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Inaba at the Games Convention 2004 in Germany
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Born |
Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan |
August 28, 1971
Nationality | Japanese |
Occupation | Video game producer |
Title | Executive director and producer at PlatinumGames |
Website | www |
Atsushi Inaba (稲葉 敦志 Inaba Atsushi?, born August 28, 1971) is a Japanese video game producer for PlatinumGames. He is also the former CEO and producer of the Capcom subsidiary Clover Studio, best known as the creative force behind Viewtiful Joe, Ōkami, and God Hand.
Before joining Capcom, Inaba worked for Irem, specifically working on R-Type Leo. From there he joined Nazca and then SNK, where he did programming work on Samurai Shodown. After reading a want ad for Capcom in Famitsu magazine, Inaba joined the company in 1998 with hopes of working on the next Resident Evil game. He ended up working on Hideki Kamiya's Devil May Cry, and later produced games in the Ace Attorney and Steel Battalion series. Inaba, Kamiya, and Shinji Mikami, as well as other Capcom employees, began working at the company's new second-party developer Clover Studio in April 2004. Inaba acted as the team's producer and CEO, which managed to produce a few titles, including the critically acclaimed Ōkami, before being officially closed by Capcom in early 2007.