Hideki Kamiya

About

Hideki Kamiya is a Japanese video game developer, as well as one of the original founders of games studio PlatinumGames. As well as this, he is also known for his work as director on a number of vdeo game franchises, such as Bayonetta, Devil May Cry and Wonderful 101. Online, he is also known for his interactions with fans over social media site Twitter, as well as his alienating treatment of some fans.

Biography

Early Career

Kamiya's work as a game director first started in 1994, when he was hired by Capcom to work as a planner for the first instalment in the Resident Evil franchise for the PlayStation. Later, he went on to work as the game director for the game's sequel, Resident Evil 2 , helping to make the game feel more cinematic in order to boost the game's popularity. As well as this, he also went on to work as director on the first instalment in the Devil May Cry franchise, and then later the first game in the Viewtiful Joe franchise.

Work at Clover Studio

After the release of the first Viewtiful Joe, the studio behind it's release, known at the time as "Team Viewtiful", was changed into the Capcom funded Independent game studio Clover Studio. While at the studio, Kamiya worked on a number of titles, including writing the story for the two sequels to the original Viewtiful Joe, titled Viewtiful Joe 2 and Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble, released in 2004 and 2005 respectively. His last work at the studio was as director on the Playstation 2 game Okami, which was released in 2006, before the studio was shut down by Capcom in the same year.

Work at Platinum Games

After the closure of Clover Studio, Kamiya along with a number of his co-workers went on to found studio Platinum Games, then named Seeds inc on August 1, 2006, before being renamed to Platinum games. The first game Kamiya directed while at this studio was hack and slash game Bayonetta, which was published by Sega in 2009 as a spiritual successor to the Devil May Cry series. As well as this, Kamiya also went on to direct games such as The Wonderful 101, which was published by Nintendo in September 2013 for the Wii U, as well as Scalebound, which is planned to be published by Microsoft Studios in 2016 for Xbox One. As well as this, he also served as supervisor to the sequel to Bayonetta, which was published by Nintendo for the Wii U in October 2014.

Online Relevance

On Twitter

On Twitter, Hideki Kamiya is known under the handle @PG_kamiya^[1], first joining in February 2010, and has over 90,000 followers as of August 2015. As well as this, he is also well known for his tendency to block and berate other users frequently, garnering much controversy. A tumblr blog dedicated to posting a number of Kamiya's tweets, titled "Kamiya Tweets" was also created^[2].

On 4Chan

On January 11, 2014, Kamiya began making a series of posts on 4chan's /v/ Video Games board^[3], under the name pg_kamiya, in a thread dedicated to getting his attention^[4], sparking a significant fan reaction from the community. He later confirmed that this was him via Twitter^[5],

Search Interest

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