Question: Zone of the Enders is a video game franchise created by a producer regarded as a what?
Context: Jak and Daxter is a video game franchise created by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin and owned by Sony Computer Entertainment.  The series was developed by Naughty Dog with a number of installments being outsourced to Ready at Dawn and High Impact Games.  The , released on December 3, 2001, was one of the earliest titles for the PlayStation 2, and is regarded as a defining franchise for the console. Rayman is a video game franchise created by French video game designer Michel Ancel. Hideo Kojima (小島 秀夫 , Kojima Hideo , born August 24, 1963) is a Japanese video game designer, screenwriter, director, and producer.  Regarded as an auteur of video games, he is the director of Kojima Productions, which he founded in 2005, and a former vice president of Konami Digital Entertainment. Zone of the Enders: 2167 Idolo is an hour-long Original Video Animation, set as a prequel to the original Zone of the Enders game.  It serves to explain the war between Earth and Mars, and the origin of the Orbital Frame technology.  The events also lead into the TV series "Z.O.E. Dolores,i". Zone of the Enders (ZONE OF THE ENDERS Z.O.E ゾーン　オブ　エンダーズ , Zōn obu Endāzu ) , officially abbreviated as Z.O.E, is a third-person shooter hack and slash video game that was developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2.  It was released on March 1, 2001 in Japan and later in the same month for both North America and Europe.  The game is based around mecha combat with the player controlling the "Orbital Frame" Jehuty.  Across the game, the player has to protect towns from enemies and obtains new weapons. Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner, known in Japan as Anubis: Zone of the Enders (ANUBIS ZONE OF THE ENDERS アヌビス　ゾーン　オブ　エンダーズ , Anubisu Zōn obu Endāzu ) , is a third-person shooter hack and slash video game that was developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 in 2003.  The sequel to "Zone of the Enders" is based around mecha combat with the player once again controlling the "Orbital Frame" Jehuty.  Unlike its predecessor, the game is now centered on action elements with the player not needing to protect civilians in need and instead Jehuty contains more weaponry than in the previous game. Sonic the Hedgehog (Japanese: ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ , Hepburn: Sonikku za Hejjihoggu ) is a video game franchise created and produced by Sega.  The franchise centers on a series of speed-based platform games.  The protagonist of the series is an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog named Sonic, whose peaceful life is often interrupted by the series' main antagonist, Doctor Eggman.  Typically, Sonic—usually along with some of his friends, such as Tails, Amy, and Knuckles—must stop Eggman and foil any plans of world domination.  The first game in the series, released in 1991, was conceived by Sega's Sonic Team division after Sega requested a mascot character.  The title was a success, it spawned many sequels, and it transformed Sega into a leading video game company during the 16-bit era in the early to mid 1990s. Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars, known in Japan as Zone of the Enders: 2173 Testament (ゾーン　オブ　エンダーズ 2173 テスタメント , Zōn obu Endāzu 2173 Tesutamento ) , is a video game that was developed by Sunrise Interactive and published by Konami in 2001 for the Game Boy Advance.  The game is story-orientated, and is based around turn-based strategic mecha combat. Zone of the Enders (ゾーン　オブ　エンダーズ , Zōn obu Endāzu ) is a video game franchise created by Hideo Kojima and Konami.  The original "Zone of the Enders" was developed for the launch of the PlayStation 2, which has so far spawned a , a Game Boy Advance side-story, an original video animation, and a twenty-six episode anime television series. Perfect Dark is a science fiction video game franchise created by Rare and owned by Microsoft Studios.  The series is set in the 2020s and follows Carrington Institute agent Joanna Dark, code named "Perfect Dark", as she uncovers numerous conspiracies by rival corporation dataDyne.  The franchise debuted in 2000 with the Nintendo 64 first-person shooter "Perfect Dark", which received strong acclaim from critics and players, leading to the franchise's expansion.  Due to Microsoft's acquisition of Rare in 2002, the development of subsequent games in the series was transferred to Microsoft video game consoles.
Answer: an auteur of video games