Hidetaka Miyazaki (宮崎 英高, Miyazaki Hidetaka, born c. 1974–1975) is a Japanese video game director, designer, writer, and company executive of FromSoftware. He originally joined the company in 2004 as a game designer for the Armored Core series and before becoming better known for creating the Souls series. He was promoted to company president in 2014 and also serves as its representative director. Other notable games he has worked on include Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring. Miyazaki's influences range from the works of various novelists, mangakas, and other game designers such as Fumito Ueda and Yuji Horii, as well as Asian and European architecture. Miyazaki's games, particularly the Souls series, often invoke the use of high difficulty and a large amount of setting and character information provided through flavor text and environmental cues. His work in the Souls series has been seen as influential, with him winning awards and being cited as an auteur of video games.