Cing kündigt Project O für Wii an
Die Another Code Macher zeigen ihr erstes Wii-Projekt.
Der Entwickler Cing (bekannt für Another Code und bald sicher auch für Dusk Hotel: Room 215) hat seine Fähigkeiten mit innovativer Hardware bereits auf dem Nintendo DS ausgiebig präsentiert. Nun wird es Zeit, dass sich die Entwickler einem neuen Projekt widmen. Project O um genau zu sein. Wie in der aktuellen Ausgabe der japanischen Famitsu gemeldet wird, soll diese Spiel im nächsten Jahr auf den japanischen Markt kommen. Bis auf wenige Artworks ist allerdings noch nichts zum Spielinhalt bekannt.
Marvelous, CING and Townfactory are working on a new project together for the Wii it seems. Currently known as New Project O, it’s slated for 2008. It’s a new sort of genre, similar to World Neverland, Sim Earth, Sim People, etc.
Okay, for New Project O, there are some more details:
- Involved in the project from Townfactory is Kimura Shourou who worked on a few Lovedelic games like moon and LOL, and more recently a PS2 game called Tulip (?)
- Also involved is Hideo Minaba, the ex-S-E art director who’s now working on ASH character designs with Mistwalker
- Another talent involved is Kazuyuki Kurashima, who is a graphic artist who did monster and art designs for Super Mario RPG and more recently animation for the Tingle RPG. He was also involved with moon and LOL.
Japanese Dream Team Project Revealed
A better prospect than Chrono Trigger?
We hear about how special Nintendo’s Wii in on a pretty regular basis, but now we are set to see some real action as a group of Japan’s finest developers join forces for a new project. The latest issue of Famitsu magazine has revealed that Marvelous Interactive (Harvest Moon, Rune Factory, Luminous Arc), CING (Another Code, Hotel Dusk) and Townfactory are all working together on a new project that will be released on Nintendo’s Wii. At present it is scheduled for a 2008 release and is simply titled ‚Project O‘, being classed as a new genre along the lines of SimEarth.
For those wondering who Townfactory is, it consists of Kimura Shourou who worked on a few Lovedelic games like Moon and LOL, as well as Chulip on PlayStation 2. In addition there is Hideo Minaba, an ex-Square Enix art director who is currently working with Mistwalker for character designs on the highly anticpated RPG project Archaic Sealed Heat (aka A.S.H.). On top of this there is Kazuyuki Kurashima, a graphic artist that created monster and art designs for Square Enix on the Super Mario RPG (SNES) release, plus recently did animation work on Freshly Picked Tingle’s Rosey Rupeeland (DS). Fact fans should note he worked alongside Shourou-san on Moon and LOL.
Other than these tantalising snippets of news, nothing else is currently known, but as soon as more details leak out, we will endeavour to bring them to you post haste!
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