ASSIGNMENT 01: 3 Writers & 3 Stories Part 1

This particular video showcases an anniversary game.

One particular story I like is that of the Mega Man Battle Network series.

"The series is set in the year 200X; the Internet has become integrated with almost every piece of electronic equipment in existence (from TVs to ovens). In fact, it's become so complicated that special programs called Net Navigators are needed to efficiently process all of the data. Net Navigators (NetNavis for short) are stored in hand-held devices called Personal Terminals (PET). These devices act as phones, pagers, instant messengers, news beams, and hacking devices all rolled into one, essentially making them portable computers. The main characters of the series are a fifth-grader named Lan Hikari, and his NetNavi best friend MegaMan.EXE. Although MegaMan.EXE has no body (unless the PET device itself counts), he can wander around in cyberspace and explore computer systems as if they were alternate worlds. Together, Lan and MegaMan.EXE  cooperate to fight off hackers and viruses"

http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Mega_Man_Battle_Network_%28series%29


The story spans across 6 main games and 3 spinoff games.

My favorite part about the series is that even though there's all this fantasy, nonsense, clear impossibility of so many different aspects, there's this sense of realism somewhere in there. Even through all this cartoon animated fighting, it gives you that sense that JUST MAYBE, this could be real someday.

Producer,and co-creator of Mega Man, Keiji Inafune and Director, Masahiro Yasuma worked very hard on this saying creating the game and the story was a very difficult task.

Keiji Inafune's  education is unknown to me at the moment, but he started working for Capcom in 1987 searching for a job as an illustrator at age 22. He assisted in the development of Mega Man and as a result became known at the father of Mega Man. He worked at Capcom for 23 years and the left to create two new companies; Comcept and Intercept, both established in December 2010.

And I honestly cannot find any information on Masahiro Yasuma other than the fact that he work for a handful of Mega Man games.

The Mega Man Anniversary Collection for GameCube I have has a video interview with Keiji and his final quote is "Always follow your dreams and never give up. Keep fighting and surely you will achieve your goal."