Who is Hidetaka Miyazaki?
Q: Who is Hidetaka Miyazaki?
A: Hidetaka Miyazaki is the leader of the video game company FromSoftware and head designer games such as Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne, and Sekiro.
Q: What was Miyazaki's childhood like?
A: Miyazaki grew up in a poor family and could not even afford to buy books for himself. He would often borrow them from the library instead.
Q: How did this influence his later work?
A: This experience of making up parts of stories he read influenced the way stories are told in the Souls series of video games which he created. In those games, some details are told to the player but they are expected to imagine other parts of the story not told.
Q: What did Miyazaki do before becoming a game designer?
A: Before becoming a game designer, Miyazaki worked as an account manager for US company Oracle Corporation until he was 29 years old.
Q: Why did he decide to quit his job?
A: After playing the game Ico, he decided to quit his job to become a game designer.
Q: Why were few companies willing to hire him?
A: Due to his age and lack of experience at that time, very few companies were willing to hire him as a game designer.
Q: How did Demon's Souls become popular?
A: Although it was initially put away because no one thought it would be popular, Miyazaki liked the idea and lead its development team which made it so successful that FromSoftware became well-known due to its popularity.
