Koichi Hayashida

Koichi Hayashida
林田 宏一
Hayashida in 2013
Born1969 (age 54–55)
Tokyo, Japan
Occupation(s)Director, producer, game designer
Years active1993–present
EmployerNintendo (1999–present)

Koichi Hayashida is a Japanese video game developer who has worked as a director, producer, and programmer on multiple games from Nintendo, notably the Super Mario series. He was the director of Super Mario Galaxy 2 (2010), Super Mario 3D Land (2011), Super Mario 3D World (2013, with Kenta Motokura), NES Remix (2013), and NES Remix 2 (2014). He was the producer of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (2014), and Super Mario Odyssey (2017).