Status of Dico's involvement

When Wayforward was announced, my gut instincts told me that their involvement was more than to simply quash bugs. I would *really* like to see some gameplay footage of a new area or something concrete besides monster reveals.

I hope I'm wrong but it wouldn't surprise me if they are now a lead developer for this project at such a late stage.

In addition to the updates, Angel has added comments, and I couldn't help but notice the lack of any mention of Dico. If Dico were still working on the game, Angel would have mentioned how WF is working with Artplay and Dico. The absence of Dico from these conversations seems rather telling.



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Why hasn't WF released any statement about working on BS?

The Chinese branch of Artplay may have shut down. Artplay was founded by Chinese businessman Jacob Feng and Koji Igarashi in 2014. Their first projects were Code S Plan and Bloodstained. Code S Plan never materialized. The Chinese branch was listed on the Artplay site as late as 2017, but not on the current site.

The third Artplay project is Revolve8, a mobile game developed by Artplay and Sega. Initially Artplays' mobile games were to be handled by the Chinese branch, but Revolve8 is being handled by the Japanese branch. It is not clear how much the project is an Artplay project vs. a Sega project, but Artplay CEO Jacob Feng tweets about it a lot. Artplay's role in the game might even be over. Also interesting to note that Iga left Konami specifically because he didn't like working on mobile games.

These seem to be facts, but below I will post speculation.

Speculation: The company may be in financial trouble, had to close the Chinese branch, and take on another project. Revolve8 will have higher priority than Bloodstained since there's a set deadline, and they're working with another company. It could also be the other way around, where Artplay's role in BS is mostly done (they were doing the directing/designing), and all that's left is technical programming which WF is handling.


Speculation: It might be that they don't have anything else to show. WF hasn't worked on the game long enough to produce something akin to a new demo. And Artplay's 6 person team might have been busy working on Revovlve8 as well. We don't know when they started working on the game, or even if their role is complete. WF might even be re-building the game in a new engine.

purifyweirdshard I'm keeping what seems speculative separate. Dico not working on the game, and the Chinese branch being closed seems pretty straight forward.

Tagging Mana as well.

DICO is working on the game. So I'd say that it's still speculative on your part.

Edit: Ah, and it looks like Question ninja'd me. 

But what about Monobit? Since it wasn't said specifically it's obvious they all were blood sacrifices to Lord IGA!

I made the thread simply looking for clarification. No need to be an ass about it.