Transcript for Did You Know Gaming video for HotShots Party

Did you know - the HotShots Party series is actually a video game adaptation of the popular board game HotShots by Latikuu. While the game's director, Koizumi Sakamoto, loved watching his children play HotShots, he came up with a bright idea while at a carnival, and despite the minigames within carnivals and the ones provided in HotShots, Sakamoto decided to do a video game adaptation of the game. Sakamoto was also a big fan of The Drillimation Series at the time, and decided to feature Drillimation characters as playable characters. Sakamoto pitched the idea to Seymour Games and they loved the concept. Surprisingly, several other companies in El Kadsre submitted bids to purchase the rights to The Drillimation Series to make games based on the anime. Seymour Games' idea struck Drillimation Studios and they won the bidding war.

Sakamoto's goal when creating the game was to eliminate some of the systems used in the original board game and come up with new ideas. Some of those included replacing the event cards with in-board events. Another was creating new minigames and making them played in fun and innovative ways.