Yoshitaka Murayama
aka:
村山 吉隆
Moby ID: 90457
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Yoshitaka Murayama (村山 吉隆) was a Japanese game designer best known as the creator of the Suikoden series. He was born in Hokkaido and studied computer programming at the University of Tokyo, graduating in 1992. In the same year he was hired by Konami. He worked in quality assurance before being entrusted with leading the development of a new RPG series in collaboration with Junko Kawano and other employees. Murayama created the setting and the general concept of what later became Suikoden (1995).
In June 2002, a month before the release of Suikoden III, Murayama unexpectedly left Konami and founded Blue Moon Studio, where he worked on 10,000 Bullets.
His last work was the scenario for the Kickstarter crowd-funded title Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes by Rabbit & Bear Studios, which Murayama founded to produce the Eiyuden Chronicle games. He passed away on 6th February 2024 due to complications with an ongoing illness, two months before the release of the game.
Credited on 10 games
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| Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising (2022, Windows) | Supervisor |
| The Alliance Alive: HD Remastered (2019, PlayStation 4) | Scenario Writer |
| Warriors Orochi 4 (2018, PlayStation 4) | Scenario Writer |
| The Alliance Alive (2017, Nintendo 3DS) | Scenario Writer |
| 10.000 Bullets (2005, PlayStation 2) | Scenario |
| Gensō Suikoden: Card Stories (2001, Game Boy Advance) | Producer (プロデューサー) |
| Gensō Suiko Gaiden: Vol.2 - Crystal Valley no Kettō (2001, PlayStation) | Producer (プロデューサー) |
| Genso Suiko Gaiden: Vol.1 - Harmonia no Kenshi (2000, PlayStation) | Original Author (原作) |
| Suikoden II (1998, PlayStation) | Writer/ Creator |
| Suikoden (1998, Windows) | Story |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 5 games with Miki Higashino
- 4 games with Jun Saito
- 4 games with Kiyohiko Yamane
- 4 games with Yumiko Takahashi
- 4 games with Junko Kawano
- 4 games with Fumi Ishikawa
- 4 games with Akiyoshi Ohta
- 4 games with Kosuke Soeda
- 4 games with Fumiaki Tsuchiya
- 4 games with Ken-Ichiro Imaizumi
Companies
- 5 games with Konami Computer...
- 5 games with Konami Corporation
- 2 games with Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH
- 2 games with TENKY Co. Ltd.
- 2 games with 505 Games S.p.A.
- 2 games with FuRyu Corporation
- 2 games with Grezzo Co., Ltd.
- 2 games with Cattle Call, Inc.
- 2 games with Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
- 1 game with Taito Corporation
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