French Bread (game developer)

Soft Circle French-Bread
Native name
 フランスパン
French Bread
Industry Computer and video games
Predecessor Watanabe Seisakusho
Headquarters Japan
Key people
Products Melty Blood
Website www13.plala.or.jp/french/
Footnotes / references
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/フランスパン_(同人サークル)

French Bread (known as Watanabe Seisakusho prior to 2003) is a Japanese video game developer best known for their work in fighting games, particularly the Melty Blood series. The studio started off as a dōjin circle and has largely focused on fighting games, with a few older exceptions such as Bike Banditz. Their newest release, Under Night In-Birth, was released in September 2012.[1] An updated version of the game titled Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late was released in Summer 2013. French Bread collaborated with Sega and Ecole Software to develop a fighting game titled Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax.[2]

Games developed

As Watanabe Seisakusho

Title Year Platform(s) Notes
The Queen of Heart '98 1998 Microsoft Windows Features characters from To Heart
The Queen of Heart '99 1999 Microsoft Windows Features characters from Leaf games
The Queen of Heart '99 Second Edition 2000 Microsoft Windows
Punch Ayu-chan! (あゆちゃんパンチ!) 2000 Microsoft Windows
Demon Hunter Mai 2000 Microsoft Windows Features characters from Kanon
The Queen of Heart '99 with Second Edition 2001 Microsoft Windows
Party's Breaker: The Queen of Heart 2001 2001 Microsoft Windows Features characters from Comic Party
-AIR- Flight (えあふり 観鈴ちん危機一髪) 2001 Features characters from Air
Melty Blood 2002 Microsoft Windows
Drill Milky Punch[3] 2003 Microsoft Windows Features characters from Âge games
Glove on Fight 2003 Microsoft Windows Features characters from various dating sims, anime, and dōjin games.
Bike Banditz 2003 Microsoft Windows
Melty Blood Re-ACT 2004 Microsoft Windows

As Soft Circle French-Bread

Title Year Platform(s) Notes
Melty Blood Re-ACT Final Tuned 2005 Microsoft Windows
Melty Blood: Act Cadenza 2005 Sega Naomi In collaboration with Ecole Software
Melty Blood: Act Cadenza (PS2) 2006 Playstation 2
Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ver. B 2007 Microsoft Windows
Ragnarok Battle Offline 2007 Microsoft Windows
Glove on Fight 2: Gleam of Force[4] 2008 Microsoft Windows
Melty Blood: Actress Again 2008 Sega Naomi
Lilian Fourhand 2009 Microsoft Windows Features characters from Maria-sama ga Miteru
Melty Blood: Actress Again Current Code 2010 Sega RingWide
Melty Blood: Actress Again Current Code Ver.1.05 2011 Sega RingWide
Melty Blood: Actress Again Current Code Ver.1.07 2011 Sega RingWide
Melty Blood: Actress Again Current Code (PC Version) 2011 Microsoft Windows
Under Night In-Birth 2012 Sega RingEdge 2
Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[5] 2013 Sega RingEdge 2/PS3[6] Balancing update to Under Night In-Birth. Adds two new characters to the roster, and two new characters exclusively for consoles.
Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax 2014 Sega RingEdge 2 In collaboration with Sega and Ecole Software.

References

  1. ↑ Toyad, Jonathan Leo (February 6, 2011). "Melty Blood creator gives birth to new 2D fighter". GameSpot. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
  2. ↑ http://gematsu.com/2013/10/dengeki-bunko-fighting-climax-developers-revealed
  3. ↑ http://www13.plala.or.jp/french/dmp.htm
  4. ↑ http://www13.plala.or.jp/french/gof2.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.siliconera.com/2013/05/26/melty-blood-developer-upgrading-under-night-in-birth/
  6. ↑ http://gematsu.com/2014/04/night-birth-coming-ps3-japan-july

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