Shigeru Miyamoto

1952– · Japanese video game designer (born 1952)

Topics: creativity, software engineering, programming, software design

• Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.

  — Shigeru Miyamoto

• When we’re doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed.

  — Shigeru Miyamoto

• A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.

  — Shigeru Miyamoto

• I think great video games are like favorite playgrounds, places you become attached to and go back to again and again. Wouldn't it be great to have a whole drawer full of "playgrounds" right at your fingertips?

  — Shigeru Miyamoto

• If you release a game in a bad state, you will always regret it.

  — Shigeru Miyamoto

• It isn't about "games", for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something- anything- far bigger than yourself.

  — Shigeru Miyamoto

• I could make Halo. It's not that I couldn't design that game. It's just that I choose not to. One thing about my game design is that I never try to look for what people want and then try to make that game design. I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.

  — Shigeru Miyamoto