If you follow visual novels and Kickstarter, then you are likely aware that Sekai Project is a visual novel localization company with serious skills. They have managed to fund multiple games through crowdfunding with little issue, and show no signs of slowing down. But they’re not the only localization team seeking to use Kickstarter for fan funding now that Culture Select has launched their inaugural campaign.
Hardcore Gamer interviews Culture Select's John Baumlin about the company's games, their future, and why they are devoted to the doujin gaming scene.
For this scandalous edition of the Popzara Podcast their own visual novel connoisseur Cory Galliher talks with John Baumlin, founder and CEO of Culture Select about his recently successful crowdfunded effort, Wish -tale of the sixteenth night of lunar month- , breaking into the localization scene, quirks of Japanese culture, and much more. But why settle for a taste when you can have the whole thing? It’s sugoi!
Full episode now available on iTunes and Popzara
"Culture Select is an up and coming company that we have high hopes for, as it seems that they’re planning on bringing us gamers and fans even more of these niche Japanese titles, such as doujin games and Visual Novels. Gamers looking to find some of the more niche Japanese titles translated into English (and Spanish) available legitimately currently only have a few options available to them." - Attack On Gaming
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This is great!
Best of luck to them. I also really hope they can bring visual novels to the consoles too. I enjoy those types of games and sadly there are very few.