• Ugly Overload: Yet Another Record
  This (lady) guy looks like a John Kovalic drawing, is immune to pain, and doesn't need much oxygen. Pretty awesome!
  (tags: animals.secret nifty photo weird)
• Wii.com – Iwata Asks: New Super Mario Bros. Wii
  'Now, a fun game should always be easy to understand — you should be able to take one look at it and know what you have to do straight away. It should be so well constructed that you can tell at a glance what your goal is and, even if you don't succeed, you'll blame yourself rather than the game.'

  I think there are certainly very fun games that aren't easy to understand, but for a certain kind of game, he is quite right. The thing about the player blaming himself is rather eyebrow-raising. It's not something that ever occurred to me. Games are there to make players feel special, after all. But this can fit into that idea because the way they achieve that is not always the obvious way (empowerment).

  (tags: observation game.design nes interview)

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