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Dennō Coil Web Game's Global Rights Licensed by GameOn

posted on by Egan Loo
Global game inspired by anime set in near future with augmented reality

The Japanese online game company GameOn has announced on Tuesday that it acquired the exclusive global license to make a web browser game based on the Dennō Coil (Mitsuo Iso's story about a group of children in the near future who use net-connected augmented-reality (AR) eyeglasses. The children travel throughout a city to uncover the mysteries behind the new technological advances there.  

GameOn's development and distribution license is worldwide, and the company intends to run the game not only in Japan, but throughout the world. The company has not yet determined its development schedule, the specific regions in which the game will be ed besides Japan, or the launch date for the game's paid service.

The original anime aired from May to December of 2007. It category in the 46th Japan Science Fiction Convention's Seiun Awards.

GameOn had already Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X with Japanese language .

Sources: ITmedia News, animeanime.jp

Image © Mitsuo Iso/Tokuma Shoten, Den-noh Coil Production Committee


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