TG06: Loco Roco Dev On Game Design, Racism, Snowboarding

[wraggster]

Via Kotaku:

Finally getting down to it, I asked Kouno why he became a game designer and why he made Loco Roco. He told us, "In elementary school I did AI programming and then again in college. I always liked to snowboard and wanted to make a snowboarding game." Instead of doing dangerous tricks, he watched videos of snowboarders but wanted to speed up and slow down the action, as well as change the angle. Obviously this couldn't be done and it inspired the game design of Loco Roco.

Full Interview Here

[ACID]

Thats a different perspective to look at games. Nice interview

[sfish]

Wish I knew which person was which in that picture. Does anyone know?

[Cloud_35]

He is the creator (and "lyric" composer) of LocoRoco.

(He smokes weed...?)

[Nikolaos]

lmao, loco roco is crzyyyy :P buh hey japanese people have crzy games

[gotmilk0112]

have you ever seen Katamari Damacy? crazy japanese games indeed.

[cloud_952]

o_O Sooo.. he programmed AI in elementary school? Either that's a bad translation, or he's ****ing awesome.