Reasons for the Developer Name Change

[p]Q1: What changes will happen after the developer name is updated?[/p][p]Dear Princess players, the developer name of the otome game *1000 Princes* will gradually change from “琴研 Ginyan” to “4Ducks & You.” In the future, the developer and publisher names displayed on the game store page, the startup screen logo, and even the identities of those replying in the forums will all be updated.[/p][p] [/p][p][/p][p]Q2: Why will it be changed to “4Ducks & You”?[/p][p]The experience and feelings of Princess players have always been the most important. Delivering an otome game that is immersive, authentic, and sweetly romantic is the mission of *1000 Princes*.[/p][p]In future individual route storylines, your small squad of 1,000 princes—the “Four Ducks”—will make their appearance. Led by YaBo, their otome game studio will begin recruiting new members. You will join them and work together with the four princes to develop the otome game *1000 Princes.* Various details of creating the game alongside the Four Ducks princes will also be embedded in the game. Therefore, the developer name will be “4Ducks & You.” [/p][p]YaBo is a prince of the Duck Kingdom and also the game planner of this development studio—a core figure. Therefore, replies in the Steam community will also be made personally by him and the other members.[/p][p]For interviews with the Four Ducks, please see: [dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]Q3: About the original developer name[/p][p]琴研 Ginyan once used her personal photo as her avatar, appeared on camera in videos introducing the game development process, and occasionally mentioned fragments of her daily life. Although she originally hoped—like many other developers—to let players better understand the ideas and details behind the development of this otome game, she later realized that these seemingly ordinary actions actually violated a major taboo in otome games! [/p][p]When Princess players are falling in love with the princes, why should an unrelated person appear? Why should a woman named “琴研 Ginyan” be talking on and on about game development in videos or articles? Although players never explicitly pointed this out, when Ginyan saw other female otome game developers wearing masks while explaining their development workflow, she deeply realized that what she had done was not sincere communication with players, but had unintentionally become a strong intrusion and violation.[/p][p]Optimizing *1000 Princes* is not just about adding and updating content, or improving and expanding the technology. It also means empathizing more deeply with players’ thoughts and feelings—never doing anything that harms their emotions, makes them uncomfortable, or causes dislike and displeasure. [/p][p]Princess players will always come first and are the most important! [/p]