is a Japanese video game designer at Konami. Formerly the vice president of Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, he is currently the head of Kojima Productions, a new team devoted to creative game development leaving behind all the business and administrative decision making. He is the creator and director of a number of successful games, including the "Metal Gear series", "Snatcher", and "Policenauts".

(born October 8, 1970) is a Japanese game and character designer working for Square Enix Co., Ltd. (formerly Square Co., Ltd.). He has been rated by the website Next Generation as the 7th most important and anticipated video game developer of 2007.

David: I was just about to accept a job offer from a large game publisher when I noticed a game producer want ad in the Los Angeles Times, from a small company called ISG. I decided to check them out, and learned that they wanted to develop games for CD-I. I was somewhat familiar with the platform, having been invited to demonstrations at PIMA when I worked at Disney, but wasn't very impressed with it as a game machine.

(born November 25, 1962) is a Japanese game designer, game director and game producer. He is famous around the world as the creator of the "Final Fantasy" series, and has had a long career in gaming with over 80 million units of video games sold worldwide.

is a Japanese video game designer. He is the creator of the "Mario", "Donkey Kong", "The Legend of Zelda", "Star Fox", "Nintendogs", "Wave Race", and "Pikmin" video game series for Nintendo game systems. He is one of the world's most celebrated game designers, and is often called the father of modern video gaming.

(born on August 3, 1970 in Tokyo) is a game concept designer, the creative force behind both the "Kirby" and the "Super Smash Bros." series on Nintendo platforms, and wrote a weekly column for "Famitsu" magazine. One of Sakurai's earliest experiences in the video game industry began when he worked for HAL Laboratory, Inc. It is here that he created the character "Kirby" at the age of 19. He would soon direct his first title, "Kirby's Dream Land".

is a Japanese game producer, scenario writer and a former game director working for Square Enix Co., Ltd. (previously Square Co., Ltd.). He joined the company in 1991. His most notable roles as game director are "Final Fantasy VI", "Chrono Trigger", "Final Fantasy VII" and "Final Fantasy VIII". Kitase later worked as producer for "Final Fantasy X" and "Final Fantasy X-2".

(born November 17, 1960) is a video game designer for Nintendo. His work extends far back to the original "Super Mario Bros." of which he took on the role of Main Director to Shigeru Miyamoto. He later then worked on "Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels" (Assistant Director), "The Legend of Zelda" (Graphic Designer) and "Zelda II: The Adventure of Link" (Supervisor/Advisor). Tezuka's first directorial debut was with "Super Mario Bros.

Tim Schafer (born July 26, 1967) is an American computer game designer of Norwegian descent. He founded Double Fine Productions in January 2000, having spent over a decade at LucasArts. Most recently, Schafer designed a game for the Xbox, PS2, and PC called "Psychonauts". Schafer is best known in the video game industry for his story-telling and comedy writing abilities.

is a former director at Square Enix (previously called Square). He was born in 1965 and began his career at the developer Quest, where he created the Ogre Battle series of tactical role-playing games. After leaving Quest he joined Squaresoft in 1995. His colleagues at Square Enix usually called him by his nickname "YAZZ". According to e-mail responses from the Square Enix Information Center, Matsuno left Square Enix on August 31 2005, …

Motomu Toriyama is a Japanese video game director. He is currently a director within Square Enix's Product Development Division-1, which is managed by producer Yoshinori Kitase. Much of his experience had been with event planning and directing before he became the sole director of "Final Fantasy X-2" and "Final Fantasy XIII".

is a video game designer born in Tatsuno, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan in 1970. Ueda is director and lead designer of the PlayStation 2 video games "Ico" and "Shadow of the Colossus". He described himself as a very inquisitive child saying "I enjoyed catching and keeping living things, such as fish or birds. Other than that, I liked both watching and making animation. Basically, I seemed to be interested in things that moved." At school, his favorite subjects included art, …

Masamichi Abe is a video game director and planner for Nintendo Co., Ltd. Abe joined Nintendo Co., Ltd., EAD after a successful tenure at Namco Ltd. He is currently working with Nintendo Software Technology Corporation. He is the creator of many titles including Knukle Heads, Tekken, Tekken 2, Tekken 3 (up to the arcade game version), Alpine Racer, Alpine Racer 2 and Alpine Surfer while at Namco.

Dr. Ray Muzyka is the Chairman/CEO and Co-Executive Producer at BioWare Corp. He co-founded BioWare in 1994 with the other co-founder and President of BioWare, Dr. Greg Zeschuk. Muzyka and Zeschuk were the co-executive producers on Shattered Steel, the Baldur's Gate series (PC), MDK2, MDK2: Armageddon, the Neverwinter Nights series, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox and PC), and Jade Empire (XBox).

Hiroshi Minagawa (born 1970) is a Japanese game artist and game director who joined Square (now Square Enix) in 1995. He is best known as the art director for Ogre Battle, Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy Tactics and the director for "Final Fantasy XII". He became Final Fantasy XII's co-director with game design director Hiroyuki Itō after the departure of creator, original producer and director Yasumi Matsuno.

