Across Industries

A list of games made by people from different industries who did not originally have game development as their main business.
Below, this is the result of the process of picking up those who have been kicked off this list and fallen into the drainage channel.

Miyazaki Hidetaka
account manager(Oracle Corporation)
Tago Akira(supervision)
Psychologist
Itoi Shigesato
Copywriter
Horii Yuji
Freelance writer
Okada Koji
Commercial machine designer
Kawashima Ryuta(supervision)
Doctor of Medical Science
Yoshinari Ko & Yo brothers
Animator
Itoh Kazunori
scenario writer(anime & tokusatsu)
Hiroi Ouji (Anime Producer)
Akahori Satoru(Anime Screenwriter)
Tanaka Kōhei(Anime & Tokusatsu Composer)
Fujishima Kōsuke(Manga-ka)
Komatsu Kazuhiko(supervision)
Cultural Anthropologist
Kawara Juro
Self-proclaimed Gambler(An intellectual with a degree from the University of Tokyo, a rarity for a game designer at the time.)
Hase Seishū (story supervised)
Novelist(crime novels)
Abiko Takemaru
Novelist(Mystery fiction)
Hiroi Ouji (Anime Producer)
Sakamoto Ryuichi (Composer)
Shibamura Yuri
Self-Defense Force(maybe army?)
Incidentally, he is Japanese of Ukrainian descent.
Nagasaka Shukei
Scenario writer(Drama & Tokusatsu)
Hiroi Ouji (Anime Producer)
Hisaishi Jo (Composer)
Oshii Mamoru
Director (Anime etc.)
Masuda Shoji
advertising industry
Sakuma Akira
Freelance writer

3 Comments


1 year ago

I had no idea Shibamura Yuri was an ex-sdf member but it makes so much sense given how much GPM revolves around actual soldier stuff.

1 year ago

Tago Akira in Professor Layton?

1 year ago

@alessio Thank you for the suggestion! Added.


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