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Love-de-Lic
, stylised as LOVE•de•LIC, was a Japanese video game developer founded by Kenichi Nishi in 1995. The staff was composed primarily of former Square employees. The company folded in 2000, and many of its employees went on to establish other game companies, including skip Ltd., Vanpool, and Punchline. Former staff members Yoshiro Kimura, Kazuyuki Kurashima, and Hirofumi Taniguchi currently manage the game company Onion Games, which created original games such as '' Dandy Dungeon: Legend of Brave Yamada'', and published '' Moon: Remix RPG Adventure'' on modern platforms. The company's name was inspired by Nishi's love for Yellow Magic Orchestra, notably the album '' Technodelic''. Games Staff *Kenichi Nishi *Taro Kudou *Akira Ueda is a Japanese video game designer, director, graphical artist, and composer. After previously working for several notable companies, he currently designs games from his own company Audio, Inc. Career Ueda was born in 1970 in Tokyo, Japan. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenichi Nishi
is a Japanese video game designer. He has helped found a number of notable video game companies and develops games at Route24, his own private limited company. The number 24 in the title comes from its founder's name: "Ni" (2) and "Shi" (4). Career Nishi previously worked for both Telenet Japan and its subsidiary Riot. He was later hired by Square as a field designer for two of its larger releases. After leaving Square in 1995, Nishi helped establish Love-de-Lic, Inc. with many of his former Square coworkers. There, he designed two of the small company's three game releases: '' Moon: Remix RPG Adventure'' and '' L.O.L.: Lack of Love''. He also helped design and write the script for the 1999 Polygon Magic title '' Incredible Crisis''. Nishi then co-founded skip Ltd., a second-party developer for Nintendo. Acting as vice president of the company, he also directed '' GiFTPiA'' and co-directed ''Chibi-Robo!''. Shortly thereafter, he left skip and founded Route24 on February 23, 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lack Of Love
''L.O.L: Lack Of Love'' is an evolutionary life simulation game developed by Love-de-Lic and published by ASCII Corporation for the Sega Dreamcast. The game was released only in Japan on November 2, 2000. The game was never exported to the West but it received a fan translation in 2020. Gameplay The gameplay of ''L.O.L.: Lack of Love'' revolves around the player's control of a single creature placed on an alien planet during robotic terraforming. The player must cause the creature to metamorphose into new forms by communicating with other living creatures, establishing symbiotic relationships with them, and thus helping them. The game lacks a HUD almost entirely and requires the player to simply remain alive. This can be done by helping, or eating other creatures, as well as performing various bodily functions including sleeping and urinating. Development ''L.O.L.: Lack of Love'' is the last in a trio of games developed by Love-de-Lic after '' Moon: Remix RPG Adventure'' and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Ueda
is a Japanese video game designer, director, graphical artist, and composer. After previously working for several notable companies, he currently designs games from his own company Audio, Inc. Career Ueda was born in 1970 in Tokyo, Japan. He moved to Urayasu, Chiba at the age of 10. As a teenager, he took a part-time job at Tokyo Disney Resort, where he worked until 1988, when he attended Tokyo Design Academy. He was hired by Square in 1990. At Square, Ueda worked mostly as a background and map designer, most prominently on ''Super Mario RPG''. In 1995, he joined co-worker Kenichi Nishi and others in the establishment of the independent developer Love-de-Lic, where Ueda carried over his responsibilities from Square in the design of the company's first two releases. In 1999, Ueda left Love-de-Lic and joined Grasshopper Manufacture. He continued to design backgrounds and maps, but his debut as a director came with the two '' Shining Soul'' games released for the Game Boy Advance. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Square (video Game Company)
also known under its international brand name SquareSoft, was a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It was founded in 1986 by Masafumi Miyamoto, who spun off the computer game software division of Den-Yu-Sha, a power line construction company owned by his father. Among its early employees were designers Hironobu Sakaguchi, Hiromichi Tanaka, Akitoshi Kawazu, Koichi Ishii, artist Kazuko Shibuya, programmer Nasir Gebelli, and composer Nobuo Uematsu. Initially focusing on action games, the team saw popular success with the role-playing video game ''Final Fantasy'' in 1987, which would lead to the franchise of the same name being one of its flagship franchises. Later notable staff included directors Yoshinori Kitase and Takashi Tokita, designer and writer Yasumi Matsuno, artists Tetsuya Nomura and Yusuke Naora, and composers Yoko Shimomura and Masashi Hamauzu. Initially developing for PCs, then exclusively for Nintendo systems, Square cut ties with Nintendo in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanpool (company)
Vanpool, Inc. was an independent Japanese video game, music software, computer software and toy developer. Its employees included Taro Kudo and Kazuyuki Kurashima, both of whom worked for the independent game developer Love-de-Lic. The company was primarily known for its work on the ''Dillon's Rolling Western'' and ''Kirby Kirby may refer to: Buildings * Kirby Building, a skyscraper in Dallas, Texas, United States * Kirby Lofts, a building in Houston, Texas, United States * Kirby Hall, an Elizabethan country house near Corby, Northamptonshire, England * Kirby Ho ...'' series. Vanpool shut down on May 31, 2023. Games Games Developed Development Assistance References External links * Defunct companies of Japan Japanese companies established in 1999 Privately held companies of Japan Software companies based in Tokyo Defunct video game companies of Japan Video game development companies Video game companies established in 1999 Vanpool games Video game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taro Kudou
