Visual Art's

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 ( 雅 ) 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

• VisualArt’s official website (Japanese)
• Official product website of VisualArt’s (Japanese)
• VisualArt's Motto Official Website (Japanese)
• Official website of Visualstyle magazine (Japanese)
• VisualArt’s official channel on YouTube (Japanese)
• Kinetic Novels Official Website (Japanese)

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.