Inti Creates Co., Ltd. (株式会社インティ・クリエイツ Kabushiki Gaisha Inti Kurieitsu) is a Japanese video game development company. Formed by ex-Capcom staff in May 1996, they are best known for developing games in the Mega Man series.
History[]
Inti Creates was formed by ten former members of Capcom with Takuya Aizu as the CEO. First starting in Chiba Prefecture, they expanded by opening a studio in Nagoya in 2008. First starting as a Limited liability company, they became a publicly traded company in 2003.
They are best known as the developers of the Mega Man Zero and Mega Man ZX series.
They have also published several music albums composed and arranged by III, whose members are Ippo Yamada, Ryo Kawakami, Luna Umegaki, Tsutomu Kurihara, and Masaki Suzuki, among others. On August 29, 2014, they released their first self-published games Azure Striker Gunvolt and its cross-promotion Mighty Gunvolt.
Inti Creates has provided portrait artwork for the Wayforward games Shantae and the Pirate's Curse and Shantae: Half-Genie Hero.
They worked with Keiji Inafune and his design studio, Comcept, on the game Mighty No. 9. Comcept worked on the design and story of the game, while Inti Creates developed it. Later, they worked with producer Koji Igarashi on the game Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, which was released on May 24, 2018 and its sequel Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2, which was announced on June 23, 2020.