Zero Escape and Danganronpa creators team up to launch new indie studio

Kotaro Uchikoshi and Kazutaka Kodaka, the creative forces behind cult mystery novels series Zero Escape and Danganronpa have teamed up to form a brand-new independent game development studio in Japan, going by the name of Tookyo Games.

Too Kyo Games was revealed to the world, alongside the seven-person team's first projects, during a Famitsu Magazine livestream earlier today, as recapped on the Famitsu website.

Four as-yet-unnamed projects have been announced, at least one of which looks to follow the familiar template (that is, a group of unwitting participants caught up in a game of death) that served the enormously compelling Zero Escape and Danganronpa games so well. However, the studio's main focus - and the project likely to be of most interest to fans of those series - will feature scenarios jointly created by Kodaka and Uchikoshi.

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