Tokuro Fujiwara
Tokuro Fujiwara (藤原 得郎) (born April 7, 1961) is a Japanese video game designer and the founder of Whoopee Camp.
He was involved in the development of many classic Capcom titles. In 1996 he quit Capcom to start Whoopee Camp, where he developed Tomba! and Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return.
Personal Life
Not much is known about Tokuro Fujiwara's personal life, he first started working at Konami in 1982 as director of multiple arcade games. In 1983 he left Konami to join Capcom where he worked on multiple arcade games before creating the hit game "Ghosts 'n Goblins" in 1985 and the sequel in 1988, in that year he also had a Producer debut with Mega Man 2. In 1989 he produced DuckTales with Keiji Inafune. His final project at Capcom was in 1996 where he created Resident Evil, where his role was General Producer. After working on the game "MadWorld" as a designer in 2009, Fujiwara took a break from working on games for a while due to health reasons.
History With WhoopeeCamp (1996 - 2000)
Fujiwara set up WhoopeeCamp in 1996 when he quit Capcom, he also set up the WhoopeeCamp website to reach out to other game developers, to help with the development of Tomba(2?, site is from 1998.). The reason Fujiwara set up WhoopeeCamp and wanted to become independent was because he wanted to create more games with his own hands, during the time working at Capcom he felt that he couldn't let his creative side shine, thus he created his own company, WhoopeeCamp. After making the two Tomba games, Whoopeecamp started working on Extermination, after that WhoopeeCamp went bankrupt, mostly because of the poor sales of both Tomba games.
WhoopeeCamp (2018 - Present)
After his break due to health reasons, Fujiwara returned to the game industry in 2015 as a consultant. To perform these jobs, Fujiwara brought WhoopeeCamp out of dormancy in 2018, after 18 years he was working under the banner once again. In early 2021 the game "Ghost 'n Goblins Resurrection" was announced, in one of Capcom's developments video's it was stated that they were able to collaborate with Fujiwara, where they confirmed that he was the CEO of Whoopeecamp. He would also be the Director on the game.
Triva
- He is sometimes credited as "Professor F" or "Arthur King".
External links
- Tokuro Fujiwara's article on Wikipedia