Fumito Ueda (上田 文人, Ueda Fumito) was born on April 19, 1970. He is a Japanese video game designer, director, and artist. Ueda is most famous for directing and designing the games Ico (2001) and Shadow of the Colossus (2005) while working at Japan Studio’s Team Ico.
Hidetaka Miyazaki (Japanese: 宮崎 英高, Hepburn: Miyazaki Hidetaka; born September 19, 1974) is a Japanese video game director, designer, writer, and president of the game company FromSoftware. He began working at the company in 2004 and designed games in the Armored Core series before gaining wider recognition for creating the Dark Souls series. In 2014, Miyazaki was promoted to company president and also serves as its representative director.
Naoki Yoshida (吉田 直樹, Yoshida Naoki; born May 1, 1973), also known as Yoshi-P, is a Japanese video game producer, director, and designer who works for Square Enix. He is noted for his work on massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), especially as director and producer of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and its expansions. Game Informer and other commentators credit Yoshida with helping to improve the original Final Fantasy XIV project, which had received poor reviews after its 2010 release.
Kazushige Nojima (野島 一成, Nojima Kazushige) was born on January 20, 1964. He is a Japanese video game writer known for creating stories for several games in Square Enix’s Final Fantasy series. These include Final Fantasy VII and its related games Advent Children and Crisis Core, Final Fantasy VIII, and Final Fantasy X and X-2.
Yoshinori Kitase (北瀬 佳範, Kitase Yoshinori) was born on September 23, 1966. He is a Japanese business leader, video game producer, and former game director who worked for Square Enix. He directed several famous games, including Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, and Final Fantasy X.
Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也, Nomura Tetsuya; born October 8, 1970) is a Japanese video game artist, designer, producer, and director who works for Square Enix. He was first hired by Square Enix as a monster designer for Final Fantasy V in 1992. Later, he worked as a secondary character designer with Yoshitaka Amano for Final Fantasy VI in 1994.
Eiji Aonuma (Japanese: 青沼 英二, Aonuma Eiji) was born on March 16, 1963. He is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer who works for Nintendo. At Nintendo, he holds a high-ranking position in the Nintendo EPD division.
Masahiro Sakurai (born August 3, 1970) is a Japanese video game director and designer. He is most famous for creating the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series.
Ben Brode is an American video game designer. He worked as the game director and spokesperson for Hearthstone until 2018. At that time, he left to start his own game studio called Second Dinner.
Allen Adham (born Ayman Adham) is an American businessman and video game developer. He is best known for helping to start Blizzard Entertainment with Michael Morhaime.