Keiichiro toyama biography books

Japanese video game designer

Keiichirō Toyama (外山 圭一郎, Toyama Keiichirō, born 1970) is a Japanese video game director and designer, best known as the creator of the Silent Hill, Siren and Gravity Rush franchises.^[1]

Biography

Toyama was born in 1970 in Miyazaki Prefecture, and studied art in Tokyo Zokei University.^[2] After graduating he joined Konami in 1994 as a graphic artist.^[3][4] He was the graphic designer and character designer for the Sega CD version of Snatcher and International Track & Field, and after that he created the Silent Hill series.^[5] The game was successful and produced various sequels, but Toyama left Team Silent in 1999 after the first game was launched to join Japan Studio afterwards to work on the Siren series.^[3][6] One of the first games he worked on in Sony was Yoake no Mariko, a collaboration with Spümcø, where he was a gameplay designe