GAME DESIGNER

Hidetaka Miyazaki

1974 - Today

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Hidetaka Miyazaki (Japanese: 宮崎 英高, Hepburn: Miyazaki Hidetaka, born September 19, 1974) is a Japanese video game director, designer, writer, and president of the game developer FromSoftware. He joined the company in 2004 and was a designer for the Armored Core series before receiving wider recognition for creating the Dark Souls series. Miyazaki was promoted to company president in 2014 and also serves as its representative director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hidetaka Miyazaki has received more than 4,375,470 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Hidetaka Miyazaki is the 20th most popular game designer (up from 25th in 2019), the 1,229th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,184th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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  • 5.19

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  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Hidetaka Miyazaki ranks 20 out of 77. Before him are Shinji Mikami, Shigesato Itoi, Gary Gygax, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Toru Iwatani, and Masayuki Uemura. After him are Peter Molyneux, Reiner Knizia, Dave Arneson, Yu Suzuki, Kazunori Yamauchi, and Carol Shaw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Hidetaka Miyazaki ranks 112. Before him are Xzibit, Zoran Zaev, Petter Solberg, Alexander Wurz, Mirko Cro Cop, and Al-Muhtadee Billah. After him are Lin Chi-ling, Charlotte Perrelli, Haya bint Hussein, Bassem Youssef, Flávio Conceição, and Cyril Raffaelli.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hidetaka Miyazaki ranks 1,229 out of 6,245. Before him are Akina Nakamori (1965), Yuto Nagatomo (1986), Takako Doi (1928), Takefusa Kubo (2001), Toshio Takabayashi (1953), and Yasushi Akashi (1931). After him are Fumio Hayasaka (1914), Wataru Endo (1993), Masatoshi Shima (1943), Katsuyoshi Kuwahara (1944), Yoshiko Kuga (1931), and Tetsuya Komuro (1958).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Hidetaka Miyazaki ranks 11. Before him are Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Shinji Mikami (1965), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Toru Iwatani (1955), and Masayuki Uemura (1943). After him are Yu Suzuki (1958), Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), Eiji Aonuma (1963), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), Hideki Kamiya (1970), and Yuji Naka (1965).

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