Adrian Raudaschl
Adrian Raudaschl

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Adrian Raudaschl
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Casa BRUTUS Mario Review: The secrets of a masterpiece design made with 40 kilobytes

Really cool expose from the Japanese Casa BRUTUS magazine celebrating 40 years of Mario. Its got behind the scenes archival dev material and information on how the original game was made and even an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto. I don't think there is an English translation yet, but tried my best.

My fav thing - fun as a system:
> "Continuing to think about the mechanisms by which people think, ‘This is interesting.’"
Fun is not inspiration or taste, but a mechanism that can be studied is a...
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Adrian Raudaschl
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Fashion and games come together this holiday

Visited the amazing Super Tomaato in Cardiff this holiday and found this gem. A copy of the fashion magazine Brutus which was completely taken over by an expose on the making of the original Mario with never before seen sketches and notebooks. Just awesome!
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