Games, the Contents and the Economy in Korea

泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   A Unique and distinctive video game   Recently I participated in a video game-related event named investment market. In spite of the high-sounding title, through this event, investees introduce a game which is in the making and create a vision to raise money and investors listen to a presentation and see the displays to look for better investment destinations. However, the question comes to mind whenever I attend this type of event is what the difference between a new game and existing ones is although every developer emphasizes distinction and uniqueness of the game. Some of them don't even talk about 'fun' which is the most important factor in the game.   "This product is small and light and easy to carry around. Also, it looks good with a pretty shape. Men and women of all ages can easily use it. Consumers can buy it throughout the country." ...

泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   A legend of mecha design talks about pets   It has already been one year since I have written this column. Looking back the past year, a topic related to the article, which I wrote by this time last year, came into my mind. It was about a new challenge. I'm a venture capitalist who specializes in video game investment. But the game is not the only one I invest in. Today I want to talk about other content. Recently the domestic gaming industry thrives on stereotyped themes of games. The materials are like you've heard of them somewhere: fantasy, monster, magic, knight, evocation, auto-battle, etc. If a player reads an introduction of a game without image, it's even hard for the gamer to recognize whether he/she played it before or not. I'm a fan of Shōji Kawamori, a Japanese anime creator. His new theater anime Animal Detective Kiruminzoo, which is about ...

泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   Video game development and investment   I have mainly written about domestic video game developers hoping that they will be able to commercially successful with a good-quality game. But, it may sound like an excuse, I'd like to make harsh comments for game makers this time. Recently I went to a conference-like meeting for content producers and developers. There were a large number of manufacturers and content providers complaining about investors. In short, the complaints can be summed up in four ways. Firstly getting investment is no different from taking out loans with high-interest rates due to overly conservative investment conditions. Secondly, in spite of detailed explanations, investors cannot well understand a good point of the content because they lack the ability to evaluate it. Thirdly investment firms mostly refuse to invest in new content whose sales performan...