Hiroyuki Kanno (game designer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese novelist and screenwriter
Date of Birth: 08-May-1968
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Date of Death: 19-Dec-2011
Profession: screenwriter, novelist
Nationality: Japan
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
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About Hiroyuki Kanno (game designer)
- Hiroyuki Kanno (?? ????, 8 May 1968 - 19 December 2011) was a Japanese video game designer who wrote and directed visual novels and eroge adventure games starting in the 1990s.
- Some of his most well-known games include Xenon, Desire, Eve Burst Error (at C's Ware) and YU-NO (at ELF Corporation), which had a major influence on the visual novel genre.
- He was friends with Ryu Umemoto, who often worked closely with him and composed music for the games.
- In December 1997, he founded Abel corporation and became its CEO.
- In 2011, Kanno died due to cerebral infarction and brain hemorrhage.
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