Taku Murata

Taku Murata (村田 琢, Murata Taku) is a video game programmer working for Square Enix (formerly Square), as well as the general manager of the research and development division of the company.[1] He was born in 1965 and joined Square in 1991.[2] He is most notable as the main programmer for Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story.[2] He also worked on the development of the PlayOnline service. Murata also helped promote a new proprietary cross platform game development tool called Crystal Tools.[1] His latest work was on Final Fantasy XII as the programming supervisor of the game.[3]

  1. ^ a b Jeremy Parish (2008-02-23). "GDC 08: The Technology of Final Fantasy XIII". 1UP.COM. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference squeenix was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Brandon Sheffield (2008-04-18). "Q&A: Square Enix's Murata Talks Crystal Tools, Unreal Engine Initiatives". Gamasutra. Retrieved 2012-08-17.