Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojimais a Japanese video game designer, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is the director of Kojima Productions, which he originally founded in 2005, and a former vice president of Konami Digital Entertainment. He is often regarded as an "auteur" video game director...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionEngineer
Date of Birth24 August 1963
CityTokyo, Japan
CountryJapan
games senseless war
I won't make games with senseless violence. There has to be a reason for it, such as war.
art artistic aspects dedicated games museums music perceived sort synthesis technology various
There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a place as a kind of collaborative art or a synthesis of all these various aspects into a whole, and that, in itself, can be perceived as art.
games inhabit main player stories
Stories in which the player doesn't inhabit the main character are difficult for games to handle.
ask games question
There are so many games where you fight aliens or zombies, and they have very high-fidelity graphics, but they don't ask the question of why the events are happening.
audience design excited experience gamers gear introduce mentor twin unique
I am tremendously excited to introduce a unique 'Metal Gear Solid' experience to a new audience of gamers as well as collaborate with my mentor in game design, Mr. Miyamoto, on 'Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes' for Nintendo GameCube.
games interest
Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.
child effort fix game project putting start step time tries
Every time I make a new game, I put all of my effort completely into that game. It's like putting all your effort into a new child that's being born. Once the project is done, I can step back and look at it objectively, which is when I can see a lot of flaws. That's when I start to make a new game that tries to fix some of those flaws.
games gears lasts
I always say this will be my last Metal Gear, but the games in the series that I've personally designed and produced-Metal Gear on MSX, MG2, MGS1, 2, 3, 4, Peace Walker and now MGSV-are what constitute a single Metal Gear Saga. With MGSV, I'm finally closing the loop on that saga.
games platforms depends
In the near future, we'll have games that don't depend on any platform,
pain games missing
I want to reassure fans that I am 100% involved and will continue working on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; I'm determined to make it the greatest game I've directed to date. Don't miss it!
games creation expanding
Game creation keeps on expanding, just like the Universe. That is why I keep making games
player games creating
What I'm doing is creating a game. I'm not making a movie. To make the game more enjoyable and captivating, and to make the player feel like he's present in that setting, we need the cinematic element.
europe games roles
Japanese gamers aren't really into action games right now. They're into role-playing or strategy games with a lot of stats, but action titles are still really popular across the US and Europe.
games answers want
I want my games to teach a message about life, by presenting situations where the answer isn't a clear yes or no.