11 Facts About Yoshiki Okamoto

Yoshiki Okamoto, sometimes credited as Kihaji Okamoto, is a Japanese video game designer.

Yoshiki Okamoto is credited with producing popular titles for Konami, including Gyruss and Time Pilot, and for Capcom, including 1942, Gun.

Yoshiki Okamoto later founded the companies Flagship and Game Republic, and then created the hit mobile games Dragon Hunter and Monster Strike for Mixi.

Yoshiki Okamoto played a role in the creation of Rockstar's Red Dead franchise.

Yoshiki Okamoto would oversee the development of Capcoms subsequent games as a producer and was responsible for recruiting character designer Akira Yasuda for Capcom.

Yoshiki Okamoto worked on the 1996 survival horror game Resident Evil.

Yoshiki Okamoto continued to develop video games for Capcom through Flagship.

Yoshiki Okamoto then left Capcom, which canceled the game in August 2003.

Yoshiki Okamoto developed a typical party game called Every Party, which was a launch title for the Xbox 360 in Japan.

In 2011, Game Republic shut down due to debt, and a year later, Yoshiki Okamoto announced that he had retired from making console games and started working on mobile games.

Yoshiki Okamoto has said that he gets ideas from scenery from movies, citing particularly the works of Akira Kurosawa and Chinese ghost stories.