Keiichiro Toyama — Enjoy Game Japan Museum illustration

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Keiichiro Toyama

外山圭一郎

The scariest thing was never the monster. It was the familiar street, tilted just slightly wrong.

About

Keiichiro Toyama is a Japanese game director born in 1970 in Miyazaki Prefecture. He studied fine arts at Tokyo Zokei University and joined Konami in 1994 as a graphic artist. Within five years he was entrusted with directing Silent Hill (1999) — writing the scenario, designing the environments, and shaping the psychological horror that would define a genre. He moved to Sony Japan Studio after the game's release, where he directed Siren (2003) and Gravity Rush (2012). In 2020 he left Sony to found Bokeh Game Studio, choosing independence after nearly three decades inside large corporations.

Timeline & Works

Career milestones and all 1 game in the museum they worked on — in the order they happened.

  1. 1999
    Silent Hill

    Director PlayStation

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