Hiroya Hatsushiba (初 芝 弘 也, Hiroya Hatsushiba) is the founder of Tri-Crescendo and was for a long time a sound programmer for the composer Motoi Sakuraba. Biography
Hatsushiba was promoted to sound director and programmer in 1993 for Telenet Japan with a branch in Wolfteam. This is where he met Sakuraba, both have worked together in various games since then.
He was one of the many people who left Telenet Japan on March 6, 1995 to participate in the Tri-Ace foundation. There, he continued as a sound programmer for Sakuraba.
In 1999 Hatsushiba left Tri-Ace and founded Tri-Crescendo. Although initially it continued to provide sound programming for Tri-Ace games, Tri-Crescendo moved into game development in 2001. Hatsushiba has partnered with Monolith Soft to develop the Baten Kaitos video game: The Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, becoming one of the most successful games of Nintendo Game Cube. Development features have followed him for his Baten Kaitos Origins protosecuela, as well as the recent Eternal Sonata.
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