Vanillaware (ヴァニラウェア有限会社, Vanirawea Yūgen-gaisha) is a Japanese video game developer. Previously, they were known as Puraguru from 2002 until 2004, when they renamed as Vanillaware. The studio's past projects have specialized in 2D, or sprite-based, game design. They have garnered positive attention from fans and game media alike for embracing 2D game design in a market dominated by 3D games. Vanillaware has developed 2 games for the PlayStation ...
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Vanillaware (ヴァニラウェア有限会社, Vanirawea Yūgen-gaisha) is a Japanese video game developer. Previously, they were known as Puraguru from 2002 until 2004, when they renamed as Vanillaware. The studio's past projects have specialized in 2D, or sprite-based, game design. They have garnered positive attention from fans and game media alike for embracing 2D game design in a market dominated by 3D games. Vanillaware has developed 2 games for the PlayStation 2 and one for the Wii. The company was formed from members of the Atlus project team which had developed Princess Crown for the Sega Saturn in 1997.
Vanillaware was originally founded under the name Puraguru in February 2002 by former employees of Atlus, including game director George Kamitani and two others, who had all previously been part of the development team of Princess Crown for the Sega Saturn in 1997. At the time, Kamitani was working for Square Enix as developmental director for their PC title Fantasy Earth: Zero, and had...
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