The Japanese man Phil Fish told “your games just SUCK” has some words for him
The man standing stone faced in the middle of all that laughter is Makoto Goto, an indie games developer from Japan. He was attending the Q&A session of "Indie Game: the movie" and was delighted to see that Japanese games were such a prominent part of the movie. Standing up to ask the panel what they thought of Japanese games, Fish responded with the infamous line "your games just SUCK!" to a chorus of laughter (and Jonathan Blow leaping in on damage control). English is not his first language so Makoto did not understand the slang term 'suck' but he 'read the air' and broke into a cold sweat. But Makoto kept his cool, thanked the panel for their answer and sat back down, the Q&A session continuing on.
And I am not even going to get into the latest Fish(creator of Faz) episode where Fish has decided to take his toys and go home(cancelled Fez 2).
I did a word search on GOTD for "Makoto Goto" and I didn't see his games come up. He works days and does his gaming developing at night. He took the criticism like a man and decided "as a challenge to keep on making games". Plus he has begged Fish not to quit. From his Twitter feed: "Mr.Fish. You are my goal. I'd like to get success such as you by my game. I respect you. Please don't quit."
The gaming world needs more people like Makoto Goto so I thought you guys could check out his games and maybe makeup a review of sorts....Give him some encouragement.
His games:
Makoto Goto | Global Game Jam
"Heart Boiled" is cute.....I am terrible at reviews as you can tell from my posts on GGOTD so I am bringing these games up for some attention for Wabbit and his cohort reviewers. I am now following him on Twitter plus posted the article on Twitter and Google+.
He is preparing to go to GGJ 2013....
Just a thought , guys..............