TOUGEN ANKI is a highly popular anime overseas about characters who carry the blood of demons and can manipulate that blood into supernatural weapons, and developer Com2uS has taken on the task of adapting that anime into a game that will eventually launch on PC and mobile devices. When you’ve got a project that already has a fan base, you’d best be prepared to deliver on what those fans want. We recently talked to Crimson Inferno Art Director, Pil-Jong Kim, and Producer, Dong-Won Lee, about just that, as well as the task of introducing a global audience to the TOUGEN ANKI universe. The audience of TOUGEN ANKI was a major contributor to planning for the game’s availability and launch. The developers wanted to make sure that the game was not only as easy to access from a popular platform standpoint (hence planning for PC on Steam from the get-go), but also from a gameplay perspective. The deckbuilding aspect and encounter design allowed the devs to put a focus on letting the characters shine in their combat animations and story highlights. The combat of TOUGEN ANKI is broken up into a color-coded system where attacks have one colored attack or another, and using matching colors powers up abilities when taking your turn. Again, the team felt it was important to create a system that was accessible and intuitive to players, allowing them to easily understand how to get the best out of their characters in any given encounter in both mobile and desktop formats.
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TOUGEN ANKI Crimson Inferno devs on adapting the anime & launching globally
