https://automaton-media.com/en/game-development/ AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo. Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:10:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 https://automaton-media.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-automaton-sitelogo-120x120-1-32x32.png https://automaton-media.com/en/game-development/ 32 32 https://automaton-media.com/en/news/shuhei-yoshida-advised-expedition-33-developers-not-to-call-it-a-turn-based-rpg-due-to-negative-jrpg-stigma-at-the-time/ https://automaton-media.com/en/news/shuhei-yoshida-advised-expedition-33-developers-not-to-call-it-a-turn-based-rpg-due-to-negative-jrpg-stigma-at-the-time/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=71055 Yoshida recalled the anecdote during a lecture to indie developers on pitching their games to publishers.]]> https://automaton-media.com/en/news/shuhei-yoshida-advised-expedition-33-developers-not-to-call-it-a-turn-based-rpg-due-to-negative-jrpg-stigma-at-the-time/feed/ 19 https://automaton-media.com/en/news/debanked-adult-game-developers-in-japan-face-tax-nightmare-as-they-still-get-taxed-on-income-theyre-blocked-from-receiving-indie-creator-says/ https://automaton-media.com/en/news/debanked-adult-game-developers-in-japan-face-tax-nightmare-as-they-still-get-taxed-on-income-theyre-blocked-from-receiving-indie-creator-says/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=70647 The developer believes that receiving overseas revenue from adult games has grown significantly more difficult over the past five years.]]> https://automaton-media.com/en/news/debanked-adult-game-developers-in-japan-face-tax-nightmare-as-they-still-get-taxed-on-income-theyre-blocked-from-receiving-indie-creator-says/feed/ 2 https://automaton-media.com/en/news/we-absolutely-dont-view-our-eroge-titles-as-a-shameful-past-laplacian-explains-why-it-had-to-remove-adult-games-from-its-official-website-addressing-fan-concerns/ https://automaton-media.com/en/news/we-absolutely-dont-view-our-eroge-titles-as-a-shameful-past-laplacian-explains-why-it-had-to-remove-adult-games-from-its-official-website-addressing-fan-concerns/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:29:44 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=70433 Wasabi Ono, the CEO of Laplacian, has provided a lengthy explanation of the company's recent restructuring and reasons for removing adult games from its website.]]> https://automaton-media.com/en/news/we-absolutely-dont-view-our-eroge-titles-as-a-shameful-past-laplacian-explains-why-it-had-to-remove-adult-games-from-its-official-website-addressing-fan-concerns/feed/ 0 https://automaton-media.com/en/interviews/clair-obscur-expedition-33-director-eliminating-limitations-is-a-big-mistake-we-talk-to-sandfall-interactive-about-staying-small-japanese-influences/ https://automaton-media.com/en/interviews/clair-obscur-expedition-33-director-eliminating-limitations-is-a-big-mistake-we-talk-to-sandfall-interactive-about-staying-small-japanese-influences/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=70179 Interview with Sandfall Interactive at the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 postmortem in Yokohama, Japan.]]> https://automaton-media.com/en/interviews/clair-obscur-expedition-33-director-eliminating-limitations-is-a-big-mistake-we-talk-to-sandfall-interactive-about-staying-small-japanese-influences/feed/ 3 https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-silent-hill-f-scenario-team-at-konami-was-encouraged-to-read-100-to-200-books-a-year-according-to-producer/ https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-silent-hill-f-scenario-team-at-konami-was-encouraged-to-read-100-to-200-books-a-year-according-to-producer/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=69979 Silent Hill f producer Motoi Okamoto recently talked about the game's development in a CEDEC 2026 lecture.]]> https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-silent-hill-f-scenario-team-at-konami-was-encouraged-to-read-100-to-200-books-a-year-according-to-producer/feed/ 13 https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-ghost-developer-tose-takes-hit-due-to-cancelled-major-project-from-overseas-operating-profit-down-almost-45/ https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-ghost-developer-tose-takes-hit-due-to-cancelled-major-project-from-overseas-operating-profit-down-almost-45/#respond Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=69962 Codenamed "Project D," the title was initially put on hold in February 2026 by the client.]]