is a video game designer, best known as the creator of the hit survival horror video game Silent Hill

Silent Hill (video game)

Silent Hill is a survival horror video game for the PlayStation and the first installment in the Silent Hill series. Published by Konami and developed by Team Silent, a Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo group, the game was released in North America in January 1999, and in Japan and Europe later...

(1999). He directed the game, as well as worked in the animation department as background designer.

The game was successful and produced various sequels, but Toyama left Team Silent

Team Silent

Team Silent was a development group within Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo , responsible for the first four games in the Silent Hill franchise by Konami released from 1999 to 2004, with later titles developed by external Western companies such as Climax Studios and Double Helix Games...

 afterwards to work on the Siren

Siren (video game)

, known as Forbidden Siren in Europe and Australasia, is a survival horror video game developed by SCE Japan Studio for the PlayStation 2 in 2003.-Plot:...

series, another survival horror video game. He directed the video games Siren

Siren (video game)

, known as Forbidden Siren in Europe and Australasia, is a survival horror video game developed by SCE Japan Studio for the PlayStation 2 in 2003.-Plot:...

(2003) and its sequel Forbidden Siren 2 (2006). Toyama worked along fellow Team Silent members Naoko Sato (monster designer for Silent Hill) and Isao Takahashi. In 2008, Toyama released Siren: Blood Curse

Siren: Blood Curse

Siren: Blood Curse, known in Japan as Siren: New Translation, is a stealth-based survival horror video game and the third installment in the Siren video game series...

, a reimagining of the original Siren game.

Works

Game	Release Date	Role
Gravity Daze	TBA 2012	Creative director
Siren Blood Curse	2008	Director
Forbidden Siren 2	2006	Director,story (with Naoko Sato )
Siren Siren In Greek mythology, the Sirens were three dangerous mermaid like creatures, portrayed as seductresses who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. Roman poets placed them on an island called Sirenum scopuli...	2003	Director,story (with Naoko Sato )
Silent Hill Silent Hill is a survival horror video game series consisting of seven installments published by Konami and its subsidiary Konami Digital Entertainment. The first four games in the series, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4, have been developed by an internal factor, Team Silent...	1999	Director,story

External links

A Q&A session with Keiichirō Toyama.

• http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/06/13/developer-qa-siren-blood-curse/