is a Japanese game designer. He was born in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture and graduated from College of Engineering of

Nihon University , abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School (currently the Department of Law), was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice (Japan), Minister of Justice, in 1889. ...

. He is best known as designer of video game ''

LocoRoco ''LocoRoco'' (Japanese language, Japanese: ロコロコ, Romaji: ''Rokoroko'') is a platform game, platform video game developed by Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, which was released worldwide in 2006 for the PlayStatio ...

'', but he also contributed to ''

Ico is an action-adventure game developed by Japan Studio and Team Ico, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, released for the PlayStation 2 video game console in 2001 and 2002 in various regions. It was designed and directed by Fumito U ...

'' level design.

External links

Interview with Tsutomu Kouno
on The 1UP Show Japanese video game designers 1972 births Living people Nihon University alumni {{videogame-bio-stub