Keita Takahashi spoke at GDC this year. I didn’t get to go, but I found some online coverage at
Gamespot (http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/03/11/news_6120232.html), GameSpy (http://www.gamespy.com/articles/595/595110p1.html) and 1Up (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3138803).
Some of the best games out of Japan have been designed by artists and industrial designers, and not by engineers or marketing types. This is encourages me — when I think of things I’d like to do with a Design degree, video games and controllers are on the short list. (Also on the list: controllers for teleoperated robots, new displays for motorcycles, giant fighting mecha for robotwars like duels, and kendo practice automata for folks who don’t live near a dojo.)
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