Visual Art's

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Visual Art's
legal form Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company)
founding March 26, 1991
Seat Kita-ku , Osaka , Japan
management Takahiro Baba
Branch Computer games
Website visual-arts.jp

KK VisualArt’s ( Japanese 株式会社 ビ ジ ュ ア ル ア ー ツ , Kabushiki-gaisha Bijuaru Ātsu ) is a Japanese publisher founded in 1991 , which specializes in the publication of Ren'ai adventures for a large number of game developers. Most of these games are aimed at men.

Business areas

Game development

The company supports the game developers with game engines that they have created themselves , which represent the basic structure of the games. Well-known engines are the older AVG32 engine, RealLive engine and, since 2010 , Siglus engine. In addition, the company also takes on the sale and distribution of these games, from which it receives a proportion of the profits.

Kinetic Novel

The term Kinetic Novel ( キ ネ テ ィ ッ ク ノ ベ ル , Kinetikku Noberu ) was introduced by VisualArt's to describe an adventure game that gives the player no chance to influence the course of the game and thus continues the idea of ​​a “digital novel” that is behind many Japanese adventure games . The first game in this series was Keys Planetarian - Chiisana Hoshi no Yume (planetarian ~ ち い さ な ほ し の ゆ め ~ ).

Partner brands

Well-known brands that work for VisualArt's include Key and Ram . The developers of Key became known through Kanon , Air and Clannad , among others .

Brands
  • 13 cm, 13cc, 130 cm, Aypio ( ア ー ヴ ォ リ オ , Āvorio )
  • Amedeo
  • ASS
  • b works
  • Bonbee!
  • Catwalk, Catwalk Nero
  • Concept
  • Dress
  • EGO ( イ ー ジ ー オ ー , Ī Jī Ō )
  • Frill
  • G-clef
  • Hadashi Shōjo ( 裸 足 少女 )
  • Ham Ham Soft ( は む は む ソ フ ト )
  • Image Craft ( イ メ ー ジ ク ラ フ ト ), Oz Project, Buchizō ( ぷ ち 蔵 )
  • iris
  • Issue
  • Key
  • Kur-Mar-Ter
  • Lapis lazuli
  • LimeLight
  • Mana
  • Moe. ( 萌。 )
  • Nanasenchi ( な な せ ん ち )
  • Ningen Yūgisha ★ ( 人形 遊戯 舎 ★ )
  • Norito ( の る と )
  • Ocelot
  • OPTiM
  • Pekoe
  • Radi
  • Riffraff
  • Rio
  • Saga Planets
  • Sirius
  • spray
  • Studio Mebius, Studio Ring
  • tone work's
  • zero
  • Zion
Earlier
  • Akiko ★
  • Akumi ( 悪 美 )
  • Anfini ( ア ン フ ィ ニ )
  • Craftwork
  • Culottes ( き ゅ ろ っ と )
  • D-XX
  • Flady
  • Giant Panda (大熊猫ジ ャ イ ア ン ト パ ン ダ, Jaianto Panda )
  • Harvest ( ハ ー ベ ス ト , Hābesuto )
  • Hayashi-gumi ( 林 組 )
  • Hervest
  • Jidaiya ★ ( 時代 屋 ★ )
  • Kamen Shōkai ( 仮 面 商会 )
  • Mambō Soft ( ま ん ぼ う ソ フ ト )
  • Miss Chifu ( ミ ス チ フ , Misu Chifu )
  • Miyabi ( )
  • Otherwise
  • Pass Guard
  • Playm
  • R.A.M
  • Real deal
  • Rekkusu ( レ ッ ク ス )
  • Rex
  • Tamachudō ( た ま ち ゅ 堂 )
  • Words

music

In addition to games, VisualArt's also sells music CDs with soundtracks or singles for the games. The musicians under contract also include the record label I've Sound , which appeared in October 2005 as the first group of music producers of an eroge in Nippon Budōkan . The company's labels are as follows:

  • Blasterhead
  • Cure Records
  • fripSide
  • I've
  • Key sounds label
  • KuroCo
  • Otsu (historical)
  • Queens label
  • Voix

Porting games

Many games that were once developed for the PC are ported by Prototype to game consoles such as PlayStation 2 or PlayStation Portable . When porting games to mobile phones , the developer is known under the name VisualArt's Motto ( ビ ジ ュ ア ル ア ー ツ ★ Motto).

Online magazine

On October 26, 2007, the online magazine Visualstyle went into operation, which is published monthly in the form of a Flash application .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Technical Support Page. VisualArt's, February 12, 2010, accessed February 9, 2011 (Japanese).
  2. キ ネ テ ィ ッ ク ノ ベ ル の 世界 へ よ う こ そ! (No longer available online.) VisualArt's, archived from the original on January 10, 2007 ; Retrieved July 23, 2008 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kineticnovel.jp