Floor

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Floor Co., Ltd. (株式会社フロア) was a development company in Osaka. It was established in December 1998 and was originally headed by Michinori Fukushima (福島道宣) [1], a former Tose and freelance programmer. [2]

Fukushima left and established a new company in January 2009 called Istpika. [3] Takashi Tokuda (徳田隆史) took over as president. In April 2012, Hiroyuki Kamitake (上竹博之) was appointed president. [4] In May 2012, a group of former Floor staff led by Tadashi Fukui (福井直志) [5] started a company called Booby Trap. [6]

Research Methods: Actual mentions, online resources, shared staff

Arcade

  • BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger (worked on opening movie) (AMI)

DS

  • Nippon Suugaku Kentei Kyoukai Kounin Suuken DS: Otona ga Tokenai!? Kodomo no Sansuu (JP Publisher: Rocket Company) [7]

Game Boy Advance

  • Cinnamon: Fuwa Fuwa Daisakusen (JP Publisher: Rocket Company)
Sound: Natsume
  • Cinnamon: Yume no Daibouken (JP Publisher: Imagineer)
Production, Game Design: Rocket Company; Sound: Natsume
  • Gachinko Pro Yakyuu (JP Publisher: Now Production)
  • Wagamama Fairy Mirumo de Pon! 8-nin no Toki no Yousei (some programming, some graphics; under subcontract with Jupiter?) (JP Publisher: Konami)
Production: Konami Computer Entertainment Studios

Game Boy Color

  • Data-Navi Pro Yakyuu (programming, some graphics [Floor website says "all development"]) (JP Publisher: Now Production)
  • Data-Navi Pro Yakyuu 2 (programming, some graphics) (JP Publisher: Now Production)

PlayStation

  • Block Kuzushi: Kowashite Help! / Block Kuzushi (direction, programming, graphics [Floor website says "all development"]) (JP Publisher: Media Gallop/Hamster)
Production, Planning: Now Production

PlayStation 2

  • Gachinko Pro Yakyuu (JP Publisher: Now Production)
Some Sound?: Studio Cliche
  • Sengoku Basara X (character key animation) (JP/KR Publisher: Capcom)
Developer: Arc System Works; Some Storyboarding: SIMS

PSP

  • 100-man-ton no Bara Bara / Patchwork Heroes (event animation operation) (JP/AS/US/EU Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment)
Developers: SCE Japan Studio, Acquire; Sound: Noisycroak
  • Patapon 3 (some graphics?) (US/EU/AU/AS/JP/KR Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment)

Saturn

  • Sound Qube (port from PlayStation) (JP Publisher: Human)
Sound: Studio Cliche

Vita

  • BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend (cartoon animation) (JP/AS/KR Publisher: Arc System Works; US Publisher: Aksys Games; EU/AU Publisher: PQube)

Wii

  • Petz: Catz 2 / Catz / Nyanko to Mahou no Boushi (US/AU/EU/JP Publisher: Ubisoft)

Links

Works lists [8] [9] [10]