Yuuji Horii
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Yuuji Horii (堀井雄二 Horii Yūji?) (January 6, 1954 – ) is a Japanese video game designer best known as the creator of the Dragon Quest series.
Horii graduated from Waseda University's Department of Literature. He also worked as a freelance writer for magazines, newspapers, and comics. He placed in an Enix-sponsored game programming contest with a tennis computer game, motivating him to become a video game designer. His works include the Dragon Quest games, The PORTOPIA Serial Murder Case, and the Itadaki Street series.
Horii was also a supervisor of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game, Chrono Trigger. Chrono Trigger had multiple game endings and Horii appeared in one of the endings with the game development staff.
Horii currently heads his own production company, Armor Project, a company that has an exclusive production contract with Square Enix, a contract established with Enix before the company merged with Square. He is currently working on Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors, a spin-off game in the Dragon Quest series being developed for Nintendo's Wii console.
[edit] References
- Square Enix site staff (March 31, 2004). Square Enix Co., Ltd. 2004 Annual Report (English) (PDF) pp. 70. Retrieved on 2006-09-18.
[edit] External links
- (Japanese) Yuuji Horii's personal websitefr:Yuji Horii
