Hiroyuki Kanno (game designer)

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Hiroyuki Kanno (菅野 ひろゆき, 8 May 1968 – 19 December 2011) was a Japanese video game designer who wrote and directed visual novels and eroge adventure games starting in the 1990s. Some of his most well-known games include Desire, EVE Burst Error (at C's Ware [ja]) and YU-NO (at ELF Corporation), which had a major influence on the visual novel genre.^[1] His games often feature multiple narrative layers, such as different character viewpoints or overlapping mystery story arcs.^[2] He was friends with Ryu Umemoto, who often worked closely with him and composed music for the games.^[1] In December 1997, he founded Abel corporation and became its CEO. In 2011, Kanno died due to cerebral infarction and brain hemorrhage.^[3][4]