Hiroyuki Kobayashi (producer)


Hiroyuki Kobayashi is a Japanese video game producer. A former employee of Capcom, he is the founder of GPTRACK50, a subsidiary studio of NetEase.
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Career

Kobayashi studied computer science at Chukyo University. After graduating, he joined Capcom in 1995 and worked on the first Resident Evil game as a programmer. After working as programmer on the sequel and a planner on the first Dino Crisis game, his first producer role was on Dino Crisis 2 in 2000.
Starting with the first Sengoku Basara game in 2005, Kobayashi worked as the producer for the video game series as well as a planning supervisor for the various anime adaptations. He was very interested in the Sengoku period and wanted to create an action game inspired by that period.
After 27 years working at Capcom, Kobayashi left the company in March 2022 and announced that he joined NetEase in August of that same year.
Kobayashi established the company GPTRACK50 in October 2022. He is working on a zombie role-playing video game Stupid Never Dies.