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Alpaca Nisan is the smartphone game that is the most weird and bizarre in Japan now.(iOS/Android) However, it broke through 4M downloading from release in 3 months by word-of-mouth.
What kind of game is Alpaca Nisan? It is very difficult to explain it. It may be a creature growing SLG game.
This is a start screen of the games. Some of alpacas appear in the ranch at first. However, when we tap a screen …
One alpaca attacks the other alpacas suddenly and begins to eat them. Well, the main work of this game is cannibalism.
To the alpaca which ate other alpacas, strange mutation happens in sequence.
There are innumerable patterns of the mutation, and the ending has 3 patterns. We can enjoy(?) those differences whenever we play this.
Many people say, "Weird", "Ugly", "We must never play this alone at night". On the other hand, there are the people saying "Kimokawaii(Grotes-Cute)". Anyway, this became the topic. And developer COCOSOLA of this starts the merchandise development of Alpaca Nisan.
Probably this is only in Japan.
Japanese Buddhism temple Ryohoji in Hachioji, Tokyo, releases a social game for smartphones. The title is "Welcome to Ryohoji!"(iOS/Android).
You may not believe it. However, this is really official contents of the Buddhism temple, and GMO Game is in charge of the publishing.
"Welcome to Ryohoji!" is a general J-style card battle social game. Players have an adventure in all over Japan with character of Ryohoji "Torobenten", fight against Yōkai, make Yōkai a friend and grind Japan peacefully. However, the design of Yōkai are cute all(those most are beautiful girls).
Originally Ryohoji is known as Moe-temple(萌え寺). It is the venerable temple which opened in 1489. However, the chief priest installed the signboard of the beautiful girl illustration in the entrance of the temple suddenly in May, 2009.
The chief priest asked his friend for a signboard design for the making of atmosphere that is friendly of the temple. The chief priest was surprised to watch the design first. however, his families and believers agreed to the design "Cute!". And worshipers increased remarkably since they installed a signboard. Since then the temple performs every media mix development.
Pecolly is Social Networking Service for smartphones that users upload and share the photos of one's dish. CyberAgent raised the photos of the Character Bento(Chara-Ben: homemade bento containing food decorated to look like cute characters) of this movie in Pecolly. Then works more than 500 gathered in 3 weeks. These are award winning prize works.
These did not win a prize, but are cute works.
Originally Character Bento was a popular cooking genre in Japan. Because Social Networking Service and smartphone appeared, works and the How to are shared rapidly.
Now, Character of the popular smartphone apps Nameko spread in Japan. Developer of the Nameko series BeeWorks announced the new project about Nameko today. This the Anime promotion video.
This is a project to express charm of Nameko which they cannot express by the application. They will show new promotion video of Nameko regularly in Youtube in future. This project resembles Angry Birds Toons. However, they don't make all by themselves, and they cooperate with various Anime studios. The first is GONZO. Please check this cute video. GONZO made promotion video of Nameko in a motif of athletic meet.
Japanese social game developer Grani warned gumi in an intellectual property theft. Grani and gumi are social game developers both, and they offer a social games in GREE. gumi released a new social RPG "Dragon Genesis" in GREE on April 26.
On the other hand, Grani provides social RPG "Shingoku no Valhalla Gate(神獄のヴァルハラゲート)" in GREE from January 25. This is very popular in GREE, so they conclude a strategic business tie-up with GREE.
And, according to Grani, game system, balance design, user interface and image look of "Dragon Genesis" of gumi just resembles "Shingoku no Valhalla Gate" closely very much. Grani showed an inspection image in their Facebook page.
