Hello, I am Yasunori Sakuda, and I am the Program Lead for Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2. This is our penultimate post, so I aim to make it best yet for you!

Let me begin by telling you that I became a programmer because of my pushy father! It was when I was 10 years old. My father gave me MSX instead of NES that I really wished him to buy. I started playing with it and I noticed that I could make plain program based on BASIC and that started my interesting in that field. I could make basic games instead of playing other peoples! It was amazing. The first title I became a part of project was Dead Or Alive 3 in Team NINJA and I was in charge of “Snow falling” in snowy mountain stage. Yes, there was a role just for falling snow! After struggling a little to get the right kind of snow, I did succeed in making a small amount of snow falling which nobody had expected of me. It was really impressive and I got the honour of being nicknames “Snowman” by the team. After DOA3 and my success with the snow, I joined a couple of projects including Dead or Alive 4 and I was promoted chief programmer of “NINJA GAIDEN SIGMA”. All from MSX and some snow! Very impressive!

My team is consist of 13 members, some of us are already veterans but we also have some very young programmers who are looking at games with new perspectives. We are very good at combining our talents and help each other every day to achieve our goal. We are very encouraging team! We are like the A Team! For example, a member of the team isn’t just in charge of only one project, but will be working on a couple things at the same time, like tool creation for CG staff, A.I, physics etc… we are all switchers but it keeps ideas fresh and the team stimulated. If one programmer was assigned to one field only I bet we wouldn’t have been able to achieve this game! However we HAVE achieved success because we helped each other and went for the same goal. I think Hayashi-san said it in his blog, but we are a very democratic developer, we are a family and we look after each other. And I am the Snowman, so I’m cool all the time!
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