Pikmin 4 - 2023 (NSW)

PIKMIN 4 ピクミン 4 ©2023 Nintendo Version: Nintendo Switch (NSW) Publisher: NINTENDO CO., LTD. Production: NINTENDO - ENTERTAINMENT PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DIVISION (EPD) - Production Group No.10 Development: NINTENDO CO., LTD. EIGHTING CO., LTD. Additional Work: MARIO CLUB CO., LTD. NINTENDO PICTURES CO., LTD. PLANETA CO., LTD. BLACK BEARD DESIGN STUDIO INC. TRI-ACE INC. DIGITAL MEDIA LAB., INC.

KEY STAFF: NINTENDO CO., LTD Producer: Takashi Tezuka, Hiroyuki Kimura Director: Yuji Kando Staff: Ayako Moriwaki, Yutaka Hiramuki, Taku Matoba, Makoto Wada, Kunio Watanabe, Michiho Ito, Hiromu Takemura, Kosei Kitamura, Yuji Kando, Atsushi Haneda, Akira Mizukami, Mitsuhiro Kida, Kenta Nagata, Asuka Hayazaki, Soshi Abe, Taiyo Furukawa, Rintaro Sato, Eka Chin, Yuto Sasaki, Keisuke Nishimori, Makoto Yonezu, Kazunori Fujii, Sho Murata, Takeshi Koike, Keijiro Inoue, Masayuki Okada, Arata Takahashi, Yasuhiko Matsuzaki, Yoshiaki Onishi, Toyokazu Nonaka, Shinya Takahashi, Shigeru Miyamoto, Shuntaro Furukawa EIGHTING CO., LTD Director: Tetsushi Tsunoda Staff: Daisuke Warashina, Yuya Narita, Manatsu Kuroiwa, Haruki Kimura, Suzuno Takeuchi, Osamu Kunimasa, Sho Aoki, Tetsuya Maki, Akihiko Mukaiyama, Tatsunori Kitahara, Go Usuma, Mizuki Takeuchi, Chika Tasaki, Masashi Kanbara, Mayuko Sano, Yuto Takehara, Aoi Kataoka, Manami Kiuchi, Mari Tamagawa, Hideyuki Minemori, Toyoshige Kadohara, Takuma Kurita, Kenichi Iwano, Eisuke Seki, Fujika Sato, Masaharu Tokutake, Shinichi Kamohara, Masaru Isohara, Shingo Yoshizawa, Kouji Matsumori, Keigo Torimoto, Yuta Morimoto, Yuichi Ochiai, Masanori Takei, Kouhei Kasama, Takeshi Minami, Takafumi Inoue, Yuto Hasegawa, Kuniharu Shibatani, Shingo Sawada, Yukinari Ooka, Hirokazu Matsumoto, Tatsuya Ueda NINTENDO PICTURES CO., LTD. Staff: Naoki Kobayashi, Yoshio Endo, Koichi Honma, Tomoyuki Hattori, Yutaro Sato, Takateru Kadota, Hiromi Iwata, Yoko Nishikimi, Hiroshi Tanaka, Akira Inoue, Asahi Kikuchi, Yutaka Funatani MARIO CLUB CO., LTD Staff: Yuko Kaneko, Hiromi Morita, Maki Watanabe, Mariko Yuuda, Kaori Kawase, Takahiro Kumasaka, Tasuku Mizuno, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Isamu Kawase, Sangmin Kim, Toru Hirashima, Satomi Kakiuchi, Aya Ninomiya, Koki Daio, Yu Oikawa, Haruki Kaneko, Sakiho Kume, Jun Kiuchi, Megumi Emi, Taiki Maeda, Shohei Zenjo, Tsukasa Nagata PLANETA CO., LTD. Staff: Subaru Ganbe, Narumi Shinomiya, Ryuichiro Aikawa, Kiyoshi Tate, Kazuaki Yamamoto, Yasumi Takamura, Yume Iwamoto TRI-ACE INC. Staff: Kenichi Kaneko, Atsuhiro Machida BLACK BEARD DESIGN STUDIO INC. Staff: Koji Asai

NOTES: Staff List: Pikmin 4 (Credits) Research: Pikmin 4 (KRIM) Pikmin 4 is a real-time strategy game where the player controls a small human like character who takes command of squads of Pikmin to explore various areas, fight enemies, secure treasures, and solve puzzles. The game is the first in the series to feature a customizable playable character. It introduces two new species of Pikmin called Ice Pikmin and Glow Pikmin, as well as new features like the Night Expeditions, in which players defend against waves of nocturnal enemies. EPD Director and Lead Programmer Yuji Kando, admits to this game being the culmination of many different prototypes he worked on after Pikmin 3. Kando's specific role for this game included taking charge of the general game design and level design, the base programming of the game system, and deciding on the game's direction. Miyamoto stated that the goals was to convince players that Pikmin weren't just fantasy characters, but rather creatures that could be among us in the real world. Kando revealed that in designing the treasures, they wanted parents and children to have conversations about the significance of some of the collectible items. Between public acknowledgement of the game and patents from lead developer Yuji Kando, development from prototype to production spanned over 8 years. Technology/Engine: Unreal 4 Engine Cooperation: Mario Club (Planning, Debug), Nintendo Pictures (Visuals), Planeta (Visuals), Black Beard Design Studios (Visuals), Tri-Ace (Visuals), Digital Media Lab (Cinematics). Development: Eighting Co., Ltd. (Co-Director, Planning, Visuals, Program, Sound). Development: Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Director, Planning, Visuals, Program, Music, Sound). Nintendo EPD - Production Group No.10

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