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Flipnote Studio
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Developer(s)Nintendo EAD Tokyo
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Platform(s)Nintendo DSi (DSiWare)
Genre(s)Memo/Flipbook program
Mode(s)Single-player

Flipnote Studio (うごくメモ帳, Ugoku Memo-chou) is a free downloadable application for the Nintendo DSi's DSiWare digital distribution service. Developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo,[5] Flipnote Studio allows the user to create both word and picture-based notes with the stylus, add sound, and put them together to create frame-by-frame flipbook-style animations. Though referred to as 'Moving Notepad' by Nintendo in prior English-language keynote addresses and conferences,[6] the application was announced at E3 2009 officially as 'Flipnote Studio'.[7] It was released in North America on August 12, 2009[1] and has been given an August 14, 2009 release date for Europe and Australasia.[2][3][4]

Features

Flipnote Studio offers the user three main tools with which to create drawings—a pen, an eraser, and a paintbrush. With these tools, the user may create frames for short animated sketches, called flipnotes. Additional features such as layering, shrinking, and enlarging are also available, as well as the option to import black-and-white images via the DSi Camera Album.[6][3] One flipnote animation may consist of hundreds of frames, and to go along with the animation itself, the user may choose to record a soundtrack with the DSi microphone.[3]

Flipnote Hatena

Shortly before the release of Flipnote Studio in Japan, Nintendo announced that they were partnering with Japanese web services provider Hatena to provide the means to share works created with the software. Speaking for Nintendo, Yoshiaki Koizumi stated they chose to work with Hatena because "it takes a special skill set to maintain the User Generated Contents (UCG) site, and we don't have that skill. We rely on Hatena on that part." [8]

Flipnote Hatena is the name of both the portion of the Flipnote Studio application that connects to the Flipnote Hatena website as well as the website itself (the Japanese version of the program differentiates between the two, but not the English version). Directly accessing the Flipnote Hatena website, through this portion of the application users are able to trade flipnotes, assign ranks to flipnotes uploaded by others, and save any viewed flipnote to their own DSi. Users may also edit or even continue a flipnote created by another user.[3]

As for the website itself, Flipnote Hatena offers the ability for users to rank and comment on the works of others, as well as to embed their animations into other webpages.[3] Users may also flag submissions as inappropriate; flipnotes thus flagged will not be viewable via the DSi's Flipnote Hatena[9] and may be removed from the website altogther.[10]

Sharing Flipnotes

Aside from the Flipnote Hatena website, flipnotes may be shared between two users via the DSi's Wireless Communication feature. When a flipnote has been shared in this manner, the users may choose to save their contact information as friends on the Nintendo DSi and on the Flipnote Hatena website. Flipnotes may also be shared via saving to an SD card (to be inserted into another DSi).[3]

Updates

On April 27, 2009, Version 2 was released in Japan as a free update via the DSi Shop. Added features include new pens and brushes, advanced layering and zoom tools, a copy/paste function, and the ability to send memos or animations to friends via the internet. The Ugomemo Theater area has been updated with functionality from the Ugomemo Hatena site, including support for themed channels and the ability to leave comments via DSi. Though updating to Version 2 is not required for the program to continue functioning, Nintendo has stated that after an unspecified period of time users of Version 1 will lose the ability to access the Ugomemo Theater viewing area. [11][12]

On July 29, 2009, Version 2.1 was released in Japan.[13] This latest version of the application provides a new way for the program to communicate with the Hatena website, fixing an issue regarding errors returned to users attempting to upload large animations. Users of the new version are also able to register their own Hatena ID directly from the Ugomemo Theater viewing area (instead of being forced to use a computer or the DSi Browser to do so).[14]

Reception

As of January 10, 2009, 38% of all DSi users had downloaded this application, and there had been more than 100,000 user-submitted creations.[15] During its first six months of operation in Japan, Flipnote Hatena reports having received over 1,000,000 user-submitted creations.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b "News - Flipnote Studio/Flipnote Hatena released for the United States and Canada". Hatena.com. 2009-08-12. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  2. ^ a b East, Tom (2009-08-11). "News: Flipnote Studio out this Friday - Official Nintendo Magazine". OfficialNintendoMagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-08-11.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "TIME TO GET ANIMATED WITH YOUR NINTENDO DSi! - Press Release". Spong.com. 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2009-08-11.
  4. ^ a b Kolan, Patrick (2009-08-11). "IGN: Flipnote Studio Coming to AU". Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  5. ^ "Volume 7 - Flipnote Studio Creation". Nintendo.co.uk. December, 2008. Retrieved 2009-08-12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) "I'm Yoshiaki Koizumi from Nintendo's EAD Tokyo Software Development Department. I was producer this time..."
  6. ^ a b "Keynote Address by Satoru Iwata, President". Nintendo.co.jp. 2008-10-02. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
  7. ^ Nintendo :: E3 2009 :: Flipnote Studio, Nintendo.com, retrieved 2009-06-02
  8. ^ Kaifu, Michi (2008-12-18), Nintendo and Hatena come up with a cloudish service for DSi, retrieved 2009-05-06{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  9. ^ Tanaka, John (2008-12-18). "Nintendo Brings User Generated Content to DSi". IGN.com. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  10. ^ a b "News - Hatena launches European website for use with "Flipnote Studio" software for the Nintendo DSi". Hatena.com. 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  11. ^ Anoop G. "What's new with Moving Memo Version 2". andreasang.com. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  12. ^ "うごくメモ帳：うごくメモ帳　バージョン２について". Nintendo.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  13. ^ "うごくメモ帳". Nintendo.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
  14. ^ "うごくメモ帳の新しいバージョンがダウンロード開始！ - うごメモはてな日記". 2009-07-29. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
  15. ^ "Flip Book Animation Software Proves Popular on the DSi". Nintendo World Report. 2009-01-10. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
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