In October 2002, Namiki, Hitoshi Sakimoto, and Masaharu Iwata founded the music production company Basiscape, whom he worked with until 2011.
He became enthusiastic about music from video games, as well as hard rock and heavy metal bands such as Whitesnake and Metallica.
His enthusiasm for the job decreased, and was fired as a result of not finishing sound programming work his boss had assigned to him.
His final work at the company was Desert War; by the time the game was released in 1995, he had already left NMK to join Raizing.
His first major projects as a freelancer were Cave's shoot 'em up games DoDonPachi DaiOuJou and Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi, released in 2002 and 2003 respectively.
During his time working with Basiscape, he also contributed music to several games related to anime franchises, such as Fullmetal Alchemist: Dream Carnival, the Bleach: Heat the Soul series, and Battle Stadium D.O.N, as well as role-playing games such as Fantasy Earth Zero, Odin Sphere, and Opoona.
[2] While employed at M2, Namiki also worked on several titles in the Sega 3D Reprint Archives series; 3D OutRun notably features two new tracks composed by him and M2 colleague Jane-Evelyn Nisperos respectively.