User blog:A Bystander/2020: The Unexpectedly Great Year for the DSP Fandom

Hi!

It’s nice seeing you all again, my fellow wiki contributors! Wow, it’s been so long since I’ve written a blog post. It feels like it has been AGES since my last one.

As for those people who may have come from the Okegom Wiki Twitter account, hey there! It’s me – the one sloppily running the Twitter account, lol. (I might be looking for new people to help me run it, but that’s another topic.)

Whether you came from Twitter, or here on the Okegom Wiki, I hope you all have been doing well and dandy despite the harshness of reality that we’re facing at the moment. 2020 has been a very rough year, wouldn’t’t you agree? There’s just so many hardships that we have to deal with. It surely has been the case for a lot of us, myself included! Would 2021 be a better year? I cannot give a correct answer. Only time will tell, but my best answer is…, "I hope it will be."

But let’s put the depressing stuff of 2020 aside, and let’s lighten up the mood a bit. I’m sure you’re a Deep-Sea Prisoner fan, right? I mean, why would you be here if you’re not? If you’re a hater, then get outta here, lmao, but if you support our beloved DSP and/or our very own wiki, then keep reading as we wrap up perhaps, in my opinion, the biggest year of the Deep-Sea Prisoner fandom (and the Okegom Wiki).

Alright, folks. Grab something to eat or drink, as we summarize all the major events related to Deep-Sea Prisoner and the Okegom Wiki for the year 2020. This will be quite the read, so sit tight!

I wanna give a huge shoutout to Rosedarkling77 for helping me proofread and polish the blog post! Thank you so much for making it cleaner! <3

Big Changes in the Okegom Wiki
 or as I’d like to call it… the official Okegom Wiki patch notes of 2020

I love the wiki. I’ve been here for so long now. In fact, last December 22 marked my 5th anniversary since joining the wiki! It’s been a wild ride maintaining the wiki, haha.

Over time, I’ve gotten more experienced with editing and wikitext coding, and it’s really nice that what I’m learning in school is being applied here. I wanted so that the wiki looks nicer as time passes – not just content-wise, but also appearance-wise. I am still improving, but so far I like what it has become! I cannot wait to make it much better than what it already is right now.

Together with the great Str00pwafell (your newest Okegom Wiki administrator!!), Okegom Wiki has undergone a massive revamp! Take a look at some of the big changes that we have made!

A Complete Makeover
It was discussed that the wiki could use a nice upgrade when it comes to its layout. We were stuck with the black-white (and maybe red) theme for so long that it feels… old. It has been like this for the longest time. We have not changed our theme at all, and we thought it’s about time that we do this.

After designing and testing – as well as getting migrated to FANDOM’s United Community Platform – we are happy to tell you that we now have a more modernized layout for the wiki! Check it out!



And that’s not all! It is a first in the wiki to have seasonal themes, as well. It’s the one we had recently – a Christmas-themed layout! Hopefully we do more of these. We’re looking at you, Halloween. We’re definitely making one for 2021, as I’m pretty sure Halloween is DSP’s favorite season. 👀



A little extra, as well, for the modernized design are specific designs for articles depending on the media they fall under! For example, if the article is related to The Gray Garden, then its background would be TGG-themed! Currently, only articles under The Gray Garden and Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea have their own special backgrounds. We’re working on backgrounds for articles that fall under other media such as Mogeko Castle and Obsolete Dream.





All backgrounds have been edited by the wonderful Str00pwafell! You’re really doing God’s work here, Stroopie. Thank you so much~

New Versions of Badges
A part of the wiki’s modernization is a design revamp of the wiki achievement badges!

Badges have always been an integral part of wiki engagement, encouraging editors to contribute and rise to the top of the achievement leaderboards. I’ve always wondered how to implement badges that don’t use the default badge borders. I’ve seen multiple wikis have their own badges without the use of the borders. Little did I know that you can do that by overwriting these badge images through normal uploading.

With that power, I can do what I want…

So instead of having the standard borders, I decided to have Mogeko-inspired borders! I personally think it’s a nice quirky feature to have.



What’s New?
Yo, what’s going on?



Check out the What’s New? section, a recently new addition in the wiki’s home page where you get to see the latest news, information, and ongoing/upcoming events! It’s a one-stop place to know what’s going on in the DSP fandom and the Okegom Wiki.

Characters List
I’m saving this for last for the Okegom Wiki section. This is perhaps my biggest individual project ever. Not just 2020, but ever.

I’m sure you guys know about DSP’s character sheet. It’s an iconic feature of her website.


 * "Would it be cool if I make an alternate version of it for the wiki?"

And so I did.



At first I wanted to make tables, with each cell containing an icon for a character in the character sheet; however, that requires so much code and image resources. Think of it this way: each character was initially planned to have their own image icon. If there’s 300+ characters in her character sheet, I would need to upload 300+ image icons and place each individual icon to its corresponding cell.

Tedious, isn’t it? I’m glad I did not go that route.

