h.a.n.d.

h.a.n.d. Inc.
Industry Video games
Founded February 26, 1993
Headquarters Sapporo, Japan
Key people
Teruaki Matoba, representative and president
Toshinori Imata, director and vice-president
Number of employees
Approximately 80[1]
Website http://www.hand.co.jp/

h.a.n.d. Inc. (ハ・ン・ド ha.n.do), abbreviation of Hokkaido Artists' Network and Development,[2] is a Japanese video game developer founded in 1992. The company originally started as a service selling Macintosh hardware and software to universities before the Mac platform was widely known. When competition in the field increased, h.a.n.d. reorganized to develop original software.[3]

h.a.n.d.'s earliest known game is Treasure Strike: Full Swing, developed in collaboration with publisher, Kid, who released the PC follow-up to the Dreamcast original in 2004. The company consists of two other divisions—North Point Inc. for the development of mobile phone apps and other software, and S.N.S. Inc. who work on social games for Facebook and Mixi for external publishers.

List of works

Year Title Publisher Platform(s) Notes
2000 Treasure Swing KID. Inc. Dreamcast
2004 Treasure Strike: Full Swing KID. Inc. PC
2005 One Piece: Pirates Carnival Namco Bandai Games PS2, GameCube
2006 Tamagotchi: Party On! Namco Bandai Games Wii
2006 Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales Square Enix Nintendo DS
2007 Ape Escape: SaruSaru Big Mission Sony Computer Entertainment PSP
2007 Tamagotchi no Furifuri Kagekidan! Namco Bandai Games Wii
2007 Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon Square Enix Wii
2007 Oishiku Kiwameru Shokutsu DS Square Enix DS
2008 Flower, Sun, and Rain: Unending Paradise Marvelous Entertainment DS Supervised by Grasshopper Manufacture.
2008 Active Life: Outdoor Challenge Namco Bandai Games Wii
2008 Cid to Chocobo no Fushigi na Dungeon Tokiwasure no Meikyu DS+ Square Enix DS
2008 Chocobo to Mahou no Ehon Majo to Shoujo to 5-nin no Yuusha Square Enix DS
2009 Harvest Moon: My Little Shop Marvelous Entertainment WiiWare Supervised by Marvelous Entertainment.
2009 Mr. Brain Square Enix DSiWare Supervised by Tokyo Broadcasting System.
2009 Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days Square Enix DS In cooperation with Square Enix.[4]
2009 Puyo Puyo 7 SEGA DS, Wii, PSP In cooperation with Sonic Team.
2009 Sliding Heroes Square Enix iPod Touch, iPhone
2010 Oyako de Asobo: Miffy no Omocha Bako Square Enix Wii
2010 Chocobo’s Crystal Tower Square Enix GREE, Facebook
2010 Kingdom Hearts Re:coded Square Enix GREE In cooperation with Square Enix[5]
2010 Active Life: Explorer Namco Bandai Games Wii
2011 Imaginary Range Square Enix iOS
2011 Sumaho Games 100 Catalyst Mobile KK. Android
2011 Decobito GREE Mobile
2011 Cocoronococoron Namco Bandai Games DS
2011 Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary SEGA DS, 3DS In cooperation with Sonic Team.
2011 Phantasy Star Eternal Planets SEGA Yahoo! Mobage
2012 Girl’s RPG Cinderelife Level 5 3DS In cooperation with Gamedo Inc.
2012 Data Cardass Aikatsu! Bandai Arcade Last update: January 21, 2016.
2012 Fantasy Life Level 5 Nintendo 3DS In cooperation with Level 5 and Brownie Brown.
2012 Tomodachi☆Dogs GREE Android, iOS
2013 Toriko GourMegaBattle Bandai Namco Games Nintendo 3DS
2013 Sennen Yusha: Tokiwatari no Tomoshibito Square Enix PC Browser
2013 Fantasy Life Link! Level 5 Nintendo 3DS In cooperation with Level 5 and Brownie Brown.
2013 Disney Magical World Bandai Namco Nintendo 3DS
2014 Guruguru Tamagotchi! Bandai Namco Games Nintendo 3DS
2014 Fairy Tail Brave Saga Taito Android, iOS
2014 Aikatsu! 365 Nichi no Idol Days Bandai Namco Games Nintendo 3DS
2014 Idol Chronicle Taito Android, iOS
2015 Disney Magical World 2 Bandai Namco Games Nintendo 3DS
2015 Aikatsu! My No.1 Stage Bandai Namco Games Nintendo 3DS
2015 JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven Bandai Namco Games PS4, PS3 Programming Collaboration.
2016 Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 Bandai Namco Games PlayStation 4 Programming & CG Animation Collaboration
2016 Bou Ningen Challenge! Bandai Namco Games Nintendo 3DS
Cancelled Chocobo Racing 3D[6] Square Enix Nintendo 3DS

References

  1. "Company Profile". h.a.n.d. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
  2. "h.a.n.d. Inc. official website" (in Japanese). Retrieved March 28, 2014.
  3. Sahdev, Ishaan (September 23, 2010). "Company Profile: A h.a.n.d. In Game Development". Siliconera.com. Retrieved 2010-10-04.
  4. IGN Staff (2007-09-26). "Kingdom Hearts DS Update". IGN. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
  5. Square Enix (2010-06-09). "SQUARE ENIX BRINGS AN UNRIVALED LINEUP OF FRANCHISES TO E3 2010". Square Enix. Retrieved 2010-06-09.
  6. Spencer (2010-09-29). "There's More To Chocobo Racing 3D Than Racing". Siliconera. Retrieved 2010-10-04.

External links


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/22/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.