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Keita Takahashi Loves You (No, Really)

At last week's GDC, hot designers like Cliffy B, Harvey Smith and Keita Takahashi gathered at the Game Design Challenge to construct a game around a unbelievably difficult theme. This year's was to design a title that could win the Nobel Peach Prize.

During his presentation, Takahashi said all we need was love. And by love, the designer meant "naive, pure, wonderful and silly love." He illustrated this with photos of his fans in Katamari cosplay. Slate reports that one of Takahashi's slides explained he wants to bring "everyone in the world the luxury of playing games using natural power." An image of red, black, blue and green children huddled around a wind-powered TV and solar-powered game console accompanies the slide. Tongue planted firmly in cheek, yes. According to Gamasutra, the last slide of his presentation featured his characters sitting around, saying "Boring," "Crappy," and "Cheesy."

Looks like we were wrong. Katamari creator Keita Takahashi does not hate games. No, no, no, he loves 'em and his costume-wearing fans in a drippy hippy, post-India George Harrison sort of way. And has a pretty damn good sense of humor about the whole thing. Bravo!

Full Article Here [Slate]

6:22 AM on Thu Mar 30 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
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