Hisashi Nogami

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Hisashi Nogami
Full name Nogami Hisashi
Native name 野上 恒 (のがみ ひさし)
Pseudonym
Born 1971 (age 53 or 54)
Yawata, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Died
Occupation Producer
Role(s) Producer of the Splatoon series
Deputy general manager of Nintendo Co, Ltd.
Instrument(s)
First game Splatoon
Latest game Splatoon 3: Expansion Pass
Splatoon games worked on

Hisashi Nogami is a Nintendo employee and producer for Splatoon, Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3.

Biography

As a child, Hisashi Nogami collected cards.[1]

In college Nogami would play a lot of fighting games, such as Virtua Fighter and Street Fighter 2,[2] but he also had a fascination for Nintendo games like Super Mario World which came out during his freshmen year of college. Later on in his college career Nogami would attend the Game Seminar, an event that Nintendo and Dentsu hosted in order to teach students about game development. Nogami graduated in March of 1994 and joined Nintendo EAD that very same month as a designer for Yoshi's Island.[3]

During his time at Nintendo Nogami would go on to direct many of the games in the Animal Crossing series and assist in the development of the Wii and Wii U's system functions. It was while he was directing the WaraWara Plaza that Nogami met Seita Inoue, who would later become the art director of the Splatoon series.[4]

In 2019 Nogami was appointed to the position of Deputy General Manger at Nintendo EPD where he remains employed to this day.[5]

Work in Splatoon

Title Credit
Splatoon Producer
Splatoon 2
Octo Expansion
Splatoon 3
Splatoon 3: Expansion Pass

Squid Research Lab

When giving presentations about the Splatoon series, and for promotional events, he often takes on the persona of a researcher at the fictional Squid Research Lab, by dressing in a white lab coat and dark sunglasses. As part of acting out this character he also makes squid-related puns by replacing/emphasizing the sound いか with its homophone イカ, "squid", most commonly イカがですか ("How are you?") and イカした ("It was lively / energetic").

Other credits

Title Credit
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Character Designer
BS Zelda no Densetsu Graphic Designer
Super Mario 64 CG Illustrator
Tetris Attack Design Advisor
Mario Kart 64 CG Character Designer
Yoshi's Story CG Designer
Banjo-Kazooie Word Swopping (Japanese version)
Animal Crossing Director
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 Map Support
Yoshi Topsy-Turvy Supervisor
Yoshi Touch & Go Special Thanks
Animal Crossing: Wild World Director
Mii Channel
Wii Play Mii Support
Wii Sports
Yoshi's Island DS Supervisor
WarioWare: Smooth Moves Mii Support
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Supervisor
Animal Crossing: City Folk Director
Personal Trainer: Walking Mii Support
Tomodachi Collection
Nintendo 3DS
WaraWara Plaza Director
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U Supervisor
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Producer
Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome amiibo
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Supervisor
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Producer

Gallery

Trivia

External links

Interviews

English

Spanish

Japanese

References

  1. Nintendo Ask the Developer Vol. 7, Splatoon 3-Part 2 - 7 September 2022 (Nintendo)
  2. YouTube Splatoon 2 - Meet the Developers - Electric Playground - 27 June 2017 (Electric Playground Network - EPN)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Nintendo Super Mario World & Yoshi's Island Developer Interview - 14 January 2019 (Nintendo) [Wayback Machine archive]
  4. Nintendo Iwata Asks - Splatoon - 21 May 2015 (Nintendo)
  5. Eiji Aonuma And Multiple Others Have Been Promoted At Nintendo - 15 June 2019 (Nintendo Life)
  6. Nintendo Cats or dogs? Rollers or Splat Chargers? Find out how the Splatoon producers voted in our exclusive interview! - 5 October 2016 (Nintendo of Europe)