Good-Feel

Good-Feel Co., Ltd.
Private
Industry Video game developer[1]
Founded October 3, 2005 (2005-10-03)
Headquarters Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Number of locations
 2
Key people
 Shigeharu Umezaki, President
Etsunobu Ebisu, Managing Director
Isono Yoshikazu, Director
Products Video games
Number of employees
 108 (as of April 1, 2018)[2]
Website www.good-feel.co.jp

Good-Feel Co., Ltd. (株式会社グッド・フィール, Kabushiki-Gaisha Guddo Fīru) is a Japanese video game developer. Good-Feel began in Hyogo, Japan in 2005 and opened a production facility in Tokyo. Their main focus has been educational games for the Nintendo DS, which have solely been released in Japan. The games, the first of which was released in 2007, consist of primers for young children (kindergarten and below) and English language training for kids and adults.

In 2008 the company transitioned into mainstream video games by becoming the developer for the Wii game Wario Land: Shake It! from the large publisher Nintendo. This marks Good-Feel's first entry into the home console market.

History

The company was founded by former Konami employee Etsunobu Ebisu on October 3, 2005. He told Nintendo about the new company and asked if they could work on a game. Long-time Nintendo employee Takahiro Harada asked Ebisu if he would like to make a new Wario Land title, since Harada learned before the meeting that Ebisu was involved in the development of a Nintendo DS platform game he enjoyed very much, and Harada always wanted to make a Wario Land sequel. Though Ebisu suggested a shooting game, he agreed to create a platform game after Harada convinced him. The development resulted in Wario Land: Shake It!, a 2D platform game released in 2008 with hand-drawn graphics made with the help of the animation studios Production I.G and Kusanagi. They later made the 2010 game Kirby's Epic Yarn, a unique entry into the Kirby franchise.

Games developed

GamePublisherSystemDate
Training WordsEducational Network Inc.Nintendo DSOctober 11, 2007
Training QuizBenesse CorporationNintendo DSMay 29, 2008
Sense Training: Shape SpaceBenesse CorporationNintendo DSMay 29, 2008
Wario Land: Shake It![1]NintendoWiiJuly 24, 2008
English TrainingEducational Network Inc.Nintendo DSMarch 26, 2009
Training WordsEducational Network Inc.Nintendo DSMarch 26, 2009
Looksley's Line Up[1]
JP title: Rittai Kakushi E Attakoreda
UK title: Tales in a Box: Hidden shapes in perspective!
German title: Geschichtenbuch: Verborgene Formen in Perspektive!		NintendoNintendo DSiMarch 3, 2010
Kirby's Epic Yarn[1]NintendoWiiOctober 14, 2010
Wii Play: Motion (2 mini-games)NintendoWiiJune 13, 2011
StreetPass Squad[3]NintendoNintendo 3DSJune 17, 2013
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team (giant battles)NintendoNintendo 3DSJuly 12, 2013
StreetPass Zombies[4]NintendoNintendo 3DSApril 16, 2015
Yoshi's Woolly World[5]NintendoWii UJune 25, 2015
Streetpass Slot RacingNintendoNintendo 3DSSeptember 1, 2016
Streetpass TraderNintendoNintendo 3DSSeptember 1, 2016
Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly WorldNintendoNintendo 3DSJanuary 19, 2017
Yoshi's Crafted WorldNintendoNintendo Switch2019
Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn (2019 video game)NintendoNintendo 3DS2019

See also

Further reading

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Good Feel". IGN. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
  2. ↑ 会社概要 (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 14 March 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Nintendo 3DS Firmware Update Allows Back Up Save Data for Digital Games, New StreetPass Content | Side Mission". GameTrailers. 2013-06-17. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
  4. ↑ "StreetPass Zombies". Nintendo. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
  5. ↑ 1/23/13 9:27am 1/23/13 9:27am. "The People Behind Kirby's Epic Yarn Are Making A New Yoshi Game". Kotaku.com. Retrieved 2014-06-11.

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