Team Shanghai Alice
Encyclopedia
is a one-man Japan
ese dojin game
developer specializing in shoot 'em ups. The team's only releases thus far have been the Touhou Project
games and related merchandise.
As there are some loose references to the rest of the Touhou Project in the stories in the CD jacket, the CDs are still considered part of the Touhou Project. (2002) (2003) (2004) (2005) - Collaboration with Twilight Frontier
; Immaterial and Missing Power
OST
(2006) (2006) (2006) (2006) (2006) (2007) (2007) (2008) - Collaboration with Twilight Frontier
; Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
OST
(2009) - Collaboration with Twilight Frontier
; Touhou Hisōtensoku
OST
(2011)
. Fans respectfully call him "Kannushi
" (神主), a name he has sometimes used to refer to himself.
While not using the Team Shanghai Alice name, ZUN has also participated in the making of the following dojin games for Amusement Makers, a game development club in Tokyo Denki University
:
ZUN also worked for Taito Corporation
, and had participated in the production of their games such as:
He also uses the pseudonym "ZUN" instead of Team Shanghai Alice when publishing commercial works:
In 2007, he was in a team named to make , a shoot'em up game about drinking—one of ZUN's greatest passions. Since November 2009, he runs a column about beer on the manga magazine Comptiq
called .
ZUN also collaborated with doujin circles other than Twilight Frontier
and participated in some of the games they produced. So far, only two games by D.N.A. Software got him involved: (2008) (2009)
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese dojin game
Dojin soft
, also sometimes called , are video games created by Japanese hobbyists or hobbyist groups , more for fun than for profit; essentially, the Japanese equivalent of independent video games. Most of them are based on pre-existing material, but some are entirely original creations...
developer specializing in shoot 'em ups. The team's only releases thus far have been 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...
games and related merchandise.
Games
- The Embodiment of Scarlet DevilThe Embodiment of Scarlet Devilis a vertical scrolling shooter, and is the sixth official game of the Touhou Project series. It is the first to be released specifically for the Windows operating system, since all games before Embodiment of Scarlet Devil were made for the PC-98 series of computers...
(東方紅魔郷, 2002) - Perfect Cherry BlossomPerfect Cherry Blossomis a vertical-scrolling manic shooter made by Team Shanghai Alice, and is the seventh official game of the Touhou Project. The full game was first released on August 17, 2003, in the 64th Comiket in Japan.- Gameplay :...
(東方妖々夢, 2003) - Imperishable NightImperishable Nightis the eighth official game of the Touhou Project scrolling shooter series by Team Shanghai Alice. It is the third Touhou game to be released specifically for the Windows operating system...
(東方永夜抄, 2004) - Immaterial and Missing PowerImmaterial 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...
(東方萃夢想, 2004) - Collaboration with Twilight FrontierTwilight FrontierTwilight Frontier is a Japanese doujin game developer. They are noted for making high quality derivative works of other games.-Productions:...
. - Phantasmagoria of Flower View (東方花映塚, 2005)
- Shoot the BulletShoot the Bulletis a shoot 'em up photography game, and is the ninth-and-a-half official game in the Touhou Project by the dōjin circle Team Shanghai Alice. It was first released in the 69th Comiket on December 30, 2005...
(東方文花帖, 2005) - Mountain of FaithMountain of Faithis the tenth game of the Touhou Project, according to the official numbering by its creator ZUN of Team Shanghai Alice. Like the majority of the Touhou Project games, Mountain of Faith is a doujin scrolling shooter, albeit with a major revamp from its predecessors...
(東方風神録, 2007) - Scarlet Weather RhapsodyScarlet Weather Rhapsodyis 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, 2008) - Collaboration with Twilight FrontierTwilight FrontierTwilight Frontier is a Japanese doujin game developer. They are noted for making high quality derivative works of other games.-Productions:...
. - Subterranean AnimismSubterranean Animismis the eleventh main game of the Touhou Project scrolling shooter series. Made by the dōjin game maker Team Shanghai Alice, the full version of the game was released in the 74th Comiket which commenced in August 2008.-Gameplay:...
(東方地霊殿, 2008) - Undefined Fantastic ObjectUndefined Fantastic Objectis the twelfth main game of the Touhou Project scrolling shooter series. Made by the dōjin game maker Team Shanghai Alice. The full version of the game was released in the 76th Comiket on August 15, 2009 following the retail release on September 11, 2009....
(東方星蓮船, 2009) - Touhou HisōtensokuTouhou Hisōtensokuis 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...
(東方非想天則, 2009) - Collaboration with Twilight FrontierTwilight FrontierTwilight Frontier is a Japanese doujin game developer. They are noted for making high quality derivative works of other games.-Productions:...
. - Double Spoiler ~ Touhou BunkachouDouble Spoileris a shoot 'em up photography game, and is the 12.5th official game in the Touhou Project by the dōjin circle Team Shanghai Alice. It was first released in the 7th Reitaisai on March 14, 2010...
(ダブルスポイラー ～ 東方文花帖, 2010) - Fairy WarsFairy Warsis a shoot 'em up game, and is the 12.8th official game in the Touhou Project by the dōjin circle Team Shanghai Alice. The game was released on August 14, 2010 at Comiket 78. The game is the sequel to the Touhou Sangessei manga series as the illustrations were done by Makoto Hirasaka, the manga...
(妖精大戦争 ～ 東方三月精, 2010) - Ten DesiresTen Desiresis the thirteenth main game of the Touhou Project scrolling shooter series made by the dōjin game maker Team Shanghai Alice. Due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, the initial release of the demo was delayed. Instead, the demo was released for free download on April 16, 2011 with the physical copy...
