Takao Hayashi, founding father of Ateam Leisure

First, Takao Hayashi from Nagoya, Aichi. When Takao’s father sadly handed away when he was solely 9 years previous, he determined to double down on his passion of coding and assist his household turn out to be financially safe. He finally launched Ateam, and after releasing varied apps and video games in Japan, his firm started to deal with enlargement into new markets. Their efforts are paying off, as real-time battle RPG Unison League has turn out to be a world hit. The Japanese artwork within the recreation has turn out to be so fashionable that some followers have even adopted the fashion of their favourite characters into their style. Subsequent, Takao desires to launch new video games and attain gamers in additional elements of the world, together with India and Latin America.

Keiji Okamoto, founding father of yukiyama

Subsequent, Keiji Okamoto from Kobe, Hyogo. Keiji labored exhausting to pursue his ardour for snowboarding all the best way to an expert stage. Nonetheless, an accident on the slopes left him with a spinal harm and the information that he would possibly by no means snowboard once more. Along with his future plans unsure and hoping to contribute to the game regardless of not with the ability to snowboard, Keiji based yukiyama: a platform the place snowsports fanatics can entry ski resort maps and observe their distances down the slopes. At the moment the app is used throughout Japan. The crew plans to make it accessible to vacationers too by localizing it to different languages. Because the app grows, so does Keiji’s sports activities profession, who now competes within the Paralympics.

Hitomi Wada, founding father of blazeworks

Now, Hitomi Wada from Kakamigahara, Gifu. Hitomi has been a fan of fantasy role-playing video games since a buddy first launched her to them as a toddler. Years later she obtained impressed to create her personal recreation, Gifu Quest, whereas exploring the enchanting sights and landmarks of the Gifu prefecture. Gamers should save all 42 municipalities from destroy and may even play a task within the recreation’s creation – with a few of their photographs of Gifu that includes within the recreation, and lots of sharing their travels to the locations that seem within the recreation below the hashtag #realgifuquest. Subsequent, Hitomi desires to create new video games and finally function the entire of Japan.

Masaomi Kurokawa, Managing Director of KEMCO

And final however not least, Masaomi Kurokawa from Kure, Hiroshima. Masaomi’s love of computer systems and gaming started again in center college, when his dad purchased him his first laptop to program. Later, in the course of the mid-2000s, he determined he needed to revive basic retro video games from his childhood. His RPG title Dragon Lapis has a attribute old-school aesthetic – with dragons, legends and battles, and is vastly fashionable with followers of the RPG-genre. His nostalgic video games have a loyal fanbase each in Japan and abroad. Masaomi has extra video games within the works and, sooner or later, desires to tackle new challenges like transferring into the app house.

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