Kouichi Toya

Kouichi Toya
Employment history: Sega of Japan (1992 – ) Divisions: Sega AM2 Sega AM4 Sega CS3 Sega Software R&D Dept. 8 Sonic Team (company) Sega of Japan Divisions: Sega CS3
Role(s): Programmer
Twitter: @motekin

Kouichi Toya (戸谷 弘一), also known as motekin, is a former programmer at Sega, where he most notably became involved with the Sonic and Phantasy Star series. His roles range from vehicles to characters to sounds to networks.

He is perhaps most notable for being the original Chao programmer.

Production history

• Bio-Hazard Battle (Mega Drive; 1992) — Also Thanks to (as Devi and Pea)
• Virtua Racing (Mega Drive; 1994) — Programmers
• Virtua Racing Deluxe (32X; 1994) — Programmers (as K.Toya)
• Sega Rally Championship (Saturn; 1995) — Programmers
• Sega Rally Championship Plus (Saturn; 1996) — Programmers
• Samurai Spirits Zankurou Musouken (Saturn; 1996) — Programmer
• Sega Rally Championship (Windows PC; 1997) — Programmers
• Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast; 1998) — Player character programmers
• Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast; 1998) — "CHAOS" programmer
• Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast; 2000) — Enemy
• Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast; 2000) — Sound
• Phantasy Star Online Ver. 2 (Dreamcast; 2001) — Enemy
• Phantasy Star Online Ver. 2 (Dreamcast; 2001) — Sound
• Phantasy Star Universe (Windows PC; 2006) — Network
• Phantasy Star Universe (PlayStation 2; 2006) — Network
• Phantasy Star Universe (Xbox 360; 2006) — Network
• Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus (Windows PC; 2007) — Network
• Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus (PlayStation 2; 2007) — Network
• Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus (Xbox 360; 2007) — Network
• Devi & Pii (Mega Drive; 2022) — Program (as Blue Knight)

• Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut (2003) — Character Programmer (Sonic Adventure Original Staff), "Chaos" Programmer (Sonic Adventure Original Staff)