French Bread (game developer)
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Native name
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フランスパン |
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Romanized name
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Furansu Pan |
| Industry | Computer and video games |
| Predecessor | Watanabe Seisakusho |
| Headquarters | Japan |
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Key people
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| Products | Melty Blood |
| Website | www13 |
French Bread (known as Watanabe Seisakusho prior to 2003) is a Japanese video game developer best known for their work in fighting games, particularly the Melty Blood series. The studio started off as a dōjin circle and has largely focused on fighting games, with a few older exceptions such as Bike Banditz. Their newest release, Under Night In-Birth, was released in September 2012. An updated version of the game titled Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late was released in Summer 2013. French Bread collaborated with Sega and Ecole Software to develop a fighting game titled Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax.
The studio was named Watanabe Manufacturing (渡辺製作所 Watanabe Seisakusho) by a friend of Narita Shinya, with whom he often played video games with after school. They initially developed desk accessories for Windows. Shinya discovered dojin Windows action games and fighting games such as the Tokimeki Taisen (ときめき大戦) and Moon Lights 2 that were ported from the X68000 home computer. He subsequently decided to develop his own project for Windows. It was initially conceived as an original work, but creating unique character designs and graphics proved difficult. Shinya was later introduced to the visual novel To Heart and decided to develop his game as a derivative work. Characters for his project were sourced from To Heart, while the system mechanics were based on Asuka 120%, a game that served as an influence for Shinya and his team. The Queen of Heart '98 was released on December 30, 1998 to positive critical reception from dojin gamers.
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