Update #46 (November): Get To Know The Developers

While this update didn't spoon feed us a lot of information it did provide some critically important details we can use for speculation. As many of us may know, making a video game is a monumental task. A team of easily over 100 people performing work on every aspect for a minimum of one year can reinforce that idea. The addition of a separate team that'll provide technical support for the engine itself can make their current deadline an easier target to reach. The amount of knowledge needed to make a game is rather large so a team that is focused on knowing the details that the developers won't know, for various reasons, is definitely beneficial.

Hmm, it seems like Dico has put up a webpage with a message: bloodstained.dico4u.com/ (language selector at the top right, it defaulted to Japanese for me).
What I find interesting is what is in the footer: Artplay, Dico, and Monobit, but no Inti Creates.

I found the above page from a Japanese news article that the Bloodstained twitter linked: www.gamespark.jp/article/2016/11/24/70144.html
From what google translate gives, it doesn't seem like Inti Creates is mentioned here either.

Still find it really concerning
Never heard of neither of those two teams
DICO and Monobit
as for thing that matters to me the most, I will be looking at DICO
They better don't start censoring the translations while localizing it to the global audience, they better don't
Monobit is to help with the polishing and also clearing out bugs I think? since they are the technical team, I would assume that Monobit will be doing just that or more

Okay I re-read the whole thing, so DICO is in here not only because of the localization...
DICO is here because they're handling the procedural aspect of the game, as Mana has cleared.

Let me cite the IGN interview article again: bloodstainedfanforums.com/thread/1383/ign-article-10-delay-publisher
Considering IGA had already said the game is too big to be all-handcrafted, and Inti might be lack of experience with procedural generation tools that Unreal Engine provides, it's pretty clear why IGA bring DICO & Monobit in at this particular time.

My wild guess is, BS is ready to get into the mass content production stage, which means the bone of the game is basically completed (like the whole visual style etc.), what we need is lots of flesh and blood to enrich the game, and Inti can't handle this kind of massive content creation due to their unfamiliarity with procedural generation tools, DICO could help IGA in this particular stage.
...And maybe that's why IGA said "DICO will be on the frontline for this stage of the main development. ", Artplay & Inti might work as a supervisor to confirm the content is fitted with the game.

I really have no doubt that Inti is still invovled, Yuji Natsume is the one who provided the concept art after all.

So based on my guess, everything laid out so far:
Concept & Core development: Artplay & Inti Creates
Massive Content Production: DICO
Network & Online features, Debugging etc. : Monobit
Publishing: 505 Games
Localization: Not decided yet.

and I'd really like to hear opinion about this update from someone who is "inside the scene" dareka

EDIT:
I have to say the updates that we recently have are a little bit fuzzy. If you're chasing news or interviews of IGA and BS (and read the forum post regularly), it might clear things a little. You connect the dots, you get a big picture.
The problem is, not every backer actually does that.
If we only look at updates, we might ended up thinking the project is constantly changing things, they're changing timeline, they're finding new publisher, they're bringing in new devs without telling where the old one goes to...
It's not until you read the IGN article, then start thinking "okay Inti is probably not capable of generating lots of game contents, so we might need new devs for that."

That's... not a good sign of communication, from this point I totally understand why people is concerning about whether Inti is still involved.

Things happen because there's a cause, the update (especially THIS one) only shows the consequence without giving the cause, and even the result is not clear enough.
We should know DICO & Monobit's work from the update, not from Google.
...Maybe I'm just asking too much, idk.

Thanks Mana for clearing things up! Thanks!

Did I find this update a bit under-whelming? I'd be lying if I said no.
Did it bring something I needed. In many ways, yes.

I'm glad that Iga addressed the question of who were the new players (but not replacing). And to tell us this quickly. But above that, I needed the cold shower of not having extra gameplay stuff. It reminded me that I was starting to get a bit spoiled with all the stuff we've been getting the past updates. Arigato Iga-sama (and team) and thanks Fangamers.

LOL! It seems the project is in good hands.

What is with all these silly questions, you should be taking this seriousl...



Ok, now we're talking.

If the new guys can answer this while doing a handstand on a speeding bike just before it does a jump through a burning ring of really hot fiery fire that is conveniently placed above a pool of sharks (equipped with lasers, of course), I'll be convinced that they are skilled enough to handle this job.

I don't see how they could fail this task, though, as they are making a bodily investment of 200.6% (a number too precise to be a lie) and that is almost 300%, which constitutes as MAXIMUM EFFORT.

Honestly it's not like they have to spoil content at all. I've said this many times already but some of the meatiest, most interesting updates were from when the Kickstarter campaign was still raising money. There was multiple sections, developer quotes, things to read and usually a piece of concept art.

You don't NEED to show bosses, you don't need to show off areas of the game, just talk about the game!

Also, did anyone find it interesting and weird that IGA mentioned someone he worked with in the past who's an excellent programmer is on one of these teams but proceeded to not tell us who. I'm curious what they worked on together! Lol