Artoon

Artoon

Type	Private
Founded	August 27, 1999[1]
Headquarters	Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan[2]
Key people	Naoto Ōshima (Founder)[1]
Industry	Video game industry
Parent	AQ Interactive
Website	Artoon's official website

Artoon is a computer and video game third-party developer established in 1999. The team is primarily affiliated in the United States with recent and current Microsoft Xbox and Xbox 360 projects, although they have also worked with Hudson Soft and Nintendo on other platforms. Key Artoon personnel include Yoji Ishii, Manabu Kusunoki, Hidetoshi Takeshita, Yutaka Sugano, Masamichi Harada, Takuya Matsumoto and Naoto Ōshima. When the company formed, it drew personnel and talent from several of Sega's development teams, particularly those which worked on Sonic the Hedgehog (created by Ōshima), and Panzer Dragoon. Currently, the developer has approximately 85 employees. The company's focus is to create original game content for various consoles^[2].

Artoon is currently situated in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. A secondary studio is maintained in Naha, Okinawa prefecture, Japan

Games developed by Artoon

• Game Boy Advance
  • Pinobee: Wings of Adventure (2001)
  • Pinobee and Phoebe (2002)
  • Ghost Trap (2002)
  • The King of Fighters EX: Neo-Blood (2003)
  • Yoshi's Universal Gravitation (2004)

• Nintendo DS
  • Yoshi's Island DS (2006)
  • Away: Shuffle Dungeon (2008)
  • The World of Golden Eggs: Nori Nori Rhythm-kei (2009)

• PlayStation
  • Pinobee (2003)

• PlayStation 2
  • Ghost Vibration (2002)
  • Swords of Yi | Swords of Destiny (2005)

• PlayStation 3
  • Vampire Rain: Altered Species (2008)
  • echocrono (2009)

• PlayStation Portable
  • echocrono (2009)

• Xbox
  • Blinx: The Time Sweeper (2002)
  • Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space (2004)

• Xbox 360
  • Blue Dragon (2006)
  • Vampire Rain (2007)

• Wii
  • The World of Golden Eggs: Nori Nori Rhythm-kei (2008)
  • Span Smasher (2009)

References

External links

• Artoon's official website