Yoot Saito
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Yutaka (Yoot) Saito is a Japanese game designer famous for designing innovative video games, often featuring the use of voice recognition technology, such as Seaman for the Sega Dreamcast. In 1996, he founded his own video game development company, Vivarium. His latest game is Odama for the Nintendo GameCube, though he is currently working on both a sequel to Seaman and an unnamed game for the Nintendo DS, which is said to take advantage of both the system's inbuilt microphone and wireless networking capabilities.
His first major game release was SimTower, developed by his previous company OPeNBooK Co., Ltd. and published by Maxis in 1994. He was also involved in both the sequel, Yoot Tower and the GBA remake, The Tower SP. After founding Vivarium, he published some of his most famous games, including Seaman, a virtual pet game which was the most popular game for the Sega Dreamcast in Japan, and Odama, a curious mix of pinball and real time strategy. Both of these games make use of their respective consoles' microphone peripherals.
External link
- [Yoot Saito's Blog (Japanese language only)]
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