developer
Team Andromeda
チームアンドロメダ
Japan
About
Team Andromeda was a Sega internal development team led by Yukio Futatsugi, responsible for the Panzer Dragoon trilogy on the Sega Saturn. The team developed Panzer Dragoon (1995), Panzer Dragoon Zwei (1996), and Panzer Dragoon Saga (1998) — three of the most distinctive games in the Saturn library. They worked without Sega's technical support, building their own development tools to achieve visual quality that exceeded contemporary expectations for the hardware. After the Saturn era, many members joined Sega's Smilebit division. Ryuta Ueda, who later designed Ico and Shadow of the Colossus at Sony Japan Studio, was a Team Andromeda member during the Zwei era.