Aya Kyogoku
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| Born | 1981 or 1982 Osaka, Japan | |||||
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| Occupation | Video game director and producer | |||||
| Notable work | Animal Crossing series | |||||
| Title | Manager of Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 5 | |||||
Aya Kyogoku (京極あや, born c. 1981) is a Japanese video game director and producer who is the manager of Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development Production Group No. 5,[1] which oversees the development of the Animal Crossing series. She has worked on all games in the Animal Crossing series since Animal Crossing: City Folk and has directed or produced several of the games. Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, both directed by Kyogoku, broke sales records for the series, with the latter selling nearly as many copies as all titles in the Animal Crossing series combined.[2]
Kyogoku joined Nintendo in September 2003. She was a scriptwriter for The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess prior to working on the Animal Crossing series.
Works[edit]
- Animal Crossing: City Folk – Sequence Director[nb 1]
- Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Director (with Isao Moro)[nb 2]
- Animal Crossing Plaza – Producer
- Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer – Producer (with Hisashi Nogami)
- Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival – Director
- Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp – Supervisor
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Director
Trivia[edit]
- Kyogoku served as director on the best-selling title in the series, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and one of the worst-selling titles, Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival.
Notes[edit]
- ↑ As Sequence Director, Kyogoku was responsible for scriptwriting and character dialogue.[3]
- ↑ Kyogoku also worked as the producer of the Welcome amiibo update.
References[edit]
- ↑ Brian (June 14, 2019). "Nintendo promotes Aya Kyogoku, Hisashi Nogami, Eiji Aonuma, and Yoshihito Ikebata". Nintendo Everything.
- ↑ J. Clement. "Unit sales of the Animal Crossing franchise worldwide as of December 2020, by title". Statista.
- ↑ Satoru Iwata, Aya Kyogoku, Ryuji Kobayashi, Isao Moro, Hisashi Nogami. "The First New Title in 3 Years". Iwata Asks.
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