Fumito Ueda
aka:
上田 フミト,
上田 文人
Moby ID: 54313
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Fumito Ueda (上田 文人) was born on April 19, 1970, in Tatsuno, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan in 1970. He graduated from the Osaka University of Arts in 1993. In 1995, after trying to make a living as an artist, Ueda decided to pursue a career in the videogame industry.
Ueda is most famous for envisioning and creating the titles ICO (2001) and Shadow of the Colossus (2005). Before that, he had short stint at Warp Inc. as an animator, where he worked along with Kenji Eno on Enemy Zero (1997).
On 12th December 2011 Sony confirmed that Ueda left the company after fourteen years. At the time he was working on The Last Guardian, his third game at Sony as part of Team Ico in those fourteen years. Sony stated that Ueda would complete the title as a contractor for the company.
Credited on 14 games
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| Lunark (2023, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| The Last Worker (2023, Windows) | Jörg Tittel would like to thank |
| Endling: Extinction Is Forever (2022, Windows) | Special Thanks to |
| Wattam (2019, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Erica (2019, PlayStation 4) | Flavourworks Special Thanks |
| Jupiter & Mars (2019, PlayStation 4) | Special Thanks |
| Shadow of the Colossus (2018, PlayStation 4) | Supervisor |
| The Last Guardian (2016, PlayStation 4) | Created by |
| NightCry (2016, Windows) | Special Support (Message) |
| Rain (2013, PlayStation 3) | Special Thanks |
| Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (2011, iPad) | Inspiration |
| Shadow of the Colossus (2005, PlayStation 2) | Game Design |
| Ico (2001, PlayStation 2) | Director |
| Enemy Zero (1996, SEGA Saturn) | CGI Animators |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 7 games with Shuhei Yoshida
- 6 games with Ritchard Markelz
- 6 games with Riley R. Russell III
- 5 games with Andrew House
- 5 games with David Parkinson
- 5 games with Christine DeNezza
- 4 games with Sean Kelly
- 4 games with Yasuhide Kobayashi
- 4 games with Asad Qizilbash
- 4 games with Chi Ichikawa
Companies
- 5 games with Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
- 5 games with Valve Corporation
- 4 games with Sony Interactive...
- 3 games with Sony Interactive...
- 3 games with Epic Games, Inc.
- 3 games with Unity Technologies ApS
- 2 games with Team Ico
- 2 games with Sony Interactive...
- 2 games with Audiokinetic Inc.
- 2 games with PlayStation Studios
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