My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.

When I'm making video games today, I want people to be entertained. I am always thinking, How are people going to enjoy playing the games we are making today? And as long as I can enjoy something other people can enjoy it, too.

Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.

My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.

It isn't about games, for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something - anything - far bigger than yourself.

All the time, players are forced to do their utmost. If they are challenged to the limit, is it really fun for them?

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.