Naoto Ohshima

Naoto Ohshima (大島 直人, Ōshima Naoto) (born February 26, 1964) is a Japanese artist and video game designer best known for designing the Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr. Eggman characters from Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.[1][2] Although Yuji Naka created the original tech demo around which Sonic's gameplay was based, the character in his prototype was a ball that lacked any specific features.[3] Sonic Team considered numerous potential animal mascots before deciding on Ohshima's design, with an armadillo or hedgehog being the top choices because their spikes worked well with the concept of rolling into enemies.[2]

Naoto Ohshima
Ohshima at the 2018 Game Developers Conference
Born (1964-02-26) February 26, 1964
Osaka, Japan
Other namesBig Island
OccupationCharacter designer, game producer

After leaving Sonic Team, Ohshima formed an independent game company called Artoon. There he went on to work on such games as Pinobee and Blinx: The Time Sweeper, and in 2004, the sequel to Blinx, Blinx 2: Masters of Time & Space. In 2010, Artoon was absorbed into AQ Interactive. That same year, he and other key members of Artoon left to form Arzest. Early in his career, he was credited under the nickname "Big Island" in a number of games, which is a literal translation of his family name.

Works
gollark: Multiplayer type theory?
gollark: I am tempted to rewrite this with a less accursedly accursed stack, but beeoids.
gollark: Testbot is in JS.
gollark: ```pythonfrom gevent import monkey; monkey.patch_all()from flask import Flask, jsonify, request, session, redirect, url_for, Responseimport subprocessimport randomfrom werkzeug.middleware.proxy_fix import ProxyFixfrom flask_sockets import Socketsfrom datetime import datetime, timezonefrom mpd import MPDClientfrom gevent.pywsgi import WSGIServerimport threadingimport timeimport osimport youtube_dlimport jsonfrom datetime import datetime, timedeltaimport sqlite3import os.pathimport hashlibimport mathimport stringimport requestsimport urllib.parseimport queueimport base64import irc.clientimport psutilimport queueimport gevent```Fun challenge: guess what application this is/what it does from the imports!
gollark: I didn't say he WASN'T.

References
  1. Sheffield, Brandon (2009-12-04). "Out of the Blue: Naoto Ohshima Speaks". Gamasutra. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
  2. "The Essential 50 Part 28 - Sonic the Hedgehog". 1UP.com. Archived from the original on March 28, 2017. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
  3. "Sonic's Architect: GI Interviews Hirokazu Yasuhara". Game Informer. Vol. 13 no. 124. August 2003. pp. 114–116.

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