AD Vision Enters Videogame Industry With Un-convention-al Game
This morning A.D. Vision, North American publisher of popular Japanese anime like Debutante Detective Corps and All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku, announced its first video game effort – an electronic take on the anime conventions sweeping the nation.
AD Vision went to the trouble of obtaining many of the major con licenses: Otakon, Anime Expo, Anime Boston, Toronto-based Anime North will all be available.
Players will initially be allowed to choose from three main characters, each with their own special power: the casual fan with his deodorant, the shrieking yaoi fangirl, and the hentai fanboy whose nose launches a thick stream of blood at the sight of any female. Rumored unlockable characters include the unpaid and very angry volunteer and a friendly tentacle monster.
Players will roam the halls of the convention floor and participate in various minigames. Some of these include watching poorly subtitled anime, singing Japanese karaoke, surviving the smell in the poorly-ventilated gaming rooms, and buying merchandise and costume pieces at the dealer’s room. Through the magic of the Internet, any transactions that take place in the game will actually be processed and charged to the player. “We like to think that this enhances the player’s immersion in a realistic con experience” explains John Ledford, AD Vision’s founder, president, CEO, and only employee. “We also like their money.”
The players will be able to customize their characters with any costume pieces they find or buy. “If you want to dress up a large hairy man in a school girl outfit, we are going to let you do that!” laughs Ledford.
The game, titled ‘Anime Convention - Kawaii Kawaii Fun Happy Time’, will allow otaku wannabes to live the con experience without shelling out the $40 entry fee, and will launch on PS3 and Xbox 360 in time for the 2007 con season with an MSRP of $49.99.