 While "Tempest" was conceived as a "compact" version of a "Tales" title, "Innocence" was designed to include all the elements expected from a mainline console title, meaning it was created with very different development goals.Rather than by established "Tales" developer Namco Tales Studio, "Innocence" was developed by Alfa System, a Japanese studio that had previously worked on the first two "Tales of the World" spin-off titles.They were chosen to work on the game because of their previous successful efforts with these spin-offs.