Rieko Kodama
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| Rieko Kodama |
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| Place of birth: Kanagawa, Japan |
| Date of birth: 1963-05-23 |
| Date of death: 2022-05-09[1] (age 58) |
| Employment history: Sega of Japan (1984[2] – )
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| Role(s): Designer, Director, Producer |
| Twitter: @phoenix_rie |
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Rieko Kodama (小玉 理恵子) (perhaps better known by her alias, Phoenix Rie) was a major designer for the original Phantasy Star series. By the time her work on the Phantasy Star games had concluded, Kodama had taken on directorial roles within her department (for Phantasy Star IV and later Magic Knight Rayearth) and would later act as a producer for titles including Skies of Arcadia and the 2005 incarnation of Altered Beast.
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Career
On the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable handhelds she produced several edutainment titles and also produced the 7th Dragon series.
She was also involved with the first two entries in the Sonic the Hedgehog series on the Sega Mega Drive, serving as a graphic designer in the first game and a zone artist in the second.
Production history
Games
- Champion Boxing (SG-1000; 1984)
- Champion Boxing (Arcade; 1984)
- Ninja Princess (System 1; 1985)
- Quartet (System 16; 1986) — Designer
- Alex Kidd in Miracle World (Master System; 1986) — Art Designer (as Rie Wakashimazu)
- Quartet (Master System; 1987) — Designer
- The Black Onyx (SG-1000; 1987) — Additional Graphics
- Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa (Master System; 1987) — Designer
- Phantasy Star (Master System; 1987) — Total Design (as Phoehix Rie)
- Hoshi o Sagashite... (Master System; 1988) — デザイン (as ふぇにっくす りえ)
- Kujaku Ou (Master System; 1988) — Designer (as Phoenix Rie)
- Altered Beast (Mega Drive; 1988) — Designer (as Phoenix Rie)
- Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (Mega Drive; 1989)
- Poseidon Wars 3D (Master System; 1989) — Graphic Designer (as La-Rie)
- Phantasy Star II (Mega Drive; 1989) — Designers (as Phoenix Rie)
- SpellCaster (Master System; 1989) — Designer (as Phoenix Rie)
- Kujaku Ou 2: Geneijou (Mega Drive; 1989) — Graphics Designed by (as Phenix Rie)
- Mystic Defender (Mega Drive; 1989) — Graphics Designed by (as Phenix Rie)
- Sorcerian (Mega Drive; 1990) — Graphic Designed (as Phenix Rie)
- Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom (Mega Drive; 1990) — Special Thanks (as Phenix Rie)
- Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (Mega Drive; 1990) — Artists[3] (as La-Rie)
- Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi (Mega Drive; 1990) — Graphic Design (as Phenix Rie)
- Advanced Daisenryaku: Deutsch Dengeki Sakusen (Mega Drive; 1991) — Model Maker (as Phenix Rie)
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Mega Drive; 1991) — Design[4] (as Phenix Rie)
- Riddle Wired (Mega Drive; 1991) — And Special Thanks (as Phenix-Rie)
- Tougi Ou King Colossus (Mega Drive; 1992) — Special thanks to (as Phenix Rie)
- Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II (Mega Drive; 1992) — Designer (as Phenix Rie)
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Mega Drive; 1992) — Zone Artists (as Phenix Rie)
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Mega-CD; 1993) — Special Thanks (as Phenix Rie)
- Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium (Mega Drive; 1993) — Battle B-G Design (as R.Kodama)
- Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium (Mega Drive; 1993) — Field Graphic Design (as R.Kodama)
- Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium (Mega Drive; 1993) — Object Design (as R.Kodama)
- Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium (Mega Drive; 1993) — Visual Event Graphic (as R.Kodama)
- Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium (Mega Drive; 1993) — Direction (as R.Kodama)
- Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium (Mega Drive; 1993) — Directors[5]
- The Hybrid Front (Mega Drive; 1994) — 開発協力 (as フェニックスりえ)
- Magic Knight Rayearth (Saturn; 1995) — ディレクター (as 小玉 理恵子)
- Deep Fear (Saturn; 1998) — Producers[6]
- Atsumare! Guru Guru Onsen (Dreamcast; 1999) — プロデューサー (as 小玉 理恵子)
- Skies of Arcadia (Dreamcast; 2000) — プロデューサー (as 小玉 理恵子)
- Skies of Arcadia (Dreamcast; 2000) — Producer
- Phantasy Star Collection (Game Boy Advance; 2002) — Supervisors[7]
- Skies of Arcadia (GameCube; 2002) — Producer
- Altered Beast (PlayStation 2; 2005) — Producer
- Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis (Game Boy Advance; 2006) — Design[8] (as Phenix Rie)
- 7th Dragon (Nintendo DS; 2009) — Producer (as 小玉 理恵子)
- 7th Dragon 2020 (PlayStation Portable; 2011) — Producer (as 小玉 理恵子)
- 7th Dragon 2020-II (PlayStation Portable; 2013) — Producer (as 小玉 理恵子)
- Sega Heroes (Android; 2018) — Phantasy Star
- Sega Ages OutRun (Nintendo Switch; 2018) — Producer
- Sega Ages Alex Kidd in Miracle World (Nintendo Switch; 2019) — Producer
- Sega Ages Puyo Puyo (Nintendo Switch; 2019) — Producer
- Sega Ages Virtua Racing (Nintendo Switch; 2019) — Producer
- Sega Ages Wonder Boy: Monster Land (Nintendo Switch; 2019) — Producer
- Sega Ages Columns II (Nintendo Switch; 2019) — Producer
- Sega Ages Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Nintendo Switch; 2020) — Producer
Music
- Sega Ages OutRun: Music Collection (CD; 2019) — Special Thanks
- Mega Drive Mini: Celebration Album (CD; 2019) — Special Thanks
- Technosoft Music Collection: Thunder Force III & AC (CD; 2020) — Special Thanks
- Technosoft Music Collection: Herzog & Herzog Zwei (CD; 2020) — Special Thanks
- Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 1: Phantasy Star generation:1 (2003) — Special Thanks (Overworks)
- Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 17: Phantasy Star generation:2 (2005) — Special Thanks (Sega Wow Div)
- Naruhodo (2006-2008) — General credit for series
- Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 32: Phantasy Star Complete Collection (2008) — Special Thanks
- 7th Dragon III Code: VFD (2015) — Co-Producer
Interviews
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Photographs
- Main article: Photos of Rieko Kodama
External links
- Rieko Kodama at Twitter
- Sega Stars: Rieko Kodama article by Ken Horowitz at Sega-16
- Trailblazing Sega Dev Rieko Kodama To Be Honored With Pioneer Award At GDC 2019 article at Game Developers Conference
- Rieko Kodama GDC Pioneer Award Interview translated article by Brian Clark at One Million Power
- Kodama and M2 on Phantasy Star, what development was like in 1987, SEGA Ages games on Switch, lots more translated article by Oni Dino at Nintendo Everything
References
- ↑ @nakayuji on Twitter (archive.today)
- ↑ https://sega.jp/fb/album/07_ps/interview1.html (Wayback Machine: 2022-04-07 07:41)
- ↑ File:Castle of Illusion MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Sonic1 credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Psiv md us manual.pdf, page 42
- ↑ File:Deep Fear Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Phantasy Star Collection GBA manual.pdf, page 19
- ↑ File:SonicGenesis GBA US manual.pdf, page 18