Team ICO

An annotated photo of Team Ico in February 2002, shortly before the PAL release of Ico. Of the twenty members shown in this photo, only twelve would remain by the time development began on Shadow of the Colossus. However, the size of the team more than tripled by the time Shadow was finished, with twenty-seven people joining the project to work on the game. (Enlarge) Team Ico (its name is often stylized as Team ICO) is a video game development team for Sony Computer Entertainment, led by Fumito Ueda. They are currently a part of SCE Japan Studio's Product Development Department #1. Since their founding in 1997, they have only released two games - Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, both for the PlayStation 2 - but they have since garnered an exponentially-increasing amount of attention and respect with each passing year.

Games developed

	Ico
	First released: September 30, 2001 Ico, a young boy born with a pair of horns, is sent by his people into a remote fortress to starve within a cold tomb. When fate intervenes and Ico breaks free of his prison, he soon finds a young girl with the power to open the castle's many gates. The two must work together - against not only the crumbling castle's puzzles and traps, but also the wrath of its minions and monarch.
	Read more about: Ico, Yorda, and the Queen • The castle and its minions • Yorda's language and abilities • The game's soundtrack and novelization
	Shadow of the Colossus
	First released: October 18, 2005 In a lonely, barren land at the ends of the earth, a wanderer travels on horseback to an immense shrine in the hopes of resurrecting a young woman. Dormin, a booming voice residing in the Shrine's great hall, strikes a deal with him - slay the sixteen colossi that reside in the lands, and the woman will live again. Though he is being pursued, and is warned that his actions may come at a great price, the wanderer is determined to uphold his end of the dark bargain.
	Read more about: Wander, Agro, Mono, and Dormin • The colossi • The Lands and landmarks • The soundtrack • The game's marketing campaign
	The Last Guardian
	To be released: Late 2010 (estimated) In the midst of an extensive ruin, a boy finds an unlikely ally in a giant griffin-like creature called Trico. The two will face many obstacles on their journey, both in the environment itself and in several mysterious knights who stand in their way.
	Read more about: The boy and Trico, and their enemies • The world

List of members

What follows is a list of all known members of Team Ico, listed in alphabetical order. Please note that the complete credits for The Last Guardian are not yet known and may change as the game nears release and more information is revealed.

