"Pikmin" was developed by Nintendo EAD and directed by Shigefumi Hino and Masamachi Abe (who had directed 1080° Snowboarding) and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto and Hiroyuki Kimura as one of the first Nintendo GameCube games. Miyamoto sketched the game as an idea centering around two characters called "Adam and Eve". They lived in a prehistoric world and players would observe their lives, with Miyamoto stating that players could "pretend to be God" and "give them love or make them fight". Players could make Adam and Eve build a nest and have children, eventually forming a village and increasing the number of controllable characters who could then be used to fight off giant creatures such as mammoths.