Tetris 99 (NSW)

TETRIS 99 テトリス99 ©2019 Nintendo Version: Nintendo Switch (NSW) Publisher: NINTENDO CO., LTD. Production: Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development Division (EPD) - Production Group No.1 Development: ARIKA CO., LTD. NINTENDO CO., LTD. Additional Work: SUPERSWEEP CO., LTD. KITEKISS STUDIO INC.

Producer: Hitoshi Yamagami Ichirou Mihara (Arika) Assistant Producer: Akira Kinashi Director / Lead Game Designer: Akito Kitamura (Arika) Director: Ryuichi Nakada Assistant Director: Yuki Sakamoto Game Design: Makoto Hasebe (Arika) Kazuya Koshimuzu (Arika) Art Director: Tatsuya Ushiroda (Arika) Ayako Okubo (KiteKiss Studio) Graphic Design: Masashi Take (Arika) Kazumi Iguchi (Arika) Concept Design: Kuniaki Ito Lead Programmer: Hitoshi Hirashima (Arika) Game Program: Akira Kurabayashi (Arika) Takaaki Kato (Arika) Fumito Ushimaru (Arika) Kei Inoue (Arika) Narumi Uetsuki (Arika) Network Program: Shinichi Masuda (Arika) Kimihiko Shimomura Naoya Hirota Ryuhei Hirota Shigeki Yamamoto Takeshi Wakasugi Taketo Konno Yu Nishikawa Network Infrastructure: Tomomitsu Aoki Josiah Purtlebaugh Hiroyasu Morimoto Technical Support: Shinichi Masuda (Arika) Koichiro Hirano Sound Director: Teruo Taniguchi (SuperSweep) Composer: Teruo Taniguchi (SuperSweep) Takahiro Eguchi (SuperSweep) Fumihisa Tanaka (SuperSweep) Ayako Saso (SuperSweep) Shinji Hosoe (SuperSweep) Sound Effects: Teruo Taniguchi (SuperSweep) Testing: Takeshi Tamura Asuka Nishiura Mario Club Co., Ltd. NOA Localization Management: Nate Bihldorff Reiko Ninomiya Rich Amtower Tim O'Leary Scot Ritchey Morgan Ritchie NOA Localization: Lauren Ammerman Marjolaine Drouin Dan Fazio Kento Oiwa Yanett Cepeda Valor Thaddée Wiseur Álex Zarza NOA Product Testing: Kirk Buchanan Sean Egan Trace Gordon Tom Hertzog Zaher Khan Andy Kolden Tomoko Mikami Kentaro Nishimura Ivan Samoilov Spencer Stoddard Jacob Tapia Robert Thomas Manna Yamasaki NOA Product Testing Technicians NOE Localisation Production: Iván Garrido González Liam Higgins Saskia Doorschodt NOE Localisation: Pierre Sanchez Marco Guasco John Mullen Sabrina Jouillat Gurvan Le Guen Frithjof Koepp Sascha Weinard Giovanna Prati Anna Tarantini Sofía Marín Aguilar-Galindo Elizabeth Sánchez León Dmitiri Kaleov Anton Ivanchikov Pole to Win UK Ltd. (London Studio) NOE Quality Assurance: J. Ignacio León López Stefania Montagnese Yannick Carrey Laurence Uhlen Matthieu Lamouroux Manuel Tants Swen Harder Veronica Casi Gabriele Cuscino Laura Soto Toral Rik Boerma Stijn Lebon Alla Zinevych Iar Havenka NHL Localization: Claudia Chan Natalie Yu Sean Shen NHL Quality Assurance: Eiju Umemura Digital Hearts Co., Ltd. iQue Localization: Keisuke Fukushima Zhang Xi iQue Quality Assurance: Xu Ming Digital Hearts Co., Ltd. NOK Localization: Hyokjin Jung Dongyeon Kim Jihyuen Kim Soonil Kim NOK Quality Assurance: Kiung Seong Kyoungim Na Special Thanks: Masaru Tajima Tomoyoshi Yamane Takeshi Hayakawa Takeshi Kawasaki Daisuke Nakamura Jeff Miller Andrew Hall Project Manager: Shinji Watanabe (Arika) General Producer: Shinya Takahashi Executive Producer: Shuntaro Furukawa Akira Nishitani (Arika)

Development Notes: Show More Tetris 99 an updated version of the tile-matching puzzler franchise Tetris. Incorporating elements of the battle royale genre, Tetris 99 has up to 99 players competing simultaneously to complete rows with falling tetrominoes, which in turn send attacks in the form of "garbage rows" to other players with the goal of knocking them out of the game. While the Tetris formula and license were originally created outside of Nintendo, the company has licensed and developed renditions of the intellectual property on several occasions including the Game Boy and Nintendo DS releases. This version was conceived by Nintendo EPD and mainly developed by Arika. It was originally published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch in February 2019 with an updated retail version releasing later that year. The battle royale concept came from veteran Nintendo designer Ryuichi Nakada, who previously helped design Tetris Attack and Pokémon Puzzle Challenge. Yamagami, Nakada, and EPD Production Group No.1 enlisted the services of Arika to help develop the game. Interview Excerpts: Show More Interview Excerpt# 1 4 Gamer - May 2019 An official interview conducted by Japanese gaming website 4 Gamer with Nintendo's Akira Kinashi and Ryuichi Nakada. I worked as the director, but I was involved in other duties such as the drafting and planning stages. In the past I have worked on the Metroid series, WarioWare: Touched! And also Luigi’s Mansion 2. (Nakada) I worked as the producer on Tetris 99 and also looked after the merchandising side of things. (Kinashi) The planning started in April 2018. In our company the development team meets once a week to discuss new ideas for games. That ended up being the inspiration for this one. (Nakada) We discussed in those meetings about how popular the Battle Royale genre had become, but someone also said it was time we made another Tetris game. Those two ideas instantly came together and we thought a Battle Royale Tetris game would be fun. (Nakada) I thought that since I wanted to play that type of game I also wanted to make that type of game. At that time I already had this idea floating around in my head of one game panel being the focus on the screen, but with the screens of other players being lined up beside. (Nakada) We came up with the idea in April 2018 and I showed off that concept screen at the end of that same month. In October the work on the early tests was completed, and we worked on the final build, which we then released in February 2019. (Nakada)

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