Name	Worked on			Description
	Ico	SotC	TLG
Ahira Sato	Yes	Yes	No	Supervisor
Akinori Maeda	No	No	Yes	Program Manager
Arata Nakajima	No	No	Yes	Motion Programmer
Atsuhi Morioka	Yes	No	No	Background Artist
Atsuhiko Terada	No	Yes	Yes	Field Design (SotC), Technical Artist (TLG)
Atsuko Fukuyama	Yes	Yes	No	Character Animator
Chihiro Kanno	No	No	Yes	Game Designer
Chika Fukui	Yes	No	No	Character Designer
Chikara Ueno	Yes	No	No	Background Artist
Daisuke Uchikawa	No	Yes	Yes	Character Animator
Felicien Nozieres	No	No	Yes	Environment Artist
Fumiaki Hara	Yes	No	No	System Programmer
Fumito Ueda	Yes	Yes	Yes	Director, lead game/character designer and animator
Fumiya Takeno	Yes	Yes	No	Supervisor
George Asahi	Yes	No	No	Music Supervisor
Haijime Sugiyama	Yes	Yes	Yes	Lead Programmer
Hidehisa Harada	No	No	Yes	Motion Programmer
Hironobu Nakano	No	Yes	Yes	Effects Artist
Hitoshi Ishikawa	No	No	Yes	Physics Programmer
Hitoshi Niwa	No	Yes	Yes	Character Artist
Jinji Horagai	Yes	Yes	No	System Programmer, Yorda AI Programmer
Jun Tsubuku	No	Yes	No	Field Collision
Junichi Hosono	Yes	Yes	Yes	Planning & Game Script
Kaihei Hayano	Yes	No	No	Background Artist
Katsuhiko Abe	Yes	Yes	No	Background Artist, Field Designer
Kayoko Sato	No	Yes	No	Field Designer
Kazuhiro Numata	Yes	Yes	No	Background Artist, Character Designer, Field Designer
Kazutomo Sasaki	No	Yes	No	Animal System Programmer
Kei Kuwabara	Yes	No	No	Planner (designer of Yorda's language)
Keiichi Kitahara	Yes	No	No	Sound Effects
Keiichiro Ishihara	No	No	Yes	AI Programmer
Keita Usami	No	No	Yes	Animator
Kenji Kaido	Yes	Yes	No	Line Producer, Project Manager
Kibi Wakisaka	No	Yes	No	Field Designer
Koichiro Wada	No	No	Yes	Environment Artist
Koji Hasegawa	No	Yes	No	Field Designer
Makoto Izawa	No	No	Yes	Visual Programmer
Makoto Yamaguchi	No	Yes	No	Planning & Sound Testing
Masaaki Kaneko	Yes	No	No	Sound Effects Designer
Masanobu Tanaka	No	Yes	Yes	Character and Technical Animator
Masanori Kajita	No	Yes	No	Field Designer
Masashi Kudo	No	Yes	Yes	Planning & Game Script
Masatsuka Saeki	Yes	Yes	No	Supervisor
Mikiko Takeda	Yes	No	No	Background Artist
Mitsuhiro Shimooki	Yes	Yes	No	Background Artist, Character Designer, Field Designer
Mizuho Yonemoto	No	No	Yes	AI Programmer
Mizuki Muramatsu	Yes	No	No	Character Animation (Shadow creatures, Ico)
Nanako Omura	Yes	Yes	No	Background Artist, Field Designer
Nao Yamasaki	No	Yes	No	Field Collision
Naofumi Ito	No	No	Yes	Technical Animator
Naoki Hirai	No	No	Yes	Motion Programmer
Rie Tamura	No	No	Yes	Associate Producer
Rory Little	No	Yes	No	Character Animator
Rui Guerreiro	No	No	Yes	Character Artist
Ryoma Matsuya	No	No	Yes	Technical Animator
Shinya Ishikawa	No	No	Yes	Motion Programmer
Shotaro Omori	Yes	No	No	Character and Objects Programmer, Yorda AI Programmer
Shuhei Yoshida	No	No	Yes	Supervisor
Shuinan Sukawa	No	No	Yes	Animator
Shunpei Suzuki	No	Yes	Yes	Character Designer/Artist
Sousuke Honda	No	Yes	No	Character Animator
Taijurou Hachiya	Yes	No	No	Background Artist
Takashi Izutani	No	Yes	No	Planning & Game Script
Takashi Kawashima	No	Yes	No	Field Collision
Takeharu Tanimura	No	No	Yes	Motion Programmer
Takeshi Ambe	Yes	No	No	Character Animation (Ico, Yorda, The Queen)
Takeshi Asano	No	Yes	No	Planning & Camera Testing
Takeshi Nakagawa	No	Yes	Yes	System Programmer
Takeshi Ochiai	No	Yes	No	Field Designer
Takeshi Okazawa	No	Yes	Yes	Field Designer (SotC), Environment Artist (TLG)
Takuya Seki	Yes	Yes	No	Visual/Engine/GUI Programmer
Tatsuhiko Tachibe	No	Yes	No	Character Animator
Tatsushi Kuriyama	No	No	Yes	Environment Artist
Teppei Ikeda	No	Yes	No	Camera Programmer
Tomikazu Kirita	No	Yes	No	Supervisor
Tomohisa Oda	No	No	Yes	Environment Artist
Tomohito Ito	No	No	Yes	Physics Programmer
Toshihiro Ito	Yes	Yes	No	Character/Objects/Tools Programmer
Toshihiro Kamei	No	No	Yes	Technical Animator
Tsubasa Ito	No	No	Yes	Sound Designer
Tsunehiko Shibata	No	No	Yes	Camera Programmer
Tsutomu Kouno	Yes	No	No	Game Planner, Background Artist
Yasuhide Kobayashi	Yes	Yes	Yes	Executive Producer (Ico, SotC), Supervisor (TLG)
Yasutaka Asakura	No	No	Yes	Producer
Yasutoshi Mori	No	No	Yes	Tools Programmer
Yoshifusa Hayama	No	No	Yes	Executive Producer
Yosuke Shingai	No	No	Yes	Game Designer
Yuta Kimura	No	Yes	Yes	Technical Artist

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