Multimedia Creators Network

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Multimedia Creators Network
Founded: 199X
Defunct: 199X
Headquarters: Meguro, Tokyo, Japan

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Multimedia Creators Network, sometimes credited as Pioneer Multimedia Creators Network or MmCN, was a Japanese video game development group commissioned by Pioneer to produce LaserDisc-based content for their LaserActive platform.

History

The group consisted of digital and analog artists, programmers, musicians, and media creators assembled by Japanese ambient musician Jotaro Nonaka. As renting space for the group's development studio would have been significantly expensive in Tokyo, Nonaka instead converted his own house into the development studio. The physical studio was named Media Garden Studio (in reference to the large Japanese garden that surrounded the property), and a company was formed to manage the studio's affairs: Media Garden Inc. (which remains in business as MediaGarden, Inc.) Nonaka's living room was turned into a professional recording studio, and from here, much of the audio for the group's games was recorded.

As video producer Hiyoruki Nakano wished to have three-dimensional sound accompany the three-dimensional visuals in 3D Museum, Nonaka became one of the first professional clients of Roland Corporation's RSS spatial audio technology.

Members

• Jotaro "A-Key" Nonaka (aka Eiki Nonaka) - musician
• Hakubun Ito (aka Hirofumi Ito) - computer graphics artist
• Mao Kawaguchi - computer graphics artist
• Haruomi Hosono - musician
• Hiyoruki Nakano - director

Quotes

“	So while we started to develop our plans for various titles, and started to produce some video clips and music tracks to see how they would to fit to LD-ROM, we had to develop the authoring software with our programmers, who were hired from outside of Pioneer, and basically, we would try out the system, make a master disk to test and play them on the machine using actual controllers, mesure [sic] the seek time for each actions made, and tweak the program to make it work, and repeat the process until we had something workable.	„
— Multimedia Creators Network founder Jotaro Nonaka

Softography

Mega LD

• 3D Museum (1994)
• Melon Brains: Exploring The Mind Of The Dolphin (1994)
• Goku (1995)
• UFO & ET (unreleased)

Interviews

• Developer Jotaro Nonaka interview at LaserActive Preservation Project