Why Star Fox co-creator Takaya Imamura left Nintendo and created Omega 6 | interview

Takaya Imamura was the rare artist who joined Nintendo in 1989 as the iconic game company was creating some of its memorable intellectual properties. Little did he know that he was going to participate in building up those IPs himself through character design for Star Fox, The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, F-Zero and more.

He left Nintendo after 32 years in 2021 during the pandemic and continued teaching students how to do game design — particularly by coming up with something unique to stand out among all the games being created now and surprising players.