Developing Super Mario Galaxy

1/12/2008

Here is a taste from an excellent series of interviews conducted by Nintendo President Satoru Iwata:

I look at this as if I had borrowed a vegetable garden from Miyamoto-san. It was as if I had asked him, "Please let me borrow your secret garden. From it, I promise I will produce great things." Then I started sowing the seeds with my staff members, and after harvesting the crops and cooking the dish, we decided to have Miyamoto-san be the first one to taste it. He is the owner of the garden, after all. We sent every plate to Kyoto for him to sample, and he would comment back by saying things like, "this is a little too hot" or, "this tastes better". Towards the end of development, we had him come visit our "restaurant" in Tokyo. While he was here, we had him sample an unbelievable number of dishes. We had him eat until he was very full.

I am inspired to hunt down more game development interviews.