Cing
This article is about the Japanese video game developer. For the radio station in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, see CING-FM.
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video Game Industry |
| Founded | April 1999 |
| Headquarters | Fukuoka, Japan |
Key people | Takuya Miyagawa, CEO/President |
| Products | Trace Memory Hotel Dusk: Room 215 Glass Rose |
Number of employees | 29 (as of Jan. 2006) |
| Website | http://www.cing.co.jp |
Cing (シング) is an independent video game developer based out of Fukuoka, Japan. The company, a small development house employing only 29 people, was founded in April 1999, and is currently run by Takuya Miyagawa, who serves as President and CEO. Miyagawa also acts as producer on all of Cing's titles.
Since releasing a PS2 title in 2003 and a handful of mobile titles in 2004, Cing has enjoyed a close working relationship with Nintendo. Their last two projects were created in cooperation with the publisher for their Nintendo DS handheld system. Cing has also unofficially announced an upcoming title for Nintendo's new home console, the Wii, which will likely release in a tentative 2008.[1]
History
Founded on April 2, 1999, Cing was created as a means of providing gamers with new and unique video game experiences. The studio's first project was providing the core production for CAPCOM's Glass Rose, an adventure title for Sony's PlayStation 2. Unfortunately, despite having Masahiro Matsuoka's likeness (from the popular Japanese pop group Tokio) for its main character, the title failed to prove successful at retail and was never localized in North America, but did see a European release. Following this, Cing went on to create five separate titles for mobile phones in Japan, including an adaptation of the popular farming simulation series, Harvest Moon.
In early 2005, Cing released the adventure title Trace Memory (Another Code: Two Memories) for the DS, which marked their first project produced with Nintendo. The game made excellent use of the various unique capabilities of the DS, and proved to be a fairly moderate success. The studio's latest project, Hotel Dusk: Room 215, is another adventure title making specific use of the DS functionality, including holding the system vertically to play (similar to Nintendo's Brain Age titles).
On March 13th 2007, Cing announced their next-generation video game title for the Nintendo Wii, tentatively titled "Project O". This will be a collaboration between MMV and TownFactory, two Japanese video game developers. The game has been slated for release sometime in 2008.
Games
Nintendo DS
- Trace Memory (Another Code: Two Memories) (Another Code: Futatsu no Kioku) (2005)
- Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (Wish Room: Tenshi no Kioku) (2007)
Wii
- Little King's Story (2008) (in development)
PlayStation 2
- Glass Rose (Garasu no Bara) (2003)
Mobile Phones
- Kisekaegokko (2003) (Japan Only)
- Moetan Online (2003) (Japan Only)
- Kawa no Nushitsuri (2003) (Japan Only)
- Gakka o Tsukuro (2004) (Japan Only)
- Bokujo Monogatari: Mobile Life (2004) (Japan Only)
References
- ^ "Cing working on a Wii game". Buttonbasher's Blog. 2006-09-30. Retrieved 2006-09-30.
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