BitSummit, Japan’s main indie recreation pageant, has unveiled the primary spherical of stage programming for this yr’s occasion, together with Ultimate Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu, and Clovers designer Hideki Kamiya.
Uematsu will headline together with his band conTIKI, joined by chiptune pioneer and Sport Boy Digital camera creator Chip Tanaka and composer OkanP.
Additionally becoming a member of the stage are business veterans Hideki Kamiya, Boku no Natsuyasumi (aka My Summer time Trip) creator Kaz Ayabe, and Jiro Ishii, creator of the favored 428: Shibuya Scramble.
In a uncommon public look, Boku no Natsuyasumi creator Kaz Ayabe (Natsu-Mon! twentieth Century Summer time Trip, Assault of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Story) will communicate at BitSummit about his profession.
Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya might be joined by Crystal Noda, the creator of the Noda Sport collection of celebration video games, for a dive into “the evolving position of know-how and individuality in recreation growth”.
Capping off the bulletins is Shibuya Scramble Tales, a newly unveiled narrative recreation by Jiro Ishii, who’s greatest recognized for the live-action title 428: Shibuya Scramble.
BitSummit was based in 2012 by the Japan Unbiased Video games Mixture (JIGA) – consisting of Q-Video games, Skeleton Crew Studios, Pygmy Studio and BlackSheep – with the goal of selling attention-grabbing Japanese indie video games to a world viewers.
Whereas the primary day of BitSummit (July 19) is a enterprise day, the weekend dates of July 20-21 might be open to most people, with tickets on sale now.
Tickets may be purchased from the Ticket Pia web site. Japanese attendees can use this hyperlink to purchase tickets, whereas abroad guests can use this hyperlink, which gives full data in English.
As has been the case for numerous years now, VGC is the western media accomplice for BitSummit and you may anticipate full protection of the occasion on these pages, because it occurs.
