Masaaki Somaki
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| Masaaki Somaki |
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| Employment history: Sega Enterprises (1992[1] – )
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| Role(s): Designer, director |
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Masaaki Somaki (杣木 昌明) is a former designer and assistant director at Sega. After graduating high school, he worked part-time at an arcade in Shinjuku named Spream-Rei[2]. After joining Sega in 1992, he worked on Game Gear titles, including co-designing Royal Stone: Hirakareshi Toki no Tobira at CS5 (with Ryushin Hamada). After CS5 dissolved, he was one of its members of joined AM2, with Somaki taking on a role as a stage graphic designer. He and several other developers involved with Shenmue, such as Wataru Sakomura and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, then moved to Hitmaker, where he became the assistant director of Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Marz.
He seems to currently work at Pyramid Inc..
Production history
Games
- Royal Stone: Hirakareshi Toki no Tobira (Game Gear; 1995) — Plan
- Ninku (Game Gear; 1995) — Special Thanks (as M.Somaki)
- Pro Striker Final Stage (Mega Drive; 1995) — Special thanks to[3] (as 杣木 昌明)
- Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series Vol. 5 Wolf Hawkfield (Saturn; 1995) — CG Designer[4]
- Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series Vol. 6 Lau Chan (Saturn; 1995) — CG Designer[5]
- Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series The Final Dural (Saturn; 1996) — CG Designer[6]
- Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series Vol. 7 Shun Di (Saturn; 1996) — CG Designer[7]
- Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series Vol. 8 Lion Rafale (Saturn; 1996) — CG Designer[8]
- Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series Vol. 9 Kage Maru (Saturn; 1996) — CG Designer[9]
- Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series Vol. 10 Jeffry McWild (Saturn; 1996) — CG Designer[10]
- Virtua Fighter 3 (Model 3; 1996) — Stage Design, Modeling
- Virtua Striker 2 (Model 3; 1997) — Designers
- Virtua Fighter 3tb (Model 3; 1997) — Stage Design, Modeling
- Fighting Vipers 2 (Model 3; 1998) — Stage Designers
- Virtua Fighter 3tb (Dreamcast; 1998) — Stage Design, Modeling
- Outtrigger (NAOMI; 1999) — Stage Designers
- Shenmue (Dreamcast; 1999) — Debug Management
- Fighting Vipers 2 (Dreamcast; 2001) — Stage Designers[11]
- US Shenmue (Dreamcast; 2001) — Debug Management
- Shenmue II (Dreamcast; 2001) — System Planners
- Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Marz (PlayStation 2; 2003) — Assistant Director
Videos
- Sega Super Game 6 (VHS; 1987) — Game Player
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://igcc.jp/kenjo-03-01/ (Wayback Machine: 2023-08-20 11:43)
- ↑ Sega Super Game 6
- ↑ File:Pro Striker Final Stage MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:VFCGP05_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf
- ↑ File:VFCGP06_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf
- ↑ File:Virtua Fighter CG Portrait Series The Final Dural Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:VFCGP07_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf
- ↑ File:VFCGP08_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf
- ↑ File:VFCGP09_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf
- ↑ File:VFCGP10_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf
- ↑ File:Fighting Vipers 2 Dreamcast credits.pdf