{"id":30588,"date":"2024-05-08T17:07:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T08:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=30588"},"modified":"2024-05-08T17:07:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T08:07:54","slug":"danganronpa-creator-taking-a-big-gamble-on-making-a-game-he-will-actually-own-the-rights-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/danganronpa-creator-taking-a-big-gamble-on-making-a-game-he-will-actually-own-the-rights-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Danganronpa creator taking a \u201cbig gamble\u201d on making a game he will actually own the rights to\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kazutaka Kodaka<\/strong>, the creator of the Danganronpa franchise and writer of Master Detective Archives: Rain Code, recently shared\u00a0 musings on his personal X (formerly Twitter) account about the latest title he is\u00a0working on. Apparently, one of Kodaka\u2019s goals with the project is to create a game that he will own full copyright to.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u4eca\u307e\u3067\u50d5\u304c\u4f5c\u3063\u305f\u3042\u3089\u3086\u308b\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u306b\u3001\u305f\u3068\u3048\u3070\u539f\u4f5c\u6a29\u3067\u3042\u308b\u3068\u304b\u8457\u4f5c\u6a29\u307f\u305f\u3044\u306a\u6a29\u5229\u306f\u5c11\u3057\u3082\u6301\u3063\u3066\u306a\u3044\u3002<br>\u5951\u7d04\u671f\u9593\u4e2d\u306b\u304a\u91d1\u3092\u8cb0\u3063\u3066\u4ed5\u4e8b\u3057\u3066\u3001\u5951\u7d04\u304c\u7d42\u308f\u3063\u305f\u3089\u7d42\u308f\u308a\u3067\u3059\u3002<br>\u307e\u3042\u3001\u4f5c\u3063\u305f\u30d7\u30e9\u30a4\u30c9\u3068\u611b\u306f\u6b8b\u308b\u3057\u3001\u597d\u304d\u306a\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u3092\u4f5c\u308c\u3066\u5e78\u305b\u3060\u3051\u3069\u3002\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Kazutaka kodaka\/\u5c0f\u9ad8\u548c\u525b (@kazkodaka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kazkodaka\/status\/1787991503115329659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Post translation:<em> <\/em><\/strong><em>I don\u2019t hold any form of copyright to any of the games or original scenarios I have created so far. I get paid to work for as long as I\u2019m under contract, and when the contract is over, I\u2019m out of the picture. The pride and love I feel as a creator remain, and being able to create the games I want makes me happy. However, I want to make at least one game that I will properly hold the rights to. While this involves the gamble of funding production, I want to make a game I own the rights to as a culmination of my work.<\/em>\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The creator explains that his work so far has been transactional, leaving him with no form of rights over the scenarios he has written or titles he has been involved in so far. Kodaka was affiliated with Spike Chunsoft until 2017, and it seems that while he was given the freedom to create the games he wanted to, he was not left with anything officially to his name. Expanding on the topic, Kodaka <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kazkodaka\/status\/1788003004932858283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quotes his post<\/a>, mentioning his currently-in-progress game: \u201cTherefore, the title I\u2019m working on right now will be just that! It\u2019s a big gamble, and there are lots and lots of difficulties\u00a0related to funding and workload, but it\u2019s shaping up to be a crazy (too crazy) good game, so please look forward to it!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While evidently faced with some obstacles, the creator seems confident about the quality of his next work. The \u201ctoo crazy\u201d (too\u72c2) Kodaka uses in the tweet is a reference to Too Kyoo Games, the studio he founded together with other former Spike Chunsoft employees back in 2017. This includes Zero Escape series creator Kotaro Uchukoshi and Danganronpa illustrator Rui Komatsuzaki.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in January this year, Kodaka had teased a \u201ccrazy\u201d game he was <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240119-25834\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">working on obsessively<\/a> without stopping, and his use of the hashtags #\u6975\u9650 (en: extreme) and #\u7d76\u671b (en: despair) were taken as a sign that Kodaka he was talking about the Extreme x Despair<strong> <\/strong>collaboration project with Kotaro Uchikoshi that was initially announced back in 2018.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creator of the Danganronpa series does not own rights to any of the games he has worked on, but aims to change that with his next title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":30592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-30588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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