The Game Designers Studio, Inc.

COMPANY

Japan

The development studio responsible for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles.

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Overview

The Game Designer's Studio was a shell corporation set up by Square in order to develop games for the GameCube despite having an exclusive deal with Sony to only create games for PlaySation consoles. In order to evade that deal, Square only held 49% of the shares while Akitoshi Kawazu (Person) held 51%. The creation of this company also made it possible to take advantage of Nintendo's Q fund--financial support from Nintendo for new GameCube developers. The company ended up developing only a single game, the original Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Game). During the development of the game on April 1, 2003, Square merged with Enix to form Square Enix (Company), canceling their deal with Sony. Because of this, Square Enix went on to acquire The Game Designers Studio and renamed it to SQEX Corporation. After Square Enix acquired Taito in 2005, they merged it with SQEX to form Taito Corporation (Company).

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Company details

Name

The Game Designers Studio, Inc.

Abbreviation

Founded

Location

Japan

Website

Aliases

SQEX Corporation

Developed Games

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Published Games

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Franchises

• Final Fantasy (Franchise)
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Franchise)

People

• Kumi Tanioka (Person)

Characters

• Artemicion (Character)
• Bal Dat (Character)
• Cerberus (Character)
• Ciaran (Character)
• Raem (Character)
• Roland (Character)
• Stiltzkin (Character)

Concepts

• 4 Player Co-op (Concept)
• Abadon (Concept)
• Action RPG (Concept)
• Aggro (Concept)
• Ahriman (Concept)
• Air Current (Concept)
• Antlions (Concept)
• Bandit (Concept)
• Bats (Concept)
• Beetles (Concept)
• Behemoth (Concept)
• Blocking (Concept)
• Bomb (Concept)
• Boss Assistance (Concept)
• Boss Fight (Concept)
• Breast Bounce (Concept)
• Cactuar (Concept)
• Caterpillar (Concept)
• Character Creation (Concept)
• Character Select Screen (Concept)

Locations

• Beach (Location)
• Cave (Location)
• Conall Curach (Location)
• Daemon's Court (Location)
• Desert (Location)
• Forest (Location)
• Goblin Wall (Location)
• Lynari Desert (Location)
• Marketplace (Location)
• Medieval Fantasy Village (Location)
• Mine (Location)
• Mine of Cathuriges (Location)
• Moschet Manor (Location)
• Mount Kilanda (Location)
• Mount Vellenge (Location)
• Mushroom Forest (Location)
• Rebena Te Ra (Location)
• River (Location)
• River Belle Path (Location)
• Selepation Cave (Location)

Objects

• Armor (Object)
• Artifact (Object)
• Boardwalk (Object)
• Boat (Object)
• Bridge (Object)
• Bubble (Object)
• Crystal (Object)
• Diary (Object)
• Diary Pages (Object)
• Drawbridge (Object)
• Fruit (Object)
• Giant Mushroom (Object)
• Gil (Object)
• Goblet (Object)
• Hammer (Object)
• Holy (Object)
• Lance (Object)
• Laser (Object)
• Letter (Object)
• Magical Stone (Object)