What I did, instead, was use the method DSP did. If you take a look at DSP’s character sheet, each character icon is not a separate image, but rather just parts of one whole image. She used this thing called an "image map" where you can assign certain areas of the image to be clickable so that clicking those regions will take you to different pages. It’s still tedious to code it, but it is definitely more resource-friendly, only requiring 4 images instead of 300+.

This is almost complete and should roll out officially to mainspace articles when it’s ready. For now though, check out this demo!

You know what’s the best part? DSP liked the concept! [insert keysmashing here]



Other changes that took place
• We finally have custom JavaScript support, which makes it easier to enhance the wiki experience.

• The notice boxes (you know, those that appear at the start of articles to note things like spoilers and NSFW) have also been given a revamp as part of the wiki modernization.

• We are affiliated with the Mogeko Castle Wiki and the Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea Wiki!

• Additionally, we are also affiliated with Funamusea Translations over at Tumblr. They host translations there with permission from DSP. Go check them out!

• To make it more accessible to look for new staff members, we have updated our requirements to be part of the staff team. This will certainly change as the wiki grows but in the meantime, they’re less demanding as what it has been before. Interested to be one of us? Check out the requirements!

Deep-Sea Prisoner and the Okegom Wiki Twitter Account
Before I proceed to talk about the major events we had related to DSP, let me tell you a short story about the Okegom Wiki Twitter account. I kept it as a secret for quite some time, but it’s about time I share this.

Let me take you back to 2016, where the Okegom Wiki Twitter account was freshly made. My two good friends and I run the account to relay information not just within the wiki, but outside of it as well. We wanted to reach out to people outside the wiki.

The first thing we did was to follow DSP using the account. I mean, of course, this is an obvious unwritten rule: we follow the content creator we write information about. We then followed other accounts such as the Wadanohara manga account and vgperson.

But then, something happened. When we tried visiting DSP’s profile page again, the unthinkable happened.

We got blocked.



When this happened, all of us were confused. We haven’t even tweeted anything at all, so none of us had any idea about the reasoning behind this. Personally, this impacted my motivation to run it, as the account is off to a very bad start. Still having no idea why, I thought of possible reasons, and the best guess I had was perhaps she must have thought that we were impersonating her. That’s why we have the "We are NOT Deep-Sea Prisoner!" note in the wiki’s Twitter bio, hopefully to avoid that.

We operated like normal. In some cases, we could’ve retweeted her tweets, but since we’re blocked, we had to tweet them out separately. This has been the way we tweet… until a recent event happened.

This event made it so accessible for us to get in touch with all the things that’s been happening. We’ll talk about that specific event later, but this… this uplifted my spirit a lot as we started livetweeting about all parts of this very event. DSP noticed us doing this, we eventually got unblocked, and we were even followed back! The follow back was a bonus because all we wanted was to directly interact with her tweets by following her and retweeting. Thankfully, we got that access, and now things are smoother. It sounds so selfish, yeah, but this really felt really great (Yes, I used "really" twice to emphasize).



With that out of the way, let’s get to the next part. It’s all about DSP!

The Deep-Sea Prisoner Events
This section will be my explanation as to why I personally think this year is the greatest year for DSP and her fandom, despite all the crazy stuff happening IRL.

Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea -Reboot-


Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea -Reboot- is a re-release of the original WATGBS game but with extra content! It’s not just releasing the vanilla game again, but there’s more to it! Changes include:

• Rebalance of enemies, equipment, and items

• Special items related to each boss battle

• Extra details have been added in certain sections of the story like chapter introductions and bad endings

• Extra cameos

• More content in the Bonus Room such as being able to change Wadda’s outfit and watch all endings of the game

• MAJOR DSP LORE FOOD! There’s 8 episodes in the Bonus Room never before seen from the original game, and they contain a LOT of information we have not seen before! These will be a shocker when you watch these.

We had an April Fool’s joke this year where the wiki’s Twitter account roleplayed as Wadanohara, and as her, we made a thread about the changes from the original version. Go check it out!


 * "Where’s the translation of the game? I need it NOW!"

Hold your sharks, buddy. That’s in the works! Yao, our current official EN translator for DSP content, is working hard to get this out. We gotta be patient for now, friend. It’s gonna come soon. I’m excited, and you should be, too!

Mogeko March 2020


Mid-February, we announced that we were going to hold our version of the annual Mogeko March event for 2020. Gotta say, it was the most unique calendar that we have seen thus far! We wanted to twist the calendar’s formula a bit so that it adds a little more spice into it. Take the first days of the event, as an example. Typically the first days of the event tell participants to draw something related to a game or manga, depending on the day. We did that but with a twist: they must make a promotional artwork as if they are working for DSP to promote that media.

With variety added to the formula, and a much earlier announcement time, I personally think it was a success! I would like to say thank you so much to the people from the communities of the Okegom Wiki Discord Server and the Funamusea Translations Tumblr blog for helping us suggest prompts for this year’s calendar. We also would like to thank everyone else who participated! It wouldn’t be a Mogeko March if it wasn’t for everyone who shared their wonderful masterpieces.

