Hiroyuki Kimura
Hiroyuki Kimura | |
|---|---|
木村 浩之 | |
| Born | June 1, 1965 Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan |
| Occupation | Video game director, producer and artist |
| Employer | Nintendo (1988–present) |
Notable work | Super Mario Metroid Pikmin |
| Title | Manager at Nintendo EAD (2003-2015) Manager at Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 10 (2015-present) |
Hiroyuki Kimura (木村 浩之, Kimura Hiroyuki, born June 1, 1965 in Ishikawa Prefecture) is a Japanese video game director and producer who works for Nintendo.[1] Kimura joined the company as a trainee in 1988, and designed the characters of Super Mario Bros. 3.[2] After that, he was originally assigned to Gunpei Yokoi and the Nintendo R&D1 team. Kimura designed a variety of games for Nintendo including several of the NES Zapper software and the Metroid series. Shortly after working on Super Metroid, Kimura was transferred to Shigeru Miyamoto and the Nintendo EAD group.[1][3]
He is also the manager of Nintendo's Entertainment Planning & Development (EPD) Group No. 10, which oversees the Super Mario 2D games and the Pikmin franchise.
Works[]
- Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988) — character designer
- Golf (1989) – designer
- Metroid 2 (1991) — director, graphic designer
- Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (1992) – testing
- Super Metroid (1994) — background designer
- Mario Clash (1995) — director
- Wave Race 64 (1996) — cg designer
- Mario Artist: Talent Studio (2000) — director, graphic designer
- Super Mario Advance (2001) — director
- Mario Kart: Super Circuit (2001) — supervisor
- Super Mario Advance 2 (2001) — director
- Super Mario Advance 3 (2002) — director
- Super Mario Advance 4 (2003) — director
- Yoshi Touch & Go (2005) — director
- Big Brain Academy (2006) — producer
- New Super Mario Bros. (2006) — producer
- Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (2007) — producer
- New Play Control: Pikmin (2008) — producer
- New Play Control: Pikmin 2 (2009) — producer
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009) — producer
- New Super Mario Bros. 2 (2012) — co-producer
- New Super Mario Bros. U (2012) — co-producer
- Pikmin 3 (2013) – producer
- Super Mario Maker (2015) – co-producer
- Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS (2016) – co-producer
- Tank Troopers (2016) – Progress Supervisor
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (2017) – Progress Management
- ARMS (2017) – Production Management
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (2019) – co-producer
- Super Mario Maker 2 (2019) – co-producer
- Pikmin 3 Deluxe (2020) – Project Management
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