Hiroyuki Ito
Hiroyuki Ito | |
|---|---|
| Born | Japan |
| Occupation | Video game designer |
Hiroyuki Ito (伊藤 裕之, Itō Hiroyuki), also credited with the spelling Hiroyuki Itou, is a Japanese game director and game designer. He is most known for his work on Square Enix's role-playing game series Final Fantasy.
Biography
Initially working in debugging and sound effects for the first three games of the Final Fantasy series, his work became prominent in Final Fantasy IV, when he created the long-time series staple, the Active Time Battle (ATB) system. Afterwards, he served as a designer for a number of battle systems in the series, including the Job system in Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy Tactics, the Esper system in Final Fantasy VI, the Junction system and the Triple Triad card game in Final Fantasy VIII and the Active Dimension Battle (ADB) of Final Fantasy XII.
He also served as one of the directors of Final Fantasy VI with Yoshinori Kitase and as the director of Final Fantasy IX. He was a one of the directors of Final Fantasy XII, first with Yasumi Matsuno, then with Hiroshi Minagawa after Matsuno left the project.[1]
Game Design Philosophy
When directing a role-playing video game, Hiroyuki Ito does not like the story to be main focus and he instead believes in balancing a deep story with an equal amount of gameplay.[2]
Credits
The name Hiroyuki Ito has also been credited on the following games, though it is unknown if any of these are the same person:
- Grandia II (2000, developed by Game Arts) - Character Demo Production
- Disney's Party (2003, developed by Jupiter and Neverland) - Assistant
- Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004, developed by Square Enix and Jupiter) - Main Programmer
- Meteos: Disney Magic (2007, developed by Q Entertainment, Aspect and Platinum Egg) - Programmer
- The World Ends with You (2007, developed by Square Enix and Jupiter) - Planning Director
- Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (2009, developed by Square Enix and h.a.n.d.) - Lead Planner: Missions
- Kingdom Hearts Re:coded (2010, developed by Square Enix and h.a.n.d.) - Co-Director
References
- ^ Anoop Gantayat (2005-08-01). "Changes to Final Fantasy XII Staff". IGN. Retrieved 2010-05-04.
- ^ "The Final Fantasy IX Team Spills All". IGN PlayStation. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved 26 December 2010.
Hiroyuki Itou: Although the FF series has evolved over the years, it is still an RPG. Since the FF series tends to be story-driven, I wanted to balance the story with the traditional gameplay of an RPG.
External links
 | This biographical article related to Japan is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This biographical article relating to a video game specialist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |