tri-Ace’s Yuichiro Kitao, best known for his programming work on the Star Ocean series, has announced his departure from the company after 14 years.

A teaser site hints it’s a new kind of adventure drama and Siliconera found another clue… the game may be based on Mito Komon.

While RealStyle has not said anything about their project, job listings give a hint. The entertainment company (they make e-books and CG too) is hiring iPhone/Android programmers and social game planners.

Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile developer tri-Ace has been pretty quiet after releasing Resonance of Fate. While the studio didn’t share any details about their upcoming games, they posted a technical demo of their in-game engine.

Radiant Historia acknowledges the complexities of time-traveling and tries to present it in a simple, streamlined way for the player.

Atlus, as the game’s publisher, requested certain changes be made to the concept design.

Atlus USA had a large team assigned to the project, with as many as four different translators working on translating the game’s text alone.

Radiant Historia has two main timelines, each of which branch off into several smaller paths.

Tri-ace and Sega haven’t said anything about a proper sequel to Resonance of Fate (aka End of Eternity in Japan), but Zephyr’s adventures continue in the End of Eternity: The Secret Hours.

When Yuichiro Kitao, program director at Tri-ace was singing praises about Bink Video, a video codec used for games, he mentioned an interesting tidbit about Resonance of Fate.

Tri-Ace’s internal ASKA Framework was built to make Infinite Undiscovery, Star Ocean: The Last Hope, Resonance of Fate, and a fourth game.

Ever wonder how many polygons developer tri-Ace used to create Leanne? Her hair?

We gave Resonance of Fate a glowing playtest. What did the folks over in Japan think?

Resonance of Fate opens with a dramatic cutscene where Subject 20, a girl fated to die when she turns twenty leaps off a building, head first into a city.