Biography
The developer of computer games Hideo Codisim in the youth mastered the prestigious profession of the game video driver and, advanced by the career ladder to the vice-president of the famous company Konami Digital Entertainment, founded his own studio called Kojima Productions Co., Ltd. During its operation, the man became the author of popular quests and roasters, as well as a series of commercially successful stealth action, since 1987, from the brand of Metal Gear.Childhood and youth
The early biography of Hideo Codzima is connected with Satagay, a special area of Tokyo, where on August 24, 1963 the future designer was born. Then the family in which three children were brought up, moved to Osaka, and even later, for a while settled in the Japanese prefecture of Hego.
In childhood, Hideo with older relatives gave preference to cinema and every evening a film watched a film. And at the age of 13, when the father died suddenly, the mother burst between the work and the economy, the boy constantly included the TV to see a beautiful and happy life.
As a result, due to forced isolation from the Society of peers, the boy became friends with fictional heroes and dreamed of becoming an illustrator artist in order to portrayed peace. But in Asia, this was not considered a prestigious profession that brought financial well-being, so Hideo began to write prose and decided to remove his own film. True, the film, filmed by an 8-mm camera, was not over.
Career
Since 1986, Hideo worked in the Department in the development of standards for MSX household computers, and then it was raised to the assistant director who created the Penguin Adventure video game, and entrusted the production of the first independent project, which was subsequently closed.Watching the activities of a young employee, in 1987, the management of the company instructed him a creative task associated with the release of the action in a little-known game genre of Stels. For several months, Codzima thought out the adventure architecture of Metal Gear and Metal Gear Solid, which were originally known only in Japan and were produced on the devices of the MSX series.
And then the gamedizaineer received international recognition thanks to the Cyberpank Adventures of Gillian Side, presented in the Snatcher's exciting quest. He called Snatcher CD-Romantic was reissued in North America and distributed on the PC Engine platform.
Successful sales of Konami products outside the Asian market led to the fact that in the mid-1990s, Hideo received his own team developers of computer games. Soon he completed the creation of a criminal poolicenauts shooter for the PlayStation console and continued to work on the plots of Stels-series Metal Gear.
International release of Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty caused a storm of delights from playing around the world thanks to the practically unlimited capabilities of the PS platform. Following the plan of Cocise and the team of young authors, there was a colorful and realistic 3-D graphics and animated inserts that gave a respite from voltage and the revolving grim and dark peace.
In 2005, Codezima separated from the main team of Konami Digital Entertainment and founded his own Kojima Productions studio. There, he released a soupeless release of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, as well as the next parts of the Metal Gear Solid game, designed for the PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and PC devices.
Personal life
Confirming the myth of the mysteriousness of a Japanese character, Codisim communicates little with journalists and tries not to advertise a personal life. And although his Instagram and other social networks are regularly replenished with new photos, in most cases it is working moments and personnel representing the next release.
Hideo Codisim now
In 2019, the Codezima Studio is preparing to submit a new project called Death Stranding, and now developers are engaged in the latest details of the announced game.It is known that the characters living in the open world of the United States of America were created with the help of Lindsay Wagner, Madsa Mikkelsen, Norman Reedus and other actors, in one of the roles a guillermo del Toro appeared, nominated for Oscar for the "Water Shape" .
Projects
- 1987 - "Metal Gear"
- 1988 - "Snatcher"
- 1991 - "Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake"
- 1994 - "Policenauts"
- 1998 - "Metal Gear Solid"
- 2001 - "METAL GEAR SOLID 2: SONS OF LIBERTY"
- 2003 - "Boktai: The Sun Is In Your Hand"
- 2004 - "METAL GEAR SOLID 3: Snake Eater"
- 2010 - "Castlevania: Lords of Shadow"
- 2014 - "Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes"
- 2015 - "Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain"
- 2019 - "Death Stranding"