ArtPlay

Jan 23, 2016 22:40:46 GMT -6 Valtiel said:

Well I'm confused. This is the first time I've even heard of ArtPlay. I was under the impression that Bloodstained was Iga's main project, his "full time job" in a sense, developing it with Inti Creates. But after reading this thread it appears that he's mainly doing other stuff and only works on Bloodstained on the side (I'm assuming in a more advisory role). Do I have that correct? And also, two different teams are making the game?

• IGA & Ben Judd toured around trying to get Bloodstained funded. There were actually fliers teasing the Bloodstained project over a year ago.
  
• They were having trouble getting takers and as IGA was unemployed (after leaving Konami) and had a family, he had to take a job.
  
• IGA signed up with a company called ArtPlay. It is primarily a mobile company with its main branch in China.
  
• He signed up with the condition that he could still do other work relating to passion projects. ArtPlay would give him the time and flexibility to do that though they wouldn't give him any funding.
  
• Eventually a deal with Deep Silver was worked out and Bloodstained happened.
  
• Recently we learned that there are two ArtPlay branches, IGA runs/owns the branch in Japan, and all the members of the Japanese branch (4) are working on Bloodstained at their primary (sole?) project.

Hopefully that clears things up. As far as I can tell Bloodstained is IGA's #1 priority. It was just the nature of ArtPlay, his position in it, etc. turned out different than what we thought/learned back during the campaign.