Following the success of GiFTPiA and Chibi-robo on the GameCube, ex-Squaresoft developer Kenichi Nishi went on to create a special Nintendo DS project called ‘Archime-DS’ that is set to come to Europe at the end of August this year as ‘Bakushow’. Now Nishi-san has something new on the horizon.

Newtonica, coming to iPhones for now, but perhaps DS in the future?

Sadly, though, the game is currently on coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch platforms rather than any Nintendo format. The official website for Newtonica does not reveal anything at the moment, other than the game is seemingly being developed solely by Kenichi Nishi-san’s own development team ‘Route24′, just as was the case with Archime-DS (or LOL DS, as it is known in the US, and Bakushow in Europe). That does not mean there are no outside partners involved, though, since Archime-DS actually used some staff from Skip Ltd. (the team that is currently working on Captain Rainbow now for Nintendo on Wii).

The only real information that has been logged on Newtonica comes from a blog entry on 1UP:

What is Newtonica? No one really knows just yet, but I do have a few tidbits that I’ve scrounged up. First up is it’s the new game by Chibi Robo creator, Kenichi Nishi, who was the original founder of Chibi-developer Skip, but left to pare things down to a more intimate level (read: He wanted to keep his team small, and Skip was growing too big). As you can see on his blog, Newtonica — the name is a cross between the original Apple ‘Newton’ and ‘electronica’ — is his current project, and will likely be a music-focused experience. We’ll have more on this unique little project as we learn about it, but for those of you getting ready to adopt Apple’s new 3G-enabled $200 iPhone, the revelation of fun new software from a known developer should excite the senses.

Given Nishi-san’s positivity to Nintendo and its platforms in the past, it would be hoped that chances are high for the project to eventually come to the DS or maybe even be re-worked for Wii in the long-run. For now, though, it is just a matter of ‘watch this space’…