Game designer Hiroshi Minagawa is credited as "Nigoro" in his earliest game titles. He began work in the game industry on Quest 1991 sidescolling shooter for the PC Magical Chase, where he served as art director. It was his first project with Yasumi Matsuno, Hitoshi Sakimoto, and Masaharu Iwata, all of whom he collaborated with again while serving as art director for Quest's strategy RPGs Ogre Battle and Tactics Ogre (and much later on Final Fantasy XII).
Along with Matsuno, Minagawa traversed the line to Square in 1995 and later served as art director on Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story with the core team from Quest. He was a key member of Square Enix Division 4, and after working as visual designer and character textile supervisor, he became Final Fantasy XII's co-director with Hiroyuki Itou after the departure of Matsuno from the project.
Together with Taku Murata, Minagawa delivered a post-mortem of Final Fantasy XII at the 2007 Game Developers Conference. He also participated in an interview found on the extra disc included with the collector's edition.
