Aya Kyogoku

Aya Kyogoku

nintendo-nerd (guest) 11 Jan 2014 11:16

Just noticed something at Aya Kyogoku's GDC page (schedule.gdconf dot com/speaker/kyogoku-aya.31622). It says "She has been in her current position with the company since May 2013.". What exactly does that mean? She has already been Director of Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Could this refer to a new Animal Crossing in development?

Re: Aya Kyogoku

Kyoto Ninja 11 Jan 2014 16:27

Apparently, she was promoted to Project Leader of Software Group No. 2

This is a new official position Nintendo has been using in their game development sectors for two years now.

Here is the breakdown. We will use EAD as the example here.

EAD Division - General Manager, Executive Officer (Miyamoto, Tezuka, older seniors that kind of run the entire R&D division.
EAD Department - Deputy Manager, manager of the specific departments within EAD

EAD Groups - Manager/Producers who manage small teams and produce multiple software at same time. (Aonuma, Koizumi, Konno).

EAD Groups - Project Leaders are basically the chief directors of a specific game project. We've seen Koichi Hayashida (Super Mario 3D Land / World), Kosuke Yabuki (Mario Kart 7/8), Takayuki Shimamura (Nintendo Land / Wii Sports Club), Hidemaro Fujibayashi (Zelda Skyward / Zelda Wii U) named as project leaders. Basically the big names we should be attaching to games now.

EAD Groups - Planners - Basically the assistant directors / level designers / assistants to the game director. The main core structurally.

Re: Aya Kyogoku

Kyoto Ninja 11 Jan 2014 16:57

Eguchi is again mentioned as General Manager of EAD Software Development Department

I imagine Hisashi Nogami is the Group Manager of EAD Software Group No. 2

or did Isao Moro sneak in for that???