Kunitsu-Gami Game Design Commentary 7: Rosokuro(ろうそく老ろう)

第7回　モーションキャプチャーの面白み！！ろうそくろう
ここまで、敵の機能が出そろえば次はバフキャラが必要。主人公サイドもレベルアップするので敵側も強く出来るような性能を考える。… pic.twitter.com/IZ7WVBtgIh

— 【公式】 祇（くにつがみ）：Path of the Goddess (@Kunitsu_Gami_JP) May 1, 2026

第7回　モーションキャプチャーの面白み！！ろうそくろう

ここまで、敵の機能が出そろえば次はバフキャラが必要。主人公サイドもレベルアップするので敵側も強く出来るような性能を考える。

ミーティング中に「火を灯して煽る感じだね」と出たので、それを元に呪詛唱えて力を与える、ロウソクで火を分け灯す感じから現在の形に落ち着く。法衣を来て、その首が伸びてシルエットはロウソクっぽく、舌が芯になり灯がともっている。喉はふいごの様に動く。

色々出来上がった後に気づく、そういえば火ふきってもの居ましたね。

モーションキャプチャー時は上の人と下の人で同時に撮影する様にデータを組んでおり、普段の撮影とは違い非常に面白味がありました。

Round 7: The Fun of Motion Capture!! Candle Row

Up to this point, once the enemy functions are all in place, next we need buffer characters. Since the protagonist side levels up, we think about performance that can make the enemy side stronger too.

During the meeting, someone said, "It's like lighting a fire and fanning the flames," so based on that, it settled into the current form of chanting curses to grant power, sharing the flame by lighting it with a candle. Wearing robes, its neck stretches out and the silhouette looks like a candle, with the tongue becoming the wick and the flame lit. The throat moves like bellows.

After everything was finished, we realized, oh right, there was this thing called a fire-breather.

For motion capture, we set up the data to shoot the upper and lower parts simultaneously with two people, and unlike regular shooting, it had a lot of interesting flavor.

Plaque Lore: 

異界について記された書物との出会いをきっかけに畏哭いこくを操る術を求めて 山中を歩く中、異界にまぎれ込こんでしまった老人の成れの果て。異界の中で念願の畏哭いこくを操る呪炎じゅえんの術を習得するが、 その姿や思念は目的に取り憑つかれた異形と化していた。 己もまた畏哭いこくへと成り果てたことに気づかないまま、 今も喜々として畏哭いこくに呪炎じゅえんを与あたえ続けているという。

There once was a man so entangled with his work, that it devoured him alive. Upon finding a tome detailing the other world, he sought for the power to control the Seethe. His chance eventually came when he was spirited away from the mountain, where he threw himself into his research in the other world. Possessed with manic ambition, he finally mastered the art of the cursed flame.

However, joyous in his newfound powers over the Seethe, he does not realize that he has become the very creature he sought to control.

The other world mentioned here is what I was hoping we'd explore in the DLC. :(