Japanese popular mobile game Monster Strike got a own shop in Tokyo

Unfortunately mixi's mobile game Monster Strike did not succeed in North America(It is shut down on August 1), but is still popular in Japan. They opened physical shop "XFLAG STORE SHIBUYA" in Shibuya, Tokyo at last. Besides, the visit completely needs reservations.

This shop consists of 2 floors. 1F is the goods section, but there do not have stock of goods. Because...

Customers do shopping using a large display and own smartphone. They look at the sample of goods displayed in a shop and purchase them with a large display. The shopping data are saved in smartphone through application and the terminal of the display.

Customers put a smartphone in the terminal of the cash register counter. Then a payment amount of money is displayed by a terminal.

Staff waiting gather up goods in a bag according to shopping data.

Basement floor is a cafe and event space.

The stage is good to talk show and small e-sports.

Various art of the game are displayed to the cafe space. Of course the menus assume characters of the game motifs. Naturally customers will upload those photos in Instagram :)

When I look up at the ceiling, small figures hid. His name is "Oragon", the  mascot-like character of Monster Strike. It is totally like the treasure hunt to look for him.

This is a big challenge for mixi. Now, it is high-risk to have a large-scale shop(Besides, it is Shibuya!). But the visit reservation is favorable for the moment. It is fully occupied until June 19.

Colopl's popular game Shironeko Project is collaborate with theme park

I wrote it about Colopl's popular game Shironeko Project(白猫プロジェクト) cooperating with a cafe before.

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Cafe & Bar of Colopl's popular game Shironeko Project

Furthermore, they cooperate with Namco Namja Town, the indoor theme park. It is the indoor theme park which Namco runs in mixed-use skyscrape Sunshine 60 located in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.

They have various attractions, but, on the other hand, cooperate with contents of other companies irregularly. Usually, the theme park is the place where children go to play, but low birthrate goes ahead through current Japan rapidly. If they cooperate with various contents, they can get visitors of youths and adults.

Colopl made an area of their mobile games Shironeko Project in Namco Namja Town. This is digital ghostleg lottery. we can get goods of game characters. Of course the probability of rare goods is low.

However, I got a rare mascot!

Namco Namja Town has a lot of food booths, and each booth sell foods which assumed characters of Shironeko Project motifs.

The goods of Shironeko Project are sold with goods of Namco Nanja Town in the shop, too. These goods were designed for this collaboration in particular. Of course these are sold only here.

This collaboration is carried out until July 17.

Bagpack with solar panel

If you are business person who go to the office by bicycle, you can change the commuting time to charge time of the smartphone by using this.

Design Lab released a development project of Backpack "CUBE" which incorporated solar panel in crowdfunding platform Makuake. This has solar panel and battery, and users can charge a smartphone while carrying this. The thickness of the module of the solar panel is only 1mm, and because glass plates are not used for it, it is hard to be damaged. Of course because it is a waterproofing specification, users can use it on the rainy day. The battery capacity is 3300mAh, and it can charge about 1~1.5 times of smartphones. The daylight hours of 36 = 45 hours are necessary to completely charge battery of 3300mAh.

The size is 440mm*285mm*150m and weight is 770g. Max capacity is 22L and users can store a 15.6 inches Laptop. It is not a problem even if you do not like a backpack. You turn this 90 degrees and can use this as Briefcase. You can purchase this from 19,800 yen, and they shipping this to supporters in November.

Project page is here
https://www.makuake.com/project/design-labo/

Simple and novel instant camera "Printoss"

The Japan's biggest toy fair Tokyo Toy Show 2017 is held on June 1 ~ 4 and various innovative toys are announced. In them, there is the instant camera which is topic among adults rather than children.

 "Printoss" which TAKARA TOMY releases in the end of September is an gadget toy printing images stored in smartphones. However, it is not necessary to transfer those data. Because this is the instant camera which just shoots the screen of smartphones with a single focus lens. The usage is very easy, you only assemble its main body, set the smartphone which displayed an image in that, and push the shutter button.

On this occasion, you can zoom of an image and add texts and stickers by application. Anyway because this is an instant camera, you can just make photos of smartphone's screen. The films which you can use are films for the existing instant camera called instax mini, and printed photos are as small as your palm. The price of this is 3,758 yen(tax-included) and the color variations are Sakura(pink), Sora(blue), and Sumi(black). TAKARA TOMY starts pre-order on July 27.

"cross-modal café" which can enjoy VR casually

Now, some VR game arcades open and the cyber cafes introducing VR HMD increase one after another in Japan. However, can we try VR more casually? cross-modal café is right the VR cafe which is friendly for VR beginner.

Seemingly there is a Japanese classic cafe, but you will find that there is some VR HMD there immediately.

Originally it was a common cafe, but Japanese tech startup Piyamaru made there VR cafe in November, 2016.

They have Gear VR, PlayStation VR, HTC Vive, and we can use them for 1,000yen(about 8.9USD) for 30minutes. In addition, one drink is included in this fee.

The menus of VR contents are placed in the menu book, too. Those most are free, but we can try more high quality VR contents by paying additional charges(300yen~600yen).

However, 30 minutes pass immediately because they have too much free VR contents. 1000yen/30min is enough to that beginners understand pleasure of VR.

The location of this cafe is a 2-minute walk from JR Yamanote Line Okachimachi Station. There is near from Ueno where is popular as a sightseeing spot. A regular holiday is Sunday, but it opens in 11am - 7pm, Monday - Saturday.