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Japanese video game designers
- Hideo KojimaHideo Kojima was born on the 24th of August 1963 in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo, and his father named him Hideo because it was the most common name among the…
- Junko KawanoIn 1993, a newly hired artist named Junko Kawano joined the Japanese game company Konami. She was assigned to create an RPG alongside another newcomer to the…
- Masahiro ItoMasahiro Ito is the Japanese artist responsible for some of the most unsettling creature designs in video game history. His monsters do not simply look…
- Akira NishitaniAkira Nishitani joined Capcom in 1986. This year marked the beginning of a career that would reshape fighting games. He worked alongside Akira Yasuda, who…
- Yoshinori KitaseYoshinori Kitase was eleven years old in July 1978 when he saw Star Wars for the first time. The film left such an impression on him that he tracked down the…
- Hiroyuki ItoHiroyuki Ito joined Square in 1987 as a debugger, tasked with finding bugs in the original Final Fantasy. Few entry-level jobs in gaming feel more invisible…
- Daisuke WatanabeDaisuke Watanabe wrote the dialog for the Zanarkand Ruins in Final Fantasy X almost entirely in a single night. That moment of compressed creativity stands…
- Takashi NishiyamaIn 1982, a scrolling shooter named Moon Patrol changed how players saw the game world. Takashi Nishiyama designed this title while working at Irem.
- Keiichiro ToyamaKeiichiro Toyama is the creator of three distinct video game franchises: Silent Hill, Siren, and Gravity Rush. Each one occupies its own corner of gaming…
- Shigeru MiyamotoShigeru Miyamoto was born on the 16th of November, 1952, in the small Japanese town of Sonobe, in Kyoto Prefecture. His parents were of modest means, and his…
- Hironobu SakaguchiHironobu Sakaguchi named the lead character of his debut film after his dead mother. Aki Ross, the protagonist of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, carried…
- Yoshitaka MurayamaYoshitaka Murayama finished his computer programming studies at the University of Tokyo in the summer of 1992. He walked into Konami's newly opened Tokyo…
- Naoki YoshidaNaoki Yoshida grew up in Hakodate, Japan, where money was scarce for his family. He spent hundreds of hours playing a single video game title during his…
- Ryukishi07Ryukishi07 studied at a vocational school that specializes in art. He wrote doujinshi while having interests in anime, manga and video games.
- Tetsuya NomuraTetsuya Nomura was born in 1970 and applied to Square after seeing a job advertisement featuring artwork by Yoshitaka Amano.