Emiko Iwasaki

• Name — Emiko Iwasaki • Native Name — 岩崎恵美子 • Born — 16 October 1976 • Occupation — * Illustrator • video game developer • Years Active — 1999-2016 • Notable Works — Guilty Gear Petit Battle Fantasia Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

Initially joining the company as a part-time artist, she went on to work as a general director on four titles, one of the few women in the Japanese game industry to hold such a position. The last of these games, Battle Fantasia, was based on an original concept created by Iwasaki herself and was the developer's first fighting game with 3D models. With no prior experience, she and her team developed 2.5D techniques that influenced Street Fighter IV, as well as other Arc System Works games. In 2011, she left Arc System Works and relocated to Singapore, holding leading positions in mobile game developer Gumi. Although she found Arc System Works' CEO and the Guilty Gear team welcoming, Iwasaki claims to have faced gender discrimination during her time with the company, which made her interested in working in other countries. She has been vocal about the hurdles she sees facing women in the Japanese video game industry, sharing her experience at United Nations events and working as an ambassador for the Singapore Committee for UN Women programme Girls2Pioneers.

• | Year — | Title — | Platform(s) — | Role • 2001 — Guilty Gear Petit — WonderSwan Color — General director, promotion illustration • Guilty Gear Petit 2 — General director, design, promotion illustration • 2002 — Guilty Gear X: Advance Edition — Game Boy Advance — Graphics • Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival and updates — arcade, PlayStation 2, Windows, Xbox, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch — Illustrator, character art, webmaster • 2003 — Naruto: Ninja Council — Game Boy Advance — Art director • Guilty Gear Isuka — arcade, PlayStation 2, Windows, Xbox — Illustrator, character art • 2004 — Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger — Sega Pico — General director • 2005 — Ys IV: Mask of the Sun -A New Theory- — PlayStation 2, cell phones — Art director • 2007 — Battle Fantasia — arcade, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows — General director, original story plan, lead designer, planning, art and character design, voice of Marco Van de Land • 2009 — Diva Girls: Diva Dancers — Nintendo DS — Costume design, logo • 2011 — Hard Corps: Uprising — Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 — Character and machine concept, character design, 3D-character design, effect design • 2013 — Puzzle Trooper — Android, iOS — Art director • Brave Frontier — iOS, Android, Fire, Windows, Windows Phone • 2016 — Final Fantasy Brave Exvius — iOS, Android, Fire — Creative director (art team, Gumi Asia Pte. Ltd.)

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