after he left sonic team, he created his own game company called artoon. since then, he left from the position of president in the company and was replaced by yutaka sugano. from there he went on to work on games like "pinobee" and "", and in 2004, the sequel to "blinx", "blinx 2: masters of time &amp; space". in 2010, artoon was turned into aq interactive. in 2010, he and other main members of artoon left to create arzest. he was given a "special thanks in the game sonic generations.