{"id":18663,"date":"2026-06-02T09:50:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/?p=18663"},"modified":"2026-06-02T09:50:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:50:51","slug":"kohei-ikeda-leaves-bandai-namco-after-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/en\/kohei-ikeda-leaves-bandai-namco-after-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Kohei Ikeda Leaves Bandai Namco After 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kohei Ikeda, chief producer sekaligus game director <em>Tekken 8<\/em>, resmi meninggalkan <a href=\"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/en\/tag\/bandai-namco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Bandai Namco<\/a> setelah 20 tahun berkarier di perusahaan tersebut. Kabar ini ia bagikan lewat <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nkt_dreamer\/status\/2061296807259595212?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">pesan perpisahan yang ia unggah di X<\/a>, sambil mengatakan bahwa dirinya akan terus menghadapi tantangan baru sebagai game developer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kepergian ini jadi sorotan karena Kohei Ikeda merupakan salah satu sosok penting di balik franchise <em>Tekken<\/em> dalam beberapa tahun terakhir. Ia ikut memegang peran besar dalam perkembangan seri tersebut, terutama lewat <em>Tekken 7<\/em> and <em>Tekken 8<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Perjalanan Kohei Ikeda di Seri Tekken<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image.webp\" alt=\"Kohei Ikeda\" class=\"wp-image-18673\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Selama dua dekade di Bandai Namco, Kohei Ikeda mengisi sejumlah posisi penting dalam pengembangan game fighting. Ia tercatat sebagai game director untuk <em>Tekken 7<\/em> and <em>Tekken 8<\/em>, producer untuk <em>Tekken 3D: Prime Edition<\/em>, serta game designer di <em>Tekken Tag Tournament 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sebelum semakin dikenal lewat seri <em>Tekken<\/em>, ia juga sempat terlibat dalam <em>Soulcalibur IV<\/em> sebagai battle effect director dan game designer. Rekam jejak itu membuat nama Kohei Ikeda cukup lekat dengan game fighting garapan Bandai Namco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dalam pesan perpisahannya, Ikeda menyampaikan terima kasih kepada tim, rekan kerja, dan komunitas fighting game di seluruh dunia. Ia juga mengenang perjalanannya dari seorang pelajar yang akrab dengan budaya arcade, hingga akhirnya bisa bergabung dengan Namco, perusahaan yang dulu ia kagumi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bagaimana Masa Depan Tekken?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kepergian Kohei Ikeda datang tidak lama setelah Katsuhiro Harada juga meninggalkan Bandai Namco pada Desember 2025, setelah lebih dari 31 tahun berkarier di perusahaan tersebut. Harada kemudian mendirikan VS Studio di bawah naungan SNK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dua kepergian besar ini menandai perubahan penting dalam jajaran kreatif franchise <em>Tekken<\/em>. Meski begitu, Ikeda memastikan bahwa semangat Tekken Project untuk tetap dekat dengan fans dan membangun game bersama komunitas akan terus dilanjutkan oleh tim yang ada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ia juga mengatakan bangga bisa membuat game bersama orang-orang yang mencurahkan hati mereka pada pekerjaan ini. Dengan tongkat estafet yang kini sudah berpindah ke tim internal, perhatian fans tentu akan tertuju pada dua hal: langkah baru Kohei Ikeda setelah meninggalkan Bandai Namco, dan arah baru yang akan dibawa <em>Tekken<\/em> going forward.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game director Tekken 8, Kohei Ikeda, resmi meninggalkan Bandai Namco setelah 20 tahun. Ikeda juga pernah mengarahkan Tekken 7 dan berjanji lanjutkan karier.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,5],"tags":[129,10,65,300],"class_list":["post-18663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","category-news","tag-bandai-namco","tag-game","tag-news","tag-tekken"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/39wX8cGV.webp","author_info":{"display_name":"Moeka","author_link":"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/en\/author\/playeatsleep-fun\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18663"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18678,"href":"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18663\/revisions\/18678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playeatsleep.fun\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}