> https://automaton-media.com/en/news/japanese-ghost-developer-tose-takes-hit-due-to-cancelled-major-project-from-overseas-operating-profit-down-almost-45/feed/ 0 https://automaton-media.com/en/news/next-gen-game-engine-unity-7-announced-for-the-first-quarter-of-2027-promising-seamless-transition-from-unity-6/ https://automaton-media.com/en/news/next-gen-game-engine-unity-7-announced-for-the-first-quarter-of-2027-promising-seamless-transition-from-unity-6/#respond Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:54:31 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=69853 Unity Technologies has announced its next-generation game engine Unity 7, set to release in the first quarter of 2027.]]> https://automaton-media.com/en/news/next-gen-game-engine-unity-7-announced-for-the-first-quarter-of-2027-promising-seamless-transition-from-unity-6/feed/ 0 https://automaton-media.com/en/news/developer-of-japanese-butt-controlled-fighting-game-ketsu-battler-genuinely-thought-granblue-creative-director-tetsuya-fukuhara-was-just-kidding-when-he-offered/ https://automaton-media.com/en/news/developer-of-japanese-butt-controlled-fighting-game-ketsu-battler-genuinely-thought-granblue-creative-director-tetsuya-fukuhara-was-just-kidding-when-he-offered/#respond Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=69758 Ketsu Battler creator TomozoP explains the miraculous string of events that brought Beelzebub and Narmaya into the game.]]> https://automaton-media.com/en/news/developer-of-japanese-butt-controlled-fighting-game-ketsu-battler-genuinely-thought-granblue-creative-director-tetsuya-fukuhara-was-just-kidding-when-he-offered/feed/ 0 https://automaton-media.com/en/news/generative-ai-use-among-japanese-online-game-companies-at-100-according-to-industry-survey/ https://automaton-media.com/en/news/generative-ai-use-among-japanese-online-game-companies-at-100-according-to-industry-survey/#respond Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=69604 Meanwhile, gamers' most frequently cited AI-related concerns are "copyright infringement" and "games starting to look alike."]]> https://automaton-media.com/en/news/generative-ai-use-among-japanese-online-game-companies-at-100-according-to-industry-survey/feed/ 0 https://automaton-media.com/en/news/indie-developer-says-steam-helped-fix-their-game-in-time-for-next-fest-instead-or-rejecting-last-minute-unbootable-build/ https://automaton-media.com/en/news/indie-developer-says-steam-helped-fix-their-game-in-time-for-next-fest-instead-or-rejecting-last-minute-unbootable-build/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=69419 Other indie devs have since shared similar experiences.]]> https://automaton-media.com/en/news/indie-developer-says-steam-helped-fix-their-game-in-time-for-next-fest-instead-or-rejecting-last-minute-unbootable-build/feed/ 1 https://automaton-media.com/en/game-development/each-ability-feels-like-it-could-have-been-the-central-mechanic-of-its-own-game-we-ask-a-fellow-developer-what-makes-nte-neverness-to-everne/ https://automaton-media.com/en/game-development/each-ability-feels-like-it-could-have-been-the-central-mechanic-of-its-own-game-we-ask-a-fellow-developer-what-makes-nte-neverness-to-everne/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=69403 Indie-Us-Games CEO Masahiko Nakamura talks about the the strengths of NTE: Neverness to Everness from a dev's perspective.]]> https://automaton-media.com/en/game-development/each-ability-feels-like-it-could-have-been-the-central-mechanic-of-its-own-game-we-ask-a-fellow-developer-what-makes-nte-neverness-to-everne/feed/ 2 https://automaton-media.com/en/interviews/suda51-and-ueda-fumito-discuss-their-game-design-philosophies-the-inherent-violence-of-action-games/ https://automaton-media.com/en/interviews/suda51-and-ueda-fumito-discuss-their-game-design-philosophies-the-inherent-violence-of-action-games/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:49:50 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=69161 Roundtable discussion with Romeo Is a Dead Man director Goichi Suda and ICO, Shadow of the Colossus creator Fumito Ueda.]]> https://automaton-media.com/en/interviews/suda51-and-ueda-fumito-discuss-their-game-design-philosophies-the-inherent-violence-of-action-games/feed/ 4