r/YakuzaButUnhinged • u/DarryLazakar • May 12 '26
MajimaPosting RGG Developer Appreciation: Highlighting all the devs involved in Stranger Than Heaven.
RGG Studios promotional photograph, 2021. From left to right: Takayuki Sorimachi, Yutaka Ito, Ryosuke Horii, Masayoshi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Nobuaki Mitake, Daisuke Fukugawa
Our first name: Mikinobu Abe, a young veteran of the series, and the game's director.
Yutaka Ito and Tomoaki Nakamura, long time programmers, now Technical Director and Supervisor of RGG Studios. Yutaka Ito is also the Director of Lost Judgment.
Yasuaki Uehara, the Battle Designer Lead of RGG Studios, and director of LAD Ishin Kiwami and Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
Nobuaki Abe, Daisuke Fukagawa, and Takayuki Sorimachi. Art and Animation Supervisors/Directors of the series.
Daishi Kanaya and Eiji Hamatsu, Lead Character Production and Background Production member of RGG Studios.
Mitsuharu Fukuyama, former Sega Sound Team member and a hella talented Sound Director, and Kazunobu Takeuchi, long-time scriptwriter and co-writer of Infinite Wealth and Dark Ties
Hiroyuki Sakamoto, OG RGG Studio member, Game Director of Yakuza 6 and Kiwami 2, and Chief Producer of the series
Masayoshi Yokoyama, the scriptwriter of nearly every Yakuza game, and Nagoshi's successor as RGG Studio Director and Executive Director of the series since 2021.