Yoshitaka Tamaki

Yoshitaka Tamaki
Place of birth: Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
Date of birth: 1967-10-08 (age 57)
Role(s): Designer, Cover artist

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Yoshitaka Tamaki (玉木 美孝) is an artist and character designer. He was in charge of character and package design of the Mega Drive titles Shining in the Darkness, Shining Force, and Landstalker. He often developed a Mega Drive game with Hiroyuki Takahashi. In 1999 he founded Salamander Factory Ltd. and worked as a graphic designer there. Afterwards, he began work as a designer at Swallow Tails Ltd. in January 2006.

Production history

Games

• Shining in the Darkness (Mega Drive; 1991) — Outline and Storyboards
• Shining in the Darkness (Mega Drive; 1991) — Japanese cover artist
• Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole (Mega Drive; 1992) — Item Obj CG Designer
• Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole (Mega Drive; 1992) — Original Story
• Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole (Mega Drive; 1992) — Character Design
• Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole (Mega Drive; 1992) — Japanese cover & manual artist
• FEDA Remake!: The Emblem of Justice (Saturn; 1996) — Original Story & Character Design
• Time Stalkers (Dreamcast; 1999) — キャラクターデザイン (as 玉木 美孝)
• Time Stalkers (Dreamcast; 1999) — Character Design
• Shining Soul (Game Boy Advance; 2002) — Character Design
• Shining Soul II (Game Boy Advance; 2003) — Character Design
• Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon (Game Boy Advance; 2004) — Character Design
• Shining Force Neo (PlayStation 2; 2005) — Monster Design

Music

• Landstalker: Koutei no Zaihou (CD; 1992) — Illustlated by

Cover Art Works

• Shining & the Darkness (1991)
• Shining Force (1992)
• Landstalker (1992)

Interviews

Some or all of the following content should be mirrored on Sega Retro (or Retro CDN).

• Yoshitaka Tamaki interview by Sega (July 24, 2003)

External Links

Yoshitaka Tamaki's official site - THE BLACK GOOSE -