Toru Iwatani is the creator of Pac-Man which this year celebrates its 35th anniversary. Photo: EFE
Barcelona.- The Japanese creator is in Barcelona (northeast) for the XI living Gamelab the Legend Award for Lifetime Achievement, and to develop, in 1980, Pac-Man, an icon of contemporary culture and one of the most successful games of all time, to the point that electronic entertainment can not be understood without it.
The project that has long worked in collaboration with students of the Polytechnic University of Tokyo and the Arts, where he teaches about games, as hardware has a suit “that is, at the same time, player, screen and play, as a trinity,
acting without external hardware “, and which wants through the interactive game is to create art.
He told Efe that this particular suit is full of screens and when the wearer moves can create art through the colors emitting or light drawings generated by the movement, which now pursues the artistic expressions of the game.
To Iwatani, rather than limited to a telephone set or a display, you’re looking to be expressive in every part of the body, “into a world conceived as art” beyond reality virtual.
This project will not be ready in a couple of years and recognizes that it is in widespread use, as with the “Pac-Man”, but will be a minority.
After 30 years of work in a company, already has eight years as a teacher and defends: “I still have much to teach what is game, there are many areas for study because the gaming world today is an agglomeration many things, and the field is infinite. “
He explains that at her university can educate a person in the department of game as planner, as a specialist in graphics and as a game programmer, and Pride says the department heads “has 8 teachers and 70 people in each course, a total of 280″, which lasts four years.
For this genius of video games, “the world of entertainment Interactive has a great future because it’s a mixture of studies and knowledge where there are engineering, mathematics and physics, literature, art and psychology. “
Want further that not everything is play by play, but serves for something to contribute to society and that can educate or rehabilitate using the games as a tool.
A Toru Iwatani did not really like violent games who have triumphed for a few years and ensures that are staying in the minority, especially as smartphones have games to people who do not like too much leisure based on war or violence.
And forecasts that with the increase in the number of people using the smartphones, will as cinema, where a film classification depending drama, love story, entertainment and war.
No comments:
Post a Comment