Hidetaka Miyazaki

**Hidetaka Miyazaki** (宮崎 英高 Miyazaki Hidetaka?, born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese video game director and current president of the video game development company, FromSoftware. Miyazaki originally joined FromSoftware as a programmer in 2004 and after directing *Armored Core 4* and *Armored Core: For Answer*, he became widely known for creating the *Souls* series.

Although Miyazaki had directed the first two games in the series, Miyazaki took a supervising role for *Dark Souls II* due to the parallel development of *Bloodborne*, which made him unable to direct both titles simultaneously. After the release of *Bloodborne*, Miyazaki returned to the *Souls* series as the lead director on *Dark Souls III*.

## Career

After graduating, Miyazaki went to work for the US based Oracle Corporation. Upon a friend's recommendation, Miyazaki began playing the 2001 video game *Ico*, causing him to consider a career change to a game designer. At age 29 however, Miyazaki found that few game companies would employ him, one of the few that would was FromSoftware, where Miyazaki began working on the *Armored Core* series. Upon learning about what later became *Demon's Souls*, Miyazaki became excited at the prospect of the title and offered to help. Although the game sold poorly at first, it began to pick up after a few months and soon found publishers willing to release the title outside Japan. After the release of the game's spiritual successors, *Dark Souls* and *Dark Souls II*, Miyazaki was promoted to the position of president in 2014.

After the release of the *Prepare to Die Edition* of *Dark Souls* in August 2012, Sony Computer Entertainment approached FromSoftware concerning cooperative development on a new title. Miyazaki asked about the possibility of developing a game for eighth-generation consoles and the concept of *Bloodborne* developed from there. There were no story or setting connections to FromSoftware's previous titles, even though Miyazaki conceded that it "carries the DNA of *Demon's Souls* and its very specific level design". Development ran parallel to that of *Dark Souls II*, which Miyazaki simply supervised as he was unable to direct both titles simultaneously. After the release of *Bloodborne* in March 2015, Miyazaki returned to the *Souls* series as the director on *Dark Souls III*, with assistance from *Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor* and *Dark Souls II* directors Isamu Okano and Yui Tanimura, respectively. *Dark Souls III* was released in Japan in March 2016 and worldwide in April 12th of the same year.

## Game credits

* *Armored Core: Last Raven* (2005) – Planner
* *Armored Core 4* (2006) – Director
* *Armored Core: For Answer* (2008) – Director
* *Demon's Souls* (2009) – Director
* *Dark Souls* (2011) – Director, producer
* *Dark Souls II* (2014) – Supervisor
* *Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin* (2015) – Supervisor
* *Bloodborne* (2015) – Director
* *Dark Souls III* (2016) – Director

## Gallery

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## External links

* MobyGames
* Wikipedia