Japanese girls band Perfume showed their 3D data and tech geeks output them with 3D printer

Japanese girls band Perfume makes efforts in an overseas advance. As the part, they started an interesting trial. It is free distribution of 3D model data of themselves. The downloading of data is here.

This is the data that 3D scanned them(The texture is not included). We can make 3DCG works and movies using this. However, Japanese Tech geeks made figures with 3D printer at first.

We apply a motion and can change a pose.

The figures of celebrities and artists has been produced until now. However, this trial shows new possibility in it. This is a form of new artists goods. If my favorite artist get on my palm? It is an excited experience.

Originally they were popular among tech geeks for some reason since before having gone into the global market. They seem to continue it in the global market, too.


Source:
http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2137183137011705101

Japanese Purikura smartphone apps Loppica started world development

Now, Japanese Purikura(photo sticker booth) seems to be popular abroad. Therefore Japan's Infocom started world development of their Purikura smartphone apps Loppica.

Loppica is camera apps using the facial recognition technology that Infocom provides from 2011. We can make eyes big, a face small, skin beautiful of own portrait. Furthermore, we describe a letter and illustrations in a portrait and can do various decoration. Of course this has the function to post a portrait in Facebook and Twitter. Because it was very epoch-making apps at the time of 2011, this broke through 200,000 downloading from release in two weeks.


At first, they start support of English, Korean, Chinese and provides this in 21 countries.

Clash of Clans started Japanese support. It's very natural

Supercell started Japanese support in Clash of Clans.

These are screenshot.

 Though it was written as "クラッシュ・オブ・クラン" under the title, did you notice? This wrote Clash of Clans in Japanese katakana.

 Characters speak Japanese lines.

All the item names and explanation are transcribed in Japanese, too.

There are very good and natural. And the fonts harmonize with a design. Usually, Japanese support of overseas games are very strange and funny. Or they become unnatural because they were translated exactly. They are sentences such as the example sentence of the textbooks. However, the Japanese support of Clash of Clans is natural. They seem to understand even the Japanese style spoken language and internet and game slang. They studied Japanese? or employ the Japanese staff?

By the way, GungHo announced the details of the collaboration with them in Puzzle & Dragons.

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These are screenshot under development.

In this collaboration, characters of Clash of Clans appear in the dungeon of Puzzle & Dragons. Their designs are arranged to harmonize with an atmosphere of Puzzle & Dragons. Probably artists of GungHo would draw them. The collaboration begins on June 24.

LINE characters occupy Shibuya this summer

If you visit Shibuya in July, You will watch the scene that there is occupied by LINE characters.

Today, LINE announced that they performed a character tie-up with SHIBUYA109 and PARCO for regional vitalization. SHIBUYA109 and PARCO are fashion-business buildings symbolizing Tokyo as well as Shibuya. They put it together during a summer bargain sale period and cooperate with LINE characters from July 4.

Huge advertisements of the LINE character are posted on the entire surface of their buildings and Shibuya Station, advertising buses run Shibuya, fancy goods shops of LINE are installed in buildings, movie advertisements of LINE are broadcasted in the JR trains. Of course this is promotion development, but this is activity to enliven a town of Shibuya, too. This is the first time that specific smartphone application occupies Shibuya.

Voltage, developer of dating sim for women goes into the French-speaking world

Voltage is one of the representative developers of dating sim for women in Japan. They release many games in various mobile platforms. Furthermore, they provide not only the Japanese version but also the English version.

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In addition to these, they go into the French market. Today, they released French dating sim for smartphones "Seras-tu Ma Princesse?"(Jp title:王子様のプロポーズ/ En title:Be My Princess).

This is their representative game. This was developed as contents for Japanese furture phone at first. Afterwards, it was provided on various platforms such as GREE, iOS and  Android. Users become a heroine and can simulate the love with characters of the prince. It resembles Novell game, and ending changes what kind of choice we do.

They translated only texts into French and left the artwork original. Japanese contents are received without localization in France somehow.
According to them, J-style dating sim for women gradually spreads among the countries except Japan. English version "Be My Princess" came first in the top sales of the entertainment category of US App Store and Asian 17 countries including Singapore.

