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I have a question from the Touhou community. Me and my friends have been working on our own Touhou game for the past couple years as a tactical role playing game. While I’m not ready to release any details until it’s done, I had a few questions about staying within ZUN’s guidelines.

1. Basically we’ve made this game as a hobby and kept throwing new things onto it as time went on. I am confused on the monetization allowed for it given the amount of artwork and music we’ve made for it. The guidelines say monetization isn’t allowed but then I see Genso Wanderer, Luna Lights, and several others actually doing the opposite of those guidelines just fine. Are we supposed to go to someone about this if that’s our intent after all’s said and done? We haven’t even crowdfunded.

2. We aren’t Japanese. It’s just six guys from the US doing this with our degrees and knowledge of game design. Is that going to be an issue?

3. We’ve tried to stay within the personalities of the characters but took a few liberties when it just got confusing. Is that going to be a strike against us if it’s too far off? How would we even know? Also, we’re avoiding NSFW stuff completely, but still. There’s no guideline on this. We’ve already hard coded choices and progression branches into the game. It’d be a pain in the ass to change that.

4. Is there someone we can actually go to to get an OK if we want to release it without an issue?