On the subject of interviews, here's an excellent one with Kenji Eno, who unlike some radical and brilliant game designers is not too good to be pals with me. Kenji Eno, if you don't know the name, is the rock-n-roll bad boy of Japanese game designers.
Some of you are about to correct me! "No, Patrick," you are about to say, "Tomonobu Itagaki is the rock-n-roll bad boy of Japanese game designers. Everyone knows that."
NO! WRONG! YOU ARE WRONG! Kung-fu titty games? Sexual harassment? WOW, WHAT A REBEL, GOLLY JESUS.
Now, here's Kenji Eno:
So I was talking to a guy at Sony, and this was toward the end of the year, and I said, "OK, I'm going to go to [Japanese electronics retailer] Bic Camera, and if I don't see my game there, I'm going to punch you." and they said, "No don't worry about it. It's going to be there." And I went to Bic Camera and didn't find it, so I actually did punch this guy -- so that should tell you how mad I was.
Go and read the interview. [Thanks, John!] |