Social city-building simulation game Pigg World distributes coupons in a virtual shop

Japanese Internet advertising agency Cyber Agent provides new O2O advertisement service in their social game Pigg World.

Pigg World is a social city-building simulation game linking virtual world Ameba Pigg. Users can play Pigg World with one's avatar of Ameba Pigg, too. Now, Cyber Agent suggests to users to build the virtual shop of Lawson of the convenience store in one's town of Pigg World.

It reproduces a real shop and users can let a resident work here.

Such an icon is displayed in a few minutes. When we clicked this...

We can get the discount coupon number of the roll cake. And we go to the real shop with this coupon number near at hand.

Lawson has a self-service electronic ticket dispensing system Loppi. When we input a coupon number on a screen of Loppi, the coupon that a roll cake becomes cheaper 30 yen is published.

Yummy! By the way, this is one of the popular sweets of Lawson.

Cyber Agent cooperated with many companies and shops until now in Ameba Pigg. Those most built the virtual shop and were to offer the virtual goods which reproduced real products. However, they offer the service that progressed from them more. They intend to promote the sale of the real product as well as virtual goods.

Social game suit war: Japanese social game developer Grani fights against gloops entirely

A real-time battle is the prosperity now in Japanese social game market. However, it occurred in the reality world, too. I wrote that Japanese social game developer gloops charged Grani yesterday.

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Grani announced the press release about this today. According to it, they deny all the contents of the accusation of gloops. They insist that they developed all including specifications and the source code in themselves. Furthermore, they insist that gloops disturbs their business, and think about charging gloops reversely.

It is rare that an intense accusation battle happens in this way in Japan. This will become the fierce battle like their social games.

Know-how platform of the Japanese DIY---TECSHAR

I sometimes make figure models.

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I wrote the procedure in vsmedia and here until now. However, I examine it to write it in TECSHAR from now on.

TECSHAR is a platform sharing know-how of DIY. Users can post procedure of every DIY such as Design, illustration, handicrafts, electronic work, 3D data, 3D print goods, gadget etc...(well, the things which readers of O'Reilly's magazine Make: seem to like). It just opened today, but has some post.

This is the first service of Japanese startup Techin. They perform service and a project about DIY mainly on a 3D print technology. They are going to provide education service "Tech In Academy" with upgrading of TECSHAR. In addition, Techin is the startup which Japanese serial entrepreneur Kazuma Ieiri established.

Hello Kitty came in to LINE's virtual world LINE Play!

KAWAII!!

Mobile virtual world of Japanese messaging apps LINE "LINE Play" started the tie-up with characters at last. The first is Hello Kitty.
LINE Play tie-up with companies and artists until now.

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The tie-up with characters is similar to them. However, anyway it's cute! We can meet Hello Kitty through own's avatar.

Furthermore, we can play in her room, play Gacha and get various Hello Kitty virtual goods.

I think that this attracts a lot of LINE users and helps global expansion of LINE Play. Because Hello Kitty is in the whole world.

Square Enix established a development studio in Indonesia

Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. established a development studio PT. SQUARE ENIX SMILEWORKS in Surabaya, Indonesia.

SQUARE ENIX SMILEWORKS is the first Southeastern Asian subsidiary of Square Enix. They have already performed administration and the artwork drawing of social games of the Square Enix group.

In addition, they developed the mini-game of 2D virtual world Nicotto Town which a Smile Labo, one of the subsidiaries of Square Enix ran. They develop the new network game from now on. As the part, they are going to release an Indonesian version of Nicotto Town.

Many people miss this, but this is big news. Nicotto Town is the well-established virtual world of Japan. The number of the users are one-tenth of Ameba Pigg, but They open earlier than Ameba Pigg and continue service solidly more than 4 years. Japanese Virtual world have not succeeded until now any place other than Japan. Because virtual goods business was not established(purchasing will of Japanese virtual goods and the virtual currency is crazy!). However, a market and users of rising nations evolve every day. Probably SQUARE ENIX expect for it.