(東方神霊廟, 2011)
Music soundtracks
The soundtracks are mainly composed of ZUN's synthesized original music and tracks remixed from his games.As there are some loose references to the rest of the Touhou Project in the stories in the CD jacket, the CDs are still considered part of the Touhou Project. (2002) (2003) (2004) (2005) - Collaboration with Twilight Frontier
Twilight Frontier
Twilight Frontier is a Japanese doujin game developer. They are noted for making high quality derivative works of other games.-Productions:...
; 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...
OST
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
(2006) (2006) (2006) (2006) (2006) (2007) (2007) (2008) - Collaboration with Twilight Frontier
Twilight Frontier
Twilight Frontier is a Japanese doujin game developer. They are noted for making high quality derivative works of other games.-Productions:...
; 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...
OST
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
(2009) - Collaboration with Twilight Frontier
Twilight Frontier
Twilight Frontier is a Japanese doujin game developer. They are noted for making high quality derivative works of other games.-Productions:...
; Touhou Hisōtensoku
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...
OST
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
(2011)
Member
There is only one member of Team Shanghai Alice, who goes by the pseudonym "ZUN" and is the main programmer, scriptwriter, graphic artist, and music composer. His real name is believed to be , as seen in the credits of his early games. He was born in Hakuba, NaganoNagano Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of the island of Honshū. The capital is the city of Nagano.- History :Nagano was formerly known as the province of Shinano...
. Fans respectfully call him "Kannushi
Kannushi
A , also called , is the person responsible for the maintenance of a Shinto shrine as well as for leading worship of a given kami. The characters for kannushi are sometimes also read jinshu with the same meaning....
" (神主), a name he has sometimes used to refer to himself.
While not using the Team Shanghai Alice name, ZUN has also participated in the making of the following dojin games for Amusement Makers, a game development club in Tokyo Denki University
Tokyo Denki University
is a private university in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1907. It was chartered as a university in 1949 with Yasujiro Niwa as first president.-External links:* *...
:
- Highly Responsive to Prayers (1996) - Part of Touhou Project
- Story of Eastern Wonderland (1997) - Part of Touhou Project
- Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream (1997) - Part of Touhou Project
- Lotus Land Story (1998) - Part of Touhou Project
- Mystic Square (1998) - Part of Touhou Project
- Shuusou Gyoku (2000)
- Kioh Gyoku (2001)
- Torte Le Magic - A fan-made dojin shooter based on the manga 10 Carat Torte!
ZUN also worked for Taito Corporation
Taito Corporation
The is a Japanese publisher of video game software and arcade hardware wholly owned by publisher Square Enix. Taito has their headquarters in the Shinjuku Bunka Quint Building in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, sharing the facility with its parent company....
, and had participated in the production of their games such as:
- International League Soccer (PlayStation 2PlayStation 2The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...
, 2000) - Magic PengelMagic PengelMagic Pengel: The Quest for Color, known as in Japan, is a 2002 role-playing video game developed by Garakuda-Studio and Taito for the PlayStation 2, published by Agetec in North America...
(PlayStation 2, 2002) - BujingaiBujingaiBujingai , also known as Bujingai: The Forsaken City and Bujingai: Swordmaster, is a video game by Taito Corporation and Red Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 console.The game is stylistically inspired by Wuxia films...
(PlayStation 2, 2003) - Graffiti KingdomGraffiti KingdomGraffiti Kingdom, known as Rakugaki Ōkoku 2: Maōjō no Tatakai in Japan, is a video game by Taito Corporation and Garakuta Studio, which was published in America by Hot-B for the PlayStation 2 console.-Gameplay:...
(PlayStation 2, 2004) - EXITEXIT (video game)Exit is an action/puzzle video game that was developed by Moss and published by Taito for the PlayStation Portable. It was first released in Japan, on December 15, 2005, in North America on February 14, 2006, in Australia on March 30, 2006, and in Europe on March 31, 2006. A version for Xbox Live...
(PlayStation PortablePlayStation PortableThe is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Corporation Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 2004...
, 2005)
He also uses the pseudonym "ZUN" instead of Team Shanghai Alice when publishing commercial works:
- Curiosities of Lotus Asia (東方香霖堂)
- Touhou Sangetsusei (東方三月精), which consists of:
- Eastern and Little Nature Deity
- Strange and Bright Nature Deity
- Oriental Sacred Place
- Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red (東方文花帖)
- Perfect Memento in Strict Sense (東方求聞史紀)
- Touhou Bōgetsushō (東方儚月抄), which consists of:
- Silent Sinner in Blue
- Cage in Lunatic Runagate
- Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth (月のイナバと地上の因幡)
- The Grimoire of Marisa
In 2007, he was in a team named to make , a shoot'em up game about drinking—one of ZUN's greatest passions. Since November 2009, he runs a column about beer on the manga magazine Comptiq
Comptiq
is a Japanese computer game magazine, first published in 1983, by Kadokawa Shoten. The name "Comptiq" came from combining the words "computer" and "boutique". Originally a PC magazine, its focus shifted from computers to computer games. As of September 2003, it has been known as a "MediaMix Game...
called .
ZUN also collaborated with doujin circles other than Twilight Frontier
Twilight Frontier
Twilight Frontier is a Japanese doujin game developer. They are noted for making high quality derivative works of other games.-Productions:...
and participated in some of the games they produced. So far, only two games by D.N.A. Software got him involved: (2008) (2009)