{"id":352,"date":"2006-11-22T22:30:14","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T03:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/22\/the-guy-behind-donkey-kong-and-mario-super-bros\/"},"modified":"2006-11-22T22:30:14","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T03:30:14","slug":"the-guy-behind-donkey-kong-and-mario-super-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"the guy behind Donkey Kong and Mario Super Bros."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>is Shigero Miyamoto. He began as Nintendo&#8217;s first official staff artist right out of college and has since become Nintendo&#8217;s head creative guy in Japan. Miyamoto said something interesting in an article in <em>American Way<\/em> magazine (Nov 15, 2006):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most important is that a game be fun to play and its environment be used effectively to capture an audience&#8217;s attention. <em>Players can&#8217;t be forced into activity &#8230; they have to voluntarily want to enter the interactive space and explore. Flashy graphics and fancy sound effects aren&#8217;t the answer &#8211; interactivity is. Encouraging players to immerse themselves within virtual universes is crucial<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[italics mine]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is Shigero Miyamoto. He began as Nintendo&#8217;s first official staff artist right out of college and has since become Nintendo&#8217;s head creative guy in Japan. Miyamoto said something interesting in an article in American Way magazine (Nov 15, 2006): &#8220;Most &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=352\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-thesis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}