Artmove

Japanese name of this company is "株式会社アートムーヴ", which reads as "Kabushiki Gaisha Artmove". Can also be written as Artmove or Artmove K.K. in English, where K.K. stands for "Kabushiki Kaisha", meaning "Stock Company". Founded in Tokyo March 1st 2005, but then after 10 years of operation went bankrupt in September 25th 2015. The founder company of QuinRose brand, developer studio. While it is a Publisher and Developer at the same time all games it published had only developer studio logo in them, with Artmove mentioned only in text format. For this reason it is probably not widely associated in public with QuinRose brand games. Company was mainly publishing Visual Novels for female demographic. At first for PCs, then solely on consoles, PSP and PS Vita. It has also been selling vocal song albums and accessories associated with their games. Their bankruptcy was pretty sudden and controversial, as it is rumored that they did not pay out developers for their work. Just a few days before bankruptcy was announced they managed to publish their last game, which was Genji Koiemaki for PS Vita, on September 17th 2015. Other titles already planned for release got canceled. Reason for their bankruptcy as stated by company itself was a change in mobile games market, which caused poor sales of their games, which already had a small receiving audience to begin with. On June 6th 2019 during Otomate Party 2019 event in Japan, different company, Otomate, owned by Idea Factory, announced that it has acquired licence rights for QuinRose brand, renaming it to QuinRose reborn (for otomate) and hiring a few of it's original developers. At the same time two new titles, a continuation of the most popular of QuinRose game series Kuni no Alice, were announced. The two are スペードの国のアリス ～Wonderful White World～ (Spade no Kuni no Alice ~Wonderful White World~ and スペードの国のアリス ～Wonderful Black World～ (Spade no Kuni no Alice ~Wonderful Black World~) for Nintendo Switch.

Source : IGDB