Q-Games: How an indie studio run by a Brit has made games in Kyoto for 24 years

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Dylan Cuthbert, an 18-year-old in the United Kingdom, went to Japan in 1990 on an invitation from Nintendo. He and his boss Jez San of Argonaut had hacked together a 3D demo on the Nintendo GameBoy — something that seemed beyond the technical capability of the device at the time.

Cuthbert went on to start Q-Games, a storied multi-lingual game studio that makes its games in Kyoto.

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