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Yasuhiro Wada (video game designer)

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Yasuhiro Wada
Occupations
  • Game developer
  • Game designer
  • Artist
Known forHarvest Moon (video game), Story of Seasons

Yasuhiro Wada (Japanese: 和田康宏, Hepburn: Wada Yasuhiro) is a Japanese video game designer and producer. He is known for his work on Story of Seasons, formerly known as the Harvest Moon series. In 2009, he stopped work on the series to pursue other projects.

Career

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Yasuhiro Wada was the producer of the 1995 Super Famicom game Magical Pop'n.[1] He also worked as the designer on the game Harvest Moon.[1][2] Harvest Moon is a farming game, with gameplay that is not focused on combat or competition.[2] Wada felt he needed to make games that were different from those of his predecessors, and he drew on his experience growing up in rural life.[2]

In 2005, he was the president of Marvelous Interactive.[3] In 2008, he was the Chief Commercial Officer of Marvelous Entertainment.[3] In 2010, he joined Grasshopper Manufacture as COO.[3] He then left Grasshopper and founded the company Toybox in 2011.[4][5]

Wada was the producer for the game Birthdays the Beginning.[6][7]

He worked on the game Little Dragons Café.[8][9] The game is a cafe-management and dragon-raising simulator.[10][11]

Works

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Year Game title Role
1995 Magical Pop'n Producer
1996 Harvest Moon
1997 Harvest Moon GB Producer, game designer
1999 Harvest Moon 64 Producer, sound director
1999 Harvest Moon 2 GBC Producer
1999 Harvest Moon: Back to Nature Director, producer
2000 Harvest Moon 3 GBC Producer, supervisor
2000 Bokujō Monogatari Harvest Moon for Girl Producer, Funny Fish Modeler
2001 Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland
2003 Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
2003 Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town Producer, game designer
2003 Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town Executive Producer
2004 Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life
2005 Harvest Moon DS
2005 Harvest Moon: Magical Melody Executive producer, game designer
2005 Harvest Moon DS Cute Executive producer
2005 Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life Special Edition
2006 Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon
2006 Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon
2007 Harvest Moon DS: Island of Happiness
2007 Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility
2008 Rune Factory 2
2008 Harvest Moon: Animal Parade Producer
2008 Rune Factory: Frontier Executive producer
2009 Harvest Moon: My Little Shop Producer
2013 Hometown Story Director, producer
2017 Birthdays the Beginning Producer, game designer
2018 Little Dragons Café Producer
2024 Natsumon: 20th Century Summer Vacation Producer[12]

References

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  1. ^ a b Aetas Inc. "「牧場物語」の和田康宏氏がSwitchに感じた可能性。生態系シム「ハッピーバースデイズ」クリエイティブプロデューサーインタビュー" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2018-04-10. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  2. ^ a b c Staff, GDC Vault. "Video: The making of the original SNES Harvest Moon". Archived from the original on 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  3. ^ a b c "CREATOR - トイボックス株式会社". www.toybox-games.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-10-04. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  4. ^ "Yasuhiro Wada - Anime Expo". Anime Expo. Archived from the original on 2018-08-12. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  5. ^ "Yasuhiro Wada On How Happy Birthdays Is More Game-Like, And Why He Left Grasshopper - Siliconera". Siliconera. 2018-04-14. Archived from the original on 2018-08-12. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  6. ^ "The creators of Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon talk to us about farm games". pcgamer. Archived from the original on 2018-08-12. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  7. ^ "『Birthdays -バースデイズ-(仮題)』自分だけの世界を作って命を生み出そう - ファミ通.com". ファミ通.com (in Japanese). 25 August 2016. Archived from the original on 2018-08-12. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  8. ^ "We Talked to the Creator of Harvest Moon Series,Yasuhiro Wada, for His New Game Little Dragon's Cafe -". mxdwn Games. 2018-08-09. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  9. ^ "Interview: Little Dragons Cafe's Yasuhiro Wada and Akibo Shieh - Gematsu". Gematsu. 2018-07-17. Archived from the original on 2018-08-12. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  10. ^ "Harvest Moon Creator's Next Game is a Cafe Management and Dragon Raising Sim". USgamer.net. Archived from the original on 2018-08-12. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  11. ^ "Harvest Moon creator's latest game combines dragon rearing and restaurant management". Eurogamer.net. Archived from the original on 2018-08-12. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  12. ^ "x.com".
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