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Gamasutra concludes its coverage of Lyon Games' 2006 Game Connection at Game Developers Conference with a look at four of the moreoff-beat developers in attendance this year, including a gamedeveloper that owns the intellectual property rights to a majorBritish comic franchise, secret "ninja developers" who have managedto remain anonymous through over 1,000 developed games, former SonyComputer Entertainment staffers who left their comfy offices todevelop games in a co-worker's living room, and a self-startingpunk rock studio in Santa Cruz pitching games about monkeys ontricycles and little girls with chainsaws. The following extract introduces Tose, a longstanding, secretivegame developer that has managed to remain mostly anonymous for overtwenty five years: "Founded in 1979, Tose Software is a global game developer,operating in China, Japan, and the United States. Employing overone thousand people, Tose has developed quite a few portable gamesas of late, including nineteen Sony PSP and seventeen Nintendo DStitles. In fact, Tose's entire back catalogue has surpassed 1,100 games,developed either in part or, in most cases, in full, with hardwareranging from arcade cabinets to classic consoles such as theNintendo Entertainment System, to the Japanese MSX computer, tomobile phones, and even relatively obscure portable devices, suchas the Wonderswan Color. Tose is almost unarguably the largestcompany in the world dedicated specifically to video gamedevelopment. What, you've never heard of Tose? There's a good reason for that.They don't want you to. "We're always behind the scenes," said Masa Agarida, Vice Presidentof Tose's U.S. division. "Our policy is not to have a vision.Instead, we follow our customers' visions. Most of the time werefuse to put our name on the games, not even staff names." "We're ninja developers!" he joked." You can read the full Gamasutra feature on the subject , including developer spotlights on Santa Cruz Games, Rebellion andnewcomer Machine (no registration required, please feel free tolink to this feature from external websites). Related news: Why 'ninja' developer Tose published its first game in 32 years Q&A: Tose Discusses Starfy , Industry Shifts Return Of The Ninja: Tose's Stealthy Outsourcing Progress. I am an expert from multi-touchtabletpc.com, while we provides the quality product, such as Netbook Laptop Computers Manufacturer , Qwerty Mobiles Phones Manufacturer, Multitouch Tablet PC,and more.
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