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[IGN] Ikumi Nakamura announces her new studio, Unseen

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Ikumi Nakamura, the fan-favorite director previously of Bethesda's Tango Gameworks, has revealed her new studio, Unseen. In an exclusive interview with IGN Nakamura says her studio will be multicultural, and its games will focus on her interests in mystery, horror, sci-fi, and the supernatural.

Nakamura announced Unseen today with a trailer that introduces her vision for the studio. "The Tokyo studio acts as a terminal," Nakamura explains. "A place where different cultures intersect. A hub for artists to gather. We want to transcend various medium beyond the realm of video games."
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While she wouldn't go into detail about Unseen's first game, Nakamura confirmed that it's begun development in some form, and that "we are putting a lot of care into the setting and characters."

"I want to make a game with characters that reflect real-life personalities and minorities," she added, "with an open-minded setting that represents multiple cultures."
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As for what kind of game it will be, Nakamura hinted that she'd like to focus on her own pop culture interests: "I like mystery, I like horror films, I love zombies, and the supernatural and science fiction – I find these genres fascinating, and I'm good at them, so I want to keep working on games related to these subjects."

Interestingly, Nakamura isn't just thinking of Unseen as a game development studio. As she hints in the announcement trailer, Unseen will aim to work in a variety of mediums, and she explained more to IGN.

"I don't want to think only in terms of video games; I want to make new IP that can work as a variety of entertainment media," she said. "For example anime, education, apparel – I'd like to make a game that can have an impact on those kinds of media too, and to grow carefully."
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Fan Favorite Ex-Bethesda Director Ikumi Nakamura Introduces New Studio, Unseen - IGN

Ikumi Nakamura has revealed her new studio, Unseen. In an exclusive interview with IGN the fan-favorite developer says her studio will be multicultural, and its games will focus on her interests in mystery, horror, sci-fi, and the supernatural.
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Helix

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Woah, let's fucking go! hopefully she continues to delve into Survival Horror with their works
 
cw_sasuke

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Wish her and the studio best of luck - the industry is brutal so i hope they can make it work.
 
Santar

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Great that she's finally revealed her new studio!
Though already talking about branching out to a media franchise is not exactly what I want to hear from a dev.
Just concentrate on making a game that is just a good game first. IF the game is successful all the other bonus avenues of revenue will come naturally.
I do wish her and her studio the best of luck though!
 
Print_Dog

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Great name. I hope everything goes well. I'm looking forward to seeing what their first project is.
 
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Ikumi clearly has a great creative mind for horror.

Hopefully having her own studio will help with her mental health.
 
Dremorak

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The way she talked about how each person will be a specialist and also a generalist is also how smaller indie companies work so it will be interesting to see how that concept shakes out in a larger company
 

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Wish her luck. Always nice to see new studios coming out in the industry.

I will say having your studio/company focus on multiple mediums before shipping a single product has always been strange to me.
 
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That's a sweet Devilman button down she's rocking in that video.

The logo looks too similar to the Army's 3rd Infantry Division for me tho.

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spman2099

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Sounds good. I can't wait to see the first game they put out. Unfortunately, it feels like we are going to be waiting quite some time. Either way, I'm rooting for them.

On an unrelated note, I made the mistake of reading some of the comments on the IGN article. Sometimes I can find this place to be a little frustrating, but then I see that shit and I remember why I primarily post here. Gamers fucking suck.
 
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Santar said:
Great that she's finally revealed her new studio!
Though already talking about branching out to a media franchise is not exactly what I want to hear from a dev.
Just concentrate on making a game that is just a good game first. IF the game is successful all the other bonus avenues of revenue will come naturally.
I do wish her and her studio the best of luck though!
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The other media part is the only aspect that gave me pause since that's quite a lot to take on but otherwise I'm happy and optimistic to see her start her new studio.

Seeing new JP studio start ups is heartening to see for the Japanese games industry and I hope them all success.
 
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