Square Enix has already shown this week it is willing to embrace new platforms by announcing Final Fantasy III will be a launch title for Ouya. But the company also looks to be developing a more wide-reaching game that doesn?t rely on any one hardware platform or operating system.
The latest issue of Japanese video games magazine Famitsu has a number of RPG announcements this week, but the one that caught my eye is a comment from Square Enix?s Ryutaro Ichimura.
The Dragon Quest VIII and Dragon Quest IX producer stated that he is currently working on a ?hardware-free game? described as an action RPG. Hardware free to me means browser-based, as it?s the only way you can really develop a game free of hardware constraints. He also mentioned playing on mobile devices, but switching to a ?prettier? screen when you get home. Again, something that would be handled best in a web browser on different platforms and levels of performance.
Square Enix has already embraced browser-based gaming to some extent with the development of Facebook games. There?s also been a collaboration with Bigpoint Games to develop the browser game creation destination Gameglobe. It doesn?t seem too much of a leap then, for the developer to create a new action RPG that you play in the browser.
Free-to-play, microtransactions, and possibly even a tie-in to an existing game series could all be on the cards, although an ?all new? action RPG suggests that?s not the case. And with Japanese developers/publishers eager to attract Western gamers, it?s unlikely to be limited by a Japan-only release.
Depending on how far along in development Ichimura?s game is, we could be hearing a lot more about it before the year is over. I?d at least like to know what the name of this mysterious hardware-free game is.
via Andriasang
Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/games/square-enix-developing-browser-based-action-rpg-2012081/
yelp huntsville al channel 2 news adrienne bailon yelp stock honda classic news channel 5
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.