Hiroyuki Itō

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Hiroyuki Itō (伊藤 裕之, Itō Hiroyuki^?) is a Japanese game director and game designer. He is most known for his work on Square Enix's role-playing game series Final Fantasy.

Initially working in debugging and sound effects for the first three games of the Final Fantasy series, his work became prominent in Final Fantasy IV, when he created the long-time series staple, the Active Time Battle combat system. Afterwards, he served as a designer for a number of battle systems in the series, including the Job system in Final Fantasy V, the Esper system in Final Fantasy VI, and the Junction system and the Triple Triad card game in Final Fantasy VIII.

He also served as a co-director of Final Fantasy VI with Yoshinori Kitase as well as the director of Final Fantasy IX. One of his latest roles was to replace Yasumi Matsuno as a director for Final Fantasy XII with Hiroshi Minagawa after he left the project; both Itō and Minagawa had been on the development staff from the start.

Published works

• Final Fantasy (1987) - Debugger^{[citation needed]}
• Final Fantasy II (1988) - Debugger^{[citation needed]}
• Square no Tom Sawyer (1989) Game designer^{[citation needed]}
• Final Fantasy Legend (1989) - Scenario staff, map designer
• Final Fantasy III (1990) - Sound effects
• Rad Racer 2 (1990) - Game designer
• Final Fantasy IV (1991) - Battle designer
• Final Fantasy V (1992): Battle planner
• Final Fantasy VI (1994): Director
• Chrono Trigger (1995) - Event planner
• Final Fantasy Tactics (1997) - Game designer
• Final Fantasy VIII (1999) - Battle system designer, Chocobo World game designer
• Final Fantasy IX (2000) - Director, "Melodies of Life" lyrics (credited as "Shiomi")
• Hataraku Chocobo (2000) - Game designer
• Final Fantasy XII (2006) - Director, game designer
• Final Fantasy V Advance (2006): Supervisor
• Final Fantasy VI Advance (2006): Supervisor
• Final Fantasy XII International Zodiac Job System (2007) - Director, game designer, producer

Hiroyuki Itō has also been credited on the following games, seemingly as an employee of a different company than Square Enix, though it is unknown if it is the same person:

• Grandia II (developed by Game Arts, 2000) - Character demo production
• Disney's Party (developed by Jupiter and Neverland, 2003) - Assistant
• Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (developed by Square Enix and Jupiter, 2004) - Main programmer
• Meteos: Disney Magic (developed by Q Entertainment, Aspect and Platinum Egg, 2007) - Programmer
• The World Ends with You (developed by Square Enix and Jupiter, 2007) - Planning director

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