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Hideki Konno

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Hideki Konno
Konno at the GDC 2011
Born (1965-05-13) May 13, 1965 (age 59)
Alma materJapan Electronics College
Occupation(s)video game designer, director and producer
EmployerNintendo (1986–present)
Notable workSuper Mario
Mario Kart
Luigi's Mansion
Nintendogs
Yoshi's Island
TitleManager at Nintendo EAD (2003–2015)
Manager at Nintendo EPD Smart Device Group (2015–present)

Hideki Konno (紺野 秀樹, Konno Hideki) (born May 13, 1965) is a video game director, game designer and producer who works for Nintendo. Since 2015, Konno works as a manager at Nintendo EPD on the Smart Device Group, the department responsible for production of smartphone games.

Biography

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Konno joined Nintendo in 1986, where he worked on positions such as assistant director in the beginning of his career, along with being the director for games such as Super Mario Kart and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.[1][2]

Around the beginning of the 2000s, he became the group manager of his own department at Nintendo EAD, where he produced games such as Nintendogs, Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart Wii. Konno also went on to become the producer for the Nintendo DS's successor, the Nintendo 3DS. After this, he produced the games Nintendogs + Cats, Mario Kart 7 and Mario Kart 8 for Nintendo EAD.

In 2015, Konno began managing Nintendo's mobile projects on his own production group at Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development, the division resulting from the merger of Nintendo's main development and production divisions.[3]

Works

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Year Game title Role
1987 Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic Assistant director, level design
1988 Super Mario Bros. 2
Ice Hockey Director
Super Mario Bros. 3 Assistant director, level design
1990 Super Mario World Map director, level design
1991 SimCity Director
1992 Super Mario Kart
1995 Yoshi's Island
1996 Mario Kart 64
1997 Yoshi's Story System director
1998 F-Zero X Sequence support
2001 Mario Kart: Super Circuit Supervisor
Luigi's Mansion Director
2002 The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Supervisor
2005 Geist Producer
Nintendogs
Mario Kart DS
2008 Mario Kart Wii
2011 Nintendogs + Cats
Nintendo 3DS
Mario Kart 7
2013 Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon Special advisor
2014 Mario Kart 8 Producer
2016 Super Mario Run
2017 Fire Emblem Heroes
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
2018 Dragalia Lost
2019 Dr. Mario World
Mario Kart Tour
2023 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass

Interviews

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References

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  1. ^ "Iwata Asks: Mario Kart Wii". Archived from the original on April 28, 2012. Retrieved April 6, 2008.
  2. ^ "N-Sider Looks At Nintendo Development". Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved June 19, 2010.
  3. ^ "スマホ向けゲームにかける「任天堂の本気度」 収益の柱に育てられるか". Sankei.com (in Japanese). May 7, 2015. Retrieved May 18, 2018.