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Q&A with eastasiasoft’s Joshua Michael French

Robert Allen — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 02:55:46 +0000

Founded in 2007, eastasiasoft is a Hong Kong based publisher and distributor that caters to niche interests. While many of the big publishers offer low-risk titles at premium prices, eastasiasoft has offering some compelling counterprogramming. We recently spoke with Project Lead Joshua Michael French about everything from censorship, product affordability, and the process of scouting ...

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Q&A with Virtuos: The Biggest Developer You Haven’t Heard Of

Robert Allen — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 21:18:16 +0000

While the name might not be familiar, if you’ve played a recent triple-A title, there’s a chance that Virtuos had a hand in it. Since 2004, the international production company (headquartered in Singapore, with operations in Canada, China, France, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Ukraine, the United States, and Vietnam) has served as a co-developer, assisting in ...

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A Conversation with Inu-Oh’s Masaaki Yuasa

Robert Allen — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 17:48:55 +0000

Often employing an idiosyncratic visual style and a distinctive directorial vision, Masaaki Yuasa has already earned a multitude of industry awards as well as an abundance of critical acclaim. His body of work is as wonderfully eclectic as its multi-faceted characters, with highlights that range from The Tatami Galaxy, The Night Is Short, Walk on ...

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Q&A with Goodbye, Don Glees’ Atsuko Ishizuka

Robert Allen — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 21:10:36 +0000

Since joining Madhouse in 2004, Atsuko Ishizuka has served as animator, storyboard artist, and director for notable works such as No Game No Life, A Place Further than the Universe. With the release of Goodbye, Don Glees! (available on stream video now and on physical media on December 27th, 2022) Ishizuka directs her first original ...

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Q&A with Howard Scott Warshaw

Robert Allen — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:24:14 +0000

Revered for making one of the Atari VCS’ best games (Yars’ Revenge) and unjustly reviled for making a hurried adaptation of E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Howard Scott Warshaw is one of gaming’s prodigious pioneers. We spoke with Warshaw about his early works, life at Atari, as well as an unconventional pitch with Steven Spielberg for the ...

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Q&A With Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko’s Ayumu Watanabe

Robert Allen — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 16:00:31 +0000

Across the past thirty-six years, Ayumu Watanabe has helped craft a multitude of animated series and feature films. When working for Shin-Ei Animation during the eighties, he earned recognition for his his work as an assistant director for a multitude of Doraemon films and shorts. By the early 2000’s, Watanabe had become a lead director, ...

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Striving for Fighting Flawlessness: A Q&A with Arc System Works

Robert Allen — Mon, 31 May 2021 18:35:02 +0000

Found in 1988 by Minoru Kidooka, Arc System Works spent the better part of a decade as a contract developer for publishers like SEGA, Sammy, Bandai, and Banpresto. From futuristic racers like Cyber Spin to the side-scrolling beat ‘em up action of Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, the Yokohama-based studio enjoyed a measured amount of recognition. ...

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Wild Hunt Festival: A Monster-Hunter-like Board Game

Robert Allen — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:15:30 +0000

Hit points, inventory management, and statistical-based combat in role playing games can be tracked back to Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson’s Dungeons & Dragons. Since the release of D&D nearly fifty years ago, table-top titles and RPGs have intermingled, spawning analog and digital interpretations of high-fantast adventures. This link is unmistakably evident in Wild Hunt ...

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Q&A With Nihon Falcom’s Toshihiro Kondo (Part Two)

Robert Allen — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 18:21:03 +0000

For nearly forty years, Nihon Falcom has crafted a steady succession of enjoyable, consistently charming and wonderfully melodious role-playing and action role-playing games. In anticipation of the release of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, we had the opportunity to speak with Falcom’s president, Mr. Toshihiro Kondo on listening to audiences, the success of their ...

