{"id":109899,"date":"2020-03-05T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/miyamoto_has_broken_his_habit_of_completely_reworking_games_mid-development"},"modified":"2020-03-05T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T04:30:00","slug":"miyamoto-has-broken-his-habit-of-completely-reworking-games-mid-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/05\/miyamoto-has-broken-his-habit-of-completely-reworking-games-mid-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Miyamoto Has Broken His Habit Of “Completely” Reworking Games Mid-Development"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto currently acts as a ‘Creative Fellow’ at the Japanese video game giant \u2013 passing on his ideas and knowledge to the next generation of game designers. As a result, he’s not quite as involved as he used to be.<\/p>\n

For example, he no longer comes in mid-development to “completely” rework projects. Here’s exactly he had to say in the most recent issue of Famitsu (celebrating the Switch’s third anniversary), courtesy of a translation by Oni Dino<\/a> from Nintendo Everything:<\/p>\n

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I might say something in the early stages of development like, \u201cWhat if we didn\u2019t do this<\/em>?\u201d Or \u201cIf you\u2019re going to do that, then what about this<\/em>?\u201d But I no longer come in mid-development to completely rework things. I don\u2019t \u201cupend the tea table\u201d just as a hobby or something, I only do so if I can see how the whole game will pan out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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By changing the structure of things when a game isn\u2019t turning out right, I \u201cupend the tea table\u201d when I can see how things like the visuals and the merits of the game can change. If I can\u2019t see a clear vision for the game, then that doesn\u2019t mean something should be changed. After all, you can\u2019t see all the key components unless you\u2019re the director.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As highlighted in the translation, “upending the tea table” is an infamous phrase used to describe when Miyamoto would step in and change a project’s direction drastically. Though, in saying this, he still has “influence” over aspects like controls (citing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a><\/strong>), to ensure they’re user-friendly as well as the concept phases of a game’s development. After that, it’s up to the designers to work out the rest.<\/p>\n

How do you feel about Miyamoto being less involved in Nintendo’s modern projects? Are you glad to hear this industry veteran still has at least some input? Share your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto currently acts as a ‘Creative Fellow’ at the Japanese video game giant \u2013 passing on his ideas and knowledge to the next generation of game designers. As a result, he’s not quite as involved as he used to be. For example, he no longer comes in mid-development to “completely” rework projects. Here’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109899","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=109899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}