Tragedy: Japanese game company Index went bankrupt

I wrote it about window-dressing of Japanese game company Index the other day.

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However, further tragedy happened today. They went bankrupt with a debt of 24,500 million yen. They announced that they stated a civil rehabilitation proceeding in the Tokyo District Court, and they were accepted.

According to their press release, their game business in itself is brisk. However, they fail by the overseas acquisition, theoverseas advance of mobile contents, and Investment business. In addition, a chairperson and the president take these responsibility and resign.

Many Japanese gamers worry about popularity game brand Atlus which is their affiliation. Index intends to transfer game business to them looking for sponsors immediately.

Appropriate sponsors should be found early.

Social game "Rage of Bahamut" became the sexy figure at last

Cygames announced that they sold a figure of their popular social game Rage of Bahamut. It is 11,000 yen(about 113USD) and build-to-order manufacturing. Of course it is an item for adults.

This reproduces a popular character "Dark General".

The overall height is about 22 centimeters, the materials are polyvinyl chloride, They accept a reservation until August 12 and send it out from October. However, unfortunately the sale of this is only Japan.

GREE opens the time-limited shop of the social game character at Tokyo Station

Now, time-limited shop of GREE opens in the shopping district under the ground of Tokyo Station.

It is goods shop of social game Clinoppe of GREE. GREE makes efforts in character business and pushes forward cross-media development of Clinoppe in particular.

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Various cutie goods are sold in the goods shop. However, GREE considers adult women to be target users. Clinoppe is the long hit game that continues giving a service since before GREE became the social game platform. Users who were a student in those days become adults now. There were even jewelry in the goods.

In addition, there were the just right sweets to eat in an interval of the work! :)

Furthermore, the display corner of original pictures of TV Anime was established, too.

This shop opens until July 1. if you go to Tokyo Station, let's go here incidentally!

Fusion of a social game and English learning---Eipontan

Drecom is one of the Japanese social game developers, but they make efforts in learning apps recently. Particulary, English learning apps "Eipontan" is popular.

Eipontan is the apps that combined learning with a social game.

At first, users take a level judgment test of English degree of achievement.

It is a quiz of English words. Users choose the right meaning of words.

My level is…"You can order a menu in an overseas fast food shop". Mmm, high level? or low level?

Well, it is the beginning of the game. We become the teacher of a strange school and choose one's student.

He is my student. When he study English, he grows up, and a level rises. However, his physical strength is worn out when he continues studying in succession(The heart marks express it).

We can get a virtual currency as a reward when we answer them correctly in questions.

Furthermore, we can get snacks for the student. The growth speed of the student becomes earlier by his eating snacks.

The figure of the student changes by growth. Kawaii!

However, delinquents sometimes torment a student. We must do punishment to him. Therefore we study English words again. They are slightly more difficult than normal questions.

Well, you may have already noticed. This is a form of a J-style social game. Study is equivalent to quests, and delinquents are equivalent to raid boss. Upbringing of the student is a form of the pet upbringing game. They develop the learning games using the social game development know-how that they cultivated until now. They release two learning games other than Eipontan, and the number of those downloading has already exceeded 1 million.

The first Japan's Diet member iOS apps developer was born

Liberal Democratic Party of Japan released first official iOS game apps Abe-Pyon(あべぴょん). The motif of the character is Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

However, the name of the iOS developer is not Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.

Takuya Hirai. Who is he?...

Oh! Takuya Hirai is a Diet member and Internet media director of Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. He says in Twitter about Abe-Pyon...

まだ発表していないのに、どうしてわかりましたか？ RT @SocialJAPAN やっぱり時代はミニゲーム。国会議員初のiPhoneデベロッパー(@hiratakuchan)誕生。自民党公式アプリ「あべぴょん」を開発… http://t.co/i9ylX5xwEV
— 平井卓也 (@hiratakuchan) June 20, 2013

"Although I have not announced this yet, how did you get to know this? "
This is the first time that a Diet member releases smartphone apps in Japan.  The IT literacy of Japanese politicians is very poor. However, it may be improved if politicians come to be concerned with direct development like him.

Abe-Pyon is the simple and casual jumping game and anyone can easily play. We let Abe jump in sky high. This may look unpolished, but this is the first step of the Japanese politician.