Creating Professor layton

Professor layton -level 5


Professor Layton and the Curious Village, released in 2007, was the studios first fully self funded and self published game

Akihiro Hino started his career in the video games industry at Riverhillsoft before founding level 5
Chiba University Professor Akira Tago supervised direction on the game's development, with Level-5 President and CEO Akihiro Hino serving as producer.
Layton's creation was a direct result of Hino's childhood love of Tago's Head Gymnastics series of puzzle books, which have sold more than 12 million copies to date in Japan. The game makes use of many puzzles from Tago's books, all of which have been modified to support the DS stylus and touchscreen.Tago also contributed 30 brand new puzzles to the game, developed specifically with the unique capabilities of the Nintendo DS in mind.

Interview with Akihiro Hino
http://professorlaytonds.com/curiousvillage/

The setting of the third instalment of the Professor Layton series, is London, however, unlike the creators at Ubisoft, the creators have created a fictional London, and simply added characteristics of England’s capital, rather than making an exact replica. This shows how smaller companies, like Level 5 can create great successful games without the same kind of resources as AAA studios.