Akari Uchida

Japanese video game producer

Akari Uchida
内田明理
Occupation(s)	Video game producer, Video game designer
Years active	2002-present

Akari Uchida (内田明理, Uchida Akari, born 1969) is a video game producer. He was the former head of Love Plus Production, a video game develop team under Konami, best known as the producer of LovePlus series, a dating sim video game series that player can date with 3 different high school girls. He joined Konami in 1993 and left in March 2015 and will join another Japan video game company, Yuke's officially in October 2015; additionally he will lead a new game development team—Uchida Lab, named by his name.^[1] He has received the nickname "father-in-law"(お義父さん) by LovePlus fans.

Works

Konami era

Ganbare Goemon: Uchū Kaizoku Akogingu (1996) - Programmer
Nagano Winter Olympics '98 (1998) - Game Designer
Dance Dance Revolution (1999) - Programmer

Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side series

Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side (2002) - Game Designer, Scriptwriter, Director
Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 2nd Kiss (2006) - Game Designer, Scenario Supervisor, Producer
Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 1st Love (2007)
Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 2nd Season (2008) - Producer
Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 1st Love Plus (2009) - Producer
Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 3rd Story (2010) - Planning, Scenario, Producer
Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side Premium 〜3rd Story〜 (2012)

Rumble Roses series

Rumble Roses (2004) - Producer^[2]
Rumble Roses XX (2006) - Producer

Magician's Quest series

Tongari Boushi to Mahou no 365 Nichi (Nintendo DS, 2008)
Tongari Boushi to Mahou no Omise (Nintendo DS, 2010)
Tongari Boushi to Oshare na Mahou Tsukai (Nintendo DS, 2011)
Tongari Boushi to Mahou no Machi (Nintendo 3DS, 2012)

LovePlus series

LovePlus (2009) - Producer, Scenario
LovePlus + (2010) - Producer, Scenario
NEW LovePlus (2012) - Senior Producer, Scenario
LovePlus Collection (2013)
NEW LovePlus + (2012) - Senior Producer, Scenario

References

^ ユークス，内田明理プロデューサー入社記者会見を開催。Uchida labを新設し，新たなデジタルコンテンツの制作へ.4Gamers.2015-06-10.[2015-07-27].(in Japanese)
^ Konami: The Rumble Roses Interview - Video Games Daily - Kikizo