Yasumi Matsuno, director of "Vagrant Story", "Final Fantasy Tactics", and the "Ogre Battle" series, briefly joined Level-5 in June 2011, who left the company after completing work on "Crimson Shroud" for the Nintendo 3DS. By the early 2010s, Level-5 was one of the ten largest video game companies in Japan, holding a market share of 3.2%. In October 2015, Level-5 founded a spin-off company in Santa Monica, in cooperation with Dentsu, called Level-5 abby. Its purpose is to develop multimedia entertainment for Western demographics.