{"id":108854,"date":"2020-02-07T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/357826"},"modified":"2020-02-07T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T22:23:00","slug":"check-out-platinumgames-design-doc-for-the-original-the-wonderful-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/07\/check-out-platinumgames-design-doc-for-the-original-the-wonderful-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out PlatinumGames’ design doc for the original The Wonderful 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

The folks over at Silconera<\/a> have translated parts of PlatinumGames\u2019 2010 design document from the development of The Wonderful 101<\/em>, a doc released just this month to celebrate the game\u2019s upcoming, Kickstarter-funded remaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The uploaded pages explore some of the motivations behind the game\u2019s power-in-numbers mechanics, and include modern reflections from PlatinumGames\u2019 Hideki Kamiya on how each of those concepts came together.<\/p>\n

The Wonderful 101 <\/em>sees a group of characters physically coming together to morph into useful shapes and objects, and puzzles shown in the design doc range from combining strength to move a boulder to joining together to create a massive key to unlock a larger-than-life lock.<\/p>\n

\u201dI originally got the idea of having a group unite together and form one huge thing from the picture books \u2018Swimmy\u2019 and \u2018Kaibutsu ni Nacchatta\u2019 (I Became a Monster),\u201d writes Kamiya. \u201cI always think up ideas as I create games, but I also often lose my way. In this case, I knew exactly what the core of the game would be right from the start, which is a rare case for me. (LOL)\u201d<\/p>\n

The full document as presented by Kamiya can be found on <\/em>The Wonderful 101<\/em>\u2019s Kickstarter page<\/a>, while select translations are readable over on Siliconera<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The folks over at Silconera have translated parts of PlatinumGames\u2019 2010 design document from the development of The Wonderful 101, a doc released just this month to celebrate the game\u2019s upcoming, Kickstarter-funded remaster. The uploaded pages explore some of the motivations behind the game\u2019s power-in-numbers mechanics, and include modern reflections from PlatinumGames\u2019 Hideki Kamiya on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}