Keita Takahashi, the creator of the mind-bendingly weird and most excellent game Katamari Damacy, gave an hour-long talk about the lessons learned from Developing Katamari Damacy. Takahashi was a new Namco designer who did the game because he was bored with the other Namco projects on offer.
There's a lot not to like about this video: nothing much interesting is said for the first 15 or 17 minutes. The speech is in Japanese and haltingly dubbed into English. The video is packaged in a Flash player (ugh), and to watch it, you have to register and then click a link where you waive your privacy rights and agree to have your registration info turned over to the video's sponsor.
Nevertheless, once Takahashi gets rolling (heh), he is downright fascinating. Here's a guy whose first game was an instant classic, and for all that, totally different from anything else in the market. It's worth putting up with a lot of BS to hear what he has to say.
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