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Playism Games
Playism (stylized as PLAYISM) is a Japanese independent video game publisher operated by Active Gaming Media. Playism started as a digital distribution platform for PC games in May 2011. History Playism was launched by Active Gaming Media in May 2011 as a digital distribution platform for PC games. It was founded by Shunji Mizutani, who has run it as executive producer since. Its launch titles included '' Machinarium'' and ''SpaceChem''. Its goal was to introduce western-developed indie titles to the Japanese market, and to localize Japanese doujin games for overseas audience. In April 2013, Playism began a project with HAL College of Technology & Design in both Osaka and Nagoya. The project involves students creating games in four-person teams over a period of several months. The games would then be judged by Playism staff, Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya (''Cave Story''), Smoking Wolf (''One Way Heroics''), and members of Nigoro (''La-Mulana''). The highest-rated games were then locali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Executive Producer
Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the production of media. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights or royalties). In films, the executive producer generally contributes to the film's budget and their involvement depends on the project, with some simply securing funds and others being involved in the filmmaking process. Motion pictures In films, executive producers may finance the film, participate in the creative effort, or work on set. Their responsibilities vary from funding or attracting investors into the movie project to legal, scripting, marketing, advisory and supervising capacities. Executive producers vary in involvement, responsibility and power. Some executive producers have hands-on control over every aspect of production, some supervise the producers of a project, while others are involved in name only. The crediting of executive produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steam (service)
Steam is a digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve Corporation, Valve. It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide video game updates automatically for Valve's games and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005. Steam offers various features, such as Matchmaking (video games), game server matchmaking with Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) measures, social networking service, social networking, and game streaming services. The Steam client functions include update maintenance, cloud storage, and community features such as direct messaging, an in-game overlay, discussion forums, and a virtual collectable marketplace. The storefront also offers productivity software, Video game music, game soundtracks, videos, and sells hardware made by Valve, such as the Valve Index and the Steam Deck. Steamworks, an application programming interface (API) released in 2008, is used by developers to integrate Steam's functions, including digital rig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silver Case
is an adventure visual novel video game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by ASCII Entertainment for the PlayStation in 1999. It was directed, designed and co-written by Goichi Suda. A remastered version was released digitally by Grasshopper Manufacture worldwide for Windows and macOS in 2016. A port for the PlayStation 4 was released by NIS America in 2017; this was a physical release. A Japanese release of the PlayStation 4 version was released in March 2018 by Nippon Ichi Software. A Linux port was released in August 2017. A port for the Nintendo DS was also in development; it was never released due to Suda's dissatisfaction with the final product. A port for the Nintendo Switch was released in 2021. The setting is contemporary Japan in the year 1999, in a universe which would be used by Suda in later works. Within a city referred to as the 24 Districts, a series of bizarre murders occurs, prompting the 24 Districts Police Department to send two detectives from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nude Maker
is a Japanese video game developer based in Tokyo, Japan. The company is composed mostly of former members of Human Entertainment, including Kono Hifumi, who directed the first two titles in the ''Clock Tower'' series of horror games. Nude Maker has been contracted by companies including Capcom, Grasshopper Manufacture, PlatinumGames, Sega, and Konami , commonly known as Konami, , is a Japanese multinational entertainment company and video game developer and video game publisher, publisher headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, Chūō, Tokyo. The company also produces and distributes trading card .... Games developed References External links * Japanese companies established in 2002 Video game companies established in 2002 Video game companies of Japan Video game development companies {{Japan-videogame-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NightCry
