Hideki Konno

Hideki Konno (Japanese绀 野 秀 树, Hideki Konno, born 1965 in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture) is a Japanese game developer at Nintendo. He began in 1986 to work at Nintendo, first at the Super Mario series; later, he worked on Mario Kart games as a director. Since 2004, Konno Director of Software Development Group No. 1 of any Nintendo internal development department Entertainment Analysis and Development ( EAD) and in this position producer of Mario Kart and Nintendogs series. Away from the software development was Konno overall producer for Nintendo's handheld 3DS.

Work

Born in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, Hideki Konno graduated from the Electronic Data Processing Division of the Japan Electronics College and received a degree.

In 1986, Konno employee of Nintendo. He was assigned to Shigeru Miyamoto and his department EAD, then still 4 Research & Development (R & D4). First, he was Assistant Director of Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic, which was released in Japan under the direction of Kensuke Tanabe 1987. After that, he worked as Director of Ice Hockey. For the Japanese market Doki Doki Panic except was changed so that it in the United States as Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) came out in 1988.

Since Super Mario Bros. 2 Konno worked on the Mario series closely with Miyamoto. In the succession Play Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES, 1988) and Super Mario World (SNES 1990) he was with Katsuya Eguchi, who at the same time as he beistieß Nintendo, responsible for the level selection screens as well as the level creation. In Super Mario Bros. 3, he held the position of Assistant Director in Super Mario World, he served as Director Map.

After he had worked as a director on the SNES port of Sim City, he was involved in the same function in the development of a branch of the Mario series: Super Mario Kart came out in 1992 for the SNES and is considered the founder of the Funracer genre. Then he was director of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Iceland (SNES 1995) and then in charge of the development of the N64 offshoot of Mario Kart, Mario Kart 64 (1996). Refined Konno a sequel to Yoshi's Iceland, Yoshi 's Story (SNES 1997).

The next title under Konno line was the GameCube launch title Luigi 's Mansion ( 2001). In the same year Mario Kart Super Circuit released for the Game Boy Advance, which was not developed by EAD, but was developed by Intelligent Systems, therefore, held no Konno leading role, but that of an advisor. In the same capacity he 2002 The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with and to Mario Kart: Double Dash! .

In 2004, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata for a general restructuring of Nintendo's internal development departments. Among other things, EAD new members were fed and changed the structure of the studio. It was divided into the largest internal division and in individual groups, which operate independently and each are under the direction of a producer. Miyamoto retained his position as General Manager of EAD, so that he could continue to monitor the largest Nintendo developments. Konno, then long-time director, was collected as part of these measures in the producer level and the Head of Software Development Group No. 1 neugegliederten EAD.

2005 produced Konno and his team have Nintendo DS Games Nintendogs and Mario Kart DS. In the same year the GameCube titles spirit, the Nintendo developed with n- Space was released, also acted as producer Konno. Next, he was responsible for Mario Kart Wii (Wii 2008). Also in 2008, the Nintendo DSi, on which a sound application called DSi Sound was pre-installed, manufactured by Konno's team appeared.

2011 appeared the Nintendo 3DS, the first mobile device that uses an autostereoscopic display to enable 3D effects without glasses. The origins date back to the console after the release of the DS; In 2008, Iwata and Miyamoto beginning Konno before plans and prototypes of this new console. Konno had been completed at the time just work on Mario Kart Wii. He was involved in the development of this console as an overall producer, although he did not belong to the hardware, but the software department. When Nintendo was long time a collaboration between software and hardware staff, with the Nintendo 3DS but wanted to strengthen this link by one started a software developer and manager of the project. This was unique in the history of Nintendo.

For the 3DS brought Konno with his EAD Group 2011 two games on the market whose planning began in early 2010: Nintendogs Cats and Mario Kart 7 Since Konno was awarded the contract to have Nintendogs Cats age at the launch of the 3DS, he sat the resources of his group reinforced in this project, while eight employees to Mario Kart 7 care. As the title came along in the intensive phase of development, staff were not enough available and also other EAD groups were busy. Therefore, Shinya Takahashi and Kensuke Tanabe of Nintendo Software Planning & Development Department (SPD ) arranged a partnership with the first-party developer Retro Studios, who had just completed work on Donkey Kong Country Returns. Mario Kart 7 was released in late 2011.

In the spring of 2014 Mario Kart 8 should appear for the Wii U. Konno is involved as a producer.

Games with Konno's participation

  • Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic ( Famicom Disk System 1987, Assistant Director)
  • Ice Hockey (NES 1988; Director)
  • Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES 1988; Assistant Director)
  • Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES 1988) - Assistant Director)
  • Super Mario World (SNES 1991; Map Director)
  • Sim City (SNES 1991; Director)
  • Super Mario Kart (SNES 1992; Director)
  • Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Iceland (SNES 1995 Director)
  • Mario Kart 64 ( N64, 1996; Director)
  • Yoshi's Story ( N64, 1997; Director)
  • Mario Kart Super Circuit ( Game Boy Advance 2001; consultant)
  • Luigi 's Mansion ( GameCube 2001; Director)
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker ( GameCube 2002; consultant)
  • Nintendogs (DS 2005; producer)
  • Geist ( GameCube 2005; producer)
  • Mario Kart DS (DS 2005; producer)
  • Mario Kart Wii (Wii 2008; producer)
  • DSi Sound ( DSi 2008; producer)
  • Nintendo 3DS (2011; hardware producer)
  • Nintendogs Cats (3DS 2011; producer)
  • Mario Kart 7 (3DS 2011; producer)
  • Mario Kart 8 (Wii U in 2014; producer)
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