Toru Iwatani Professions : Video Game Designer Born : January 25, 1955 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Toru Iwatani I had no special training at all; I am completely self-taught. I don’t fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic designer. I just had a strong concept about what a game designer is – someone who designs projects to make people happy. That’s his purpose. Toru Iwatani strong self art I thought that one of the things women like to do is eat. So I started working on a game concept based on eating. Toru Iwatani concepts eating games So there I was, wondering what sort of things women would look for in a video game. I sat in cafés and listened to what they were talking about: mostly it was fashion and boyfriends. Neither of those was really the stuff of a good video game. Then they started talking about food - about cakes and sweets and fruit - and it hit me: that food and eating would be the thing to concentrate on to get the girls interested. Toru Iwatani fashion girl sweet Similar Authors Brenda Romero video-game-designer Brenda Laurel video-game-designer Don Mattrick video-game-designer Howard Scott Warshaw video-game-designer Hironobu Sakaguchi video-game-designer Hideo Kojima video-game-designer All Authors
