Hiroya Hatsushiba (Japanese: 初芝 弘也, Hatsushiba Hiroya) is the founder of video game developer tri-Crescendo,[1] and a long time sound programmer for composer Motoi Sakuraba, whom he also gives English titles of the tracks Sakuraba creates.
Hatsushiba came up as a sound director and programmer for the Telenet Japan subsidiary Wolfteam in 1993.
He was one of the many people that left Telenet Japan on March 6, 1995 to participate in the founding of tri-Ace.
Hatsushiba partnered up with Monolith Soft to develop Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, which became one of the more successful games for GameCube.
His alias "Hassy" has been said to be fellow game sound designer Michiko Naruke's.