Shenmue Dojo

Shenmue 3 Staff

Yu Suzuki
Takeshi Hirai
Keiji Okayasu
Masahiro Yoshimoto
Kenji Miyawaki
Ryuji Iuchi
Manabu Takimoto
Kid Nocon
Kenji Itoso
Hiroaki Takeuchi
Toshihiko Masuda
Hideaki Morishita





***List to be updated as information is made available.

I made this google sheet



https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... edit#gid=0

Don't know how to enable the free access.

Where's my man Ryan Payton at on there? Or is he not official?

Rakim wrote: Where's my man Ryan Payton at on there? Or is he not official?

Ryan Payton has no affiliation with Shenmue 3 except for being a fan of the series.

He attends meetings in an advisory capacity, but his official status as it pertains to the payroll isn't clear.

Here is an update regarding the number of potential development staff working on Shenmue 3.



45 Persons - YS Net



Source: THQ Nordic


53 Persons - Neilo



Source: http://neilo.co.jp/recruit/


26 Persons - Lakysha Digital



Source: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ys ... ts/2070199



124 Persons - Tentative Grand Total

WildManofBorneo wrote:
26 Persons - Lakysha Digital

Lakshya Digital also has at least two other offices... near Seattle and San Diego, IIRC. They also work on multiple projects at once. So it's hard to say where the Shenmue work is being done or by how many.

Centrale wrote:

WildManofBorneo wrote:
26 Persons - Lakysha Digital

Lakshya Digital also has at least two other offices... near Seattle and San Diego, IIRC. They also work on multiple projects at once. So it's hard to say where the Shenmue work is being done or by how many.

At a minimum, at least 26 individuals from Lakysha are contributing to the Shenmue 3 development. What you see before you forms the crux of the art team. If additional art resources are required for Shenmue 3, chances are they are going to be added in India where costs are substantially less than in the United States or Japan.

I don't think it's really clear how many people from Neilo are working on Shenmue III. From Tak Hirai and the company's Twitter it seems they are involved involved in a bunch of other projects like smartphone games.

Amir wrote: I don't think it's really clear how many people from Neilo are working on Shenmue III. From Tak Hirai and the company's Twitter it seems they are involved involved in a bunch of other projects like smartphone games.

Yeah. Trying to divine the numbers is... a bit pointless.

WildManofBorneo wrote:Ryan Payton has no affiliation with Shenmue 3 except for being a fan of the series.

This is incorrect. He chairs the advisory board, according to the Back in my Play episode he first featured on.

Don't really know what the advisory board really does, but in models of Agile project management the input of a "stakeholder" from outside the development team is used to determine the path forward after a milestone or a release, so they could be an external body that advises the team as an outside view.