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Q&A With Nihon Falcom’s Toshihiro Kondo (Part One)

Robert Allen — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 21:15:02 +0000

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Q&A With HORGIHUGH’s Sasaki “PiXEL” Hide

Robert Allen — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 14:20:30 +0000

Occasionally, the stories behind game development are as interesting as the stories told by games. That’s likely the case for HORGIHUGH, a shooter created by Sasaki “PiXEL” Hide. Described as a “modern retro” title, HORGIHUGH’s lead character is based on an actual dog adopted after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, signifying resilience and quite possibly, conveying ...

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Q&A with Mirai’s Mamoru Hosoda

Robert Allen — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 00:04:24 +0000

As the director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Wolf Children, The Boy and the Beast, Mamoru Hosoda has crafted films that have delighted audiences, charmed critics, and won numerous awards. With the upcoming stateside release of Mirai, the auteur is poised to please once more, offering an intimate and imaginative story ...

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Q&A With AI: The Somnium Files’ Kōtarō Uchikoshi

Robert Allen — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 20:49:59 +0000

With a body of work that includes salient efforts such as the Zero Escape series, scenarios for visual novels like Ever 17: The Out of Infinity and Remember 11: The Age of Infinity, as well as writing Punchline, it’s evident that Kōtarō Uchikoshi is delighted by the unusual aspects of the human condition. And with ...

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Navigating 428: Shibuya Scramble

Robert Allen — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:53:43 +0000

Referred to as the visual novel for people who don’t like visual novels, 428: Shibuya Scramble has the privilege of being the genre’s only effort to obtain a perfect Famitsu score. If that’s not intriguing another, we pose a series of question toward David Kracker, who served as localization director for Spike Chunsoft’s upcoming title. ...

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Q&A With Trailblazer’s Ben Ward

Robert Allen — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 20:50:26 +0000

Franchises like Forza Motorsport and Gran Turismo dominate the contemporary racing genre, which is not surprising, as each series is crafted by a legion of developers and is refined across multiple iterations. But when the industry is led by photorealistic titles that lean toward simulation, that leaves a wide opening for developers to craft a ...

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Q&A with SUPERBEAT: XONiC’s Michael Yum

Robert Allen — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:37:58 +0000

Like music itself, rhythm games often follow convention while simultaneously contributing their own form of innovation. This dialectic is especially evident when examining PM Studio’s SUPERBEAT: XONiC, a franchise which follows mainly of the conventions of the genre, while offering its own distinctive control schemes and remarkable diverse soundtrack. With the release of the Switch ...

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Q&A With Nihon Falcom’s Toshihiro Kondo

Robert Allen — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 04:52:38 +0000

For over thirty-five years, Nihon Falcom has crafted a steady succession of enjoyable, consistently charming and wonderfully melodious role-playing and action role-playing games. In anticipation of the release of Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, we had the opportunity to speak with Falcom’s president Mr. Toshihiro Kondo on their formula for unblemished success, the tension between ...

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Q&A With VALKYRIE DRIVE’s Kenichiro Takaki

Robert Allen — Tue, 30 May 2017 17:21:00 +0000

Like Sandro Botticelli, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, and Edgar Degas, Kenichiro Takaki is infatuated with the female form. As the producer behind titles like SENRAN KAGURA, and VALKYRIE DRIVE, Takaki-san and his teams have created worlds where erogenous zones jiggle with pendulous grace, as combatants are locked in intense conflict. We had a chance to ...

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Undead Darlings ~no cure for love~!! Q&A

Robert Allen — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:24:55 +0000

After a portion of a lifetime spent playing role-playing games and years working for a publisher that has localized some of Japan’s best efforts, it’s not surprising that Nick Doerr understands turn-based battles. But what is remarkable is the transition toward full creative control with the developer taking the helm for Undead Darlings ~no cure ...

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Super Dungeon Tactics’ Post-Release Adjustments: A Q&A with Underbite Games

Robert Allen — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:35:17 +0000

Game launches are complicated affairs- we’re repeatedly reminded of that statement every time a triple-A, big budget title stumbles at release and PR issues it’s subsequent apology. For smaller studios without the payroll to hire a plethora of beta testers, the first few weeks of a product’s life can be nerve wracking- with developing rushing ...

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