F2
From Game Developer Research Institute
F2 Company Limited (エフツウ株式会社) is a consulting company run by Fumio Kurokawa (黒川文雄). [1] Kurokawa was involved with the production of the Bandai Pippin ATMARK system [2]; as a result of that involvement, F2 set up a production team to develop games for it. Kurokawa was also the president of the publishing company Culture Publishers, the originators of the Simple 1500 series of budget-priced games. (Culture Publishers later sold its game business to D3 Publisher.) [3]
Most of the game development staff moved over to BEC around 2000, forming the core of BEC's Kanbe-gumi team.
Research Methods: Actual mentions, shared staff
Hybrid (Windows/Macintosh)
- Mouryou Senki Madara M-file (JP Publisher: Kadokawa Shoten) [4]
- Direction, Visual Design: Compo Graphics; Technical Direction, Programming: Pict; Some Editing: Studio Wow!
PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16
- Color Wars (production cooperation) (JP Publisher: Coconuts Japan)
- Developer: Tomcat System; Sound Direction: Gess Combinant
- Fujiko F Fujio no 21emon: Mezase! Hotel-Ou (JP Publisher: NEC)
Pippin/Macintosh
- Victorian Park (JP Publisher: Bandai Digital Entertainment)
- Game Interface Design: Ashby; Some Sound Effects: Twofive
PlayStation
- Iwatobi Penguin Rocky x Hopper (JP Publisher: Inprore)
- Character Design, Some Voice Casting: Polygon Pictures; Some 3D Background Design: Meak
- Iwatobi Penguin Rocky x Hopper 2: Tantei Monogatari (some production? 3D animation direction? additional character design?) (JP Publisher: Culture Publishers)
- Developer: Infini Entertainment Technology; Character Design: Polygon Pictures; Some 3D Animation, 3D Modeling: Toshiba; Sound: Joedown
- Purumui Purumui (JP Publisher: Culture Publishers)
- 3D Movies & Backgrounds: Siliwood
- Simple 1500 Series Vol. 8: The Solitaire (JP Publisher: Culture Publishers)
Windows
- Gundam 0079: The War for Earth (translation) (US Publisher: Bandai)
- Developer: Presto Studios
- Victorian Park (JP Publisher: Bandai Digital Entertainment)
- Game Interface Design: Ashby; Some Sound Effects: Twofive
Links
- Official website (Japanese)
- Official website (Internet Archive Wayback Machine) (Japanese)
