Faster than SnapChat! Japanese messaging apps SeeSaw deletes photo in 1 sec

hw say "What for?". You are absolutely right! :D
Japanese classified advertisement, publication and human resources company Recruit Holdings released funny messaging application for  smartphones "SeeSaw".

SeeSaw is apps to communicate with friends with photos(There is a doodle function). Seemingly this looks like a copy of Snapchat, and most of its functions are the same. However, the big difference is photos deletion speed. SeeSaw deletes photos in a minimum period of 1 second. What can we confirm in only 1 second?! Furthermore, we can set photos watching time only 8 seconds even the longest. In the meantime, it is faster than Snapchat. May the Japanese discover the new communication using this?

Japanese former main Social Networking Service mixi entered the messaging apps

Japanese former main Social Networking Service mixi is out of condition now. They fell to a deficit at last in this term. The profit of the social games does not increase, and active users continue decreasing, too. They perform various measures to change this situation, but when I say honestly, most of them are copy of LINE. They released messaging apps for smartphones "mixi Talk".

This is the service that expanded the message function of mixi. mixi users can chat, message switching and sticker switching and images sharing. Well...there are not the particularly new functions. More ideas are necessary for their revival.

DeNA publishes a credit card of social game platform Mobage

Probably this is a social game industry's first example. DeNA publishes a credit card of their social game platform Mobage. The name is "MOBAGE CARD".

MOBAGE CARD is a credit card for Mobage users 20 years or older, and the annual convention costs of the first year are free(Annual convention costs of 1,312 yen are necessary after the next year). Usually, When we use the credit card, some percent of use amount of money is paid cash back. However, it's paid in virtual currency Moba Coins in MOBAGE CARD. Moba Coin is virtual currency of Mobage and used in various social games. Furthermore, virtual goods of social games are offered to users as a privilege of the credit card in future, too. This is a new trial to put a credit card, a virtual currency and virtual goods together. In addition, VISA, overseas travel insurance and shopping insurance are attached to this.

News Flash: Legendary rock band KISS cooperates with SEGA's mobile social game

If I remember correctly, this is the first time that KISS cooperates with a social game. Today, SEGA's subsidiary SEGA Networks announced that rock band KISS cooperates with their game apps for smartphones  "Demon Tribe".

Demon Tribe is one of the luxury apps in game apps of SEGA Networks. It is a Defense of the Ancients(DotA) style game, and players become the agents with ability to transform themself into a daemon and fight against evil daemon army corps with friends. As can be seen in these videos, most of the graphic are full 3D.



Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley appears for this game as a daemons. KISS hold Japan tour this month. So, this may be a tie-up to it. They will announce the followup from now on.

Japanese game company Index which went bankrupt is purchased by SEGA

I wrote it about Japanese game company Index having gone bankrupt.

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This disturbance was finally settled. SEGA obtains all their business by transfer. There was insolvency of approximately 24,500 million yen in Index, but their game business still grew up. So they looking for a sponsor and intended to continue game business. SEGA established new company SEGA Dream and signed on a business transfer with them. Index releases games with SEGA sequentially from now on.

Cool wearable device: Japanese startup Logbar announced ring type device

This is wearable device which is the coolest in Japan now. Japanese startup Logbar announced ring type device "Ring". What kind of device is this? Check this video.


Ring -Shorcut Everything- from Logbar on Vimeo.

This is really cool. Furthermore, it is smaller than glasses type wearable device and is simple. They release this in 2014 and show API for a developer.

[TGS 2013] The indie game that was the coolest in Tokyo Game Show 2013 "TENGAMI"

Indies game area was the coolest in this Tokyo Game Show. Furthermore, TENGAMI was the coolest among them.

TENGAMI is an ambitious adventure game of British indies developer Nyamyam. The characteristic is the beautiful artwork which reproduced feel of a material and pop-up book of a delicate Japanese paper.

In Toyko Game Show, we were able to play the demo version of the sea and the forest.

When we open the book on the writing desk …

The start screen of the game is displayed. What beautiful! pop-up book is completely reproduced in iPad!

In TENGAMI, to advance in the next scene becomes the demystification. A device of pop-up book is hidden in each scene. We fold the scene and open it and move to the next scene. It is a novel experience.

Furthermore, this expresses Japan exactly. Usually, most of games about Japan are strange funnily. They do not understand Japanese culture, and it is not unusual for Japan, China, Korea to be mixed. However, artwork and BGM of TENGAMI are completely cool. Because the development team is constructed by a Japanese and a British8Japanese team in Okinawa). The indies game development beyond the border is still rare in Japan.

TENGAMI is released for iOS, Mac, PC and Wii U. I look forward to the release of this game. Please check this video.

