Recently, I was invited to come and visit the headquarters of BlazeGames, the developer behind the new game Battle Champs [Free]. Along with a few other members of the media, I was given a brief tour of their offices located in Shibuya, Tokyo, and got to see a short presentation about Battle Champs. The highlight of the trip was a chance to ask some questions about the game to a few of the team members. Producer Yuji Okada, art director Akihiko Yoshida, and assistant art director Satoshi Matsura all took some time out of their busy schedules to tell me about the new game. As the interview ended up being quite lengthy, I'm breaking it up into two different articles. Check in tomorrow for the second part.

TouchArcade (TA): To start, could you introduce yourselves to any of our readers who might not be familiar with you" What games have you worked on, what is your role on Battle Champs, and so on" Yuji Okada (YO): My name is Yuji Okada, I'm the producer and also the CEO of BlazeGames. I worked as a director, previously, of social browser games in Japan. I worked on various titles, I think the most well-known is Sangoku Kingdom. Before that, I worked at a game development company working on console games and arcade games as a development manager.
Do we need to introduce Mr. Yoshida" (laughs)
TA: Not to me, but maybe there are some people who don't know him" (laughs)
Akihiko Yoshida (AY): My name is Akihiko Yoshida and I'm the art director for this game. I'm...