![]() A great swordsman who’s beaten everyone around goes to track down a previous legend. There is a 1976 Martial Arts film classic titled Full Moon Scimitar. Well, that’s because they entered the industry at a unique position, the position being that without them there would BE no industry! Now you may ask, why am I electing to preface my speech with the history of these men? When they had their turn at GDC, surely they spoke about themselves and their contributions. Nintendo and Iwata’s company Hal Laboratory worked very closely, and through this partnership Iwata was also able to see first hand that there was magic outside of the coding terminal and also on the drawing board with the work of Mr. Iwata that was the genius programmer, and it warms my heart that his signature is embedded in the code of my favorite Nintendo titles, Pokémon Gold and Smash Bros. ![]() I mistook him for a programmer and was shocked to discover he entered the industry as a cartoonist. Iwata, I only knew from his quirky Nintendo Directs, and for Miyamoto, I heard a claim that he designed the mechanics first and applied art later, which I thought was brilliant, as I am only a writer and not visually gifted. Shigeru Miyamoto and President Satoru Iwata in 2019, the first year I began my game development career with my first board game, Runaway Train.Įven though I was a fan of Nintendo and avid gamer all my life, I actually knew very little about these two great men. I was first exposed to GDC from watching the key note speeches from gaming legends Mr. Nintendo Game Developers and Executives Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto
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