Michael Stemmle is a computer game writer, designer and director (sometimes designated as a "project leader" in LucasArts parlance) who co-created some of LucasArts' adventure games in the 1990s and early 2000s. He was also an uncredited script doctor on some non-adventure games. He joined LucasArts after graduating from Stanford University, …

Yu Suzuki (born June 10 1958) is a Japanese game designer and producer who has spent his entire career with Sega Enterprises. Often referred to as Sega's answer to Shigeru Miyamoto, he has been responsible for the creation of many of Sega's most important arcade games such as "Hang-On", "Out Run", "After Burner II", "Virtua Fighter" and "Virtua Cop" as well as the Dreamcast game "Shenmue".

is the CEO of Grasshopper Manufacture. The "51" in his nickname, SUDA51, is a pun on his given name. "Go" means 5 and "ichi" means 1. His works include "Moonlight Syndrome" for the PlayStation, "The Silver Case", "Michigan" and most recently, his first game to be released in the United States, "Killer7". He was known for appearing in pictures wearing a lucha libre mask when promoting "Killer7".

Lorne Lanning is an American game designer, writer, voice actor and animated film director. He is also co-founder and president of the video game developer, Oddworld Inhabitants. He is best known for creating the Oddworld series including the games "Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee", "Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee", "Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus" and "Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath".

Jeff Stuart Green (born June 21, 1956) is a Canadian writer, playwright, producer, and director working in a variety of media including radio, television, computer and DVD-based multimedia, and in live club settings. His work has earned him critical acclaim and a number of awards. In addition to the work he has created, he was instrumental in the evolution of broadcast radio in the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada market during the late 1970s and the 1980s - specifically, …

is a Japanese game director, scenario writer, sound effects artist and game designer for Square Enix, and is most known for his work in the role-playing game series, "Final Fantasy". He uses the pen name "Shiomi" when writing lyrics and the like. 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, …

(born 1964) is a Japanese game director and game producer currently working for Square Enix (formerly Square). He is most notably credited for directing titles in the "Front Mission" series and was also the battle director for "Final Fantasy X". As battle director of "Final Fantasy X", he pulled away the Active Time Battle (ATB) system, which started with "Final Fantasy IV" and originally designed by Hiroyuki Ito, replacing it with a more strategic battle system, …

Shigefumi Hino is a graphics designer, game director, and planner from Nintendo EAD. He is known to be behind Yoshi from the Yoshi franchise. Super Mario World is the first game he worked on. Hino is the director of the "Pikmin" series alongside Masamichi Abe. In the "Pikmin" series, Hino has primarily focused on graphics design and was involved in character elements of the games, while Abe has primarily focused on gameplay design.

(born January 24, 1965) is a Japanese video game developer working for Square Enix. He joined Square Enix in 1985 at the same time as Akitoshi Kawazu and Nasir Gebelli. He is well known for writing the story for Parasite Eve and also Final Fantasy IV. He is also well known as the director of Parasite Eve and Chrono Trigger. Tokita is the head of Square Enix's Production Team 7.

Kyle "Pezman" Peschel (born January 11, 1979) is a video game producer, director and editor. He lives in Santa Monica, California. Peschel is the producer, director and editor of the upcoming game "TimeShift" (2007), as well as the senior producer of "Battle Engine Aquila" (2003). He is the owner of gaming news site GameGossip and the GameGossip Community Forums.

(born March 1971) is a video game artist and director who worked for Square Co., Ltd. and is now employed with Monolith Soft. He notably worked on the "Chrono" series, and was director for "Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean" (with Koshi Horibe and Hiroya Hatsushiba) and "Baten Kaitos Origins" (with Hiroya Hatsushiba).

Masato Kato (born March 28, 1963) is a Japanese game developer and scenario writer. He first worked for Tecmo on "Captain Tsubasa" and the "Ninja Gaiden" series. He went on to work for Gainax, then Square Co.. He is mostly known for having written parts of the stories for "Chrono Trigger" (in which he wrote in-depth material to complement the main story, and also personally scripted all events in the era of 12,000 B.C.), "Radical Dreamers", …

Akihiko Matsui is a video game developer and battle designer working for Square Enix (previously Square Co., Ltd.). He was notably the director for "Chrono Trigger" with Yoshinori Kitase and Takashi Tokita.

Craig Morrison works on massively multiplayer online role-playing game titles for Norwegian company Funcom. He is currently Game Director for Anarchy Online having served as the companies Community Manager since 2004. He has worked on community aspects of various Funcom products including Dreamfall and Age of Conan. Known better by many game followers by his forum handle 'Silirrion'.

(born July 20, 1968 in Ōmuta, Fukuoka) is President and CEO of Japanese video game developer Level-5.

Charles Cecil has been a key figure in the interactive entertainment industry for 25 years. He is currently operating as MD Managing Director for UK based company Revolution Software which has released such critical and commercial hits as "Beneath a Steel Sky" and the "Broken Sword" series. Charles is on the advisory panel of the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival, …

Morten Byom became the Game Director of Anarchy Online in November of 2004, replacing Marius Enge who has been the Game Director for the expansion Alien Invasion. Byom held the role of Lead World Designer for Shadowlands, the first expansion pack for Anarchy Online.

Sean P. Clark is a game designer, director and programmer who worked on a number of notable LucasArts adventure games from early 1990 through to 2002.

David Perry was the President and founder of Shiny Entertainment, Inc. running it for 12.5 years. A 24-year game industry veteran, Perry launched his professional career at just 15 years of age by writing video game programming books in his native Northern Ireland. Since then, Perry has developed or programmed over 100 games across 29 video game platforms. All told, Perry's games (including #1 Hits like The Terminator, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Disney's Aladdin & "Movie Game . . .