Inside the Strange Design Process of Nintendo Genius Miyamoto
What's it like to work alongside the god of gaming?
Yoshiaki Koizumi could tell you. As the director of Nintendo's biggest Wii game yet, Super Mario Galaxy, Koizumi reports directly to Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, the head of Nintendo's game development group, and the greatest game designer the world has ever known. It's a job, says Koizumi, that requires him to "translate" the maestro's often-inscrutable insights into real-world gameplay.
It's not easy, since Miyamoto's comments can be cryptic in the extreme. Like most other corporations, Nintendo works in e-mail, but Miyamoto's messages are more inscrutable than most.
