Acquire will release downloadable stages for Sumioni: Demon Arts this month and the next.

Acquire decided to take a leaf out of RPGs and visual novels.

Xseed are publishing Acquire’s inky platformer in North America.

Acquire played through the first stage of Sumioni, a platformer where you control an ogre with a magic paintbrush.

“We’ve been working on Vita stuff for awhile. We have a couple other Vita titles that are unannounced, that we’re working on as well. Those will be announced in upcoming months,” Richie Casper said in an interview with Siliconera.

Acquire released a new promo video for their Vita platformer.

Sumioni from Way of the Samurai developer Acquire turns the PlayStation Vita’s front touch screen to a canvas for players to “paint” on.

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How did Acquire come up with the concept? “We were kicking around a bunch of ideas for another unique art style that we could do and we wanted to do something that we thought would be difficult for Western developers to do.”

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Sumioni is played with the touchpads (front and rear) plus the analog stick. Ink actions are a core element in the game and players will be able to draw platforms using the front touch screen.

Ragnarok Odyssey, Sumioni, Shinobido 2, Dream Club Zero Portable, and Moe Moe Taisen Gendaiban ++ are featured in Famtisu.

Dengeki PlayStation announced three new PlayStation Vita games. Dream Club Zero, previously an Xbox 360 exclusive from D3Publisher, will be released on Sony’s next handheld.