is a graphic adventure survival horror video game developed by Nude Maker and published by Playism Games. ''NightCry'' is directed and written by ''Clock Tower'' series creator Hifumi Kono, and is considered a spiritual successor to the series. It was first released for Windows in March 2016, and later for the PlayStation Vita in January 2019. Ports for Android and iOS were also planned, but never released. Plot ''NightCry'' largely takes place on the ''Oceanus'', an ocean liner attacked by an evil creature called the Scissor Walker. There are three chapters to the game with a different controllable character in each. In Chapter 1, Monica Flores is the main character, a lady being set up for a date on the cruise. In Chapter 2, the main character is Leonard Cosgrove, a professor who explores a nearby ruin guarded by cultists. In Chapter 3, the main character is Rooney Simpson, a morose girl and Leonard's distant relative/student also on the ''Oceanus'' attempting to escape the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reverie Under The Moonlight
Reverie may refer to: * A daydream or a dreamy state. * W. R. Bion's psychoanalytic use of "reverie" Places * Reverie, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in Tipton County, Tennessee, United States * Reverie (Marion, Alabama), a Greek Revival mansion in Marion, Alabama, United States Music * ''Rêverie'', an 1847 work for violin and piano (part of Op. 22) by Vieuxtemps * ''Rêverie'' (), an 1865 piano work by Mussorgsky * ''Rêverie'' by Giovanni Bottesini, c. 1870 * ''Rêverie'', a piano piece by Debussy, c. 1895 * ''Rêverie'' (Scriabin) () in E minor, Op. 24, an 1898 orchestral work by Scriabin * ''Rêverie'', Op. 49/3, a 1905 piece for piano by Scriabin * Reverie on , a 1939 cello piece by Pablo Casals after a folk song * ''Reverie'', a piano piece by Billy Joel * Rêverie, Op.24, a Horn solo by Aleksandr Glazunov * ''Dumka (Reverie)'', an 1840 song by Chopin * ''Rêverie'', an art song by Reynaldo Hahn, c. 1870 Albums * ''Reverie'' (Cherie Currie album), 2015 * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad Father
is a survival horror role-playing puzzle video game. The game was developed by Japanese developer Sen, published by Miscreant's Room and released on 10 December 2012. The game centers around an 11-year-old girl named Aya, who breaks into her father's secret laboratory to uncover the horrifying truth of his research. A Steam version, published by AGM Playism, was released on 23 September 2016. Plot ''Mad Father'' takes place in northern Germany, where the 11-year-old protagonist Aya Drevis lives with her father Alfred and their maid Maria. Aya is a shy girl who never goes outside. Her mother, Monika Drevis, was incredibly ill, and presumably died of illness before the occurrence of the game. Her father performs secret research in his laboratory in the house's basement, with the assistance of Maria. Aya is aware that Alfred experiments on and kills humans in the basement, as well as the fact that he is involved in an extramarital affair with the younger Maria, a former homeless ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Barlow (game Designer)
Sam Barlow is a British video game designer, best known as the writer and designer of '' Her Story'', the two British ''Silent Hill'' games '' Silent Hill: Origins'' and '' Silent Hill: Shattered Memories'', '' Telling Lies'' and ''Immortality''. He previously worked as a game director at Climax Studios, before leaving in 2014 to become an indie game developer. He published his first independent game, '' Her Story'', in June 2015, his first venture in a genre he has called the "desktop thriller." In 2017 he founded Half Mermaid, a video game production company based in Brooklyn, New York. Interactive fiction Barlow was active in the interactive fiction scene of the late 1990s, most notably releasing the game ''Aisle'' in 1999. It won the XYZZY Award for Best Use of Medium. Like his later ''Silent Hill'' games, ''Aisle'' features a psychologically damaged viewpoint character, a contemporary setting and a positive meaning at its heart. In March 2016, during the Game Developers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Story (video Game)
''Her Story'' is an interactive film video game written and directed by Sam Barlow. It was released on 24 June 2015 for iOS, OS X, and Windows, and the following year for Android. In the game, the player searches and sorts through a database of video clips from fictional police interviews, and uses the clips to solve the case of a missing man. The police interviews focus on the man's wife, Hannah Smith, portrayed by British musician Viva Seifert. The game is Barlow's first project since his departure from Climax Studios, after which he became independent. He wanted to develop a game that was dependent on the narrative, and avoided working on the game until he was settled on an idea that was possible to execute. Barlow eventually decided to create a police procedural game, and incorporate live action footage. He conducted research for the game by watching existing police interviews. Upon doing so, he discovered recurring themes in the suspects' answers, and decided to incorpora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
