Kairosoft

Kairosoft
Industry Video game
Founded 1996 (original)
September 2007 (incorporated), 2014 (large business)
Founder Kazuyuki Usui (currently)
Headquarters Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Number of employees
 450[1]
Website kairopark.jp

Kairosoft (カイロソフト) is a Japanese video game developer located in Tokyo, Japan that has created a number of simulation games for cell phones and PCs. Founded in 1996, the company has developed a number of mobile games for the Japanese market and has found success in porting them to the modern iOS and Android operating systems.[1] The company was ranked 30th in Pocket Gamer's "top 50 developers of 2012" list.[2]

History

Kairosoft was founded as a dōjin games developer in 1996, and is currently located in the Nishi-Shinjuku district of Tokyo with only nine employees at the start and now they have 450 employees.[1] They started out developing simulation games for the Windows platform, the first of which was released in 1996 and simulated a used bookstore, and another example was the original Game Dev Story released in 1997, with a sequel released in 2001.[3] In 2001, Kairosoft switched to developing mobile simulation games for the Japanese cell phone market, which was much more developed than America's.[1][4] The company was incorporated in September 2007, and launched a new website on November 4, 2008.

With the release of Game Dev Story for iOS and Android in 2010, Kairosoft found itself a large hit, which reached the top ten in iPhone app sales in its first week.[5] Kairosoft continued to port over games that it had previously developed for other platforms. Pocket Gamer ranked Kairosoft 30th on its "top 50 developers of 2012" list, calling Kairosoft games a "genre in their own right" but noting that they still were mostly a niche in the market.[2] Now they are releasing a port of World Cruise Story for the Windows 10 platform.

List of games available in English

List of untranslated games

Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 10

Mobile

PC

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Brown, Mark (August 5, 2011). "Kairosoft: Game Dev Story's game dev story". Wired. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
  2. 1 2 Jordan, Jon (February 26, 2012). "The PocketGamer.biz top 50 developers of 2012: 30 to 21". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
  3. ↑ Lada, Jenni (June 1, 2012). "Important Importables: Kairosoft". Technology Tell. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  4. ↑ Nicholson, Brad (November 30, 2010). "'Game Dev Story 2' Coming To iOS, But Not 'Soon'". Touch Arcade. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
  5. ↑ Cowan, Danny (October 19, 2010). "Top-Grossing iTunes Apps: Cartoon Wars 2, Game Dev Story Enter Charts". Gamasutra. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
  6. ↑ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.kairosoft.android.magazine_en&referrer=utm_source%3Dkairopark%26utm_medium%3Dhouse_ad%26utm_campaign%3Dtext
  7. ↑ Jonathan (November 7, 2013). "Pocket Harvest Walkthrough Guide for Beginners". Retrieved November 7, 2013.

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