# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tetsuya-mizuguchi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:14:49.086Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tetsuya-mizuguchi"
name: "Tetsuya Mizuguchi"
slug: "tetsuya-mizuguchi"
description: "Tetsuya Mizuguchi  is a Japanese video game designer, producer, and businessman. Along with ex-Sega developers he is one of the co-founders of the video game development firm Q Entertainment. He formerly worked for Sega as a producer in their Sega AM3 'arcade machines' team, developing games like Sega Rally Championship and Sega Touring Car Championship, before moving on to become the head of Sega's United Game Artists division, the team responsible for Rez and Space Channel 5. Mizuguchi is better known for creating video games that incorporate interactive synesthesia into his game design, regardless of genre, evidenced by Rez, Lumines, Child of Eden, and Tetris Effect."
tagline: "Japanese video game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tetsuya_Mizuguchi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1965-05-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.36143475103407
  historical:           11.29760133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "Mizuguchitter"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump