The Full Rise & Fall of ImageEpoch And Where The Staff Are Now
110Imageepoch was a small development company with a focus on RPG games which in its early few years saw an impressive level of success for their scale but seemed to run itself into a corner within a few years.
Today we look into what caused their rise and fall as well as where the big players in the company are now.
Apologies for the length of the video, I did think of splitting it into two parts for the Rise/Fall and having the where are they now seperate but wasn't sure if that'd work better. Lemme know what you think down in the comments!
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Timestamp
00:00 Opening
01:21 Who are Image Epoch - The Rise
07:33 Beginning of the end
08:24 The Final Trigger
29:39 My analysis of their failure as a gamedev in Japan
43:46 Where are they now
44:53 Niinou Kazuya
48:06 Komura Issei
01:01:53 Kuroki Takashi
01:03:52 Mikage Ryohei
01:21:04 Wrap Up