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Video game director
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A game director, creative director or design director is a person usually responsible for creative development of a Wikipedia:video game, and is generally regarded as the prime design authority across the company's product range. Some examples are Wikipedia:Peter Molyneux or Wikipedia:Shigeru Miyamoto whose influence extends across more than one project. Video game directors usually come from either a programming or design background. They are typically people who have worked in the games industry for several years and established a reputation as a designer or before assuming the role. Some creative directors enjoy a measure of celebrity in the gaming press or beyond. Creative directors in games are generally regarded as being executive-level management, but are not to be confused with producers in that they are not generally involved in the particulars of contract negotiation, project management or staffing. In some cases, the role can overlap with the roles producer or lead designer.
Famous game directors[edit]
- Wikipedia:Brenda Brathwaite directed Wikipedia:Wizardry 8 as well as several social games.
- Wikipedia:Amy Hennig directed the Wikipedia:Legacy of Kain and Wikipedia:Uncharted series.
- Wikipedia:Todd Howard directed Wikipedia:The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Wikipedia:The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Wikipedia:Fallout 3
- Wikipedia:Casey Hudson directed the 2003 game of the year Wikipedia:Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, as well as Wikipedia:Mass Effect and its sequel Wikipedia:Mass Effect 2.
- Wikipedia:Tomonobu Itagaki directed several games in the Dead or Alive series and the post-2004 Ninja Gaiden console games.
- Wikipedia:David Jaffe director of the Twisted Metal and creator of the God of War Franchise.
- Jeffrey Kaplan was game director for the Wikipedia:MMORPG Wikipedia:World of Warcraft and is now working on an unannounced MMO with Wikipedia:Blizzard Entertainment.
- Wikipedia:Hideo Kojima is well-known for directing the Metal Gear series.
- Ken Levine wrote and directed the seminal Wikipedia:first-person shooter Wikipedia:System Shock 2 and its Wikipedia:spiritual successor Wikipedia:BioShock for Wikipedia:2K Boston/2K Australia.
- Wikipedia:Sid Meier directed and made the Civilization series.
- Wikipedia:Shinji Mikami is known as the creator of the Wikipedia:Resident Evil franchise among his work on other Capcom series.
- Wikipedia:Shigeru Miyamoto is often credited as the creator of the Wikipedia:Nintendo game characters Wikipedia:Mario, Link, and Donkey Kong, among others. He directed Wikipedia:Super Mario Bros. for the Wikipedia:Nintendo Entertainment System.
- Wikipedia:Peter Molyneux directed games such as Black & White, Fable, and Wikipedia:The Movies.
- Wikipedia:Yuji Naka was the game director for the Sonic The Hedgehog series up until Shadow the Hedgehog.
- Wikipedia:Tetsuya Nomura director of the Wikipedia:Kingdom Hearts series and other Square-Enix games.
- Wikipedia:John Romero directed the first-person-shooter-defining games Wikipedia:Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Heretic, Wikipedia:Hexen among many others.
- Wikipedia:Jason Rubin directed the Crash Bandicoot and Wikipedia:Jak and Daxter series' for Wikipedia:Naughty Dog.
- Wikipedia:Hironobu Sakaguchi is well-known for directing the Wikipedia:Final Fantasy series (I-III) for the Nintendo Entertainment System and 2 of the installments (IV and V) for the Wikipedia:Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
- Wikipedia:Yoshio Sakamoto is the co-creator of the Metroid series.
- Wikipedia:Jeremiah Slaczka most notably was the creator of and director of Wikipedia:Scribblenauts and the Wikipedia:Drawn to Life series.
- Wikipedia:Yu Suzuki Creator of Wikipedia:Sega games such as Wikipedia:Hang-On, Wikipedia:Out Run, Wikipedia:After Burner II, Virtua Fighter series and Wikipedia:Virtua Cop as well as the Wikipedia:Shenmue franchise.
- Will Wright director of Wikipedia:The Sims and the recently released Spore.
- Wikipedia:David Cage is the director of all Wikipedia:Quantic Dream video games: Wikipedia:Omikron: The Nomad Soul, Fahrenheit aka Indigo Prophecy in North America, and Wikipedia:Heavy Rain