Dear Reader:
A look inside Mikami's Tango Gameworks studio
- headquartered in a building called “The Soho” in Tokyo’s Odaiba area
- Ikumi Nakamura is a director
- staff of 35
- “Tango-chan”, the company logo, is said to be an apparition of Odaiba who refuses to go to into the ocean due to a weakness to salt. You can make Tango-chan grow by sprinkling MSG on him.
- currently seeking staff
- looking for positions such as designer, programmer, 2D/3D artist and animator
- looking for devs with experience on Wii, Xbox 360 or PS3
- company will also put forth a weekly comic “The Real Tango”
- Episode 1 is titled “Hark! The Cursed Counsel”
- first comic has Mikami telling Nakamura, “Go bash your head against the wall until you’re brain dead, then write me a new proposal.”
- “This company is fixated on making games from the viewpoint of a creator. We are gong to make a game that will make Japan proud. Tango will strive to be a company that can unify everyone’s love of games around the world.”
- company blog here