Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Aonuma talk about raising young generation developers

Mr. Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Aonuma, Nintendo game producer, who announced the release of Nintendo Switch on March 3, 2017, gave an interesting story about the company's young developer in an interview with GameInformer. From the story of Mr. Miyamoto and Mr. Aonuma, how is Nintendo's "Creation of new entertainmentYou can see a glimpse of whether you are trying to tell the younger generation.

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Splatoon 2 and Nintendo Switch are products involved with many young Nintendo developers. According to Mr. Miyamoto, there are designs "design to create frameworks such as how to play games" and "design of expressions how to decorate" and if you design your expression a certain age you can not follow young people It is said that there is a part. Therefore it seems that young people think that it is better to do more and more about the design of expressions. However, when young people do everything until expressions and framework designs, there is a tendency for "vulnerable things" that incorporate the trend, and it is necessary for veteran to firmly suppress Nintendo's skeleton. Inside the company in Nintendo, the transfer of know-how between young developers and veterans is said to be successful.


Mr. Aonuma feels that working with young developers is that the young child recently is "serious" very much. Though it is not bad to seriously think of things, it seems that there are many cases that you get lost as you think too seriously. So, Mr. Aonuma advises a young developer "Choose one from among the lost ideas and just apologize if it fails" I'm sorry "". Repeating these kinds of ideas quickly, if you do not find the line "This can go on" by yourself, the game is not readily shaped, it seems that there are many times that it ends only with ideas. Teaching about the cycle of shaping these ideas is one of veteran tasks such as Mr. Aonuma and Mr. Miyamoto.


Mr. Miyamoto's "framework such as how to play the game" refers to the originality of Nintendo. Mr. Miyamoto said that this originality seems to have been inherited from the foundation of Nintendo until now, "Nintendo has a posture to make unique things rather than compete with trends, you (developer) It is important to properly communicate what we thought, and it is different from keeping the tradition we have been doing. "


Working with people legendary in the game industry such as Mr. Miyamoto and Aonuma is a wonderful experience for young developers and tremendous pressure is applied. Mr. Aonuma wants to see how young developers should be contacted, "Please refer to our" point of view. "When I show the title completed by Mr. Miyamoto, Mr. Miyamoto says something I do not expect (Laugh) This is a lot of fun. "Well, Mr. Miyamoto thinks so", a new way of thinking about their work is born.To repeat this kind of thing As Nintendo 's appearance comes out, I think that I want you to make seniors in this way. "