Hideki Konno

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 the production of Nintendo's mobile games.

Hideki Konno
Konno at the GDC 2011
Born	(1965-05-13) May 13, 1965 (age 60) Chiba, Chiba, Japan
Alma mater	Japan Electronics College
Occupation(s)	video game designer, director and producer
Employer	Nintendo (1986–present)
Notable work	Super Mario Mario Kart Luigi's Mansion Nintendogs Yoshi's Island
Title	Manager at Nintendo EAD (2003–2015) Manager at Nintendo EPD Smart Device Group (2015–present)

Biography

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

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

• Iwata Asks: Mario Kart Wii - Development Staff Interview Archived April 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine