SMT Character Designer Kazuma Kaneko Working on New Game

Former Atlus artist Kazuma Kaneko is working on a new game for COLOPL, an iOS and Android game company in Japan. This project is currently known as “project MASK” and been revealed by the company in its recent financial sales report.

Currently, not much is known about the game outside the following artwork, its code name, platforms, and the text used within COLOPL’s presentation.

The Slide pulled from the original sales report can be viewed below:

The text states that Legendary creator Kazuma Kaneko is:  “Creating a New Game Experience with [ God / Kami ]. ”

Kazuma Kaneko is a designer previously in charge of world and character design for the Shin Megami Tensei and Persona series. After leaving Atlus in 2023 after 35 years of employment, he joined COLOPL in 2023. Since then an original IP, now known as “project MASK,” began development with Kaneko’s guidance. 

Project Mask is currently one of five upcoming smartphone games in COLOPL’s development pipeline. The financial report also noted 10 previously announced games are still in development for console systems.