Kodansha Announces the Results of the "FAIRY TAIL" Original Game Contest

Kodansha announced today (May 20, 2022) the results of the “FAIRY TAIL” original game contest held by the Kodansha Game Creators Lab, which discovers and supports game creators.

This contest was started when Hiro Mashima, author of the popular manga “FAIRY TAIL” and a gamer, suddenly came to the Kodansha Creators Lab and said, “Kodansha is currently holding a contest to make a game for 10 million yen, right? I want you to make an original FAIRY TAIL game! I will pay 10 million yen out of my own pocket.

The grand prize winner will receive 10 million yen from Mashima and 5 million yen from Kodansha to support game development.

The grand prize winner was originally scheduled to be one work, but it appears that three works have been selected. The grand prize winners will receive support funds and full support until the completion of their works. Specific details of the games will be announced around September of this year.

The Grand Prize winners were “Birth of Magic” (Pop-san), a “magic creation action” game, “FAIRY TAIL DUNGEONS” (Gino), a rogue light RPG, and “FAIRY TAIL: Mages’ League” (tentative)” (by Tiny Cactus Studio, Masudarou, and ChoOK) were selected.

Fairy Tail - Press Release Game Details

First Game: Birth of Magic by Pop-San.

Genre: Magic creation action

Details by Creator:

I am very honored to have been selected!
This is a game in which you create your own magic and use it to explore and battle with players from all over the world.
If you think of it as based on FAIRY TAIL’s magic modeling, I think it is easy to understand.
Since we have been given this opportunity, we would like to make a game that respects the original work, but also has strong indie game characteristics.
We want to make it the best game where you can fight with the “most powerful magic you’ve ever thought of! I hope you can look forward to the release of this game.”

Second Game: FAIRY TAIL DUNGEONS by Gino

Genre: Rogue Lite RPG

Details by Creator:

It is a great responsibility because this work has many fans all over the world, but now that you have chosen me as a FAIRY TAIL fan, I, as one myself, will enjoy it as much as I can and create a game that only I can create! I aim to create a game that can be enjoyed over and over again with its fascinating characters.

Third Game: “FAIRY TAIL: Mages’ League” (tentative)” (by Tiny Cactus Studio, Masudarou, and ChoOK)

Genre: Multiplayer / Magic Beach Volleyball Battle Game

Details by Creator:

We are truly honored to be selected for this award. Together with Mr. Mashima, we will create the most powerful and enjoyable competitive game!”
Employee A: “I devised this project to take advantage of the physical beauty of the mages with fairy tails. We aim to create a game in which the characters shine at their best!
Employee B: “Are you doing muscle training? Muscles never betray you, even in game production.

Message from Mr. Hiro Mashima

After the selection process, I am very happy to see so many strong and ambitious works.

As a result of the selection process, we could not narrow it down to just one work, so we had to select three works. Of course, the amount of prize money for the three works was also the same, but it was out of my own pocket (laugh).

I selected all of them based on the criteria that I would like to play them or that I think fans would be pleased with. I am looking forward to seeing them completed and delivered to you all.

There were also many interesting works among those that did not make the cut this time, and we were able to come into contact with a great deal of talent.

Thank you to all the creators for participating. I hope we can do this kind of project again someday!