These Twin Sisters Are Creating Space for Women in the Gaming World—and It's Paying Off

Anna and Mizuki Nakajima founded their mobile gaming company coly inc. to solve a problem they saw with mobile games in Japan: too few were designed to appeal to women, and those that were featured flat story lines and unrealistic characters.

Since 2014, the twin sisters have launched four games that are designed to offer deep, life-like characters and rewarding plot lines. “We think we’re creating human beings in a two-dimensional world, rather than two-dimensional characters that look and act like humans,” Mizuki tells TIME from Tokyo.