Shigeru Miyamoto spends more time as a manager than he does “in the trenches” directly overseeing the creation of a game. Richard Garriot, aka “Lord British,” and Will Wright have moved further away from the actual development of games, and even the “Walt Disney” of games. It’s the same for other giants within the industry. Hideo Kojima is far removed from the days when he would work with designers, building levels for Metal Gear Solid out of LEGO blocks. As most game developers rise in stature and title, they get further and further away from the hands-on development that made them talents to watch in the first place. In many ways, what Molyneux has done is the exception to the rule. “There will come a time when Shigeru Miyamoto will no longer be with us through accident, illness or old age.” And we’ve now lived long enough to watch them exit stage right, as it were. We were fortunate enough to be there and watch them take a fledgling genre and turn it into something wholly more subtle and complex. But now they are taking themselves away from the studio-and industry-that they founded and helped flourish. I wish them well, and I can’t say they haven’t earned their rest after all between the two of them, they’ve defined the RPG as we know it today. Ray Muyzka the founders of BioWare, announced their retirement. We’ve seen a little bit of that future already. They’re getting older. And someday they’re going to retire, or simply die of old age ![]() But this also means that those people who have taken gaming from its infancy to its more mature state today aren’t getting any younger. The fact is that we, as older gamers (and by that, I mean anyone that actually remembers getting an Atari 2600 back in the 70s), have been privileged to see our hobby grow up with us.
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