“Imagine a game with only five houses”.
The utterly brilliant translation site Shmuplations has just published a 1989 discussion between Shigeru Miyamoto and Shigesato Itoi, and during the surprisingly in-depth chat between the two legendary game designers, the former predicts the arrival of ‘cosy’ titles like Animal Crossing.
Originally published in Gamer Handbook and published shortly after the release of the first Mother game on the Famicom, the discussion sees Miyamoto and Itoi touch upon many different elements of game design in the late ’80s – but when Miyamoto is asked about death in video games, the conversation becomes amazingly prescient:
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“Imagine a game with only five houses”.
The utterly brilliant translation site Shmuplations has just published a 1989 discussion between Shigeru Miyamoto and Shigesato Itoi, and during the surprisingly in-depth chat between the two legendary game designers, the former predicts the arrival of ‘cosy’ titles like Animal Crossing.
Originally published in Gamer Handbook and published shortly after the release of the first Mother game on the Famicom, the discussion sees Miyamoto and Itoi touch upon many different elements of game design in the late ’80s – but when Miyamoto is asked about death in video games, the conversation becomes amazingly prescient:
Read the full article on timeextension.com