Mistwalker
| Mistwalker Corporation | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| founding | 2004 |
| Seat |
Japan Honolulu , Hawaii , United States |
| management | Hironobu Sakaguchi |
| Website | www.mistwalkercorp.com |
KK Mistwalker ( Japanese 株式会社 ミ ス ト ウ ォ ー カ ー , kabushiki kaisha Misutowōkā ; English Mistwalker Corp. ) is a Japanese game development company . It was founded in 2004 by Hironobu Sakaguchi (the founder of the Final Fantasy series) with financial support from Microsoft . Microsoft wanted to use the Mistwalker title to open up the Japanese game market. Mistwalker partially outsources the development to other development companies. This allows them to focus on the history and music of the games and to monitor the development process in general. Several former Square Enix employees who helped develop the Final Fantasy series moved to Mistwalker . The most famous collaborator besides Sakaguchi is the composer Nobuo Uematsu .
Games
- Blue Dragon (2006, Xbox 360 , in collaboration with Artoon )
- Lost Odyssey (2007, Xbox 360, in collaboration with Feelplus )
- ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat (2007, Nintendo DS , in collaboration with Racjin )
- Blue Dragon Plus (2008, Nintendo DS, in collaboration with Brownie Brown and Feelplus )
- AWAY Shuffle Dungeon (2008, Nintendo DS, in collaboration with Artoon )
- Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow (2009/2010, Nintendo DS, in collaboration with tri-Crescendo and Bird Studios )
- The Last Story (2011, Wii )
- Blade Guardian (2012, iOS , Android )
- Party Wave (2013, iOS, Android)
- Terra Battle (2014, iOS, Android)
Stopped game developments
- Cry On was announced back in 2005 and was to be developed for the Xbox 360 in collaboration with Cavia . In this action role-playing game , a person named Sally befriends a sand creature that Sally first has to carry around and support and then later grow to a gigantic size and carry Sally. The player should experience the story from the alternating perspective of both characters. The producer was Hironobu Sakaguchi and the music was supposed to be contributed by Nobuo Uematsu . At the end of 2008, the publisher AQ Interactive announced the discontinuation of the title. According to the publisher, the reasons for this were the current and future market situation.
Web links
- Official website (Japanese, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.mobygames.com: General information about Mistwalker, accessed October 23, 2009
- ↑ www.mistwalkercorp.com: Nobuo Uematsu at Mistwalker ( Memento January 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed October 23, 2009
- ↑ www.1up.com: Principle of the game - Cry On ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed October 22, 2009
- ↑ www.ign.com: Producer Sakaguchi via Cry On, accessed October 22, 2009
- ↑ www.ign.com: Discontinuation of the title Cry On.Accessed October 22, 2009
