A game director is a person who is in charge of significant creative aspects of a video game. This title is not widely used in the video game industry, and is absent from most titles produced for western audiences. This title is most commonly found in games made in Japan. The same role undertaken for western video games series may be someone in the role of Executive Producer or even producer or designer. For example, though Will Wright was the game designer for The Sims, he is now more of an Executive Producer for the following games in the series, such as The Sims 2 and the The Sims Stories.
Famous game directors
- Hideo Kojima is well-known for directing the Metal Gear series.
- Shigeru Miyamoto is often credited as the "creator" of the Nintendo game characters Mario, Link, and Donkey Kong, among others. He directed Super Mario Brothers for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
- Hironobu Sakaguchi is well-known for directing the Final Fantasy series (I-III) for the Nintendo Entertainment System and 2 of the installments (IV and V) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
- Tetsuya Nomura directed many of Square Enix's recent works, among them the Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy series.
- Peter Molyneux directed games such as "Black & White," "Fable," and "The Movies."
- Takashi Iizuka directed many of recent Sonic the Hedgehog video games, starting with Sonic Adventure.
- Will Wright director of "The Sims" and the upcoming "Spore." As well as Koji Kondo who created the world wide known melodys of the first Super Mario Brothers as well as all other Super Mario games including the most recent Super Mario Galaxy. He is also well known for his work in The Legend of Zelda series having created famous tunes such as Saria's Song and the first games theme.
