--A junior of Misaki, has a passion for history. A professional in history. She has a sharp tongue but also a heart of gold.
Hasegawa Haru--A gentle, warm-hearted art enthusiast. She is devoted to becoming a novelist.
The three main female characters will travel with our main protagonist. As the story goes, the nature, culture, and histories of Izumi will slowly reveal in front of the players' eyes.
-Free Choices of travel places
During the trip to Izumi, players can decide which attraction they wanted to visit. Whether you want to visit the Hakozaki Hachiman Shrine or learn about the history of Izumi Fumoto History Museum, or even harvest the sweet and juicy mandarins with the farmers, you are free to choose anyone you like.
-Write down your trip on your blog
Our main protagonist will record the memories of our journey on our blog, giving a real-traveling vibe and not just ordinary gameplay. Post the photos taken during the trip and share our stories with friends!
Taiwan-Japan collaboration:
Our team had visited Izumi, Kagoshima in 2017 for resources research to create Love Across Izumi, and was greeted with warm welcomes from the locals. We also had given interviews to the press in Japan. Besides being in the newspaper, this program was also broadcast on the news.
About us:
-NCU Game Creator(NCUGC)
NCU Game Creator serves as a game-making exchange platform for students at NCU university and is one of the student community of IDEA NCU, with a membership of 70 people from all departments of NCU. Not only provides courses for game making, but it also contributes to Taiwan's game creation through organizing various activities. To strengthen communications between Taiwan's student game-creating teams, it had held the TSGDF events twice. It holds the goal to combine the power of industry, official, and university, and work together for the development of the Taiwan Game Industry.
-Team of Love Across Izumi
The production team of Love Across Izumi is composed of 7 NCUGC members and 2 external school partners. We work as a team for the cooperation of local promoting project between NCUGC and Izumi City Hall.
Members:
Producer/ Game Planner: Boss
Game Script: Haox, Fukuyama Masaharu
Programmer: 尬廣
Illustrator: Arme, Amo, Sean
Motion Graphic: OwO
Music: UMI
Tempest Digital Ltd.:
Tempest Digital Ltd. is a new startup by former NCUGC club leader Cheng Tsunhan and other partners who graduated from NCU. Engaged in computer games, mobile games, digital products, extended reality, creative curation, and gamification design. It hopes that starting from games, it can create more possibilities for digital content, and make a contribution to the game industry in Taiwan.
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