School of Inafune 2-13

Kenya Sato

Hello, Sato of Team JYK here.

Only a bit left to finish our project plan.
Only a bit left in Inafune-Juku too.

I don’t know if it was long time or short time, but I know I’m scared of time passing by.

Our project plan is coming together.
The fun days are almost over, but there is no time to cherish the good memories, not yet. We should bring out everything we got. We WILL bring out everything we got!

“Make them think it’s fun, before they can think about logic”, I really felt consent about this.
When I am writing scenarios, I often feel “This story seems weird”.
When I write scenarios I often think about “What is new? What topic haven’t been written by others?”, but what I really should be thinking is “What is fun and interesting?”.

I think a game can be good or bad depends on whether the creator can analyze what is fun or interesting. I should start analyzing.

There is only a hand full of lessons left in Inafune-Juku. Doesn’t matter what result it will be, I will do my best!



Toshiya Tanaka

We got the chance to do a presentation to Inafune-sensei himself.

The first sentence we got from Inafune-sensei was “you won’t get yelled at, don’t worry.”
I was sooo scared. I can say that for sure.

What Inafune-sensei meant was…
We did our assignment, and that was about a half step. That is why we won’t be yelled at.

However it lacked interest of the concept.
We haven’t established a firm concept yet. The one we have right now felt like it can change later.
We didn’t analyze our own plan enough.
Also we received a comment from Ono-sensei that we lacked ‘hook’.

What we need is to idea that will be affecting people.

A good concept will expand itself, but not changing the course of itself.

We appreciate the chances we have right now, and I have to thank my teammates also, for their supports.



Takahiro Hori

“There is slippage happening to the concept”, that is the comment we got from last lesson.
So, we made our core concept “to draw” connecting more directly to the game system.
The result was good!
However we still have many things to do.

We need to put restriction to players’ action. If that’s too much the players will feel stressful. If there is too little restriction the players will feel boring.
We have to keep a very good balance between these two.

On a different subject, I just realized how important it is to keep good communication between your fellow teammates.
We can’t have team meeting everyday, but we need it to make good games.
We need to decide on things on the days we decided to have meetings.
“Always push forward, and never ever leave things for the next day”.
Therefore we use Skype once or twice a week to have meetings.
What a wonderful world we live in.