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Business & marketing : After BitSummit – How did Japan’s independent game culture grow ?

Masahiko Murakami, organizer of Bitsummit, Japan's most important indie games show

 Masahiko Murakami

Masahiko Murakami is also the organizer of Bitsummit, Japan's most important indie games show. Masahiko will be presenting the Japanese indie game market and advising Western studios wishing to distribute their games there.

After graduating from a Japanese design college in 2002, he moved to the United States, where he  graduated from the San Francisco Academy of Art University Illustration Department in 2007. He was involved in multiple game titles as a concept artist before moving back to Japan in 2009. From there, he joined VITEI as an artist, and went on to become CEO of Vitei BACKROOM in 2015. The year after, he created Skeleton Crew Studio,an indie game studio in Kyoto. With game development technology at its core, he is currently developing VR/AR and other content while taking on new challenges in various fields such as urban development and event production.

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