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game director A creative director is a person who makes high-level creative decisions; oversees the creation of creative assets such as advertisements, products, events, or logos; and directs and translates the creative people who produce the end results. Creat ...
, the previous
Luminous Productions was a Japanese video game development studio and a subsidiary of Square Enix. Originally known as Business Division 2, Luminous Productions was the development team responsible for '' Final Fantasy XV'' and was one of 12 Business Divisions (in ...
COO and head of studio who formerly worked for
Square Enix is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational holding company, video game publisher and entertainment conglomerate. It releases role-playing video game, role-playing game franchises, such as ''Final Fantasy'', ''Dragon Quest'', and '' ...
and currently the CEO of JP Games. He was the head of Square Enix's Business Division 2 and part of the ''Final Fantasy'' Committee that is tasked with keeping the franchise's releases and content consistent. Tabata resigned from Luminous Productions and Square Enix Group on October 31, 2018.


Career

While in middle school, Tabata played a historical role-playing game made by Koei and first imagined how much fun it would be to make his own game. In his last year of university, he applied for jobs in the video game industry and in other media arts such as documentaries, television and film. He worked at several different video game publishers prior to his being hired at
Square Enix is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational holding company, video game publisher and entertainment conglomerate. It releases role-playing video game, role-playing game franchises, such as ''Final Fantasy'', ''Dragon Quest'', and '' ...
, which he said gave him experience making action games, arcade games, and role-playing games.


Square Enix

In the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the international outpouring of support for Japan was paralleled at
Square Enix is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational holding company, video game publisher and entertainment conglomerate. It releases role-playing video game, role-playing game franchises, such as ''Final Fantasy'', ''Dragon Quest'', and '' ...
by fan letters about the then-upcoming release of ''Type-0'', and encouraged Tabata to make something special for the fans and those living through difficult times. He became the director of ''
Final Fantasy XV is a 2016 action role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix. The fifteenth main installment of the ''Final Fantasy'' series, it was released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in November 2016, Windows in March 2018, and as a lau ...
'', taking over from
Tetsuya Nomura is a Japanese video game artist, designer, producer, and director working for Square Enix. He was hired by Square initially as a monster designer for ''Final Fantasy V'' (1992), before being shifted towards secondary Character design of Final F ...
in December 2013, a change that was announced in September the following year. He used to be co-director on the project. During his work on ''Final Fantasy XV'', Tabata joked about his busy schedule, mentioning he regularly got only three hours sleep. Tabata, whose previous experience was with portable gaming devices, said that he was excited to work on console systems and wanted to "help players dive even deeper into their experiences". Tabata formerly served as producer for ''
Final Fantasy XV is a 2016 action role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix. The fifteenth main installment of the ''Final Fantasy'' series, it was released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in November 2016, Windows in March 2018, and as a lau ...
''
downloadable content content (DLC) is additional content created for an already released video game, distributed through the Internet by the game's publisher. It can be added for no extra cost or as a form of video game monetization, enabling the publisher to gain ad ...
. His work on the downloadable content was planned to continue into 2019. He and staff within Square Enix Business Division 2 were also working on a new intellectual property targeting the next-generation of consoles. Development for this project began in earnest in 2018, after previously only having a small team of 20-30 people assigned to it. In March 2018, Tabata created a new Tokyo game studio for Square Enix called
Luminous Productions was a Japanese video game development studio and a subsidiary of Square Enix. Originally known as Business Division 2, Luminous Productions was the development team responsible for '' Final Fantasy XV'' and was one of 12 Business Divisions (in ...
, which consists of several key members from the ''Final Fantasy XV'' team. He was the COO and head of studio for Luminous Productions. Tabata resigned from Luminous Productions and Square Enix Group on October 31, which was confirmed by Square Enix on November 7. In addition, 3 of the 4 DLCs for ''Final Fantasy XV'' were cancelled.


JP Games, Inc.

With the announcement of his resignation from Square Enix, Tabata began starting his own company, JP Games, Inc., which was launched in January 2019, to create a new project. The first project, ''The Pegasus Dream Tour'', a game themed around the
2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport event, multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the Inte ...
, was released in June 2021 for iOS and Android.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tabata, Hajime 1971 births Square Enix people Final Fantasy designers Japanese video game directors Living people People from Iwate Prefecture