Hiroyuki Kobayashi (小林 裕幸, Kobayashi Hiroyuki; born August 12, 1972) is a Japanese video game producer. A former employee of Capcom, he is the founder of GPTRACK50, a subsidiary studio of NetEase.[1]

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.[1] 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.[1]

Starting with the first Sengoku Basara game (titled Devil Kings in North America) 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.[2]

After twenty seven years, Kobayashi left Capcom in March 2022 and announced that he joined NetEase in August of that same year.[3]

Kobayashi established the company GPTRACK50 in October 2022.[4] He is working on a zombie role-playing video game Stupid Never Dies, which will be released for PlayStation 5 and Steam on October 21, 2026.[5]

Works

Video games

Year Title Role
1996 Resident Evil Programmer
1998 Resident Evil 2
1999 Dino Crisis Planner
2000 Dino Crisis 2 Producer
2001 Resident Evil – Code: Veronica X Associate producer
Devil May Cry Producer
2002 Resident Evil
Resident Evil Zero Promotional producer
2003 P.N.03 Producer
Dino Crisis 3
2004 Under the Skin
2005 Resident Evil 4
Killer7
Devil Kings
2006 Sengoku Basara 2
2007 Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes
2008 Devil May Cry 4
Sengoku Basara X
2009 Sengoku Basara: Battle Heroes
2010 Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes
2011 Sengoku Basara Chronicle Heroes
2012 Dragon's Dogma
Resident Evil 6 Executive producer
2013 Gaist Crusher
2014 Sengoku Basara 4
2015 Dragon's Dogma Online
2018 Mega Man 11
2026 Stupid Never Dies

Anime

Year Title Role
2007 Devil May Cry: The Animated Series Supervisor
2008 Resident Evil: Degeneration Producer
2009 Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings Planning supervisor
2010 Sengoku Basara II
2011 Sengoku Basara: The Last Party
2012 Resident Evil: Damnation Producer
2014 Sengoku Basara: End of Judgement Planning supervisor
2017 Resident Evil: Vendetta[6] Supervisor
2020 Dragon's Dogma Producer
2021 Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness Executive producer

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "インタビュー 小林裕幸さん" [Interview: Mr. Hiroyuki Kobayashi]. Sony Computer Entertainment. October 2006. Archived from the original on January 17, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
  2. ↑ "インタビュー ： 「ＰＳＰ版は集大成」 「戦国ＢＡＳＡＲＡ」シリーズの小林裕幸プロデューサー" [Interview: PSP Compilation Sengoku Basara series producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi]. Mantan Web. May 6, 2009. Archived from the original on August 10, 2011. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Hiroyuki Kobayashi leaves Capcom after 27 years, joins NetEase Games as producer". 12 August 2022. Archived from the original on 10 June 2023. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  4. ↑ "NetEase Games establishes GPTRACK50 - Osaka-based studio led by former Capcom producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi". 31 October 2022. Archived from the original on 1 November 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  5. ↑ "VIDEO GAMES[TGA 2025] Action RPG 'Stupid Never Dies' Coming to Steam, PlayStation 5 [Teaser]". 11 December 2025. Retrieved 30 December 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ↑ "Resident Evil Vendetta: Hiroyuki Kobayashi on the Future of the Franchise". Collider. 16 June 2017. Archived from the original on 16 September 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Kobayashi_(producer)