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Desiredriven

Desiredriven is a Homestuck-inspired Touhou Project fan game that was developed by “SAXMASTERZ” in RPG Maker VX Ace and published on February 9, 2013.1) The game was planned to have multiple acts, but their team presumably disbanded for unknown reasons.

In its current state, Desiredriven is a game that can be completed in about 3–6 hours, but this largely depends on how fast you can read since it's a text-heavy game, inspired by a text-heavy webcomic. For those who know, it's just a short Sburbventure.

Summary

The story begins on December 13th,2) which is Byakuren's 16th birthday, and follows 13 teenage characters who play a game called Skima. In short, Act 1 simply walks you through each character's introduction and show how they join the session, meaning that you'll have them prototype their kernelsprite and obtain a cruxite artifact in order to enter the medium, then it suddenly ends with a tense cliffhanger.

List of characters

Character name Preachhandle Timer Sprite
Byakuren Hijiri
Minimalist Home 		virtuousBlossom VB 03:32 Myourensprite
Shou Toramaru
Dojo 		drunkenBeast DB 05:00 Bishamonsprite
Nazrin
Nazhole 		hungryHoarder HH 07:20 Mailboxsprite
Nue Houjuu
UFO 		heianBurden HB 04:44 Nuesprite3) → Chimerasprite
Ichirin Kumoi
Greenhouse 		blissfulBillows BB 03:09 Unzansprite
Mamizou Futatsuiwa
Cabin 		ballsyHellraiser BH 04:19 Tanukisprite
Yoshika Miyako
Shack 		deadlyVerse DV 12:13 Yoshikasprite
Miko Toyosatomimi
Mansion 		victoriousVigilante VV 02:06 Sanzusprite
Seiga Kaku
Apartment 		vivaciousHollows VH 03:13 Wudangsprite → Embryosprite
Kyouko Kasodani
Radio Station 		bombasticVisonary BV 02:21 Echosprite → Tatarasprite
Futo Mononobe
Cottage 		vanguardDemolitionist VD 05:25 Onmyojisprite
Minamitsu Murasa
Boathouse 		bootyDestroyer BD 01:46 Sharksprite → Tinysprite
Tojiko Soga
Observatory 		halvedVoltage HV 03:39 Tojikosprite4) → Tojibot
Satori Komeiji
??? 		neuroticNomad nn
Koishi Komeiji
??? 		nomenNullified NN

Music

> Toggle chart.

Explanations

Handle significance

While the handles in Homestuck follow the 'G-C-A-T' naming convention in reference to DNA sequencing, the handles in Desiredriven appear to follow the 'B-D-H-V' naming convention instead. This seems to be the phonetic abbreviation for Bodhisattva. There isn't enough information to piece together what the 'N' handles would've meant, but the best guess appears to be Nirvana.

B D H V
B BB
Ichirin 		DB
Shou 		HB
Nue 		VB
Byakuren
D BD
Minamitsu 		VD
Futo
H BH
Mamizou 		HH
Nazrin 		VH
Seiga
V BV
Kyouko 		DV
Yoshika 		HV
Tojiko 		VV
Miko
n
n nn
Satori
N
N NN
Koishi

Mailboxsprite's messages

> Toggle decoded messages.

Controversy

The graphics artist for Desiredriven was a Filipino artist named “CaptainSki”10) who used to be considerably popular in the Touhou Project community, but had a lot of baggage11) and reports of cult-like clique drama. Recently, she worked on the role-playing game, Heartbeat, which faced controversy in 2019 over transphobic statements from her Russian girlfriend.12)13)14) She didn't completely disappear, however.

NOVEMBER 10, 1992.

Bugs and glitches

  • If you skip the save in the early scenes, you may get a transparent manual stuck on your screen.
  • After you prototype Ichirin's sprite, it's possible for the cursor to get softlocked in the garden.

Notes

  • Desiredriven starts off on Disc 2, which does implicate the existence of a Disc 1 and a prior session.
  • All the secret Skype messages are the same in every iteration of their respective household.
  • Skima is a pun on 'sukima' (スキマ, lit. “gap”), a term that one may associate with Yukari Yakumo.
    • While the logo does have Byakuren and Futo's colors, I wouldn't read too much into it.
  • For the quote misattribution gag, a Confucius quote is misattributed to Hotei (Bùdài), which may be a joke on how Ruism is the third teaching, next to Buddhism and Daoism.
  • If you have a sharp eye, the mischievous crow has three legs, and the satoris are cherub analogues.
    • Koishi contacts Miko before Derse. Satori contacts Byakuren, as Miko messes with her home.
  • Tojiko is the only character with a known planet name: Land of Dawn and Thunder (LODAT).
  • Secret rooms can discovered by Miko in Scene 9 (behind a tower in Derse) and Mamizou in Scene 18 (enter the shack next to Mamizou's Cabin after the countdown timer hits 01:18).
    • “Yananaz” was a crack pairing with Yanana15) and Nazrin. You can find pixelated smut in Scene 18's secret room, depicting breastfeeding of some sort, but this is probably lost to time.
  • There are unused Desiredriven talksprites for Tojikosprite, Unzansprite, Nuesprite, and Chimerasprite.

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1)
"»DOWNLOAD« Make sure to download the RMVXA RTP! The links are in the page description, if you need it." [Archive] (February 9, 2013). Tumblr.
2)
The text states that the month is “Shiwasu”, the old Japanese calendar name for December.
3)
This sprite doesn't officially have a name or text color, but we can assume the text was red.
4)
The dialogue calls her Sogasprite, but Tojikosprite just sounds better.
5) , 6)
Desiredriven uses an arranged version of “HEART” and “HALF” by group_inou, so no vocals.
7)
Only the first couple seconds of “Enter the Party” are used.
8)
This is probably just an emote, given the lack of morse code sounds. Otherwise, it just translates to “K”.
9)
A reference to Rollin Like a Redneck by Jawga Boyz.
10)
“Shepple” is her current name, while “CaptainSki” or “LittleShrimp” were her former names. At one point, the users on 4chan's /jp/ board gave her the traumatizing nickname of “LittleShit”.
11)
For instance, she's responsible for the mass hatred of “Walfas” (create.swf) in the late 2000s, a time when “cringe” was still a synonym for “wince”. Additionally, she allegedly scams kids on MMOs for money.
12)
"My wife feels the same and she's literally a SE Asian immigrant. Y'all literally shutdown black women for talking bout FGM, and you keep equating them to males. If anyone's racist, it's the trans community. There's a reason South Korea has a radfem movement now." (August 12, 2020). Twitter.
13)
"Don’t support Heartbeat RPG" (September 23, 2019). Tumblr.
14)
"[Indie RPGs] How to kill your game's LGBT-friendly credibility by creating a somehow transphobic Steam Sale: The HEARTBEAT Story" (April 22, 2021). Reddit /r/hobbydrama.
15)
“Yanana” (やなな) is the unofficial mascot character for the Yanagase shopping district in Gifu. She has a bread-shaped cardboard head with “柳” written on it, antennae resembling street lights, and wears a mermaid-inspired outfit which is a reference to the mermaid statue within the district. Yanana was born on July 5, 2008 and retired on March 31, 2013, the month after Desiredriven's release.
desiredriven.txt · Last modified: 2025-05-02 23:44:40 by namelessrumia