Miyamoto Gives Advice to Game Design Hopefuls

grenada writes "As reported by Ars Techncia, Shigeru Miyamoto has some good advice for aspiring game developers. Instead of telling kids to focus on video games, he actually says that it's beneficial to diversify your education and personal interests. He says that meeting people and familiarizing yourself to different fields will give you the best perspective of the world in the long run, which will help in your game-developing career. 'While young people are still students, I think it is important for them to not just focus on something like programming or just focus on video games. Instead they should do things that you can only do while you are in college. Get out, meet people, and talk to people.'" As a follow-up, N'Gai Croal at Newsweek has up an interview he did with Miyamoto-san entitled the Artist's Way.

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Miyamoto? Isn't he dead?

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Imagine my surprise when I heard that Miyamoto Usagi was giving advice to game design hopefuls! What, one might ask, could an anthropormorphic rabbit ronin have to teach us about games? Let alone one who supposedly lived almost four hundred years ago...

Then again, I guess you could think of Usagi as someone who studies life and the world around him - perhaps we could learn many things from his unique perspective!