Japanese video game designer and writer (born 1953)
Yuji Horii
堀井 雄二
Horii in 2011
Born
(1954-01-06) January 6, 1954 (age 70)
Sumoto, Hyōgo, Japan
Alma mater
Waseda University
Occupations
Author
game designer
writer
Years active
1982–present
Employer
Armor Project
Notable work
The Portopia Serial Murder Case
Dragon Quest
Chrono Trigger
Yuji Horii (堀井 雄二, Horii Yūji, born January 6, 1954) is a Japanese author, video game designer, writer and director best known as the creator of the Dragon Quest franchise,[1] supervising and writing the scenario for Chrono Trigger, and The Portopia Serial Murder Case, released in 1983 as one of the first visual novel adventure games.[2][3]
Horii is CEO of his own company, Armor Project, a company that has an exclusive production contract with Square Enix,[4] a contract established with Enix before the company merged with Square, and is also one of the companies who co-own the Dragon Quest franchise alongside Square Enix.
^Nintendo Power November 2007. Future US, Inc. 2007. pp. 77–80.
^Szczepaniak, John (February 2011). "Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken". Retro Gamer. Archived from the original on September 26, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2011. (Reprinted at Szczepaniak, John. "Retro Gamer 85". Hardcore Gaming 101. Archived from the original on April 12, 2011. Retrieved March 16, 2011.)
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^"Top 100 Game Creators of All Time". IGN. Archived from the original on March 5, 2009. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
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The Portopia Serial Murder Case is an 1983 adventure game designed by YujiHorii and published by Enix. It was first released on the NEC PC-6001 and has...
co-director and encouraging the game's development for the DS. Series creator YujiHorii acted as game and story designer, with artist Akira Toriyama and composer...
notable early collaborators were designers YujiHorii and Koichi Nakamura, and composer Koichi Sugiyama. Horii, Nakamura and Sugiyama would all work on...
game YujiHorii first sends rough sketches of the characters with their background information to Toriyama, who then re-draws them. Lastly, Horii approves...
in the Dragon Quest series, Dragon Quest V's scenario was designed by YujiHorii, whereas the artwork was done by Akira Toriyama, of Dragon Ball fame....
named the new king. Like other main games in the Dragon Quest series, YujiHorii wrote the story for Dragon Quest II, Akira Toriyama did the artwork, and...
of which he has been imprisoned. Like the other games in the series, YujiHorii was staffed as the scenario director. Critics praised the colorful designs...
the Dragon Quest series, Dragon Quest III's scenario was designed by YujiHorii, whereas the artwork was done by Akira Toriyama, of Dragon Ball fame....
from the series. He was created by YujiHorii and designed by Akira Toriyama. Due to his popularity with fans, Horii elected to expand upon the idea of...
novelists, manga artists, and game designers such as Fumito Ueda and YujiHorii. His games often invoke the use of high difficulty and narratives presented...
a party video game series originally created by Dragon Quest designer YujiHorii. It is currently owned by Square Enix. The first game was released in...
with Squaresoft in 2003 to form Square Enix. The game was produced by YujiHorii, who has presided over the Dragon Quest series since its inception. Artwork...
game. Coinciding with the release, lead designer and scenario writer YujiHorii announced that an international version, localized in five separate languages...
human, to rescue children kidnapped by Psaro's minions. He is created by YujiHorii and designed by Akira Toriyama, and has a Scottish accent in the English...
in the fifth chapter to defeat the monster Psaro. They were created by YujiHorii and designed by Akira Toriyama, and have been the subject of praise for...
Dragon. The scenario designer, as in all previous Dragon Quest games, was YujiHorii. Similarly, the lead artist was Akira Toriyama and the sound was composed...
setting all plans in motion that drove Psaro to his insanity. According to YujiHorii, he wanted to have something the player went around collecting as the...
hit, helping Koei become a major software company. In another opinion, YujiHorii recalled in 1986 that he saw a demonstration of a Yakyūken-like game running...
Creator YujiHorii was one of the first game designers Nintendo president Satoru Iwata approached with the prototype Revolution controller. Horii contributed...
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