GamesRadar was recently given an opportunity to speak with Hisashi Nogami, producer of Splatoon. During the chat, Nogami spoke about how the team wanted “to not get too caught up in Nintendo’s already existing franchises”.
He said:
“We went through a period of creating lots of prototypes. We didn’t want a franchise-based game, so we made a bunch of prototypes and one of those prototypes happened to be the game that became Splatoon. The idea was ‘something fun, something new, something different,’ not ‘a shooter.'”
Nogami also spoke about how playing other games has some impact when creating new titles:
“The development team is made up of people who play games a lot, and among them are people who play shooting games a lot, including Mr. [Yusuke] Amano, one of the game’s directors, who I’ve heard has spent his college years playing Perfect Dark. As game designers who play games, you can’t really help observing things you like and don’t like, and having those have some degree of influence on your thinking. The best way to express this is that it forms a base of thought that you bring into game development, but it doesn’t directly influence the game development.”
Gust Corporation prepared a new wave of screenshots and art from Atelier Rorona Plus: The Alchemist of Arland. Check out the full set below.
Update: Back in stock – GameCube Controller Adapter for Wii U in stock on Amazon, being sold for $30
Update 3: Down to $20.45
Update 2 (4/21): Back in stock.
Update: It took a long while, but it’s finally out of stock!
Amazon finally has additional stock of the GameCube Controller Adapter for Wii U. The thing is, you’ll have to fork over a little bit of extra cash. Amazon’s asking price is now $29.99, which is $10 more than what the accessory sold for at launch.
Still interested? If so, you can place an order here.
This is about as short as a commercial, but the ESRB rating at the beginning seems to indicate that it’s just a promo. The title on YouTube also doesn’t say it’s a commercial… so I assume it’s not!
Xavier Orion Games has shared a new video from Xavier Orion Games with the latest gameplay footage. View it below.
A French commercial has come in for Splatoon. We’ve attached it below.
Newzoo and Octoly published a new monthly YouTube Game Franchises table that gives insight into the most-viewed IPs on YouTube. Super Mario is a new entry on the list, and saw nearly 550 million views during the month of March. Almost all views stemmed from fan-made content.
Take a look at the full chart above.
Game Informer has a couple of more videos up of Splatoon. You can get a look at the game’s single-player and multiplayer modes below.
