So we also started to borrow from a more colourful woodblock art design that’s used in traditional Japanese art - ukiyo-e, and we made it a hybrid fusion between those two elements. But as we were developing the game, we felt that there were different kinds of elements of the game design that couldn’t be captured with just that one art style and in single colours. Masaki Yamanaka: “The initial concept was to draw on sumi-e, which is an ink-based style used in China and Japan that uses monotone and distinctive brush strokes. “Yes there’s some original – Platinum has this amazing sensibility, you’ve got to include some of their original creations – but for anything that’s a kappa or anything that’s a tengu or something that’s super super traditional we’re going to make this as absolutely authentic as possible, right, and go back to that 1776 book by Toriyama Sekien and actually use those illustrations as inspiration for the concept art, for the models, so that essentially, you don’t have to know about these creatures to be able to appreciate them.” On Platinum Making a Mobile Game "Our vision is to focus on originality and action, regardless of platform." - Atsushi Inaba Atushi Inaba: “I think it’ll actually be the first title you’ll be seeing from us, but it’s not actually the first mobile title that we’ve worked on, and… as a developer our vision is to focus on originality and action, regardless of platform, so I don’t think that it was really a shift for us going into mobile per se… we wanted to create a quality action game regardless of what it was for.”Īndrew Szymanski: “This has been a great opportunity to have this sort of synchronised cultural background, where we can - instead of other properties that are done for Japan where they actually take the yokai and change them up a little bit and play around with them to make them fresh for the Japanese audience - we wanted these to be as traditional as possible, and that was something that Platinum was very passionate about and I 100% agree with.
What can you guys do?’ And that’s when Yamanaka-san came up with this idea – we’ll do samurai versus yokai, with oni and this whole kind of traditional worldview and that blew me away… The action element was there from the very beginning… and then Platinum brought that traditional element and proposed this world, and it’s something that I immediately fell in love with.” So this was a really auspicious confluence of events where I essentially came to Platinum and said ‘I want to do an action game on mobile. I’d been working in consoles games for a long time in my career, but I never felt there was anything on a touch device that had that level of fluidity, that level of responsiveness, and I couldn’t think of any better company in the world to do that than Platinum. Controls are built from the ground up for touchscreen devices.I hope you enjoy the extra insight, and be sure to read the World of Demons overview feature first!Īndrew Szymanski: “My goal initially was to bring action to touch devices. Gameplay-wise we note reactive dodging and parrying as well as sword-based combo attacks and exciting finishing moves - much like what you'd expect to see from Platinum Games. The visual style is inspired by traditional Japanese ink painting and woodblock prints, an art style that's very easy to look at. More specifically against corrupted Yokai, and you'll also collect Yokai to fight on your side. World of Demons pits samurais against spirits, or Yokai, a popular theme in Japanese folklore. The game is set in the world of Japanese folklore and could very well be regarded as some kind of spiritual successor to Okami (a game developed by several key Platinum figures prior to Platinum Games being set up), mainly due to the visual style. Platinum Games is partnering with established mobile publisher DeNA to "bring the authentic action game experience you've come to expect from us to your mobile devices".
Platinum world of demons android#
An Android version is planned for release later this year. The game is scheduled to hit iOS (iPhone and iPad) this summer it'll be a freemium title.
A new mobile game called World of Demons has been unveiled by the highly respected Japanese developer Platinum Games.
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