In fact, Katsuya Eguchi , director of the original Animal Crossing, told Kotaku, 'When we started developing the original Animal Crossing, we had no idea about localizing it for the international ...

Developed and published by Nintendo, the Animal Crossing series was created by Katsuya Eguchi, who wanted to create a title that countered his own feelings of loneliness and disconnection after ...

In terms of younger replacements for Miyamoto’s role, other designer figures such as Takashi Tezuka (original SMB, Yoshi’s Island, Link to the Past), Katsuya Eguchi (Star Fox, Animal Crossing ...

At the age of 21, Animal Crossing creator Katsuya Eguchi left his friends and family behind in his hometown of Chiba to move to Kyoto to pursue a career in game design at Nintendo. Three hundred miles ...

LEGO will be paying homage to Nintendo’s long-running Animal Crossing franchise, originally created in 2001 by Katsuya Eguchi and Hisashi Nogami. The anthropomorphic from the cult-followed ...

I first interviewed Animal Crossing: New Leaf director last year at Game Developers Conference, where she tag-teamed with series creator Katsuya Eguchi to ...

Created by Katsuya Eguchi and Hisashi Nogami, the game consists of a player character who is a human who lives in a village with other animals and can do various activities.

At that early juncture, the animals of Animal Crossing served a strictly utilitarian purpose; Eguchi and Nogami hadn't even considered letting players speak with them.

One of the game’s creators, Katsuya Eguchi, initially envisioned it as a social game, inspired by his own experience of moving to a new place and being far away from loved ones.

In 2013, series creator Katsuya Eguchi told gaming site Gamasutra that your Animal Crossing town should be “ something that you want to show off to people ” but it should also be a ...

The series was created by Katsuya Eguchi, a Japanese game designer whose previous credits include work on Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Star Fox 2, Wave Race 64 and Yoshi's Story.