Kenichi Nishi

is a Japanese video game designer. He has helped found a number of notable video game companies and develops games at Route24, his own private limited company. The number 24 in the title comes from its founder's name: "Ni" (2) and "Shi" (4).

Career Nishi previously worked for both Telenet Japan and its subsidiary Riot. He was later hired by Square as a field designer for two of its larger releases. After leaving Square in 1995, Nishi helped establish Love-de-Lic, Inc. with many of his former Square coworkers. There, he designed two of the small company's three game releases: Moon: Remix RPG Adventure and L.O.L.: Lack of Love. He also helped design and write the script for the 1999 Polygon Magic title Incredible Crisis. Nishi then co-founded skip Ltd., a second-party developer for Nintendo. Acting as vice president of the company, he also directed GiFTPiA and co-directed Chibi-Robo!.

At Route24, Nishi and a staff of four other people developed LOL for the Nintendo DS, which was published by skip in 2007. He worked on Newtonica and Newtonica2 for the iPhone and iPod Touch with Kenji Eno, among other independently developed mobile games. In 2010, Nishi expressed interest in developing a sequel to Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, asking fans to voice their support via Twitter.

Personal life Nishi lives in Meguro, Tokyo. He is a fan of British rock music and once had a dog named Tao, who Nishi featured as a character in many of his games including Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, GiFTPiA, L.O.L.: Lack of Love, Chibi-Robo and Captain Rainbow. It is said that Dragon Quest III is Nishi's favorite game. Year Title Developer Role(s)

Tenshi no Uta Telenet Japan

Exile Telenet Japan, Riot 1992 Psycho Dream Riot Story 1995 Chrono Trigger

1996 Super Mario RPG 1997 Moon: Remix RPG Adventure Love-de-Lic Game design 1999 Incredible Crisis Polygon Magic Game design and script 2000 L.O.L.: Lack of Love Love-de-Lic Writing 2003 GiFTPiA

2005 Chibi-Robo! 2007 LOL Designer

Captain Rainbow Scenario Newtonica

Morinaga Takurou no Okane no Shin Joushiki DS Training Newtonica2

Wacky World of Sports Tabot Concept and advice PostPet DS AlphaDream, Route24, Vanpool

iCLK

Geotrion Producer and director Followars Designer 2012 Paper Mario Sticker Star Intelligent Systems Special thanks 2013 Cobits

2021 Pixel Game Maker Series Puzzle Pedestrians 2026 Briki'n Roll: Course Maker