Hiroyuki Kimura

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Native name 木村浩之 Employer Nintendo Role Graphic designer		Name Hiroyuki Kimura Website www.nintendo.co.jp
Born June 1, 1965 (age 58) ( 1965-06-01 ) Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan Occupation EAD Manager, Producer Game Designer Nominations BAFTA Games Award for Best Family and Social Game, BAFTA Games Award for Gameplay Similar People Takashi Tezuka, Shigeru Miyamoto, Makoto Kano, Gunpei Yokoi

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. Kimura joined the company as a trainee in 1988, and designed the characters of Super Mario Bros. 3. 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.

Works

Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988) — character designer

Metroid 2 (1991) — director, designer

Super Metroid (1994) — designer

Mario Clash (1995) — director, designer

Wave Race 64 (1996) — designer

Mario Artist: Talent Studio (2000) — director

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

References

Hiroyuki Kimura Wikipedia

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