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Masahiro Yamamoto joins Idea Factory [Mass Exodus at N1?]

Started by MechaGS, September 30, 2013, 02:32:56 PM

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http://www.ideaf.co.jp/news/2013/0930/



Idea Factory has announced that they have contracted Masahiro Yamamoto to lead a new RPG project for the PS Vita which will be published by Compile Heart in 2014. Masahiro Yamamoto was previously a long time Nippon Ichi developer who worked as the main programmer and a game designer on many lead titles starting from Disgaea 2, before leading the design and direction of recent Nippon Ichi titles such as Zettai Hero Project, Disgaea 4, and The Guided Fate Paradox.



This is a teaser of the design images from the new RPG he's working on for Idea Factory:





Japanese blogs picking up on this story have pointed out that there was a big Nippon Ichi scandal rumor on 2ch way back in June. Someone posted details about a mass exodus from "Company N" with the following details (I've filled in the blanks for obvious references):



QuoteMr.Y (Masahiro Yamamoto) who was in charge of D (Disgaea) and KP (KamiPara), along with almost all the development staff including the main programmer have resigned. The Executive Mr.K and the North American Corporate Head Mr.A, along with their subordinates have also left the company. The above mentioned are making something similar for Company I (Idea Factory).



Mr.K who worked on the D (Disgaea) spinoff D2 has also left the company with a subordinate who was working on the recently announced project A (Arcadias). They have joined Company M.



About half of the development team currently developing a game for the eternal next game protagonist A (Asagi) have also left the company. The project is at a stand still.



Considering the confirmation of the first part of the rumor, this sounds pretty bad for the future of the company.



Originally from NeoGAF