News have been circulating about the departure of 3 key developers that used to work on various titles in Square Enix’s arsenal. Ikeda, Arakawa, and Shimoda left the company late last year to work at social and mobile phone gaming companies . Read more about this after the break.
Via Kotaku:
As website NovaCrystallispointed out, Ikeda was Dissidia: Final Fantasy‘s main programmer, Shimoda was Dissidia 012‘s director of planning, and Arakawa worked as a Kingdom Heartstexture director, the supervising director of Dissidia: Final Fantasy, and a graphic director onFinal Fantasy Versus XIII. While they’re not “name” developers, they are important. Or, rather, were.
The three men left Square Enix late last year. Their departure was recently noticed by Japanese bulletin board 2ch.
What makes their departure so interesting—and so telling about the state of the Japanese industry—is that the three men left Square Enix to work for social and mobile phone gaming studios: Ikeda went to DeNa, Shimoda went to Gree, and so did Arakawa.
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