Career
He has served as director for numerous computer games and has provided CG work for motion pictures with Will, Limited. (有限会社ウイル), where he serves as corporate representative. He is best known to Western audiences for his steampunk-inspired visual novel, Gadget, and for his work on the 2004 film, Casshern.
Shono"s creative career began in 1985 with the formation of Radical television With evidence of visual artistry talent already apparent, Shono was entrusted with the responsibility to act as lead visual display artist in Radical television"s audio-visual display showcase at Expo "85 entitled television War.
The display would be recognized as one of the most significant affirmations of the Japanese IDM subculture. Shono"s first solo-work came in the form of Alice (1991), a highly stylistic visual novel based on the Alice in Wonderland stories.
Foreign his striking visual style and his mastery of lavish computer graphics at the dawn of the point-and-click adventure game genre, Newsweek named him one of the "most influential people to watch in Cyberspace," and coined the term "cybergames" to describe his highly-realistic visual games whose visual style have been compared to those of Cyan"s 1993 best-seller, Myst. 1991 - Alice (Personal Computer) (director) 1992 - L-Zone (Personal Computer) (director) 1993 - Gadget (Personal Computer) (director) 1997 - GADGET Past as Future (director) - An enhanced remake of the 1993 Gadget (Personal Computer) (director) 1997 - Preview & Reprise Haruhiko Shono (Personal Computer) - Including preview version of the unreleased Underworld 2002 - Kamaitachi no Yoru 2: Song of the Prison Island (かまいたちの夜2 監獄島のわらべ唄) (PS2, PSP) (CG Supervisor) - Sequel to Chunsoft"s 1994 Kamaitachi no Yoru 2007 - Imabikisō (PS3, Wii) (art director, CG work).
