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The dream of bishoujo game fans come true…! The details on the mysterious aisp@ce project that had a booth at Comic Market 2007 Winter has been disclosed. I was actually there at the announcement session to give you the coverage~

Just like I suspected, aisp@ce is planned to be an online interactive community service in the fashion of Second Life, except it will feature bishojo game characters in 3D! So far the game titles involved in the project are: [B]CLANNAD, Shuffle, and Da Capo II.

The basic idea of aisp@ce is you spend a virtual life with your favorite heroine in the world that looks just like the games. For example, the town of Da Capo is full of sakura trees. Each person participating will have a partner girl who you can dress the way you like and eventually a house to decrate. The girl wil follow you around giving reactions to what you do. They are even working on an set of scripts so they can talk as if they have an AI.

After the preparations are done, it’s time to go out to the town to communicate with the other players online! The methods of interacting with the characters and other players are still under development, but they said they want to intergrate as much ideas the fans want. But the graphics of the game is seriously looking nice and smooth, especially the virtual town of Akihabara!

The following images are still under development ©aisp@ce

Other than the game companies, Visual Arts, Navel, and Circus, there are several companies who are leading the project. Those companies are Dwango, who made the Nico Nico video website, Headlock, one of the few Japanese companies that made successful original MMORPGs, and trading card game company, Bushiroad. If there is anyone who can make this project happen, it must be those 3 companies who knows about communication tools uniting people!

Some of the other noteworthy news is that the theme song will be sung by the queen of bishojo game songs (personal opinion), KOTOKO. Everything else is pretty much still under development, including the cost of the game. It maybe monthly fee based or free to just log in. The items in the world may cost money or maybe achieved through mini-games. The virtual world of Akiba might show advertisments or sell actual goods.

Here are more snapshots from the annoucement session. But too bad at the Q&A time, people were asking boring and realistic questions like, “do you have plans for security measures against cheaters and selling in-game items in real life?”

An finally a photo of the staffs.

Executives of Bushiroad, Dwango, and Headlock

Members of VisualArts (Not Key), Navel, and Circus

Cosplayers!

Service slated to begin 2008 Summer.
Aisp@ce
http://ai-sp.jp

Also if you have a Nico Nico video account,
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/zd2934012