School of Inafune 2-12

Takashi Yasuda

Yasuda here, and this is my 3rd blog entry.

Normally we talk a lot about comcept here in Inafune-Juku, but today we talked about presentation.
Long story short,
“Presentation is not about telling people about what you think. Presentation is about expressing your idea”.
Inafune-sensei, gave us some techniques.
The most important technique we learned today was,
“Think in other people’s perspective”.

Now, when I think about it, this idea is fundamental in every situation from daily life to job interviews. This idea has to exist in everything if the matter involves more than two people.

For my better future, I will try even harder to think things in other people’s perspective. I will try to be like Inafune-sensei, who can understand what others are thinking and push the right button when the time is right.



Takahiro Ishikawa

The slippage of concept.
Our team’s concept is to let the players enjoy drawing, but we got a response today that there is a slippage happening in our concept.

Currently we are thinking of just adding the drawing aspect into our game idea. Basically we are just adding 2 ideas together. In other words one of the idea didn’t even have to be “drawing” anymore.

What we really have to come up is, a game idea need the element of drawing to make it better.

We are totally thinking everything the other way around. How can this idea become a good game?

What is “to express”?
We talked about that today. We need presentation in many occasions, but somehow there are times the ideas can’t be understood by your audiences.
The reason behind that is simply the presenter is trying too hard to tell people what is in his mind.
We can’t just speak our minds to someone. We need to express our idea to people. We have to find the connection between the presenter and the listeners. We have to find the common idea between us (the presenters) and the people we want to present to.

Inafune-Juku has only a few more lessons left. I will cherish my time and try to learn as much as possible from Inafune-sensei.



Ken Tutumi

The secrets of “To express” Inafune-sensei’s style!
Today we learned how to express, from Inafune-sensei.

“To express ≠ to give”
“To express” is not to just to “give” information to people. It should feel more like “to connect”. So, how do we connect? Inafune-sensei gave us the following tips.

1, Give examples
share a same vision with the person you talk to.

2, Ask questions
“Isn’t it?” “Don’t you think?” ask questions for them to agree on.
Even a tiny nod will give the place a sense of unity.

3, Eye contacts can lead to reaction
See if people understood you by your speech. If not change the direction of the presentation.

【To present】
“How do you express or explain the project your team is working on to someone?” We are in the stage of thinking about this.
There are only 5 lessons left in Inafune-Juku. I have to put the secret to use and achieve the maximum result!