{"id":27666,"date":"2014-02-10T03:04:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T03:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kishotenketsu-in-mario\/"},"modified":"2014-02-10T03:04:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T03:04:56","slug":"kishotenketsu-in-mario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kishotenketsu-in-mario\/","title":{"rendered":"Kish\u014dtenketsu in Mario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com\/post\/76178051254\/kishotenketsu-in-mario\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">stilleatingoranges<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com\/post\/76178051254\">stilleatingoranges<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We provide that concept, let them develop their skills, and then the third step is something of a doozy that throws them for a loop, and makes them think of using it in a way they haven\u2019t really before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2012, Nintendo\u2019s Koichi Hayashida <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/168460\/the_structure_of_fun_learning_.php?print=1\" title=\"The Structure of Fun: Learning from Super Mario 3D Land's Director\">told Gamasutra<\/a> that the <a href=\"http:\/\/stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com\/post\/25153960313\/the-significance-of-plot-without-conflict\" title=\"The significance of plot without conflict\">kish\u014dtenketsu<\/a> plot structure informs the design of the <em>Mario<\/em> series. It seems that Shigeru Miyamoto drew <em>yankoma<\/em> manga in his youth; and he imported kish\u014dtenketsu\u2014particularly its signature \u201ctwist\u201d\u2014into his games. Hayashida began to notice the structure\u2019s influence himself while developing <em>Super Mario Galaxy 2<\/em> and <em>Super Mario 3D Land<\/em>, but he claims that it has \u201calways been very close to our philosophy of level design\u201d. Its presence gives narrative cohesion and propulsion to levels that might otherwise be static or undirected.<\/p>\n<p>We have stated that plot structure <a href=\"http:\/\/stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com\/post\/53045164430\/plot-structure-all-the-way-down\" title=\"Plot structure all the way down\">occurs<\/a> \u201call the way down\u201d. Sentences, stories and other cultural artifacts adhere, often unintentionally, to the local rules of storytelling. In the <em>Mario<\/em> series, one finds yet another example of this phenomenon. And the popularity of this series in the West demonstrates, once more, that kish\u014dtenketsu has for decades been gaining traction outside of Japan and China. A generation of Westerners grew up with Mario. As members of that generation inherit the reins, they bring with them a new type of plot structure\u2014and a new type of thought.<\/p>\n<p><em>Still Eating Oranges<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stilleatingoranges: stilleatingoranges: We provide that concept, let them develop their skills, and then the third step is something of a doozy that throws them for a loop, and makes them think of using it in a way they haven\u2019t really before. In 2012, Nintendo\u2019s Koichi Hayashida told Gamasutra that the kish\u014dtenketsu plot structure informs the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7ce","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}