R.I.P. Kenji Eno; All iOS apps that he was engaged in are free of charge now

Japanese game designer and musician Kenji Eno passed away in February 20 at the age of 42. He died of heart failure, induced by high blood pressure. Japanese apps developer Route24 did the iOS apps that he composed BGM in free of charge for mourning.

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These are the game apps that Route24 CEO Kenichi Nishi and Kenji Eno developed. First works "newtonica" was released in 2008. Because iPhone was just released in Japan at the time, this became the topic immediately.

These were 450 yen until now. Route24 wishes many people enjoy the works which Kenji Eno was engaged in.

GREE propels the character business of their social games

To be frank, the growth of the social game market is slowing down in Japan.   Therefore GREE advances for the next step. Clinoppe is the cute pet game which GREE developed, and they make this an TV anime.

Clinoppe is a social game that bring up small mysterious creature "Clinoppe" that discovered in the Indian mountain. It is popular with women of 20-30 generations. This TV anime expresses the daily life of a young woman of the office worker and  Clinoppe. It adds original elements to it while assuming a social game a subject.

In addition, the subsidiary GREE entertainment products of GREE release goods of Clinoppe.

They sell 32 kinds of Clinoppe goods from next month and develop a prize at a game arcade. Goods site is here.

This business is already classic in Japan. It is Nameko Saibai Kit series and LINE recently to hold profit below it most. And characters of a round shape are popular in Japan. I think that the goods of Clinoppe may become popular.

Review: Namekyu -mini figure toy of Nameko Saibai Kit-

I went to the local supermarket yesterday. It is snack corner here.

A lot of Namekos!  Japan has a product genre called "Shokugan(食玩)" which put a small toy and a snack or candy together. These are Shokugan of Nameko.

I bought 2 packs of "Namekyu". Various mini-figures of  Nameko are in this at random.

I got Golden Nameko(Ancient Egyptian style Nameko) and Galerina fasciculata(Poison mushroom). I wanted normal Nameko..., but these are high qualities and cute! Furthermore, these are usable as mobile accessories.

Kawaii! :D They  have a suction pad, so we can fix them anywhere. Namekyu  is 300 yen(about 3USD). I want to collect more these.

Mushroom Garden　a.k.a. Funghi Gardening Kit

Mushroom Garden Seasons

Mushroom Garden Deluxe

[Adults Only] DMM brings porn stars into the social game market

Japanese VOD company DMM -known as x-rated contents company in particular- opened a mobile social game platform from January, 2012. Then they contribute "them's original" social games.

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Now, they release the social game that existing porn stars appear. This is "Girls Hellfire".

Japanese does not love only the virtual girls(but PLAYBOY Japanese edition ceased to publish it). There are many popular porn stars in Japan. Therefore DMM devised J-style card social game using their photos.
card social games using photos existed a lot so far. Idol groups and athletes are very popular in particular. DMM applied it to a porn stars. GREE and Mobage can never develop such a social game. Because, their platform for "all age". However, originally DMM was adult only.
On the other hand, there is such an opinion, "Is it a fun to watch a porn star with a small screen of the mobile?". Surely, mobile screen is smaller than TV and PC. However, I think that the really personal space is only in mobile. It is hard to hide a book and the DVD from the eyes of the family. There are a lot of people who share a PC with a family. The people of the one living have the risk discovered them by their sweetheart. It will be very awkward. However, the mobile is completely a personal possession. It has fewer risks than them to enjoy porn contents in mobile.

Do the overseas porn companies enter the social game market?

J-style social RPG was combined with Brain Training

Japanese social game developers grope for the next stage of the J-Style social RPG. Gungho's "Puzzle & Dragons" -broke through 8 million downloading- was epoch-making. The titles which put social RPG and a puzzle together mimicking it increased. Afterwards, social RPG + slot, social RPG + coin dozer, social RPG + pinball, social RPG + poker...etc... Every combinations are tried. Therefore the Geisha Tokyo entertainment released interesting iOS game. This is "Brain Training Quest".

This is the game that combined study and social RPG.

The kinds of the question are different every labyrinth. This is a question to assemble a letter. We are attacked by monsters when we do not decipher a question immediately.

When we answer fast, we can attack monsters.

These are questions of the arithmetic. It is an elementary school lower grades level, However, it is difficult to calculate hastily :(

When we answer it in questions fast, we can get various items.

Furthermore, we can make the weapons, protective gears and accessories of the avatar using them. The avatar is very cute! We can enjoy the changing clothes of the avatar with adventure, too.

I think that this is a game suitable for an infant. Or we may recommend this to elderly people.