A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

When I look around and see how aged cartoonists continue to work on their manga and how movie directors create new movies all the time, I understand that they would never retire. And by the same token, I guess I will still be making games somehow. The only question is whether the younger people will be willing to work with me at that far point in the future.

In other words, I'm not intending to start from things that require a five-year development time.

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.

Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.

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