Lomando.com

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"**Lomando.com**", known in Japan as "**Fancy Island**" (Japanese: **ふぁんしーあいらんど**) is an online horror-puzzle video game developed by Nohito and published on a Geocities URL by the name of **lomando.com**. The game is set in a haunted amusement park called Fancy Island, a once successful park that ghosts claimed after an unexplained disease outbreak and the death of the former park manager Yukihito. The player plays as the unnamed protagonist, the Visitor, and their journey to eliminate the ghosts from the establishment.

The entire game was developed by an anonymous individual known as Nohito, Fancy Island Manager, or mousoumanager using the Flash plugin, with sound effects and music borrowed from On-Jin and H/MIX GALLERY respectively. The manager credits their inspiration for Flash development to a Flash animation (now HTML5 animation) website called Jigokuhen (地獄変). Additionally, they were originally inspired to create Lomando.com from their interest in the occult and horror radio wave sites. While released on a public-access website for all regions, the game was intended solely for Japanese speakers. However, the game received minor localization for English speakers in 2016 in the form of translations for the Yukan no Shonen videos and addition of English text in pages such as Otyejlnieobt.html. In 2019, the developer began rewriting the game's code in HTML5 due to the Flash plugin's scheduled removal the following year, including more localization for English players, most notably a full translation of the top page. They completed the HTML5 version of the game in February 2020, removing all remnants of the Flash version in December 2020.

On January 6th, 2023, a short expansion to Lomando.com was released, titled Deep Fancy Island.

## Plot

 The following article or section contains **spoilers**. For those who have not played and/or are not familiar with Lomando.com, please proceed with caution before reading.

See also: Story
On August 14th, 2009, park manager Yukihito finished construction on the amusement park of his dreams; an indoor theme park named Fancy Island. He advertised the location as a perfect place to visit over summer vacation and hired a mascot named Mimi. However, after hiring Pieyama Pie-Man and Pieyama Pie-Man Mk-2 as performers, an unexplained outbreak occurred; seventeen individuals were rushed to the hospital with unexplainable symptoms. Park employees apologized to visitors soon after, and the manager stated that although their agencies never determined the cause, the park should still be able to reopen on September 14th. However, this reopening never came to fruition, with news headlines stating that ghosts had taken over the establishment. A being named Pieyama God took control of the park and commanded ghosts to kill anyone who attempted to visit. Due to this, the manager's depression became increasingly worse. He would express his desire for death in his diaries and his dreams involving death. As the year went on, Yukihito lost control, writing notes in his journal that were completely nonsensical. Yukihito would pass away on April 4th, 2010. Some of the entries in his journal suggest he hanged himself. However, Toushinfla.html suggests that he committed suicide by jumping off a building. After his death, Kanrinin no Yorishiro took his place in the now haunted amusement park.

The ghosts in the park would continue to kill any unwanted visitors. However, the protagonist (known as "You" throughout the game) enters the amusement park soon after to defeat the ghosts and seize the establishment. The park stayed cute and innocent on the outside, likely to trick any visitors into visiting. However, once the protagonist enters, it is revealed that the park had been completely refurbished, littered with cryptic codes and ghosts, with only very few remnants of the amusement park remaining, such as a bathroom and the manager's old diaries. To save the amusement park, the Visitor must solve the puzzles in a now maze-like establishment, with many paths leading to screamers. Along the way, the Visitor must fight in RPG-like battles with certain enemies to obtain extremely crucial codes.

After unlocking the door to Ujinoma.html, the Visitor enters the final area of the amusement park, containing three individual battles with the main antagonists. After defeating Eyedaddy and Ichimatsuko, the Visitor enters the final boss arena with the Pieyama God. With the help of the Magic Sword they obtained after defeating Eyedaddy, the Visitor eliminates the Pieyama God, freeing the amusement park of the ghosts and returning Fancy Island to an abandoned attraction. After defeating him, the Visitor can enter a final code to unlock an image gallery of characters they encountered throughout the game.

## Development

According to the website's copyright date and the metadata for in-game images, the first prototype for the game was developed in late 2010 and likely completed that same year. However, the manager later clarified that the prototype was not released until early 2011. This first version of the game was drastically different than all other versions, containing only nine short pages with much different characters. The manager returned this version on November 27th, 2014 via a section in the page Theory.html.

By 2012, the game was revamped. This new version of the game contained more of the characters that are still currently used, many more pages, a new ending, and a new image for Mimi. Players also began discovering the website during this time. The route to the final page, along with a final boss battle against Ichimatsuko, was added in 2013. The manager also made a walkthrough video for the game at the end of the year. Sometime in December 2013, the manager began a blog called Fanlab, which was mainly used for extra content for Fancy Island, but would also house personal blogs from the manager. The blogs, as well as many more things on the website, were deleted sometime in 2015-2017, and only a few things are still on the site. In 2014, some notable changes were made to the game, including new pages and a new diary. The manager also made another walkthrough this year, deleting the old one. The new diary was deleted at the end of the year, however, being replaced by an extra page with rejected and unused content.

In 2015, the real and fake top pages received major updates, and many more pages were added. The manager also made the LINE sticker sets for the game in this year. Another walkthrough of the game was made during this time. The manager also began work on the smartphone version of the game, since Flash cannot be run on mobile devices. It was completed the same year, though it didn't have any sound effects and relied on buttons.

The game received very minimal updates throughout 2016 and 2017, with the most notable update being English translations for the Yukan no Shonen videos. However, larger updates would return in 2019, when the mobile version was remade to include sounds and be generally improved. After this, the manager made English translations for the top page, remaking some aspects of it in the process. The game was also being rewritten during this due to Adobe Flash being scheduled for removal. The manager began importing the game to HTML5 in 2019, completing it in February 2020. After this, the manager considered the game complete and went inactive on social media in June 2020 after releasing the ClubT merch that same month. Only two major updates were added to the main game following the merch; Flash content being removed in December 2020 and new links for the unlisted YouTube videos on August 6th, 2022. The manager returned to Twitter on October 11th, 2022 on the release notes account, announcing that the site was temporarily under maintenance. The site went back up a day later, which was also announced via Twitter. A site icon for Lomando.com was also added.

On January 6th, 2023, a short expansion for the game was released, called "Deep Fancy Island." Along with this, the manager promised that they will be more active in the future.

## Trivia

* The official name for Lomando's fanbase is "Fancies" (Japanese: ふぁんしー).
* The manager uses Adobe Photoshop to create illustrations for the website.

## Gallery

Long Japanese logo.Alternate logo for smartphone.English logo.Site banner (Japanese).Site banner (English).Smartphone version of the Japanese site banner.Alternate/old site banner.
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20190916000127/https://twitter.com/fancy\_island/status/1173383457193394177
2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110207102511/http://www.lomando.com/
3. ↑ http://warotopi.shime-saba.com/
4. ↑ https://warotopi.shime-saba.com/link.html
6. ↑ https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/26826535
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/fancy\_island/status/547542635926134786
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/fancy\_island/status/1224504839050104832
9. ↑ https://twitter.com/fancy\_islandrss/status/1579877718895734790
10. ↑ https://twitter.com/fancy\_islandrss/status/1580157987057868800
12. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150926055654if\_/http://warotopi.shime-saba.com/150722.html
13. ↑ https://twitter.com/fancy\_island/status/1276882992753827843

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