![]() The main mechanics are farming, fishing, and developing friendships and romances with the villagers, couched in the context of trying to bring a sleepy port town back to life. In a hands-on demo at the Electronic Entertainment Expo last week in Los Angeles, Light of Hope was pretty much what you’d expect from a Harvest Moon game. Maekawa said that in its various incarnations, the most important thing for the franchise is to stick to its core concept. “Maintaining the Harvest Moon universe - nonviolent, family-friendly, built around this concept that hard-working people should be rewarded for what they’ve done - each time the storyline changes, but those basic things are the same,” said Maekawa. Licensed to publisher Rising Star Games and developed in conjunction with Daredevil Development, Lil’ Farmers is a pared-down version of the game aimed at a younger audience, focusing on taking care of farm animals, growing crops, and selling your harvest at a small shop. ![]() In addition to PC, it’s also launched games on mobile, including the recent Harvest Moon: Lil’ Farmers, which shipped in May for iOS and Android. Reel Fishing is the project we’re working on after Harvest Moon.” “We’re focusing on expanding our frontiers: Harvest Moon for Switch, Harvest Moon for Steam, Harvest Moon for PS4, Harvest Moon for mobile, and any platforms yet to come,” said CEO Hiro Maekawa in an interview with GamesBeat at the Electronic Entertainment Expo last week. ![]() The mobile games market is the largest, generating $41 billion in sales in 2016, up from previous years. ![]() This could be because the PC market is comparable to the console games market in 2016, console games generated $35 billion in revenue counting games, services, and hardware, while PC games generated $34 billion without being bolstered by hardware sales. Much like Sega’s strategy to bring its IPs to PC, Natsume is increasing the number of platforms its games are on in order to reach a bigger market, though it’s still absent from Microsoft’s Xbox consoles. ![]()
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