Kirby, Meteos Designer Creates Indie Studio

Edge Online reports that Masahiro Sakurai, designer of the Kirby series of games and the recent DS hit Meteos has launched his own game studio named Sora. In an interview, he talks about the design process behind Meteos. From the article: "It was created by one designer, one graphic artist and one programmer, and took three days. Design documents were written by myself alone and took me three days to finish. When I designed Meteos, we didn't know it would be released on the DS platform. That was decided after we saw the hardware at E3, in May 2004. And at that stage, we didn't have a dev kit or any real hardware information."

Comments

Re:A breath of fresh air

[cowscows]

Designers, in general, almost never are completely happy with a finished product. Even if you think everything is working well, plain old curiosity will keep you tweaking things, hoping to discover something that you hadn't noticed or thought of before. Deadlines suck for so many reasons, but without them, nothing would ever be finished. There's just this huge hazy area between "good enough" and "excellent", and figuring out where along that line you want to be is probably a big part of any particular company's philosophy.