Compile Maru


Compile Maru Co., Ltd. is a video game development company founded in 2016 by Masamitsu Niitani as a new venture.

History

Niitani decided to found Compile Maru to publish his new development, Nyoki Nyoki, and as a new venture after the previous company he founded: Compile.
In an interview with Fumio Kurokawa, Niitani talks about the success of Puyo Puyo and how a game potentially on par with Tetris grew the company he founded in 1982. He also mentions that "entrepreneurship is 'but me', and there are no objectives" and "the common people only know tactics", criticizing the big companies and their commercial objectives. He also mentions that "the opportunity to start a business is 'alone or as a company'", which led him to create his own company Compile, spirit that he would maintain throughout his life when he founded Compile Maru and developed Nyoki Nyoki.

Games

Nyoki Nyoki: Tabidachi Hen for the Nintendo 3DS, based on Pochi and NyaaDominon X, a falling blocks game with dominoes based on an early Puyo Puyo prototype, published through Project EGGPochi and Nyaa for Windows, based on the unreleased Sega NAOMI version