Kody NOKOLO is the current director of the Mother Forever website, our community, our YouTube channel, and our Twitter. They also work as Mother Forever’s webmaster, as a Mother Forever administrator, a writer, an editor, and as our lead translator. They were one of the three original co-founders of Mother Forever. Using the foundations from the previous versions, they programmed/designed the current version of the website (version 3) and helped design Mother International. They’ve solely directed, edited, and hosted Mother Direct since 2021. They make games like the Motherlike RPG called GNOMONIC with their game development studio NOKOGODO! You can usually find Kody on Twitter. To contact Kody for any inquiries over email about Mother Forever, you can reach them at: kody@mother4ever.net

Kody originally got involved with the MOTHER series at nine years old in 2008, the year Super Smash Bros. Brawl released. Lucas and his role in the Subspace Emissary peaked Kody’s curiosity in the series after already regularly playing as Ness and enjoying Onett in Melee. After that, they were determined to figure out how to play the MOTHER 3 fan translation and they managed to play that as their first game in the series, which quickly spurred their interest in video game writing and translations.

Kody’s enthusiasm for translation stems from their love of storytelling, especially in games. They love learning about and playing niche, forgotten, or leftover translations and localizations. They’ve even been commissioned to translate Japanese-to-English and English-to-Japanese for game studios and publications! Without this kind of passion for stories forgotten by mainstream translators, they believe that games like MOTHER 3 would have never been translated and would have never inspired many other games they love today. Besides the MOTHER series, they also love RPGs and platformers, especially indie games and mods.

Lone is in charge of the moderation aspect of Mother Forever. He moderates the moderators. He is also a full-time Localization Specialist at a game company, and also does some freelance translation work on the side. He translates to and from English and Japanese. You may have played one of the games he was involved in translating.

Lone first played the MOTHER games in 2012 and has dabbled in and out of the community ever since. After over 10 years, he’s still willing to help wherever he can.

Retro64 (also known as just “Retro”) is a Mother Forever Discord moderator. He has been a fan of the MOTHER series for a long time, and his favorite game in the series is MOTHER 2. He’s an artist and a 3D modeler who is best known for making content for Smash Remix. He’s also an artist on Mother Squared.

Besides the MOTHER series, he also enjoys the Donkey Kong Country and Kirby series and listens to those games’ amazing OSTs. If you ever need help with something, don’t hesitate to ask! Boing! Zoom!

You won’t meet a more chill dude than Arnold! He’s been around with Mother Forever practically since it was founded as a moderator for Discord both then and now. Early on, he contributed with documenting screenshots and other artwork for the games, and now he’s back, and badder than ever.

Arnold was introduced to the MOTHER series in 2016. He wanted to play the series ever since Super Smash Bros. Brawl came out, and UNDERTALE finally convinced him to play the series! Since then, he’s been invested in the community; wanting to mingle, have fun, and see people happy talking about their favorite games!

Arnold hopes to stream some of his favorite games on Mother Forever in the future. His other interests include early 2000’s aesthetics, the Like a Dragon series, DOOM, and RPG Maker games like LISA: The Painful, Ib, and Yume Nikki. These have all inspired him to play around with RPG Maker, Unity and Gamemaker in hopes of one day creating his own game! Who knows… maybe we’ll see a project of his on a future Mother Direct?

Falcon might be a very familiar face to you, and he should be! He’s helped a lot around the MOTHER community, from MOTHER Encore to even Mother Forever!

Falcon is a very passionate artist, who takes heavy inspiration from MOTHER and from MOTHER 3‘s Nintendo 64 art director, Benimaru Itoh. Falcon is also a huge fan of the Star Fox series, which Itoh once drew a comic for! Falcon lends his artistic talent to many projects, such as the MOTHER 3: Fall of the Pig King ROM hack. He enjoys sharing his art in order to brighten up all of his friend’s days.

Falcon can often be found moderating for both MOTHER Encore and Mother Forever on Discord, so feel free to give him a shout! He’s very knowledgeable about the series, and always happy to share his interest with people.

Echoes was one of Mother Forever’s three co-founders! They’re a lifelong fan of the series, ever since discovering it at eight years old. They first found out about MOTHER from Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo 64, and from there found their way to Starmen.net! They took an instant interest to the then-unreleased MOTHER 3, and began finding every shred of info they could on the game. This is what led them to help found the site and work as its lead writer.

Outside of Mother Forever, Echoes was associated with the Super Mario Bros. The Movie Archive where they contributed through the release of cut footage. In May 2019, Echoes found a rough cut VHS tape belonging to the film’s producer Roland Joffé, immediately contacting the SMB Movie Archive about the discovery. Together with Garrett Gilchrist they released a semi-official extended cut of the film! On the side, they also helped with archival research for the documentary EarthBound USA alongside working with other YouTube creators on MOTHER videos!

Orange was another one of the three co-founders of Mother Forever. Orange helped design the first two versions of the website while their friend Shen programmed it. Orange and Shen also designed and programmed the first version of Mother International together.

The first Mother Direct in 2020 was initially an idea from Orange created to cheer people up when the E3 Press Conference for that year was announced to be cancelled. Orange edited most of the presentation and hosted it that year with help script writing from Echoes and help editing from Kody.

Admiring the passion of the MOTHER series’ fans, Sphinx became interested and wanted to see what all the commotion was about. After playing through each game, he finally had a pretty good idea of why!

When he was working as our editor, Sphinx had a natural inclination towards studying the English language and all of its trappings. He was very particular about syntax, grammar, punctuation, spelling… oh, there’s just so much. He made sure the site was set up to be a professional read every time!