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Jordan Gerblick

Nintendo legend says Shigeru Miyamoto's industrial design education caused him to view his games as "products" instead of "works of art", and that's why they're "more closely aligned" with players

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Shigeru Miyamoto, a Nintendo icon responsible for some of the most iconic video game IP of all time, obviously has some sort of special touch when it comes to game development, and Takaya Imamura, a Nintendo legend in his own right, thinks he knows what it is.

Imamura, whose work was instrumental to the F-Zero, Star Fox, and Legend of Zelda series, recently shared his interpretation of Miyamoto's game design philosophy on Twitter, and how he reckons it was influenced by his formal education, writing in his native Japanese (translated by Automaton):

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