- Hiroya Hatsushiba
Hiroya Hatsushiba(JP:初芝弘也) is the founder of
tri-Crescendo , and a long time sound programmer for composerMotoi Sakuraba .Hatsushiba came up as a sound director and programmer for the
Telenet Japan subsidiaryWolfteam in 1993. It is here that he met Sakuraba; these two have worked together on various games since then.He was one of the many people that left Telenet Japan on March 6th, 1995 to participate in the founding of
tri-Ace . Here, he continued his sound programmer duties for Sakuraba, as well as doing some field programming.In 1999, he left tri-Ace and formed
tri-Crescendo . While initially continuing to provide sound programming for tri-Ace's games, tri-Crescendo moved into game development in 2001. Hatsushiba partnered up withMonolith Soft to developBaten Kaitos , which became one of the more successful games for GameCube. Developmental duties have continued for its sequel, as well as the recentEternal Sonata .
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