Brain Training For Nintendo Switch (NSW)

Brain Training for Nintendo Switch 脳を鍛える大人のNintendo Switchトレーニング_ ©2019 Nintendo Version: Nintendo Switch (NSW) Publisher: NINTENDO CO., LTD. Production: Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development Division (EPD) - Production Group No.4 Development: NINTENDO CO., LTD. INDIES ZERO CO., LTD. Additional Work:

Producer: Kouichi Kawamoto Takayuki Shimamura Director: Kenta Kubo Staff (Nintendo Co., Ltd.): Soshi Abe Yosuke Fujino Minako Hamano Kunihiro Hasuoka Yukihiko Hayashi Masaki Horii Haruka Kakinuma Noriko Kitamura Yoshiaki Koizumi Junji Morii Sota Omiya Yuichi Ozaki Kazuki Tsukuda Hitoshi Yamazaki Masami Yone Staff (Indies Zero Co., Ltd.): Masaru Arai Shinya Ebihara Keiji Hara Yuichi Igarashi Mari Jinbo Taeko Kuroda Jun Maruyama Giichiro Matsumoto Masahito Muta Yasuhiro Nakamura Tsukasa Okayasu Masanobu Suzui Nobuaki Tanaka Yasuhito Wakabayashi Hirotaka Watanabe Yuuki Yamada Masahiro Yanaka Katsunori Yazawa Special Thanks: Shinya Fujiwara Hiroki Hamaue Yasuyuki Ikeda Takeshi Kawasaki Yoshiyuki Makino Yoshifumi Masaki Takafumi Masaoka Takumi Masuda Daiki Moriyama Kazuyoshi Ohsawa Shinji Okane Shuhei Oshita Yuichi Shimoda Koji Sonoyama Rika Sugo Ryo Tanaka Akitoshi Taniguchi Tomoaki Toyama Masaki Wada Takeshi Wakasugi Kenji Yamamoto Shinya Yano Yoshito Yasuda Yuta Yoshimoto DIGITAL HEARTS CO., LTD. Finger Recognition Development Team MARIO CLUB CO., LTD. Nintendo European Research & Development SAS NintendoWare Bezel Engine Development Team SRD CO., LTD. Supervisor: Ryuta Kawashima General Producer: Shinya Takahashi Executive Producer: Shuntaro Furukawa

Development Notes: Show More The Nintendo Switch version was developed by most of the original team, lead by the original director and now producer - Kouichi Kawamoto, with additional development from Indies Zero. Nintendo's game director, Kenta Kubo, drafted several proposals and presented them to Dr. Kawashima, as possible ideas for the next project. Ultimately, the development team started by porting the original DS game over to the Nintendo Switch, where they then began experimenting with some of the new hardware features to create new Brain Age content. Interview Excerpts: Show More Interview Excerpt# 1 Nintendo JP Homepage "Nintendo Topics" - September 2019 An official interview conducted by Nintendo of Japan's website editor with Dr. Ryuta Kawashima and development staff from the game. (Kouichi Kawamoto, Kenta Kubo from Nintendo Co., Ltd.) The reason I started this project was because I overheard several people express their desire to play a Brain Age again, without knowing I was the person in charge of the original DS Brain Age. (Kawamoto) Since the release of Brain Age: Concentration Training for the Nintendo 3DS, I've discussed several proposals for the franchise with Dr. Kawashima. (Kubo) The reason I started this project was because I overheard several people express their desire to play a Brain Age again, without knowing I was the person in charge of the original DS Brain Age. (Kawamoto) Since the release of Brain Age: Concentration Training for the Nintendo 3DS, I've discussed several proposals for the franchise with Dr. Kawashima. (Kubo) 15 years ago, when I was still in my college art program and started to play Brain Age, it was such a fresh game and it appealed to several people who did not normally play games. (Kubo) We began this project by remaking the original Brain Age on the Nintendo Switch. Then we looked at new hardware features and ideas to push the game forward. (Kubo) Originally, we proposed having a live action representation of Dr. Kawashima in the game, but our Manager [Shinya Takahashi] thought that wasn't an interesting idea. Takahashi suggested we use a polygon model in the style of the last boss of the original Star Fox. (Kawamoto)

INFOBOX Version: Nintendo Switch (JP/EU) Source: Game Credits. Nintendo JP. ← Back to Production Archive ← Back to Personnel Database ← Back to Developer Listing ← Back to Home