Chrono Trigger Credits
Credits are displayed in the order they appear in-game. Certain individuals have biographies located at separate articles.
Contents
Producer
Kazuhiko Aoki
Director
Yoshinori Kitase
Akihiko Matsui
Takashi Tokita
Character Design
Akira Toriyama
Akira Toriyama (鳥山 明 Toriyama Akira, born on April 5, 1955 in Kiyosu, Aichi Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist. He debuted in 1978 with the story Wonder Island, published in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, and gained fame for Dr. Slump, serialized weekly in Shonen Jump from 1980 to 1984. He is probably best known for his series Dragon Ball. This work was one of the linchpins for what is known as the Golden Age of Jump. Its success "forced" Toriyama to work on Dragon Ball from 1984 to 1995. During that eleven-year period, he produced 519 chapters, collected into 42 volumes. Each volume has an average of 200 pages, so the entire Dragon Ball storyline extends to almost 9,000 pages. Moreover, the success of Dragon Ball led to an animated television series, feature-length animated movies, video games, and mega-merchandising.
His clean line and design sense led to jobs designing characters for the phenomenally popular Dragon Quest series of role-playing game (formerly called Dragon Warrior in the United States). He has also served as the character designer for the Super Famicom and SNES RPG Chrono Trigger and the popular fighting game Tobal No. 1 for the PlayStation (as well as its sequel, Tobal 2, released only Japan), and continues to produce the occasional manga story. His works after Dragon Ball tend to be short (100-200 page) stories, including Cowa!, Kajika, and Sandland, as well as one-shots, like the spoof Neko Majin Z.
Supervisor
Yuji Horii
Yuji Horii (堀井雄二 Horii Yūji, born January 6, 1954) is a Japanese video game designer. Yuji Horii graduated from Waseda University's Department of Literature. He also worked as a freelance writer for magazines, newspapers, and comics. He won the top prize at the Enix-sponsored "Game Programming Contest" that gave him the motivation to become a video game designer. His video game works include the Dragon Quest, Portpia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken, and Itadaki Street series.
Mr. Horii was also a supervisor of the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo game, Chrono Trigger. Chrono Trigger had multiple game endings and Yuji Horii appeared in one of the endings with the game development staff. Yujii Horii recently finished working on the eighth installment of the Dragon Quest and currently heads his own production company, Armor Project.
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Hironobu Sakaguchi (坂口 博信, born 1962) was the Director of Planning and Development for Square Co., Ltd.. He is the creator of the Final Fantasy series. In 1991 he was honored with the position of Executive Vice President followed shortly thereafter by an appointment of President of Square USA, Inc. In 2001, he founded Mist Walker, which began operation three years later. Sakaguchi has had a long and illustrious career in gaming with over 60 million units of video games sold worldwide. Sakaguchi took the leap from games to film when he took the directorial role in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, an animated motion picture based on his world-famous Final Fantasy series. However, the movie wasn't commercially successful, leading to the closure of Square Pictures.
As a game designer, Sakaguchi has set standards of creativity that continue to be both influential in the way games are created and played. A long time proponent of bringing together the story telling vehicle of film and the interactive elements of games, Sakaguchi continues to move the industry by creating imaginative and beautiful stories through both media. The Final Fantasy series has sold more than 40 million units worldwide and continue to be a popular franchise. In 2000, Sakaguchi became the third person to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame. The first to receive that honor was Shigeru Miyamoto from Nintendo. In February 2005 it was announced that Sakaguchi's company, Mist Walker, would be working with Microsoft Game Studios to produce two computer role-playing games for the Xbox 360.
Music
Main Program
Katsuhisa Higuchi
Higuchi returned after Trigger to help program Chrono Cross.
Keizo Kokubo
Sound Program
Minoru Akao
Akao returned to help with Chrono Cross.
Sound Engineer
Eiji Nakamura
Graphic Director
Masanori Hoshino
Yasuhiko Kamata
Tetsuya Takahashi
Tetsuya Takahashi is currently the head of game software company Monolith Soft, Inc. In the past, Takahashi has worked under Squaresoft and on such games as the Final Fantasy series. His most notable works are those within the Xenogears (Square) and Xenosaga (Monolith soft) series, both of which he directed. His most recent work is on Xenosaga II, the second in the series of 6 or 7 games (the exact number of games is yet undecided by the game staff, and it may well exceed this amount).
Story Plan
Event Plan
Hiroki Chiba
Chiba returned to work on Chrono Cross.
Hiroyuki Itou
Keisuke Matsuhara
Field Plan
Keita Etoh
Kenichi Nishi
Battle Plan
Haruyuki Nishida
Makoto Shimamoto
Toshiaki Suzuki
