Hiroki Chiba (千葉 広樹, Chiba Hiroki?) is a Japanese video game event director and scenario writer who worked for Square Enix between 1993 and 2024. He was the event director of Final Fantasy VIII (1999) and Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII- (2006). He made his directorial debut in the Final Fantasy franchise with World of Final Fantasy (2016). He left Square Enix in October 2024 to pursue freelance work.^[1]

Chiba started helping as an event planner, coming up with the different scenarios and structuring each cinematic. It involved working with many departments, including the sound team and the graphics team, and thus Chiba felt transitioning to directing games was not that major a change as the things he had worked with before had led to directorial work. Chiba has identified Hironobu Sakaguchi, Hiromichi Tanaka (Secret of Mana), and Yoshinori Kitase as people who had taught him many things in game design and creation.^[2]

Works within the series

Game	Release	Work
Final Fantasy VI	1994	Planner (partial involvement)
Final Fantasy VII	1997	Event Planner
Final Fantasy VIII	1999	Event Director
Final Fantasy X	2001	Event Planner
Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-	2006	Scenario & Event Planning Director
Final Fantasy Type-0	2011	Lead Scenario Writer
Pictlogica Final Fantasy	2013	Scenario
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII	2013	Scenario Writer (with Kazuhiko Yajima and Akiko Ishibashi)
World of Final Fantasy	2016	Director & Scenario[3][4]
World of Final Fantasy: Meli-Melo	2017	Director & Scenario
World of Final Fantasy Maxima	2018	Director & Scenario

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