Akihiro Hino facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Akihiro Hino
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| 日野 晃博 | |
Hino in 2015
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| Born | July 20, 1968 Ōmuta, Fukuoka, Japan
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| Years active | 1989–present |
| Employer | Level-5 |
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Notable work
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Dark Cloud series Professor Layton series Inazuma Eleven series Ni no Kuni series |
| Title | President and CEO |
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, where he remains its president and CEO.
Biography
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. 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: Journey of the Cursed King for the PlayStation 2.
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
| Year | Title | Role |
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| 1989 | Burai: Jokan | Programmer |
| 1992 | Prince of Persia | Programmer (FM Towns version) |
| 1994 | Doctor Hauzer | Lead programmer |
| 1996 | OverBlood | |
| 1998 | OverBlood 2 | Director, game designer, story |
| 2000 | Dark Cloud | Producer, game designer, story |
| 2002 | Dark Chronicle | |
| 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, game designer, story |
| Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box | ||
| 2008 | Inazuma Eleven | |
| Professor Layton and the Unwound Future | ||
| White Knight Chronicles | Director, producer, game designer, story | |
| 2009 | Inazuma Eleven 2 | Producer, game designer, story |
| Dragon Quest IX | Director | |
| Professor Layton and the Last Specter | Producer, game designer, original story | |
| 2010 | Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn | Story |
| Inazuma Eleven 3 | Producer | |
| 2011 | Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask | Producer, game designer, story |
| Inazuma Eleven Strikers | Producer | |
| Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch | Overall supervisor, game designer, story | |
| 2012 | LBX: Little Battlers eXperience | Producer, game designer, story |
| Time Travelers | Producer | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam AGE | Producer, game designer, story | |
| Layton Brothers: Mystery Room | Producer | |
| Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney | Executive producer, story | |
| Crimson Shroud | Executive producer | |
| Inazuma Eleven GO Strikers 2013 | Producer | |
| Fantasy Life | ||
| 2013 | Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy | |
| Guild02 | Executive producer | |
| Yo-kai Watch | Producer, game designer, story | |
| Attack of the Friday Monsters | Executive producer | |
| 2014 | Wonder Flick | Director, producer |
| Yo-kai Watch 2 | Producer, game designer, story | |
| 2015 | Yo-kai Watch Blasters | Producer |
| 2016 | Yo-kai Watch 3 | Producer, story |
| 2017 | Layton's Mystery Journey | General director, game designer, story |
| Snack World: Trejarers | ||
| 2018 | Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom | General director, story |
| Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl - Gold | General director, game designer, story | |
| 2019 | Yo-kai Watch 4 | Producer, story |
See also
In Spanish: Akihiro Hino para niños
