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Imamura on keeping up with his old colleagues, 2025.

Source: Nintendo Life

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PEOPLE: - Takaya Imamura, age 58. Art Director of Majora’s Mask, Artist in A Link to the Past. Designed the casts of Star Fox and F-Zero. - Aya Kyogoku, age 43. Writer for Twilight Princess and Four Sword Adventures. Director or Producer of most Animal Crossing titles. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 72. Producer or General Producer of all the games mentioned here. QUOTE: "Imamura: For the first six months or so after leaving Nintendo, I kept dreaming I was still going to work. I’d start developing a game and then I’d wake up and go, ‘Oh, oh. Okay that’s weird.’ I actually met with Shigeru Miyamoto once after I left and I said, ‘Hey, long time no see!’ But I actually didn’t feel like that was true since I was seeing him in my dreams all the time. He got a good laugh out of that. Q: You were at Nintendo for such a long time, so were you pretty close with a lot of your colleagues? Yeah, I still keep in contact with all of them. For example, the director of Animal Crossing, Aya Kyogoku, is coming out to see me teach in the classroom in October."
March 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Kyogoku on how she learned the value of diverse development teams, 2014.

Source: Wired

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PEOPLE: - Aya Kyogoku, age 32. Script Writer for Twilight Princess and Four Sword Adventures. Director of Animal Crossing: New Leaf. QUOTE: Kyogoku: Having worked on this [Animal Crossing: New Leaf] team where there were almost equal numbers of men and women made me realize that can open you up to hearing a greater variety of ideas and sharing a greater diversity of ideas. Only after having working on a project like this, with a team like this one, was I able to realize this.
January 10, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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Kyogoku on the value of diverse development teams, 2014.

Via Wired.

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PEOPLE: - Aya Kyogoku, age 32. Twilight Princess Script Writer, Director of Animal Crossing: New Leaf. QUOTE: "Kyogoku: Having worked on this [Animal Crossing: New Leaf] team where there were almost equal numbers of men and women made me realize that can open you up to hearing a greater variety of ideas and sharing a greater diversity of ideas. Only after having working on a project like this, with a team like this one, was I able to realize this."
March 14, 2024 at 4:01 PM