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

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.

Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

Programming is all about numbers.