Koei Tecmo And SpiralAI Announce SophieChat:AI For Atelier Sophie
Koei Tecmo is repeating the RyzaChat:AI licensing model with a second Atelier protagonist, which shows the company treating AI chat apps as a line rather than a single experiment.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
Koei Tecmo Games and SpiralAI announced SophieChat:AI on September 18, an AI chat app set in the world of Atelier Sophie. It follows RyzaChat:AI, the free-scenario chat RPG for iOS and Android built around Atelier Ryza, which SpiralAI developed under license from Koei Tecmo. The Ryza app launched domestically on August 25 and has since rolled out overseas. SophieChat:AI is in development.
SophieChat:AI is in development, and no release window or platform was given. The Ryza app that precedes it is free to play on iOS and Android, with illustrations drawn by hand under the supervision of Toridamono, who handled character design for Atelier Ryza, and voice audio recorded with the permission of Yuri Noguchi, who voiced Ryza. SpiralAI developed the app under license from Koei Tecmo, and a portion of revenue returns to the collaborating creators.
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