![PEOPLE:
- Koichi Hayashida, age 45. Director of Super Mario 3D World, Producer of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker.
- Shinya Hiratake. Level Designer for Super Mario 3D World, Director of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker.
- Shigeru Miyamoto, age 62. Creator of Zelda. General Producer of Super Mario 3D World and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker.
QUOTE:
Q: [Captain Toad began life as a Zelda project?]
Hayashida: It seems like the truth has gotten a little twisted here [laughs]. When we started work on Super Mario 3D World, we created a number of tests, one of which was a stage where you look in from the outside; a little diorama stage using Mario. The thing we noticed was that if Mario could jump, the stages become pretty big so we wondered whether it would be possible to make a game with a character who can’t jump.
Hiratake submitted an idea to Mr. Miyamoto … to use Link as the character. Unfortunately, this idea was stopped right at the planning stage.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreia2mon3a3dfebzwd254czj3cupexzjclrdqrg5pzntn3cz277avxe)
PEOPLE: - Koichi Hayashida, age 45. Director of Super Mario 3D World, Producer of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. - Shinya Hiratake. Level Designer for Super Mario 3D World, Director of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. - Shigeru Miyamoto, age 62. Creator of Zelda. General Producer of Super Mario 3D World and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. QUOTE: Q: [Captain Toad began life as a Zelda project?] Hayashida: It seems like the truth has gotten a little twisted here [laughs]. When we started work on Super Mario 3D World, we created a number of tests, one of which was a stage where you look in from the outside; a little diorama stage using Mario. The thing we noticed was that if Mario could jump, the stages become pretty big so we wondered whether it would be possible to make a game with a character who can’t jump. Hiratake submitted an idea to Mr. Miyamoto … to use Link as the character. Unfortunately, this idea was stopped right at the planning stage.
Hayashida on an early pitch for some courses in Super Mario World 3D, 2014.
Source: Nintendo Life
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![PEOPLE:
- Takashi Tezuka, age 62. Director of the first four Zelda games. Producer of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. .
- Koichi Hayashida, age 54. Game Designer on Super Mario Bros. Wonder. .
QUOTE:
"Tezuka: Remote work may have also had a major impact [on Super Mario Bros. Wonder]. Since meetings now took place online, we no longer had to limit the number of participants due to limited space in meeting rooms, so we made it a rule to open meetings to the entire development team so that anyone could join at any time.
Hayashida: We let members join online meetings without turning on their cameras so that they could just listen in while multitasking. … Of course, there were difficulties developing a game in an unfamiliar, work-from-home environment, but we were able to take advantage of the situation and work on new approaches."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreiax5232htz2x3yhdv5sn5tfwqahlb33unn4hiyo7c43b2ynoaz2vu)
