Fumito Ueda (上田 文人, Ueda Fumito) is a Japanese video game designer. Ueda was director and lead designer of the PlayStation 2 video games Ico (2001) and Shadow of the Colossus (2006) developed by Sony Computer Entertainment.He described himself as a very inquisitive child saying "I enjoyed catching and keeping living things, such as fish or birds. Other than that, I liked both watching and making animation.