Japanese developers aim at Canadian App Store

Japanese social game developers go abroad recently. However, everybody releases game application in Canadian App Store. These are game application made in Japan released in Canadian App Store by the end of August.

DRAGON COLLECTION - KONAMI

Lord of the Dragons - KLab

Gangsta - Drecom

Montopia - Zynga Japan

Of course all these support English. However, these are not released in U.S and are all Canada. Why?

They may regard Canada as the test bed of the North America market. It is difficult for Japanese game application for smartphones to succeed in North America market. It is not made good even in GREE either. So, they will test it in Canada before starting in earnest.

Google celebrates a birthday of 22nd century robot "Doraemon"

September 3 is a birthday of Doraemon. Besides, this year is special! He is developed 100 years later. Doraemon is a robot of the 22nd century.

http://dora-world.com/

Doraemon is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio. It became an anime series and a lot of character goods. He is popular now in Asia and Europe as well as Japan. Doraemon is a baby-sitter robot of the 22nd century. He attaches a pocket to the body, and various "secret gadgets" in this. He plays using them with Nobita of the primary schoolchild and helps him.

My ドラえもん

Why does the Japanese devote passion to robot development? One of the reasons is him. Every Japanese want to encounter Doraemon early. In the story of Manga, Doraemon is developed on September 3, 2012. Do you think that it is possible?

Regardless of possibility or impossibility, a birthday of Doraemon was celebrated while in Japan. And Google Japan did an interesting tie-up "Mirai Search". ("Mirai" means the "Future" in Japanese)

http://www.miraisearch.jp/

When you call "Doraemo~n" in a sound search of Google for smartphones, you can find various "modern secret gadgets". They are secret gadgets of Doraemon which became feasible at present. Of course they are incomplete than secret gadgets of the 22nd century. However, we can understand that we approach in the future surely. And we can notice Doraemon being a superior SF works.

ドラえもん (1) (てんとう虫コミックス)

2D or not 2D, that is no problem

2D or not 2D, it was often a problem for animes and games. However, this new technology solves it.



This is the drawing technology "Live 2D" that Japanese company CYBERNOIDS developed.

In 3D, the unique attraction of 2D images can't be rendered properly. It is approximately impossible to reproduce the impression of 2D images in 3D. However, Live 2D enables expression such as 3D as 2D. The images of 2D move like 3D polygon. Besides, it is interactive. Live 2D has been already utilized for many smartphone apps in Japan and CYBERNOIDS wants to apply this in service for foreign countries.

via DIGI INFO TV

The Japanese completely enjoys a territorial problem by using smartphone application

I wrote "Let's enjoy a territorial problem by Android application!" the day before yesterday. Furthermore, the Japanese plays about a territorial problem using iOS application "Eyeland".

Eyeland is geolocation-communication application. Users make own avatar, chat and share the comment & photos based on geolocation. Therefore a certain user went to Liancourt Rocks in the map.

Netizens amused by it struck virtual Liancourt Rocks in sequence.

They did the playful chat about the celebrity of Japanese and Korean.

"Everybody, let's get along!"

I think the Japanese to be superior in a skill to playful by a serious problem.

via http://vippers.jp/archives/6570151.html

Let's enjoy a territorial problem by Android application!

Now, Japan becomes serious for a territorial problem with Korea. However, a certain developer developed the cute game application for Android on the topic of this "Takeshima scramble(竹島争奪戦)".

This is the game that a Korean rabbit and a Japanese rabbit swim towards Liancourt Rocks.

The developer says, "Stop the Takeshima scramble. The direction where Japan get along with South Korea can become fortunate rather than we possess Takeshima. If each other wants to fight, we fight by this game."

In addition, the developer says like this, "Takeshima is something like moon for me. In other words, it is an existence which is almost unrelated to a life practical. A neighbor quarrels for a territory of the moon. The latest Takeshima territorial problem is in sight of me at such a comedy." In addition, it has been thought that a rabbit lived in the moon in the East Asia from ancient times. For it, a character of this game is "rabbits".

Of course this application has a pro and con. However, I support the thought of the developer. It is stupid to quarrel with a neighbor and to concentrate on nationalism. If there is such time, it is more fun to play a game :)