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Akihiro Hino

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Akihiro Hino
日野 晃博
Hino in 2015
Born (1968-07-20) July 20, 1968 (age 56)
Occupations
Years active1989–present
Notable workDark Cloud series
Professor Layton series
Inazuma Eleven series
Ni no Kuni series
TitlePresident and CEO, Level-5

Akihiro Hino (日野 晃博, Hino Akihiro) (born July 20, 1968) is a Japanese video game designer and businessman. Starting his career as a programmer in the 1990s, he later took on roles in writing, design, directing and producing. He founded Level-5 in 1998 and remains its president and CEO.

Biography

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Hino began his career in the video game industry in the late 1980s at the now defunct Japanese developer Riverhillsoft, specifically on the OverBlood series for the original PlayStation. Hino acted as the lead programmer on the first OverBlood, and was subsequently promoted to lead designer and director for the sequel, OverBlood 2.

Hino founded Level-5 in October 1998.[1] Since the creation of Level-5, Hino has designed, planned and produced several of the studio's released titles, Dark Cloud, Dark Chronicle and Rogue Galaxy for the PlayStation 2, Jeanne d'Arc for the PlayStation Portable, and Professor Layton and the Curious Village for the Nintendo DS. He also directed Square Enix's Dragon Quest VIII.

Recently, Hino once again assumed designing and producing duties for Level-5's titles, White Knight Chronicles for the PlayStation 3, and the next two Professor Layton games – the Diabolical Box and the Unwound Future, both for the Nintendo DS, and Inazuma Eleven for the Nintendo DS, and Dragon Quest IX, also for the DS, which is his studio's second collaboration with role-playing video game powerhouse Square Enix.

Works

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Year Title Role
1989 Burai: Jokan Programmer
1992 Prince of Persia Programmer (FM Towns version)
1994 Doctor Hauzer Programmer
1996 OverBlood Programmer
1998 OverBlood 2 Director, game designer, story
2000 Dark Cloud Producer, game designer, story
2002 Dark Chronicle Producer, game designer, story
2004 Dragon Quest VIII Director
2005 Rogue Galaxy Director, producer, game designer, story
2006 Jeanne d'Arc Producer, game designer
2007 Professor Layton and the Curious Village Producer, designer, story
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box Producer, designer, story
2008 Inazuma Eleven Producer, designer, story
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future Producer, designer, story
White Knight Chronicles Director, producer, designer, story
2009 Inazuma Eleven 2 Producer, designer, story
Dragon Quest IX Director
Professor Layton and the Last Specter Producer, designer, story
2010 Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn Story
Inazuma Eleven 3 Producer
2011 Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask Producer, designer, story
Inazuma Eleven Strikers Producer
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Game design, story
2012 LBX: Little Battlers eXperience Producer, designer, story
Time Travelers Producer
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE Producer, designer, story
Layton Brothers: Mystery Room Producer
Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Story
Inazuma Eleven GO Strikers 2013 Producer
Fantasy Life Producer
2013 Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy Producer
Yo-kai Watch Producer, designer, story
2014 Wonder Flick Director, producer
Yo-kai Watch 2 Producer, designer, story
2015 Yo-kai Watch Blasters Producer
2016 Yo-kai Watch 3 Producer, story
2017 Layton's Mystery Journey General director, designer, story
Snack World: Trejarers General director, designer, story
2018 Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom General director, story
Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl - Gold General director, designer, story
2019 Yo-kai Watch 4 Producer, story

References

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  1. ^ Winkler, Chris (2003). "Creator's Talk Interview #2: Akihiro Hino". RPGFan.com. Archived from the original on 2009-07-12. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
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