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Fumito Ueda

1970 - Today

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Fumito Ueda (上田 文人, Ueda Fumito, born April 19, 1970) is a Japanese video game designer. Ueda is best known as the director and lead designer of Ico (2001) and Shadow of the Colossus (2005) while leading Team Ico at Japan Studio, and The Last Guardian (2016) through his own development company GenDesign. His games have achieved cult status and are distinguished by their usage of minimal plot and scenario using fictional languages, and use of overexposed, desaturated light. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fumito Ueda has received more than 625,548 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Fumito Ueda is the 88th most popular designer (down from 79th in 2019), the 1,449th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,345th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Designer.

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  • 630k

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  • 42.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Fumito Ueda ranks 88 out of 86. Before her are Sandy Powell, Max Miedinger, Bill Moggridge, Matthew Carter, Yvonne Blake, and Luc Luycx. After her are Abdulaziz al-Omari, Jenny Beavan, Kate Spade, Nicola Formichetti, and Hank Green.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Fumito Ueda ranks 286. Before her are Linn Berggren, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Eric Yuan, Origa, Yancy Butler, and Seu Jorge. After her are Leonardo Sbaraglia, Abraham Olano, Vladimir Grbić, Nia Long, Elon Lindenstrauss, and Yumi Watanabe.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Fumito Ueda ranks 1,449 out of 6,048. Before her are Kyoko Kuroda (1969), Koji Tanaka (1955), Kenichi Suzumura (1974), Takao Kawaguchi (1950), Masaru Uchiyama (1957), and Yuji Horii (1954). After her are Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (1986), Tomio Okamura (1972), Nobuo Fujishima (1950), Sana (1996), Okuro Oikawa (1896), and Eijun Kiyokumo (1950).

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Among DESIGNERS In Japan

Among designers born in Japan, Fumito Ueda ranks 4. Before her are Eiko Ishioka (1938), Yuko Shimizu (1946), and Yusaku Maezawa (1975). After her are Nicola Formichetti (1977).

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