Iconic dev behind Danganronpa established his own studio so he could work unlimited overtime without bankrupting his company
Jul. 17, 2024Too Kyoo Games did go into debt to make The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy’s director departed his previous studio - the team behind the classic Danganronpa’s - so he could work unlimited overtime without bankrupting the company.
“The main reason was that I wanted to work on a variety of different projects at the same time, including not only video games but manga and anime as well,” the director and writer continued. “Rather than forming a huge development team, I wanted to bring together a small group of people with the easy-going idea that we could all continue earning a living as freelancers even if the company were to go bankrupt,” Kodaka continued.
Weirdly, this ties into a previous comment from Kodaka earlier this year, thatToo Kyoo Games has gone into debt making The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. The strategy game was actually canceled at a previous publisher, and so in an effort to get it out of the door, Too Kyoo Games borrowed a substantial sum of money via a loan, which it’s still working to pay back.
Elsewhere in the new interview, Kodaka explains that he wanted to do as much overtime as he wanted. Japan’s current labor laws mean that as an employee, he’s only able to work for a set number of hours, but as the boss of his own company at Too Kyoo Games, Kodaka would effectively be able to work whenever he wanted, circumventing the laws.
“Myself, Masafumi Takada (composer), Kotaro Uchikoshi (scenario writer), and Komatsuzaki (character designer) are company directors, so we can work as much as we want,” Kodaka joked.
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