
Atlus would repeat this feat with Dragon's Crown years later. At the end of 1995, while working on Princess Crown, the development company went bankrupt, but thanks to a friend at Sega that introduced him to Atlus, the project was saved, an action for which he is still grateful to Atlus. He decided to left Capcom because he felt he would never be able to direct a game in the company due to the great amount of talented people that were there already.Īfter his stay in Capcom, he joined a small game company at the invitation of a former senior classmate. Kamatami's departament worked mostly on action side-scrolling games. Kamitami worked in the last one and it had a lasting effect on his future works. Predator and Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom. It was in Capcom where he developed a profound attachment to 2D games as it was the height of 2D arcade games such as Capcom's Vampire, Alien vs. Akira "Akiman" Yasuda was also Kamitami's boss at Capcom's design department. In Capcom, Kamitani was a subordinate of Yoshiki Okamoto, producer of the original Street Fighter II.
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Let's get to it.Īfter graduating from college and moving from Hiroshima to Osaka, Kamitani joined Capcom around 1992 because he wanted to learn how to direct a game project. No need to drive by and criticize X & Y parts of the write-up if you believe they are inaccurate.
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I do this on my free time to keep this board interesting and engaging - we all love games, after all. I am an adult, gainfully employed enthusiast with just a tiny, tiny bit of experience in the industry and in Japan.Feel free to add your content (videos, screenshots, etc.), but let's credit all content creators we mention and.I have purposefully avoided listing mobile titles and not yet released games - I believe it's better to focus on their dedicated gaming console catalog.are more than welcome, but let's try to keep it insult and politics-free Discussions about technical aspects, plot beats, etc.Since my old GAF Dev Spotlight thread for Yasumi Matsuno was recently necro-bumped, and it's been a while, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to do the #2 thread in this series, this time focusing on Vanillaware's George Kamitani.Ī few ground rules I would appreciate if we all could follow:
