The creator of the Danganronpa collection says reside service video games ought to present gamers with a correct ending once they ultimately shut down.
In an interview with Automaton, Kazutaka Kodaka mentioned present reside service title Tribe 9, an motion RPG which Kodaka created however is ready to close down in November regardless of solely being a number of months previous.
As a result of he’s nonetheless dedicated to the sport’s plot, Kodaka has introduced Neo Neon Tribe, an unofficial and non-profit ‘doujin circle’ (fan group) the place the storyline will ultimately be completed.
In keeping with Kodaka, the gamers who took half in Tribe 9 need to have closure, somewhat than the sport closing down whereas the story remains to be ongoing.
“When an IP you created inevitably fails as a enterprise, nothing a lot might be achieved there,” he mentioned. “Nevertheless, I consider that [as developers] we’ve got to discover a technique to supply our gamers a honest conclusion.”
Kodaka mentioned he believes that whereas no developer units out to make a reside service sport that may shut down rapidly, they need to determine early on how they’re going to finish the sport if (or somewhat when) it will definitely does occur.
“After all, [while] creators can’t actually go about making a sport below the idea that it will finish providers, it’s considerably inevitable,” he defined.
“However I do consider that, as a manner of taking duty for creating the sport, one of many issues creators needs to be excited about once they begin engaged on their challenge is the right way to wrap it up no matter what occurs to it.”
Though he solely got here up with the story for Tribe 9 and didn’t truly develop the sport itself, Kodaka mentioned he felt this duty because the co-creator of the IP. The Neo Neon Tribe group will full the story by way of an online novel, and can then proceed to develop the world with unofficial non-profit works, with the blessing of the sport’s writer Akatsuki.
