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 is a video game development team for Sony Computer Entertainment, led by Fumito Ueda. Since their founding in 1997, and being published by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan's Product Development Department #1, they have only made two games - Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, only for PlayStation 2 - but they have garnered an exponentially-increased amount of attention and respect with each release. The team was assembled mostly from people outside the games industry in an attempt to diversify Sony's portfolio.

Games

• Ico - September 2001 (PlayStation 2)
• Shadow of the Colossus - October 2005 (PlayStation 2)
• The Last Guardian - TBA 2010 (PlayStation 3)

List of members

What follows is a list of all known members of Team Ico, listed in alphabetical order after Fumito Ueda. 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
Fumito Ueda	Yes	Yes	Yes	Director, lead game/character designer and animator
Ahira Sato	Yes	Yes	No	Supervisor
Akinori Maeda	No	No	Yes	Program Manager
Arata Nakajima	No	No	Yes	[Description]
Atsuhi Morioka	Yes	No	No	Background Artist
Atsuhiko Terada	No	Yes	Yes	Field Design (SotC), Technical Artist (TLG)
Atsuko Fukuyama	Yes	Yes	No	Character Animation
Chihiro Kanno	No	No	Yes	Game Designer
Daisuke Uchikawa	No	Yes	Yes	Character Animation
Felicien Nozieres	No	No	Yes	Environment Artist
Fumiaki Hara	Yes	No	No	[Description]
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 Programming, Yorda AI Programmer
Jun Tsubuku	No	Yes	No	[Description]
Junichi Hosono	Yes	Yes	Yes	Planning & Game Script
Kaihei Hayano	Yes	No	No	Background Artist
Katsuhiko Abe	Yes	Yes	No	Background Artist, Field Design
Kayoko Sato	No	Yes	No	Field Design
Kazuhiro Numata	Yes	Yes	No	Background Artist, Character Design, Field Design
Kazutomo Sasaki	No	Yes	No	Animal System Programming
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	Yes	Yes	No	Field Design
Koichiro Wada	No	No	Yes	Environment Artist
Koji Hasegawa	No	Yes	No	Field Design
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 Design
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 Design, Field Design
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 Design
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 Animation
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 Animation
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, Queen)
Takeshi Asano	No	Yes	No	Planning & Camera Testing
Takeshi Nakagawa	No	Yes	Yes	System Programmer
Takeshi Ochiai	No	Yes	No	Field Design
Takeshi Okazawa	No	Yes	Yes	Field Design (SotC), Environment Artist (TLG)
Takuya Seki	Yes	Yes	No	Visual/Engine/GUI Programmer
Tatsuhiko Tachibe	No	Yes	No	Character Animation
Tatsushi Kuriyama	No	No	Yes	Environment Artist
Teppei Ikeda	No	Yes	No	Camera Programming
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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