Cave's annual report

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:43 pm

Cave released their annual report on 7/13/2007, for the fiscal year ending at 5/2007:

http://www.cave.co.jp/ir/archives/ir/pd ... 071301.pdf

In it, they layout plans through 5/2008. No mention is made of any more ports, unfortunately. All they mention in regards to consumer games is continuing stuff like their "Imagine" online game crap.

Their production costs were down this past year compared to 2006, partly because they didn't do any ports. At the same time, their profits were as high as ever. So, lower production costs + high profit = no more ports.

Unfortunately, from a business point of view, you can't really blame them. They're making the most profitable decision.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:12 am

I guess this means that the ports they did do weren't profitable enough to justify any further ones afterwards...suppose that should have already been evident after the "Best" version of Ibara was canned. Well, no use crying over spilled milk, I suppose...

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:49 am

Yeah, the plus side is that cave are doing ok and won't go bust soon.

Shame about the ports though.

mainpatr1 · Post by **mainpatr1** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:15 am

At least, because of that report we finally know what Cave stands for.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:17 am

Right, they're a company that wants to grow in the future, and continue to be able to pay their employees.

elvis · Post by **elvis** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:21 am

mainpatr1 wrote:At least, because of that report we finally know what Cave stands for.

TWE wrote:Right, they're a company that wants to grow in the future, and continue to be able to pay their employees.

I think he was referring to the CAVE="Computer Art Visual Entertainment" acronym (page 31 of the report), rather than "what they stand for morally".

I always thought the word "Cave" was largely meaningless and not an acronym. So there you go.

And yes, shame about the lack of ports. It looks like those of us not lucky enough to live in countries where arcades are still popular will simply miss out.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:23 am

Oh, that makes sense.

But I thought that was common knowledge? I've known that for awhile.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:51 am

So is this a report to shareholders or is it a privately owned company?

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:58 am

TWE wrote:Oh, that makes sense. But I thought that was common knowledge? I've known that for awhile.

Eh, I didn't =/ And I love CAVE (gwah... I'm going to end up all capsing it from now on... curse you!)

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:04 am

professor ganson wrote:So is this a report to shareholders or is it a privately owned company?

It's for the shareholders.

By the way, has anyone else noticed the stuff Cave has been adding to their website? There is a cool recruitment page up:

http://www.cave.co.jp/recruiting/post05/index.html

If you click on the little Ikeda-San thing at the bottom, it opens a video showing Ikeda at work (and playing some MMP on his Egret 3 in the office!), followed by his discussion about what his work is like, and some other stuff. Really cool. He was recently promoted to Head of Game Development, so he's the boss of that division.

BTW, notice the picture on that page is of the Espgaluda 2 stage 2 boss fight, but at the bottom right of the screen just above the barrier bar you can see some text which says "Stage 2" (if you zoom in on the pic enough). A debug/test version of the PCB? The move strip in the cab in that pic is from Mushi Futari, by the way.

Yes, I'm a Cave nerd.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:23 am

TWE wrote: If you click on the little Ikeda-San thing at the bottom, it opens a video showing Ikeda at work (and playing some MMP on his Egret 3 in the office!), followed by his discussion about what his work is like, and some other stuff.

Drooling over those shots of the inhouse game development tools! Would love to work on just the level designs and not the assembler code behind it.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:27 am

Yeah, that is pretty cool. I don't know what the heck that game is though. Looks sorta like Mushi, but the enemies are different. In-game progress on Death Lolita? If so, it's definitely a vert.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:47 am

TWE wrote:Yeah, that is pretty cool. I don't know what the heck that game is though. Looks sorta like Mushi, but the enemies are different. In-game progress on Death Lolita? If so, it's definitely a vert.

Its the start of stage 3 in Futari. Those are probably just icons to represent enemy placements and paths.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:56 am

Yeah, it looked like a Mushi background. I was just thrown off by the place-holder enemies.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:32 am

TWE wrote:Yeah, it looked like a Mushi background. I was just thrown off by the place-holder enemies.

Losing some of your nerdiness there TWE

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:37 am

Indeed.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:07 am

what are cave shares up to anyways?

rtw · Post by **rtw** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:41 am

Dave_K. wrote:Drooling over those shots of the inhouse game development tools! Would love to work on just the level designs and not the assembler code behind it.

I would love to work on the assembler code

Anyone have an idea of what kind of development platform they
are using ? I don't see any Windows telltale signs ?

rtw

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:46 am

They are using Windows. You can look at the title bars to see this.

rtw · Post by **rtw** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:54 am

Twiddle wrote:They are using Windows. You can look at the title bars to see this.

You are correct, I downloaded the flv file to get a higher resolution and
I can see the title bars a lot clearer now.

rtw

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:06 am

Somewhat disappointing, isn't it?

rtw · Post by **rtw** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:57 am

GaijinPunch wrote:Somewhat disappointing, isn't it?

Yep, I was hoping that they used some flavour of Linux for the map stuff.

rtw