Final Fantasy VIII Credits (Windows)
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Final Fantasy VIII Credits
137 people (123 developers, 14 thanks)
Square Co., Ltd. | |
| Executive Producers | Hironobu Sakaguchi, Tomoyuki Takechi |
| Producer | Shinji Hashimoto |
| Publicity Producer | Michio Okamiya |
| Director | Yoshinori Kitase |
| Music Composer | Nobuo Uematsu |
| Main Programmer | Ken Narita |
| Battle System Designer | Hiroyuki Itou |
| Character Design & Battle Visual Director | Tetsuya Nomura |
| Art Director | Yusuke Naora |
| Scenario Writer | Kazushige Nojima |
| Image Illustrator | Yoshitaka Amano |
| CG Supervisor | Satoshi Tsukamoto |
| Movie Director | Motonori Sakakibara |
| Movie Character Model Director | Hiroshi Kuwabara |
| Character Modeling Director | Tomohiro Kayano |
| Real-Time Polygon Director | Akira Fujii |
| Battle Effect Director | Shintaro Takai |
| Motion Director | Tatsuya Kando |
| Card Game & Battle Camera Director | Takayoshi Nakazato |
| Lead Field Designers | Kenzo Kanzaki, Tetsuya Takahashi, Yukio Nakatani, Kazuyuki Ikumori |
| VFX & Composite | Hiroshi Matsuyama |
| Event Script Programmer | Shun Moriya |
| Battle Programmers | Hiroshi Harata, Kentarow Yasui |
| Event Director | Hiroki Chiba |
| Map Directors | Takeshi Endo, Masaru Oka |
| World Map Director | Ikuya Dobashi |
| Sound Programmer | Minoru Akao |
| Sound Editor | Eiji Nakamura |
| Production Manager | Akira Kashiwagi |
Square Co., Ltd.: Localization Department | |
| General Manager | Koji Yamashita |
| Localization Director | Aiko Ito |
| Coordination Director | Tchie Tokoro |
| Localization Engineer | Richard Mark Honeywood |
| Marketing General Manager | Yuji Shibata |
| Marketing Managers | Akira Kaneko, Yasuhiro Suzuki |
| Assistant Manager | Tomomi Nishigaki |
| Localization Assistant | Yuichi Yamada |
Square Soft, Inc. | |
| Executive Producer | Masahiro Nakajima |
| Project Lead | Jay Fong |
| Senior Software Engineers | Jay Fong, Anthony Ignacio |
| Software Engineers | Kevin Christensen, Scott Coventon, Kazumasa Fuseya, Davide Pasca, Yoshinori Uenishi (Goro) |
| Network Administration | Sami Zuhuruddin, Terry Y. Jung |
| Localization Management | Masahiro Nakajima |
| Localization Specialists | Yutaka Sano (Lead), Ryosuke Taketomi, Maki Yamane, Alexander O. Smith |
| Editors | Brian Bell, Richard Amtower IV |
| Associate Producer | Akihito Kozu |
| Quality Assurance Manager | Jon Williams |
| Assistant QA Manager | Mike Givens |
| Lead Product Analyst | Ben E. Norman |
| Assistant Lead Analyst | Judah Mehler |
| Product Analysts | Jesse Cheek, T. D. Shimonishi, Jason Wheeler, Tam Nguyen, Ban Du, Mohammed A. C. Wright, Mikey Nguyen, Richard Williams, Drew Jennings |
Square Soft, Inc.: Compatibility Testing | |
| Chief Engineer | Bennett Neale |
| Compatibility Technician | Justin Norman |
| Assistant Technician | Jeff J. Love |
Square Electronic Arts L.L.C. | |
| Senior Customer Service Manager | Rick Thompson |
| Assistant Customer Service Manager | Fernando Bustamante |
| Customer Service Lead | Alaine C. de Leon |
| Customer Support Representatives | Patrick H. Cervantes, James Dilonardo, Caroline Liu, John Montes, Mark Abarca, Mark Acero, Alan DeGuzman, Ryan Riley |
| PR and Events Manager | Lisa M. Ahern |
| Assistant PR Manager | Francine DeMore |
| Business Development Manager | Elaine Di Iorio |
| Product Coordinator | Beth Faust |
| Sales Coordinator | Sean Montgomery |
| Media Planner | Kyoko Yamashita |
