Square Visual Works

Tetsuya Nomura

Tetsuya Nomura is one of the lead character designers for Square Enix, and director of the Kingdom Hearts series. He also has partial creative control of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII and served as director of the movie Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.

Hironobu Sakaguchi

Widely known as the creator of Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguchi has written, directed, and/or produced dozens of role-playing games in his career. In 2000, he was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame.

Kazuyuki Ikumori

The director of Square Enix's Visual Works studio, which is known for producing some of the most advanced CGI animations.

Fernando Bustamante

Fernando Bustamante worked in the video game industry for over 10 years. His profession is marketing. He worked at Squaresoft, Square Electronic Arts, Square Enix, Konami, and now currently with D3 Publisher.

Nobuo Uematsu

One of the most revered and prolific composers in gaming, Uematsu helped define the emotional tone of the Final Fantasy series.

Yoshitaka Amano

Yoshitaka Amano is a freelance artist who is most famous for his character and logo designs for the Final Fantasy games.

Minoru Akao

A sound programmer at Square-Enix.

Yoshinori Kitase

Game director for Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII. Later worked as producer for Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2. Also produced/co-produced the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII as well as the Kingdom Hearts series.

Hisashi Suzuki

Japanese game director and producer for Sega and Square. One of Sega's first employees, he produced various electro-mechanical Sega arcade games during the 1960s to 1970s, before becoming an executive producer for many video games developed by Sega and Square during the 1980s to 2000s.

Rick Thompson

Rick Thompson worked for many years at Squaresoft in customer relations for the American market.

Akira Kashiwagi

Ken Narita

Yusuke Naora

Art director for multiple games in the Final Fantasy series.

Kyoko Yamashita

Kenji Mimura

Tomoyuki Takechi

Hiromichi Tanaka

Former producer/designer/writer/programmer for Squaresoft, working on games such as The Death Trap, Alpha, several Final Fantasy and Mana games, Xenogears, and Chrono Cross. Later a Square Enix producer for the two Final Fantasy MMORPG's, XI and XIV, as well as former chief executive in the company. Retired from Square Enix on July 31, 2012.

Jun Iwasaki

Jun Iwasaki is the former president of Square Enix USA and is now employed at XSEED Games as their president.

Jonathan Williams

Keiko Kato

Rich Amtower

Rich Amtower is a longtime member of Nintendo of America's Treehouse localization team. In the late 90's, he also worked for Squaresoft's localization team.

Alaine C. DeLeon

Kazushige Nojima

A Japanese developer and prolific scenario writer, responsible for writing the narratives of some of the most popular games from Squaresoft (later Square Enix), including Final Fantasy VII, VIII and X as well as Kingdom Hearts I & II. He is also the scenario writer for the upcoming Final Fantasy XV.

Aziz Hinoshita

Translator and localization manager, responsible for the translation and localization of Final Fantasy X and many other Square Enix games.

Tomohiro Kayano

Tomohiro Kayano is a character modeling director. He worked with Square Enix on a number of high-profile titles, such as Final Fantasy VII and Kingdom Hearts.

Andy Hsu

Takashi Tokita

Takashi Tokita (時田 貴司, Tokita Takashi) (born 24 January 1965) is a Japanese video game developer working for Square Enix. He has worked there since 1985, and has worked as the lead designer for Final Fantasy IV, as well as the director of Live-A-Live, Chrono Trigger, Parasite Eve, and The Bouncer.

Jun Iwasaki

A game designer at AlphaDream.

Alexander O. Smith

Koji Tanaka