Nobuyuki Inoue

Nobuyuki Inoue (井上信行, Inoue Nobuyuki) is a video game director, and the chief director of Brownie Brown. He first became a developer when he took a job with Square as a debugger on the Game Boy game Final Fantasy Legend II. He first did work as a scenario designer in the Super Famicom game Live a Live. He was also involved in games in the Mana series, including Legend of Mana.

He left Square to start up Brownie Brown along with other employees of the company as a subsidiary of Nintendo. He continued making games in the Mana series, starting with a remake of Final Fantasy Adventure titled Sword of Mana for the Game Boy Advance. He went on to direct a new franchise called Magical Vacation for the Game Boy Advance, which was followed by Magical Starsign for the Nintendo DS. He later directed Mother 3, the long-awaited sequel to EarthBound.

Works

• Final Fantasy Legend II - Debugger
• Romancing SaGa - Field map design
• Hanjuku Hero: Aa, Sekaiyo Hanjukunare...! - Battle programmer
• Live A Live - Battle director, scenario
• Romancing SaGa 3 - Map design
• Legend of Mana - Event planner
• Magical Vacation - Director
• Magical Starsign - Director
• Mother 3 - Director