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Designing games that truly suit the hardware platforms they're on is a more difficult proposition than it seems, at first blush - but Sony's Tsutomu Kouno has made a pretty good stab of it. His history at the PlayStation-creating company includes work as a designer on the seminal Ico , but the ...
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LocoRoco designer talks about game design, Hydlide, Short Circuit
Destructoid — ... In an interview with LocoRoco designer Tsutomu Kouno, Gamasutra manages to get some pretty interesting facts out of him. The interview focuses on the design of LocoRoco, which Kouno says he sketched out while riding on a train. He talks about how he designed the game for ease of play: ...

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