"When developing a new game, we try to create pictures of various worlds using pixel art (for example, a deserted island, space, a museum, an amusement park, etc.)," Game Start founder Takeo Fujita said in an email interview. "When we drew 'rural Japan,' we thought 'this will surely excite users,' and uploaded the image to social media. The response was beyond our imagination, so we began full-scale development of a game with a 'rural Japan' motif."
"There is no electricity or gas infrastructure, and water is drawn from wells and rivers. It may be difficult to find a place like this in modern-day Japan," Fujita said, clarifying that despite the rural nature of it, the game is set in the modern day.
"The motif is extremely successful in the game - so much so that I've found myself searching for images of a real-life place that evokes the town in the game. It's hilly and filled with relics of the past, like abandoned shrines and overgrown stone walls, and I can almost smell the petrichor of the foggy mornings on the mountainside."
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