Nintendo revives Iwata Asks with Ask the Developer Vol. 1.
The first in a series of in-depth talks with the developers of Nintendo's first-party releases.
NintendObs Daily. Thursday, July 8.
It took me a while but I finally got to read in full the Ask the Developer interview on Game Builder Garage. Released last Thursday, this is the first in a series of in-depth talks with the developers of Nintendo's first-party releases, in this case with Kosuke Teshima and Noaki Masuda from Nintendo EPD, both of which having never been featured before in official Nintendo content. Iwata Asks lives on, so to speak. The format is really similar, but Nintendo's late leader will be missed with his whimsical, carefree yet insightful questioning of his own staff, as if for a moment he was no longer their boss to report to. Here instead, the interviewer is neither mentioned nor shown, so we'll have to pretend the savior of Earthbound is doing the work in spirit.