Takashi Iizuka (game designer)

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Takashi Iizuka (飯塚 隆 Iizuka Takashi?) (born 1970) is a Japanese game director, game producer, game designer, level designer, scenario writer and currently the head of Sonic Team.

Early career

His first collaboration with Sega involved working with STI on Sonic 3 and Knuckles as a designer. Later, he helped supervise Traveller's Tales with the development of Sonic R. In Japan he was lead designer for Nights into Dreams....[1] He directed and headed up lead design for Sonic Adventure as well (it was his idea for a Sonic role-playing game).[citation needed]

Sega Studio USA

In 1999, he and a small part of Sonic Team moved to San Francisco to establish Sega Studio USA, in order gain feedback from the western market. Over in the U.S. his team worked on the international release of Sonic Adventure. Afterward, his team started to develop their own games, where he was the director and lead designer for Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog, and Nights: Journey of Dreams. In an effort to further broaden Sonic's appeal to western markets, Iizuka gave western developer, Backbone Entertainment, a shot at developing Sonic titles (Sonic Rivals & Sonic Rivals 2) under his team's supervision for the PSP console.

Currently

In 2008 Sega's American division, Sega Studio USA, was absorbed back into Sonic Team Japan. Currently, he is the head of Sonic Team and as of 2010, is serving as producer for all major Sonic the Hedgehog titles.

Production history

References

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