Feelplus

Feelplus Inc. (株式会社フィールプラス Kabushiki gaisha Fiirupurasu) was a Japanese video game developer and a subsidiary of AQ Interactive.^[2] The studio was conceived by Microsoft Game Studios specifically to aid Mistwalker in video game development. It was founded by former UPL employees including Tsutomu Fujisawa as Scarab (スカラベ) on May 1, 1992. Former employees of Nautilus and Square Enix later joined in. By September 2002, Cavia (later to become AQ Interactive) bought the company. In May 2005, it became a fully owned subsidiary and Scarab changed its name to Feelplus Inc.

Feelplus Inc.

Native name	株式会社フィールプラス
Formerly	Scarab (1992–2005)
Company type	Subsidiary of AQ Interactive
Industry	Video games
Founded	May 1, 1992[1]
Defunct	2010
Fate	Absorbed into AQ Interactive (parent company)
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan[1]
Key people	Nakazato Eiichiro (CEO)
Products	Games for video game consoles
Number of employees	71[2]
Parent	AQ Interactive[2]

In August 2010, Feelplus Inc., Artoon and Cavia were absorbed into AQ Interactive.^[3]

Games

As Scarab

• Survival Arts (1993)
• Dyna Gear (1994)
• Battle Monsters (1995)
• Killing Zone (1996)
• Zen-Nihon Pro Wrestling Featuring Virtua (1997)
• Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1997)
• Fighting Vipers 2 (2001, Dreamcast port)

As Feelplus

• Lost Odyssey (2007), co-developed with Mistwalker
• Infinite Undiscovery (2008) - visual production
• Star Ocean: The Last Hope (2009) - visual production
• Ju-On: The Grudge (2009)
• No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise (2010)^[4]
• Ninety-Nine Nights II (2010), co-developed with Q Entertainment
• MindJack (2011)^[5]
• Moon Diver (2011)

See also

• AQ Interactive
• Mistwalker
• Nautilus