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Game Freak's Ken Sugimori discusses the creation of Mendel Palace, the company's first published title

by rawmeatcowboy
23 February 2019
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The latest video from Game Freak showcases Ken Sugimori drawing Quinty from Mendel Palace. He also chats about a number of topics while drawing, which we've covered below.

- Game Freak's first published game was Quinty, released as Mendel Palace in US
- Quinty is the titular character in the Japanese version, but she is actually the villain responsible for the kidnapping of her siste
- she did so because she was jealous of the attention that Jenny always got
- in the North American version, while Quinty still appears, she is never officially named
- in the North American version, the story is about a princess named Candy who gets stuck in her own dream world
- Sugimori’s first project at Game Freak was for Quinty
- the original sprites for Quinty were drawn on graph paper
- Sugimori and another designer were in charge of designing the characters and the pixel art for Quinty
- characters back then were designed mostly by sprite, then turned into illustrations for box art and game manual art
- not all the official art was done by the game company
- arcades would hire professional illustrators for their own art for the games

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