| Creative Planner | Keiko Kato |
| Assistant Product Managers | Mitsuru George Torii, Andrew Shiozaki |
| Product Associates | Andy Hsu, Irene Sam, Brad Varey |
| Product Administrative Assistant | Mari Takashima |
| Marketing Assistant | Rika Maruya |
| Marketing Manager | Kenji Mimura |
| Vice Chairman | Yoshihiro Maruyama |
| President | Jun Iwasaki |
| Package/Manual Design | Steven Wright, Beeline Group Inc. |
| Special Thanks | Randall Fujimoto, Shun Moriya, Yumi Yoshida, RAD Game Tools Inc., Beeline Group Inc., Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles, C.H.E.N. PR, Virtual InterActive, BradyGAMES, SHOREWOOD PACKAGING CORP., The Kenwood Group, Mike Givens, Judah Mehler, Bennett Neale |
Electronic Arts | |
| Customer Quality Control | Jacob Fernandez, Benjamin Crick, Dave Knudson, Micah Pritchard, Darryl Jenkins, Andrew Young, Anthony Alexander |
Eidos Interactive Deutschland | |
| Product Development Director | Beco Mulderij |
| Product Manager | Hermann Jahnke |
| Director of Marketing | Lars Winkler |
| PR Manager | Sascha Green-Kaiser |
| Localization Manager | Thorsten Hamdorf, Stephan Mathé |
| QA Manager | Sören Winterfeldt |
| Tester | Hiroyuki Yamada |
| Manual Layout | A Creative Experience [London] |
Other Games
In addition to this game, the following people are listed as working on other games. No more than 25 people are listed here, even if there are more than 25 people who have also worked on other games.
Darryl Jenkins, 228 other games
Benjamin Crick, 186 other games
Yutaka Sano, 157 other games
Shinji Hashimoto, 156 other games
Koji Yamashita, 153 other games
Dave Knudson, 147 other games
Richard Amtower IV, 138 other games
Andrew Young, 115 other games
Anthony Alexander, 99 other games
Alaine C. de Leon, 90 other games
Nobuo Uematsu, 90 other games
Hironobu Sakaguchi, 75 other games
Tetsuya Nomura, 73 other games
Fernando Bustamante, 68 other games
Kazuyuki Ikumori, 67 other games
Jun Iwasaki, 62 other games
Yoshitaka Amano, 62 other games
Thorsten Hamdorf, 61 other games
Micah Pritchard, 56 other games
Yuji Shibata, 54 other games
Eiji Nakamura, 54 other games
Kyoko Yamashita, 53 other games
Minoru Akao, 52 other games
Hiroshi Kuwabara, 50 other games
Sören Winterfeldt, 49 other games
Collaborations
People who have worked on this game have also collaborated on the creation of the following games:
Final Fantasy Anthology, a group of 59 people
Final Fantasy IX, a group of 56 people
Final Fantasy VII, a group of 54 people
Vagrant Story, a group of 47 people
SaGa Frontier 2, a group of 47 people
Chrono Cross, a group of 46 people
Front Mission 3, a group of 42 people
Legend of Mana, a group of 40 people
Chocobo's Dungeon 2, a group of 39 people
Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring, a group of 39 people
Chocobo Racing, a group of 38 people
The Bouncer, a group of 38 people
Threads of Fate, a group of 36 people
Parasite Eve II, a group of 34 people
Final Fantasy X, a group of 33 people
Driving Emotion Type-S , a group of 33 people
Final Fantasy Chronicles, a group of 31 people
Xenogears, a group of 31 people
Brave Fencer Musashi, a group of 29 people
Kingdom Hearts, a group of 29 people
Final Fantasy X-2, a group of 26 people
Parasite Eve, a group of 25 people
Final Fantasy V, a group of 25 people
Chrono Trigger, a group of 23 people
Final Fantasy III, a group of 22 people
Credits for this game were contributed by Patrick Bregger (256022) and Zaibatsu (11060)
