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iwataasks.nintendo.com is the company blog at iwataasks.nintendo.com, writing about games and culture. Since 2012, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Iwata Asks, a long-running interview series where Satoru Iwata talks with Nintendo developers about their games. It is valued for behind-the-scenes looks at Nintendo development, such as memory limits and early programming.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
And another quote I've been meaning to find, which sums it up quite well I think. http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/mario25th/4/3 > Iwata: That was fun for me, too. At the time, when someone came to me and said, "I'm having trouble because there isn't enough memory," I was—to be honest—really happy. (laughs) Seeing if you could achieve programming for the same functions with a smaller amount of memory w…
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on “Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]”Submitted Iwata Asks: Wii Street U powered by Google as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's a long running series of interviews called "Iwata Asks" where Iwata would interview various Nintendo game developers around the time of their latest game release. Iwata certainly doesn't ask very hard hitting questions, but nonetheless they're interesting looks behind the scenes of Nintendo development and well worth reading. http://iwataasks.nintendo.com
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on “Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]”Submitted Remembering Satoru Iwata - Just Being President Was A Waste! as a story · 1 points
HN discussionVery sad news. A true hacker. Started programming on a programmable calculator, with which he made games for his classmates. After he got himself a Commodore PET, he went to Nintendo claiming he can make games for them, and so he did. Edit: I found a PET quote from Iwata Asks. http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/creators/4/0 > Iwata: Disassembling! Wow, that really brings back memories. I remember getting…
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on “Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]”I think a lot about Treasure, a quirky game developer that tended to make a bunch of strange games in the past. I think their studio director and founder, Masato Maegawa, understood the value in being more hands-off in a leadership role. [1] [2] Part of me feels like Amazon and Google thought their super-direct top-down style would be successful in a creative project involving larger team, unaware of the lessons pre…
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on “Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing business focus”Make no mistake though—Nintendo doesn't use that process exclusively. They also experiment, prototype, and refine. http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wiiu/splatoon/0/0
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on “Nintendo releases original Zelda design docs”Really comes down to budget. Hiring musicians is expensive. That being said, they are hired for larger projects though. http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/super_mario_g...
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on “How Videogames Are Saving the Symphony Orchestra”There's a lot of this kind of content here: http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/
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on “Nintendo signals end for Wii U”According to an official interview, it does look like they are going to add a Gyro and Button API at some point to the browser: http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wiiu/internet-bro...
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on “The Wii U web browser's HTML5 gaming capabilities”> The focus on maps and gemini is hilarious. The first is literally the anti-use case, It reminded me of the Wii U Street View app and the interview with its developers (at https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/wiiu/wii-street-u/... ). They were going for the same sort of a vibe, though it's unclear to me how many people actually ended up having that much fun with it.
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on “Galaxy XR, the first Android XR headset”This doesn't feel like some special debugging area. If you really want another "area" try the second quest by putting your name as ZELDA. "This quest was created due to the programmers using only half of the space allocated for map data, so it was decided to use the other half as another quest." https://zelda.gamepedia.com/Second_Quest http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/ds/zelda/1/5
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on “Hidden area in Legend of Zelda that 30 years later one player finally opened”Most of it has been lost to internet history but there are still some remnants left. https://grantland.com/features/the-rise-of-nintendo-video-ga... https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/wii/mario25th/4/0/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2w1zl4/when_...
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on “Show HN: Super Dario”