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Posted by Leticia Lago, Developer Advertising and marketing
#WeArePlay is on a digital world tour: beginning first with the U.S. final summer season by spotlighting the tales of app and sport founders from each state, then visiting India sharing tales from throughout the nation, and extra lately visiting Europe by sharing tales from nations throughout the area.
Immediately, we’re persevering with our tour with yet one more cease: Japan. From a snowboarding app made by a paralympian, to a sport impressed by the enchanting landmarks of Gifu. Uncover the folks rising apps and video games companies on Google Play.
We’re beginning with tales from Chubu, Chugoku & Shikoku and Kinki, with extra following all year long. Let’s discover a number of the tales from throughout these 3 areas.
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| Takao Hayashi, founding father of Ateam Leisure |
First, Takao Hayashi from Nagoya, Aichi. When Takao’s father sadly handed away when he was solely 9 years previous, he determined to double down on his pastime of coding and assist his household develop into financially safe. He finally launched Ateam, and after releasing varied apps and video games in Japan, his firm started to give attention to growth into new markets. Their efforts are paying off, as real-time battle RPG Unison League has develop into a world hit. The Japanese artwork within the sport has develop into so common that some followers have even adopted the type of their favourite characters into their trend. Subsequent, Takao desires to launch new video games and attain gamers in additional components of the world, together with India and Latin America.
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| Keiji Okamoto, founding father of yukiyama |
Subsequent, Keiji Okamoto from Kobe, Hyogo. Keiji labored onerous to pursue his ardour for snowboarding all the best way to an expert degree. Nonetheless, an accident on the slopes left him with a spinal damage and the information that he may by no means snowboard once more. Together with his future plans unsure and hoping to contribute to the game regardless of now not having the ability to snowboard, Keiji based yukiyama: a platform the place snowsports lovers can entry ski resort maps and observe their distances down the slopes. Immediately the app is used throughout Japan. The crew plans to make it accessible to vacationers too by localizing it to different languages. Because the app grows, so does Keiji’s sports activities profession, who now competes within the Paralympics.
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| Hitomi Wada, founding father of blazeworks |
Now, Hitomi Wada from Kakamigahara, Gifu. Hitomi has been a fan of fantasy role-playing video games since a buddy first launched her to them as a baby. Years later she bought impressed to create her personal sport, Gifu Quest, whereas exploring the enchanting sights and landmarks of the Gifu prefecture. Gamers should save all 42 municipalities from damage and might even play a task within the sport’s creation – with a few of their images of Gifu that includes within the sport, and lots of sharing their travels to the locations that seem within the sport underneath the hashtag #realgifuquest. Subsequent, Hitomi desires to create new video games and finally function the entire of Japan.
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| Masaomi Kurokawa, Managing Director of KEMCO |
And final however not least, Masaomi Kurokawa from Kure, Hiroshima. Masaomi’s love of computer systems and gaming started again in center faculty, when his dad purchased him his first laptop to program. Later, in the course of the mid-2000s, he determined he needed to revive basic retro video games from his childhood. His RPG title Dragon Lapis has a attribute old-school aesthetic – with dragons, legends and battles, and is vastly common with followers of the RPG-genre. His nostalgic video games have a loyal fanbase each in Japan and abroad. Masaomi has extra video games within the works and, sooner or later, desires to tackle new challenges like transferring into the app area.
Uncover extra #WeArePlay tales from Japan, and tales from throughout the globe.
