Hiromichi Tanaka

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Tanaka in London, January 31, 2007

Hiromichi Tanaka (田中弘道, Tanaka Hiromichi^?) (born January 7, 1962) is a Japanese video game developer, game producer, game director and game designer. He is currently Senior Vice President of Software Development at Square Enix Co., Ltd. (formerly known as Square Co., Ltd., and oversees the company's online game business. He is best known as the lead developer of Final Fantasy XI, Square Enix's first massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG), and oversees ongoing development of that title and of future MMOGs. He also recently led the development of the Nintendo DS version of Final Fantasy III, having worked in a senior role on the original version of the game in 1990.

In 1983, Tanaka dropped out of Yokohama National University along with Hironobu Sakaguchi to join Square, a newly formed software branch of the Denyuusha Electric Company at the time. Along with Sakaguchi and Kazuhiko Aoki, Tanaka was part of Square's original Planning and Development department.

[edit] Game credits

The Death Trap (programmer)
Genesis (producer/scenario/game design)
Alpha
Crystal Dragon
Yokohama Minato Renzoku Satsujin Jiken
Final Fantasy (game design)
Final Fantasy II (game design)
Final Fantasy III (game design)
Final Fantasy Legend II (game data)
Secret of Mana (producer, concept / System design, Scenario message data)
Seiken Densetsu 3 (director)
Xenogears (producer/battle design)
Chrono Cross (producer/battle design)
Threads of Fate (producer)
Final Fantasy XI (producer)
- Final Fantasy XI: Rise of the Zilart (producer)
- Final Fantasy XI: Chains of Promathia (producer)
- Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan (producer)
Final Fantasy III (DS version) (executive producer/director)
Next-gen MMORPG (unreleased)