Hidetaka Miyazaki

Hidetaka Miyazaki
Native name	宮崎 英高
Born	1974 or 1975 (age 41–43) Shizuoka, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	Keio University
Occupation	Game director, game designer
Notable work	Souls series, Bloodborne
Title	President of FromSoftware, Inc.
Term	2014–present

Hidetaka Miyazaki (宮崎 英高, Miyazaki Hidetaka^?, born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese video game director and president of the game development company, FromSoftware. Miyazaki originally joined FromSoftware as a programmer in 2004, and after directing Armored Core 4 and Armored Core: For Answer in the 2000s, he became internationally known for creating and directing the Souls series in the 2010s.

Although Miyazaki had directed the first two games in the Souls series, he took a supervising role for Dark Souls II (2014), due to the parallel development of Bloodborne (2015), which made him unable to direct both titles simultaneously. After the release of Bloodborne, Miyazaki returned to the Souls series as the lead director on Dark Souls III (2016).

Miyazaki's influences on game design and writing style range from the works of various novelists, mangakas, and other game designers such as Fumito Ueda, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Yuji Horii, as well as European and Asian architecture. Miyazaki's games often focus on challenging combat, and invoke use of strong visual storytelling by way of explaining the backstory through in-depth lore, with the Souls series in particular being notable for it.

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