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PEOPLE:

Shun Moriya. Ocarina of Time 3D Programmer.

Satoru Iwata, age 51. President of Nintendo.

QUOTE: Moriya: Take the scene in which you set a spiderweb on fire [in Ocarina of Time’s Deku Tree]. Lots of people, including me, have Link roll forward or swing his torch to light it, but some people use how the tip of the torch lowers when he is holding the shield. So when I heard that the fire wouldn't light [in the 3DS remake], I thought, “Uh-oh…this isn't gonna be easy.” [laughs]

Iwata: The ways to solve that are stuck in the players' memories, so you have to recreate those, too.

PEOPLE:

Yoshiaki Koizumi, age 39. Writer for Link’s Awakening & A Link to the Past. 3D Gameplay Director for Ocarina of Time. Co-Director of Majora’s Mask.

QUOTE: Koizumi: I was the one coming up with scenarios, just on my own, ever since the time of Link's Awakening. … I felt like I came up with this entire scenario and a backstory for Link, but nobody really seemed to care. They were always saying “Let's not try to push the story forward too much.”

PEOPLE:

Satoru Iwata, age 59. President of HAL from 1993-2000, President of Nintendo from 2002-2015.

QUOTE: Iwata: People … allow their co-workers to take care of everything outside of their own responsibilities, letting go and bracing themselves for the results. As this arrangement increases in scale, it develops levels, broadening in scope. This is what we call a company.

When working this way, forging connections as we strive to achieve our objectives, respecting others becomes incredibly important.