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Application Engineer at Geisha Tokyo Entertainment Inc.

Residing in Tokyo, Japan.

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Misunderstanding "Konpu Gacha"  Featured Blogs
Posted by Saul Gonzalez on Tue, 08 May 2012 09:14:00 EDT in Social/Online
Konpu gacha are getting a lot of attention at the moment, yet I've seen the konpu gacha mechanism explained incorrectly in the Western media again and again. Konpu gacha is a special case of the more general gacha, and I'll try to explain the differences.
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Comment In: Under threat of regulations, Gree announces plans to self-police its social games [News - 05/18/2012 - 04:24]

I think the investor flight ...

I think the investor flight is unjustified. Kompu gacha are just one of the many tools of the trade for designers. It is an older mechanism and only a small percentage of sales depend on it. Newer mechanics such as card fusion and time-limited guild events are more relevant now. ...

Comment In: Japanese social game networks take a hit over regulation concerns [News - 05/18/2012 - 12:35]

This article, like many others, ...

This article, like many others, contains factual mistakes about the konpu gacha mechanism and what is actually being considered for regulation. I 've tried to clear the facts on a blog post: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/EnriqueGonzalez/20120508/169944/Misunderstanding quotKonpu Gachaquot.php

Comment In: A new game platform on an unexpected place: Your wrist [News - 05/18/2012 - 05:31]

Are we on the threshold ...

Are we on the threshold of inventing the shaketone I can see a need for different apps to have different vibrate patterns so the user can tell which kind of notification they 're receiving without looking at the screen. Imagine the skin memories.

Comment In: Defender's Quest: By the Numbers [Feature - 05/18/2012 - 12:00]

The Proun developer himself called ...

The Proun developer himself called the Pay what you want experiment a failure. He said he was sure he would have made several times more money with a more traditional model.That said, I would agree that setting a minimum that 's not 0 is important, as explained by Lars in ...

Comment In: Opinion: Share your knowledge or suffer the consequences [News - 05/18/2012 - 04:14]

If this were universally true, ...

If this were universally true, then how could the culture of sharing that exists in the Western side of the industry and that this article is trying to protect ever come about r nHow come you have a plethora of books, articles and blogs posts that range across a wide ...

Comment In: Emotional Poems: Mizuguchi's Expanding Future [Feature - 05/18/2012 - 12:00]

1 AAA hardcore big games ...

1 AAA hardcore big games are becoming more and more about the entrenched incumbents. New IPs are rare, and new genres non-existent. These are the signs of a space in stagnation and decline. r n r n2 With expanding scopes and budgets, is the hardcore console market enough to sustain ...

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