Gamespot is reporting that Killer 7 producer/director Gouichi Suda is producing a new role-playing game for Nintendo DS titled "Contact". Akira Ueda of Shining Soul fame is directing.

The game revolves around the adventures of a professor who has crash-landed on a planet similar to Earth, and loses contact with a local boy, Cherry, whom he has enlisted to help him get off the planet. The player becomes the go-between for the professor and Cherry, receiving instructions from the professor on the top screen and directing Cherry's actions on the bottom.

The game is currently slated for release in Japan February 2006, is being developed by Suda's studio Grasshopper, and will be published by Marvelous Interactive.

Source: Killer 7 producer making Nintendo DS game