Taku Murata (村田 琢, Murata Taku) is a video game programmer working for Square Enix (formerly Square), as well as the general manager of the research and development division of the company.[1] He was born in 1965 and joined Square in 1991.[2] He is most notable as the main programmer for Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story.[2] He also worked on the development of the PlayOnline service. Murata also helped promote a new proprietary cross platform game development tool called Crystal Tools.[1] His latest work was on Final Fantasy XII as the programming supervisor of the game.[3]
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