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|This interview was conducted on | |This interview was conducted on March 3rd 2010, during the course of a press event in Cologne, held by Headup Games, the German publisher of Blazblue: Calamity Trigger. It was conducted by Adrian Ruth (Kuroko) and David Huggele (ATG) for www.hardedge.org, the biggest German Fighting Game community. Before the interview, Tomo Ohno held an introductory speech and outlined Zen United's work in Europe, emphasizing that the late European release of Blazblue: Calamity Trigger is necessary in order to gather feedback about the market, which Arcsystem Works isn't accustomed to yet. | ||
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= Interview Topics = | = Interview Topics = | ||
== Balance @ Arcsystem Works == | |||
''[Note: I had to reconstruct this question from memory since we didn't tape this part - ATG]''<br/> | |||
'''Hardedge:''' | |||
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Arcsystem Works is famous for their well-balanced games. Can you tell us how the balancing process works, in general? There are of course the location tests in Japanese arcades, and your own debug testers. But who is the first person to make balance decisions? | |||
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'''Tomo Ohno:''' | |||
As i mentioned before (he is talking about his introductory speech here), whenever somebody is needed in some position at Arcsystem Works, he just fills in, there is a sense of making decisions together. It's the same when it comes to balance - we usually meet and discuss important topics together. Everybody has the right to say or present something, including all the testers. In fact, in one of those meetings, the producer of BlazBlue introduced Noel, which was his own design, and it actually dates back 10 years. He really likes that character, that's why there are almost no panty shots of her (laughs). | |||
About the location tests: Not many people know this, but we actually taped every single match that was played at the location tests, and later evaluated them. It was over 40 hours of video. | |||
== PC Version of Blazblue == | == PC Version of Blazblue == | ||
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Our focus of the pc market is actually Germany. This is our target market, since it's obiously the biggest PC market. | Our focus of the pc market is actually Germany. This is our target market, since it's obiously the biggest PC market. | ||
== Older | == Older Arcsystem Works games on XBL/PSN == | ||
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|Xbox Live and Playstation Network are very popular platforms. Have you thought of bringing older | |Xbox Live and Playstation Network are very popular platforms. Have you thought of bringing older Arcsystem Works fighting games to XBOX Live or Playstation Network? | ||
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|This is a very interesting drawing. As you can see this is just regular printer paper. On some of them - there is actually a print on the back. You know, they used misprints to work with (laughs). This is an original drawing that the main artist did. Then she hands it to the assistant artist, and he creates the animation. For example, this is litchi: This is | |This is a very interesting drawing. As you can see this is just regular printer paper. On some of them - there is actually a print on the back. You know, they used misprints to work with (laughs). This is an original drawing that the main artist did. Then she hands it to the assistant artist, and he creates the animation. For example, this is litchi: This is her animation for jump spin and land (shows us sketches of her j.B), for that you need 15 drawings. A B C and so on. | ||
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|This is very interesting. | |This is very interesting. Arcsystem Works is famous for their attention to detail. If you take Guilty Gear, you have all these single frame animation-"easter-eggs", like those of Zappa and Axl. | ||
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|The Taito Type X2 board has been pirated and Blazblue: Continuum Shift has been leaked. How bad is it; and what is | |The Taito Type X2 board has been pirated and Blazblue: Continuum Shift has been leaked. How bad is it; and what is Arcsystem Works' stance towards the whole thing? | ||
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| | |Arcsystem Works has been giving some hints in recent interviews that there might be a followup to Guilty Gear Overture. You described before how everybody at ASW is working on everything, whatever is needed, so I was wondering, is there a "Fighting Game Team" at ASW, and some other team that does all the smaller games? | ||
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easy to learn but hard to master? | easy to learn but hard to master? | ||
== Blazblue character designs and target audience== | == Blazblue character designs and target audience== | ||
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|A personal question for the end: | |A personal question for the end: Arcsystem Works did the Hokuto No Ken video game, and we all thought that it worked out really well and that Arcsystem Works' takes on other IPs a very interesting and cool. If you could pick one of your favourite mangas or movies or something else that ASW would make a fighting game to. what would it be? | ||
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|You know, Tatsunoko - I grew up with them. That was something I grew up with. strangely, when you saw the animations when you were a kid, they looked so real. You lived in that world. If you look at them now, well... (laughs) So, you know, I personally wouldn't want to see something i enjoyed so much when I was a kid | |You know, Tatsunoko - I grew up with them. That was something I grew up with. strangely, when you saw the animations when you were a kid, they looked so real. You lived in that world. If you look at them now, well... (laughs) So, you know, I personally wouldn't want to see something i enjoyed so much when I was a kid now see in the Arcsystem style. Especially since Capcom took them all (laughs) | ||
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[[Image:BB_Interview_Group_Picture.jpg]] | [[Image:BB_Interview_Group_Picture.jpg]] | ||
<br/>''Marco Cabibbo, David Huggele, Tomo Ohno, Adrian Ruth, Ruben Garcia'' | |||
''All concept art © | ''All concept art © Arcsystem Works, used with permission from Zen United & Tomo Ohno.'' | ||
= Arakune Concept Art = | = Arakune Concept Art = | ||