Eiji Aonuma (青沼 英二 Aonuma Eiji, born 1963) is a Japanese designer and director of video games. He currently works for Nintendo, overseeing the development process of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (to be released for the company's GameCube video game console in 2006), the next game in the popular The Legend of Zelda series.BiographyEarly years
Eiji Aonuma was born in 1963 in Japan. Not much else is known of his pre-college years.Education
Aonuma attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music where he majored in design, working on moving mechanical figures (whose members were articulated), which were essentially marionettes. He graduated in 1988 and then acquired his job at Nintendo, with whom he has remained since.Nintendo
Aonuma began work on the Super Famicom game Marvelous, which was influenced by The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's renowned game designer, saw his work and asked him to be assistant director on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, destined for the company's Nintendo 64 system. Following the game's success, he was promoted to producer of the next titles in the Legend of Zelda series, Majora's Mask, the Nintendo 64 successor to Ocarina of Time, and The Wind Waker, the first Zelda game for the company's GameCube console. Aonuma is currently working on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the next title in the franchise, expected in 2006, and the second one to be released for the GameCube. He has said he "would like to make a Zelda that somehow surpasses the Ocarina of Time" , a game very much lauded by both reviewers and players.Miscellaneous
- Aonuma believes that Mario's name finds its origins in the word 'marionette'.
- He enjoys music very much, being a member of a Wind Orchestra called 'The Wind Wakers', which is composed of several Nintendo employees who perform concerts four times a year for other employees of the company, and in which he plays percussion (instruments as diverse as bongos, congas and timpani).
- Aonuma also has a great passion for cooking, an affection he would somehow like to implement in a game.
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