[TGS 2013]Arcade rhythm game that Aomori fights with Hokkaido "Aomo-rhythm"

Visitors do not pay attention there, but overflow in fantastic games of students in the game school area. It's "Aomo-rhythm" of Kanagawa Institute of Technology to have been the strangest in them.

Because it was too original, they became the topic in Twitter, and the booth was prosperous very much.

Aomo-rhythm looks like an usual arcade rhythm game at a glance. However, the concept is individual. This is "Aomori beats up Hokkaido"

Aomori and Hokkaido are prefectures in northern Japan both. However, Hokkaido is much bigger than Aomori. At first, Students devised a game to greatly raise Aomori. Well, this should have become the upbringing game first.

However, a certain student said that peninsulas of Hokkaido and Aomori are like the arm. They are surely characteristic form. The imagination of students spread from there and It finally became the concept that peninsulas fight :D

Beginning of the game, Hokkaido hurl their special products and strike Aomori.

Aomori defends it to rhythm. By the way, BGM of the game is a musical accompaniment of famous summer festival of Aomori "Nebuta".

Hokkaido fights against Aomori intensely. Bone was fitted in peninsulas and worked  smoothly.

Oh! The peninsula of Hokkaido became the fist! :D

However, Aomori won! The area of Hokkaido becomes narrow by the number that we tapped a button to rhythm exactly.

This is developed by Unity. I wish that this becomes the game application for smartphones.

[TGS 2013]The goods of Kan Colle were extreme popularity on the business day

The many game goods are sold in Tokyo Game Show and we can buy them even business day. In many goods, simulation game for PC "Kan Colle" was particularly popular.

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Only people who belong to the game industry and press can enter the business day of Tokyo Game Show. Nevertheless...

Sold out, Sold out, Sold out... The goods of Kan Colle were sold out from opening in only 10 minutes! Now, It is difficult to distinguish a general gamer from people belonging to the game industry.

Interestingly, Kan Colle does not get profit by the charging in the game. There are the virtual goods sale, but they are small sums very much and there isn't Gacha. However, Kan Colle earn by various real goods. This business model is right similar to Angry Birds and Nameko Saibai Kit.

[TGS 2013] Voltage in Otome Game Area(area of games for women)

Tokyo Game Show of this year made a lot of new exhibition areas. In them, Otome Game Area was very interesting. "Otome" means a young girl in Japanese. Well, this is an area of games for women(most are dating sim for women).

Japanese smartphone game developer Voltage exhibited in a cute booth.

It is totally like accessories shop and the miscellaneous goods shop! I have not watched the booth of such a style in conventional Tokyo Game Show. We were able to play 6 smartphones apps of dating sin for women including works for foreign countries here. Of course all players were women.

In addition, they decorated smartphones for plays.

Usually, nobody pays attention to the backside of the smartphone for plays! :D They were particular about "for women" thoroughly.

Furthermore, they prepared special service.

There are a lot of booth babes in a booth in Tokyo Game Show. However, there were booth boys in their booth. This was a blind spot. Why weren't there booth boys until now in Tokyo Game Show? This is very unfair for women. If there are booth babes, there should also be booth boys.
Of course they were very popular with women and photographed much.

[TGS 2013] The smallest booth, only one game apps, and a lot of booth babes! --Geisha Tokyo Entertainment

On September 19 - 22, Tokyo Game Show 2013(TGS2013) was held at Chiba, Makuhari Messe. This expanded the scale every year, and the number of this exhibitors was the most. The recent tendency is that there becomes much exhibition of mobile social games. They were completely familiar this year.

Meanwhile, there was the company that became a topic by only one game apps and smallest booth. This is Geisha Tokyo Entertainment. They exhibited only iOS game apps "Brain Training Quest 2"(It is the sequel to this). Usually, such a booth is not looked at. However, they became the big topic in Twitter at the moment when the first day of TGS 2013 began. Why?

Yes! a lot of sexy booth babes!

There are a lot of sexy booth babes in TGS. However, usually, there are most of them in the big booth of the big company. Companies exhibiting in a small booth do not have enough expenses to allot for personnel expenses.

However, Geisha Tokyo Entertainment mobilized booth babes of 30 people for only one game apps. This is unprecedented in a history of TGS. The population density per 1 booth was biggest! :)

Of course we were able to play a game in a booth. However, all booth babes cheered us while we played a game "Go for it! Go for it!". It is very embarrassed! :D Therefore I fired mistakes.

In addition, many photographers arrive to TGS to photograph such booth babes, but they exhibited only on a business day(therefore they became the topic still more). Their personnel expenses might be high, but would be proper for an advertising cost.