AWARDED GAMES "Games of the Year Division"
Games of the Year Division｜Future Division｜Amateur Division
Award for excellence
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS
General Description
| Title | DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS |
|---|---|
| Release | 2016/1/28 |
| Price | PS4 8,424yen(tax included) PS3 7,344yen(tax included) PSVita 6,458yen(tax included) |
| Platform | PlayStation®4/PlayStation®3/PSVita |
| Distributor | SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. |
| Publisher | SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. |
| Developer | SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. |
| URL | http://www.dragonquest.jp/builders/ |
| Copyright | © 2016 ARMOR PROJECT/BIRD STUDIO/SQUARE ENIX All Rights Reserved. © SUGIYAMA KOBO |
Reason for the Award for Excellence
Adventures are conducted in “Alefgard,” which is consisted of innumerable blocks to restore the light to the world covered with darkness. Players enjoy freely using all they can see to create items and towns and spinning stories. This game rallied many supports from not only old fans of the series but also many new users who experienced Dragon Quest for the first time and won the award.
Work Introdution
Dragon Quest Builders is a game in a new genre that has never been created. Players should regain and rebuild Alefgard, which was devastated by "Dragonlord."
This game belongs to a genre of the “block-make RPG.” Players freely “create” the wide land of Alefgard, which is represented by blocks, under the theme of three main playing elements of “Gather,” “Create,” and “Modify.”
Though the theme is manufacturing, the game is full of RPG elements familiar to the Dragon Quest series.
The game offers two play styles: the “story mode” of adventures to regain the world from Dragonlord and the “free build mode” where players can freely use all items in the world and enjoy creation.
Any player, including those who are not good at manufacturing from zero, can enjoy building towns by using “recipes.” As the world is governed by Dragonlord, monsters attack Home Area activities base. Enjoy fun of the block-make RPG genre: use blocks and traps to beat monsters and restore the light in Alefgard.
Comment of the game producer
We are very happy to win Japan Game Awards 2016 Games of the Year Division Award for excellence. Our heartful thanks to supporters and players.
We are deeply moved by a fact that we merged RPG elements with DQI world motif with the sandbox elements where players freely enjoy manufacturing and sell a new style DQ in the 30th anniversary of DQ!
This game is a new challenge for us. We felt uneasy about your reactions before As soon as the sales started, the game created the sensation. Even now, all of the development team clearly remember we were deeply impressed by the attitudes of players: they forget time and sat up all night to devote themselves to the game and created DQ world in their own way. One hundred players played the game in 100 methods.
We will keep on developing games with all our might so that Dragon Quest can evolve with the time and meet your expectations.
Noriyoshi Fujimoto,
Producer of Square Enix Co., Ltd.
