Flipnote Studio - 2008 (NDS)

FLIPNOTE STUDIO
うごくメモ帳_
©2008 Nintendo

Version:
Nintendo DSi (NDS)

Publisher:
NINTENDO CO., LTD.

Production:
NINTENDO - ENTERTAINMENT ANALYSIS & DEVELOPMENT (EAD) - Tokyo Production Department

Development:
NINTENDO CO., LTD.

Additional Work:
HATENA CO., LTD.

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KEY STAFF:

NINTENDO CO., LTD.

HATENA CO., LTD.

  • Network: Junya Kondo, Teppei Ninomiya

NOTES:

  • Flipnote Studio is an application that allowed users to create both word-based and picture-based notes with the stylus, add sound, and combine them to create frame-by-frame flipbook-style animations.
  • Flipnote Studio started out as an "after-school project" by a small group of developers from the Super Mario Galaxy team in Tokyo, Japan.
  • The main framework was coming up with a fun idea around some type of online network.
  • Hideaki Shimizu's first prototype was essentially tool for taking notes with the name Moving Notepad, and it was considered early on as a possible WiiWare application to transmit these notes from a DS to the Wii to be shared with other users of the application.
  • After bouncing several ideas off each other, Yoshiaki Koizumi decided this project should really be an animated flipbook.
  • When the Nintendo DSi was announced, the platform became evident for the application's online framework.
  • Nintendo producer Takashi Tezuka visited the team in Tokyo during a business trip, and encouraged the team to move forward with this unique project.
  • While Iwata and Tezuka attempted to enlist Nintendo's Network Service Development Department to take care of the online platform powering the game, the group was busy and Nintendo decided to partner with Hatena Co., Ltd. to develop the server and web network for Flipnote Studio.

INFOBOX
Version: Nintendo DSi (WW)
Source: KRIRM. Nintendo JP.
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