Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he has served as one of its representative directors as an executive since 2002. Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential designers in video games, he is the creator of some of the most acclaimed and best-selling game franchises of all time, including Mario, The Legend of Zelda
"Challenge for the player is the most important thing. In the Mario games for example, the player can go back and try to finish the game without collecting a single coin. I think great video games are like favorite playgrounds, places you become attached to and go back to again and again. Wouldnt it be great to have a whole drawer full of "playgrounds" right at your fingertips?"
Shigeru Miyamoto"I think the first is that a game needs a sense of accomplishment. And you have to have a sense that you have done something, so that you get a sense of satisfaction of completing something. When I approach the design of my games, what I have to think about is how Im showing a situation to a player, conveying to them what theyre supposed to do. In Mario you keep going to the right to reach your end goal. In Donkey Kong you keep climbing up to rescue the captured princess. The last is the immersive quality of the game being able to feel its a world youre immersed in, that youve become a hero. That youve become brave. Even if youre actually crying."
Shigeru Miyamoto
