is a Japanese video game publisher established on March 27, 2006 by Toshio Tabeta, a former producer of

Interchannel was a Japanese video game developer and publisher. History Interchannel was founded on October 2, 1995 as an NEC subsidiary named . Its founding was a result of divisions within NEC being spun off. NEC Interchannel took over NEC Avenue's music ...

. While still with Interchannel, Tabeta's team was responsible for mainly developing and publishing versions of

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s originally published by

VisualArt's , formerly and previously spelled in English as VisualArt's, is a Japanese publishing company which specializes in publishing and distributing visual novels for a large list of game developers. Visual Arts has developed game engines their brands ...

for consumer platforms like the

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and

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. After Prototype split off from Interchannel, the company still continued to work with VisualArt's. Prototype is also involved in producing

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ports through VisualArt's Motto which Prototype manages. Prototype has also produced a set of

drama CD Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatised, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine ...

s based on Key's visual novel ''

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''.

Games published

Console games

Portable games

Mobile phone games

References

External links

Prototype's official website

VisualArt's Motto's official website
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