In 3 month’s time, Mogeko March 2021 will arrive, and you bet we’re doing it again! Why? Why the heck not!

Wanna see everyone's wonderful art as a recap? Check them out here!

General Hashasky’s Great Adventure Coming Soon!


Attention, my fellow comrades; the time has come for us to get ready for this one. You remember that trailer back in the Mogeko Castle remake, да? We have received intel that the arrival of the sequel is closely approaching. I advise everyone to watch this top-secret (not really) video to know what is going on.

It will only be a matter of time until this comes out. But, until then, we must wait.

(Really feeling a harasho vibe on this one. It does remind me of this Russian idol… but anyway, I digress.)

Seaside Dispatches 2


Seaside Dispatches 2, also known as A Bouquet Sinking in the Sea, is the second installment to DSP’s Seaside Dispatches manga collection. It was first released on June 3, 2020 as a physical copy in Japanese that can be purchased for ¥1,333. Later on, digitalized versions of the manga became purchasable for ¥666. It is sold in Japanese as well as English! (All prices don't consider taxes)

The manga itself describes the details of the interaction between Satanick and the late Victor Flankenstein. It also goes into detail the creation of Crea Flankenstein.

Ice Scream Remake


Ice Scream was also given a re-release, and this time it’s an overall revamp of the original one, worked from the ground up! Instead of being viewable via Flash Player (rest in peace, by the way), this re-release was made using RPG Maker MV and can be downloaded to play. The re-release boasts improved interface as well as a graphics makeover. At the moment, there’s only one episode viewable. It’s even translated!

Go ahead and give it a try!

Fuwako Yuni
DSP has taken interest in the vtuber scene and has opened a Live2D commission service. Little did we know that someone did commission her, and that someone used the model and is currently an ongoing vtuber!



Meet Fuwako Yuni. She is a unico- … I mean… an alicorn vtuber. She recently debuted this December 12th, and those who attended to her debut stream were very supportive! Heck, even DSP herself showed up to the debut stream and was also supportive, which is just really wholesome.

You can check out her debut stream archive here. Alternatively, you can also check this Okegom Wiki Twitter thread containing a summary of everything that happened during the stream!

[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHYwIwzpWS-LyCQa8W-eJuw Come check out Yuni! Join the Yunion, and be a Sprinkle yourself.]

funamusea Stream
HERE IT IS! I CALL THIS THE BIG ONE!

Why do I call this the big one? To put it simple, I think this has been the main highlight in the DSP fandom of, not only 2020, but all time. I’m talking about an event as significant as the creation of everything, as indicated in the Bible.

I’m talking about… THE LEGENDARY… FUNAMUSEA STREAMS!!!



If Sundays are the days you go to Church to attend masses, then Saturdays are the days everyone in the DSP fandom goes to YouTube, huddle up together in chat, and watch as our lovely Deep-Sea Prisoner streams herself drawing, playing games, and just have a good time together.



I’m going to say this with 110% honesty:

This might just be the peak of the DSP fandom, and I’ll tell you why:

Her streams are strengthening the bond between the fandom and herself.

I really do admire creator-fanbase interactions within fandoms mainly because that means the content creator really appreciates the fanbase they have. The sentimental value of the interaction between DSP and her fanbase is something that I truly love. Starting from day one of DSP’s streams, everyone in the fandom has gotten closer with – not just DSP – but also to one another. We really needed this type of interaction, or at least, I think we needed it. 2020’s been a tough year, and these streams certainly lightened the mood up a bit. We get to see her draw, which is fantastic for those who wonder how she does her art. We also get to know information that we completely did not know, either via drawings or during her Marshmallow Q&A sessions. Both have helped the community get together with DSP and one another.

The last time I really enjoyed being a participant in a DSP event was a competition held by Ci-en to commemorate its first anniversary. I felt a good amount of supportive energy back then, along with so many people in the Discord server. It was super fun. With this stream events, I genuinely get to experience this excitement once more!

Thanks to everyone’s support, DSP has become more and more confident the more streams she does. DSP has come a long way in her streaming career. From using a voice changer to actually using her real voice, from drawing to answer user-submitted questions, and to playing games on stream, a lot of stuff has happened. I’ll tell you what, though; I believe this is just the beginning. Hopefully 2021 will become a more fantastic year for DSP!



Thank you for a great 2020!


I cannot stress further how much 2020 has been a rollercoaster between IRL stuff and DSP content. I was surprised and ecstatic to experience this series of phenomenon and be part of it.

Is this the best year for DSP content? It certainly is!

Will it get better? I hope so! There’s a lot in store for us, including the WATGBS Reboot English translation, the release of Gaiden, and many more fun-filled funamusea Streams to come.

I’ve shared my thoughts, and I wish to know about yours! Feel free to comment about which has been your favorite 2020 moment in the DSP fandom.

I’d like to end this post by saying thank you for your everlasting support for DSP and for our wiki. This year has been honestly great for DSP content. Hopefully the exciting experience doesn’t stop here, and may we reach greater peaks together with DSP and one another!

Thank you so much for your time reading this. Happy Holidays!

– A Bystander