Level-5 Acquires Mighty No.9 Developer Comcept as Subsidiary

Video game developer LEVEL-5 Inc. announced on Thursday that it and Keiji Inafune's comcept video game studio are forming a new company called "LEVEL5 comcept." The video game and app company is a wholly owned subsidiary to Level-5.



LEVEL5 comcept will be based in Osaka. Level-5 president and CEO Akihiro Hino serves as the CEO, and comcept founder Keiji Inafune is COO.

Infaune founded comcept in December 2010. The company released its first title, Mighty No. 9, in June 2016. Comcept is also involved in Studio 4°C's RedAsh -GEARWORLD- anime short that screened last year as part of the Anime Tamago 2017 project.

LEVEL5 comcept also revealed its first project, a smartphone game titled Dragon & Colonies.



The "box garden battle RPG" will be available in 2018. The game will be free to play, and in-game items will cost extra.