Idea Factory

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Idea Factory Holdings Co., Ltd.

Native name	アイディアファクトリー株式会社
Company type	Kabushiki gaisha
Industry	Video games
Founded	October 26, 1994; 29 years ago (1994-10-26)
Headquarters	Kyōbashi, Chūō, Tokyo , Japan
Key people	Shingo Kuwana (Chairman) Yoshiteru Sato (President)
Subsidiaries	Compile Heart Otomate Design Factory Idea Factory International Altergear
Website	http://www.ideaf.co.jp/

Idea Factory Holdings Co., Ltd. (アイディアファクトリー株式会社, Aidia Fakutorī Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded by former Data East employees in October 1994. A division of the company makes otome games under the name of Otomate (see list below). An international branch, Idea Factory International, was opened in California in 2013.^[1] Altergear, a division of Idea Factory that focuses on male-centered visual novel stories, was created in 2022.^[2]