Koji Ise, lead UI designer on hit 2024 JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio, joined Atlus in 2018 after spending a while working on website design in the advertisement space, as he explained at a GDC 2025 talk.

I'm going to clue you in on two of the most popular game engines that people use in the industry, Unity and Unreal Engine.

RPG maker Atlus has become celebrated for the unique UI designs in its games, from the Persona series to the more recent fantasy epic Metaphor: ReFantazio. I spoke with Metaphor's UI designer Koji ...

Games JRPGs Metaphor: ReFantazio We asked Metaphor: ReFantazio's lead UI designer about RPGs that inspire him, and he name dropped a surprise PS2 sleeper hit from 25 years ago ...

Experimental user interface design is something worth admiring. When done right, a game’s UI can not only serve the vital role of communicating important game mechanics to the player, but convey ...

Unity Technologies, headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Vancouver, B.C. and Bellevue, Wash., is best-known for its eponymous licensed game engine.