Kenichi Nishi

Kenichi Nishi is a former Square developer that founded Skip Ltd. He soon left Skip following the release of Chibi-Robo! to form another smaller studio, Route24, which comes from his last name.

History
He original worked for a company called Telenet Japan working on games for the TurboGrafx-16. He was hired by Square in the mid-1990s where he worked on the seminal Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG. He left shortly afterwards with a group of other Square developers to form the studio Love-de-Lic. This small studio would develop strange games such an RPG-styled game called Moon and LOL: Lack of Love. Since several of the staff were developers on Super Mario RPG, Nintendo contacted them for concepts on what would become Paper Mario.

The studio was closed in 2000 with the developers forming other studios with Kenichi Nishi forming Skip with Keita Eto, Sayoko Yokote and Hiroshi Suzuki. After finishing Chibi-Robo, Nishi left Skip and formed Route24 in February 2006 after feeling that working with so many people limited his freedom in designing games. After working with 4 other people on LOL, he mostly moved to mobile games. Recently, he has collaborated with Onion Games in promotion of the new release of Moon.

Game Works

 * Dekoboko Densetsu: Hashiru Wagamanma - Planner
 * Psycho Dream - Director
 * Chrono Trigger - Field Planners
 * Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - Map Data Coordinator
 * Moon: Remix RPG Adventure - Game Design
 * GiFTPiA - Director
 * Chibi-Robo!: Plug Into Adventure! - Director
 * LOL - Director
 * Captain Rainbow - Scenario
 * Newtonica
 * Wacky World of Sports - Concept & Advice
 * PostPet DS: Momo and the Magical Pen

Special Thanks

 * Odama
 * Paper Mario: Sticker Star