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428: Shibuya Scramble Developer Jirō Ishii Launches Crowdfunding for New Game

428: Shibuya Scramble game developer Jirō Ishii launched a crowdfunding campaign on the Japanese website Ubugoe for a new live-action adventure game also set in Shibuya. Ishii is developing the project with screenwriter Yukinori Kitajima (BBK/BRNK, Brynhildr in the Darkness). The project is an "all-or-nothing" campaign and will not earn any funds if the crowdfunding goal is not met.

The cast for the game features returning members from previous Ishii games including Masakazu Arai and Fumio Kitagami.

The crowdfunding page for the game describes the game as an ensemble drama with multiple protagonists and an "altruistic" game design where the characters impact the other storylines in a meaningful way.

The campaign will officially begin on May 28 and end on July 25.

The 428: Shibuya Scramble game shipped on the Nintendo Wii in 2008, on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable in 2009, on the iOS in 2011, and on Android in 2013. Japanese game magazine Famitsu awarded the game a perfect score, the ninth game in the magazine's history to achieve the feat. Spike Chunsoft published the game for the PlayStation 4 and for PC via Steam in English.

Kōichi Nakamura and Ishii (Under the Dog creator, BBK/BRNK series composition) created and wrote 428: Shibuya Scramble's story. Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi of Type-Moon (Fate/stay night, The Garden of Sinners, Tsukihime) wrote and contributed character designs respectively to a bonus scenario in the game. P.A. Works' 2009 CANAAN television anime serves as a sequel to that specific scenario. Sentai Filmworks released the anime on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in 2010.

Source: Ubugoe via Siliconera