Great Minds Think Alike

My good friend, Jason Fredrickson, forwarded this article to me earlier today.  It was with great bemusement that I learned that legendary game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, seems to have filed a patent on behalf of Nintendo that basically describes the “Movie Mode” game feature that I proposed all the way back in July, and again via GameDaily, in September.  Inexplicably, sites like Gamasutra and Kotaku seem to think that the idea is more noteworthy when it comes from him than from me. 

To be fair, according to the article, Miyamoto-san filed his patent 2 days before I published my blog post.  And, unsurprisingly, there are some differences in terms of the specific implementation of the feature.  Nonetheless, I will take this as a validation of the basic elements of the idea. (I’m rather proud of myself, in case you couldn’t tell…)