Akihiro Hino
Japanese video game designer
Akihiro Hino (日野 晃博, Hino Akihiro; born July 20, 1968) is a Japanese video game designer, producer, scriptwriter, and businessman. He is the founder, president, and chief executive officer of Level-5.2
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Born Jul 20, 1968.1
About
Hino has held multiple roles in game development, including programming, scenario writing, directing, and executive production.
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Companies
Early life and education
Akihiro Hino was born in Ōmuta, Fukuoka Prefecture. Hino credited titles like Dragon Quest III as formative experiences that shaped his understanding of video games as a medium capable of emotional storytelling. He also developed an early interest in three-dimensional graphics, which influenced his later work at a time when most Japanese games were two-dimensional.
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Career
Occupation: entrepreneur, businessperson, video game developer, film director, engineer, screenwriter.4
Early career
Hino began his professional career in the late 1980s at Riverhillsoft, a now-defunct Japanese developer. He contributed as a programmer to several early titles, including Doctor Hauzer, before serving as lead programmer on OverBlood (1996). He was promoted to lead designer and director for its sequel, OverBlood 2 (1998), marking his first major leadership position.
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Personal life
Awards
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Sources
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- 1WikidataAkihiro Hino on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaAkihiro Hino on Wikipedia
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- 7WikidataAkihiro Hino: award, on Wikidata
- 8Wikidataaward, as reported
- 9WikidataAkihiro Hino: X, on Wikidata
- 10WikidataAkihiro Hino: IMDb, on Wikidata
- 11WikidataLevel-5, Founder
- 12Wikimedia CommonsAkihiro Hino photo by Steven Bornholtz, CC BY-SA 3.0