It’s been an exciting time for fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game. With the release of Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, the game is enjoying a level of popularity it hasn’t seen since it first came to the West way back in 2002. Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel is designed to be the full digital experience of the physical card game. It is something fans have requested for years. Now that they have it, they’re making their thanks known. The game skyrocketed to number four on the chart of Twitch’s most streamed games in just a week. And today, Konami announced that the game surpassed 20 million downloads since its launch in January. We sat down with Kenichi Kataoka, a producer on Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, about the design process behind the game.
While Master Duel, of course, has a PvP mode, it also features a robust single-player mode called Solo Mode. Unlike some other previous games based on the series however, it does not focus on the stories from the anime and manga. I…
Interview: Conceptualizing Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel’s design with Producer Kenichi Kataoka
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