Mr. Motoi OKAMOTO

Council Member Biography

OKAMOTO Motoi is currently the CEO & Founder at Entersphere in Japan, a company providing online game service and unique web-service. Till May of 2008, he was the Director & Planner of Game Software Production Dept. at NINTENDO CO., LTD. His responsibilities included project management of Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii software development. His most important project developments have included "Wii Play" having sales volumes (sell through) of more than 1.5 million software units in Japan, and more than 5.5 million units worldwide. He is an expert in developing and programming of casual games, electronic or computer games targeted at mass audiences. Working up through the company as a Programmer, he was engaged in developing 3D Engine and is very knowledgeable in 3DCG technology. Major game projects he involved as 3D Engine developer are: "Mario Sunshine", "The Legend of Zelda - The Wind Waker", "PIKMIN 2", "Mario Kart - Double Dash". He writes under the pen name of "Takashi AMANO", his columns discuss such subjects as market trends and have been published in "TV Game Industry 2007" by Media Create Co., Ltd. Mr. Okamoto has a bachelor degree in Precision Engineering from University of Tokyo. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

2008 - Unspecified

CEO, entersphere Co., Ltd.

1999 - 2008

Director, NINTENDO CO., LTD.