Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-25515245-20151225173330

I have no idea where to put this?..... but yea here's an interesting interview with the CEO of Happy Elements: http://gamebiz.jp/?p=154520

ATTENTION: Please read on if you want to be spoiled, as I'll be noting some things from that article.

-Points from the Interview- (HappyEle... why... did you create this abomination of a game.... someone should have stopped them then...) They have many staff that likes AMG content, so they can observe what types of patterns are usually popular. Hence the characters were designed to fit a wider audience and not just the tall and cool men that are everywhere in otoges. ("頭身が高くて、顔が格好良くて" is his exact description) E.g,*at the start of development*
 * Their staff increased from 100(including part-timers) to 80 since Feb. Nice....
 * only 25 staff for Ansuta??!??!??!!
 * Considering players who aren't too good at games in mind, they made ansuta's game play easy, so that everyone can enjoy the characters and story easily. At the start the opinion was to make it a rhythm game.
 * A few female illustrators on the team wanted to draw ikemen, after having worked on female-centered games wwwww hence female-targeted Ansuta was planned
 * the interviewer mentioned that having it planned from the illustrators was unusual, then the CEO replied (if i'm reading his reply correctly) they looked at the popular sales ranking for smartphone games/apps targeted at female audience, and noted that there weren't any titles that found huge success. so they wondered if there was even a market for these games/apps. But they thought "since there's none, let's make it ourselves" and took up the challenge.
 * Ansuta was actually planned to be a mixed-media project right from the start, but they didn't have any particular solid plans for anime/butai/etc then, so they decided to just release the game first and see how it goes.
 * On the topic of what do you think is the appeal of the characters:
 * their "ensemble" series were never meant to be a love-focused games, but rather youthful fun stories.

- do we really not need the love element?

- We don't need it

- Aa, i see.... (wwwwww) (the rest of the lines are talking about job-related stuff, which is unneeded info. Cause if you can't read that yourself then you most likely don't fulfill the basic language qualifications to apply for th- I MEAN--- what a lovely day)
 * they are currently looking for engineers.... just leaving this out here...
 * Do look forward to Ansuta anime, butai, Merc's 2 year anniversary and the release of the new app Last Period!

oh my god this was supposed to be a super short summary lol.

-Ansuta-related Spoilers from the photos- - Theme guesses: Phantom Theif(hat and mask), Alice in Wonderland (mad hatter) - Theme guess: Aristocrats, (a friend mousou-ing him on a white horse wwww)
 * Masked ANATA NO HIBIKI WATARU with a fancy top hat?? Should be drama club scout right... /squints at small blondish chibi in the back. Tomochin my boy is that you.
 * New illustration for more Ra*bits merchandise??!!??
 * In the same image there's a screen with a character clad in red, it looks like a costume concept design. I get Kaoru vibes from it somehow....

Should this even be here idk if it's not then someone delete this, sorry for the trouble! idk where to share these things with the eng comm sorry! >.< 