- Yoot Saito
is a Japanese
game designer famous for designing innovative video games, often featuring the use of voice recognition technology, such as "Seaman" for theSega Dreamcast . In1996 , he founded his own video game development company, Vivarium. His latest game is "Odama " for theNintendo GameCube , andSeaman 2 released in Japan only, though he is currently working on an unnamed game for theNintendo DS , which is said to take advantage of both the system's inbuilt microphone and wireless networking capabilities.His first major game release was "
SimTower ", developed by his previous companyOPeNBooK Co., Ltd. and published byMaxis in1994 . He was also involved in both the sequel, "Yoot Tower ", theGame Boy Advance remake called "The Tower SP ", and theNintendo DS remake called "The Tower DS ". After founding Vivarium, he published some of his most famous games, including "Seaman", a virtual pet game which was one of the best selling titles for theSega Dreamcast in Japan [ [http://archive.gamespy.com/gdc2002/seaman/ GameSpy.com - Game Developers Conference 2002 Coverage ] ] , and "Odama ", a curious mix ofpinball andreal time strategy . Both of these games make use of their respective consoles' microphone peripherals.References
External links
* " [http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,34721/ Yoot Saito] " at
MobyGames
* [http://yoot.typepad.jp/ Yoot Saito's Blog]
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