is a Japanese game designer, video game designer and video game music composer. He is best known for his work on the Mario role-playing games, ''Mario'' role-playing games. He began his career working for Konami and Square (video game company), Square in the 1990s, then joined fellow ex-Square designers at Love-de-Lic in 1996, where he designed ''UFO: A Day in the Life''. Kudo worked as company director for Vanpool (company), Vanpool prior to its disestablishment. Works References External linksComposer profileat OverClocked ReMixDeveloper Profile at MobyGames Japanese composers Japanese male composers Japanese male musicians Japanese video game designers Konami people Living people Musicians from Osaka Square Enix people Japanese video game composers Year of birth missing (living people) {{videogame-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punchline (company)
Punchline was a Japanese video game developer company. It was founded by former Love-de-Lic employee Yoshiro Kimura and had around 25 employees. Kimura left to work for Marvelous Inc., and later opened a new studio with the name Onion Games. (archived from thoriginal Games *'' Chulip'' – (2002, PlayStation 2 The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released in Japan on 4 March 2000, in North America on 26 October, in Europe on 24 Novembe ...) *'' Rule of Rose'' – (2006, PlayStation 2) References External links * (archived from thoriginal Defunct video game companies of Japan Video game companies established in 2002 Video game companies disestablished in 2006 Video game development companies Japanese companies established in 2002 Japanese companies disestablished in 2006 {{japan-videogame-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nintendo Switch
The is a video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017. Released in the middle of the Eighth generation of video game consoles, eighth generation of home consoles, the Switch succeeded the Wii U and competed with Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One; it also competes with the Ninth generation of video game consoles, ninth generation consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S, Xbox Series X/S. The Switch is a Tablet computer#Gaming tablet, tablet that can either be docking station, docked for home video game console, home console use or used as a handheld game console, portable device, making it a Video game console#Hybrid video game consoles, hybrid console. Its wireless Joy-Con controllers function as two halves of a standard controller and alternatively as individual controllers, featuring buttons, directional analog sticks for user input, motion sensing, and tactile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windows
Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a Server (computing), server and Windows IoT for an embedded system. Windows is sold as either a consumer retail product or licensed to Original equipment manufacturer, third-party hardware manufacturers who sell products Software bundles, bundled with Windows. The first version of Windows, Windows 1.0, was released on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). The name "Windows" is a reference to the windowing system in GUIs. The 1990 release of Windows 3.0 catapulted its market success and led to various other product families ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Day In The Life
"A Day in the Life" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as the final track of their 1967 album ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''. Credited to Lennon–McCartney, the opening and closing sections of the song were mainly written by John Lennon, with Paul McCartney primarily contributing the song's middle section. All four Beatles shaped the final arrangement of the song. Lennon's lyrics were mainly inspired by contemporary newspaper articles, including a report on the death of Guinness heir Tara Browne. The recording includes two passages of orchestral glissandos that were partly improvised in the avant-garde style. In the song's middle segment, McCartney recalls his younger years, which included riding the bus, smoking, and going to class. Following the second crescendo, the song ends with one of the most famous chords in popular music history, played on several keyboards, that sustains for over forty seconds. A reputed drug reference in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PlayStation 4
The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Announced as the successor to the PlayStation 3 in February 2013, it was launched on November 15, 2013, in North America, November 29, 2013, in Europe, South America, and Australia, and on February 22, 2014, in Japan. A Eighth generation of video game consoles, console of the eighth generation, it competes with Microsoft Gaming, Microsoft's Xbox One and Nintendo's Wii U and Nintendo Switch, Switch. Moving away from the more complex Cell (microprocessor), Cell microarchitecture of its predecessor, the console features an AMD APU, APU from AMD built upon the x86-64 architecture, which can theoretically peak at 1.84 teraflops; AMD stated that it was the "most powerful" APU it had developed to date. The PlayStation 4 places an increased emphasis on social interaction and integration with other devices and services, including the ability to play games off-console on PlayStation Vita an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
