Curated playlist
Final Fantasy designers
- Koichi IshiiSquare turned down Koichi Ishii's game idea before he finished pitching it.
- Yoshinori KitaseYoshinori Kitase set Final Fantasy X in Southeast Asia to widen what "fantasy" could mean.
- Hiroyuki ItoHiroyuki Ito began at Square in 1987 as a debugger hunting bugs in Final Fantasy.
- Daisuke WatanabeDaisuke Watanabe wrote the Zanarkand Ruins dialog in Final Fantasy X almost entirely in one night.
- Yusuke NaoraA trip to Bali gave Final Fantasy X its Besaid Village. Artist Yusuke Naora brought back images of temples and flowers.
- Akihiko YoshidaVaan in Final Fantasy XII was first drawn as rugged and tough. The team later made him younger and thinner.
- Hiroshi MinagawaHiroshi Minagawa goes by the nickname Nigoro, and his name sits in the credits of some of the most admired role-playing games to come out of Japan. He is an artist, a designer, and a director. His earliest credit in the list of his works…
- Hironobu SakaguchiHironobu Sakaguchi named his film's heroine after his mother, who died in a house fire.
- Kazuko ShibuyaKazuko Shibuya drew the characters, monsters and menus for the first Final Fantasy.
- Naoki YoshidaIn December 2010, Naoki Yoshida took over the troubled Final Fantasy XIV as director and first-time producer.
- Tetsuya NomuraTetsuya Nomura started at Square as a debugger, not a designer. A hand-drawn plan book later got him noticed.
- Yoshitaka AmanoIn 1996, artist Yoshitaka Amano became the world's highest-earning artist.