Kotaro Uchikoshi
| Kotaro Uchikoshi | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 打越 鋼太郎 |
| Born |
November 17, 1973 Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Other names | Hagane Tsukishio (pseudonym) |
| Occupation | Game director, planner, scenario writer |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Employer |
KID (1998–2001) Chunsoft/Spike Chunsoft (2007–) |
| Notable work |
Infinity series Zero Escape series |
Kotaro Uchikoshi (Japanese: 打越 鋼太郎? Hepburn: Uchikoshi Kōtarō), born November 17, 1973, is a Japanese video game director and scenario writer. He is known for co-writing the visual novel series Infinity with its director Takumi Nakazawa while working for KID, and directing and writing the visual novel adventure game series Zero Escape at Chunsoft.
Uchikoshi was born on November 17, 1973, in Higashimurayama, Japan. Almost immediately after birth, he began choking on amniotic fluid, and claims that if his doctor had not dangled him upside down and hit his backside, he would have died. Uchikoshi was born with torticollis, which required surgery when he was three years old. While in middle school, he began reading gamebooks written by Steve Jackson, which instilled an early interest in visual novels and adventure games.
He studied management engineering in college, but dropped out and spent a year without a job. Uchikoshi then enrolled in the vocational school Vantan Design Institute, where he studied video game planning, 3D modelling, 2D art, sound, and programming. Vantan was founded as a school for clothes design, and only branched into video game development later; according to Uchikoshi, the teachers were not well versed in video games, which led to uninteresting courses and many students dropping out. Eventually, only Uchikoshi and a few others attended classes, which resulted in the teachers being able to better focus and taking care of the smaller group of students who still attended; because of this, Uchikoshi says that he and the other remaining students were able to achieve a higher level of proficiency.
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