Many people were sceptical when I chose the name, but it really allowed me to connect with Japanese players and the creators I wanted to pay tribute to, and it started to open a path for me in Japan. I started learning the language, watched a lot of anime and movies, discovered the culture, and always dreamed of going there. I always thought that those games had a different sensibility and way of telling stories that I connected with more. One of my brothers is a game collector, so I got the chance to grow up surrounded by a lot of Japanese games. More than just a tribute to the Game Boy, Tako is a love letter to Japanese games, and I try to pay tribute to specific eras of Japanese gaming with each game I make. What significance does the Japanese title hold? Unusually, the game features a bilingual title in Japanese and English. The demo went viral and that gave me the motivation to create the full game with the story mode I had envisioned. All these elements led to the first demo of the game, which was a randomly generated auto-runner with the ink and hat mechanics as its basis. Around that time, I also ate takoyaki for the first time and had a vision of an octopus character with a sword saving people. It was the year of the Game Boy’s 25th anniversary, so I took the opportunity to make a tribute to an era that brought me so much growing up. At that time, I was still a student at a game design school and missed the feeling of creating my own passion projects like I used to do with RPG Maker. What inspired you to design a game that both looks and plays like a lost classic for the handheld ?Ĭhristophe Galati : I started Tako’s development back in 2014. Tako! isn ’ t simply a retro-inspired game it ’ s specifically a Game Boy-inspired game.
We hope these questions, too, provide some small insight into an often overlooked but nevertheless important aspect of game development. As a gamer who gigs as a translator, this interviewer was also keen to ask a few questions about Tako’s localization and reception in Japan. We sat down (figuratively speaking, of course) with Chris to discuss his first indie outing, from its original release to the new Definitive Edition, and to take a sneak peak at his next game. Like he promised, however, the game is set to return to the eShop on May 5 in the form of a new Definitive Edition thanks to Limited Run Games, who have also indicated a physical release. But his eagerness to address the concerns of his players evidently caused tension between himself and his former publisher-tension that eventually snapped, resulting in the game being delisted from the eShop last year. In the years since the game’s original release, Chris has grown in experience as a developer. While some players savored the game’s pea soup-tinted nostalgia, others were frustrated by design choices faithful to an era constrained by primitive technology and still rooted in the arcades. In late 2018, controversial indie publisher Nicalis released wunderkind indie developer Christophe Galati’s tribute to the Game Boy Tasukete, Tako-San! / Save Me, Mr.
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It's a year to the day since Save Me Mr Tako: Definitive Edition arrived on Switch eShop, and with an anniversary update and physical version now available to pre-order, we thought it was a great time to revisit this interview with the game's creator.
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