For a lot of individuals, being employed by Nintendo and helping create a series like Animal Crossing would probably be a dream job that they would want to keep doing for as long as possible. Not everyone at the company necessarily sees out the remainder of their working years there, though.
Isao Moro is one of these people who decided to move on from Nintendo, to pursue something else. In 2018 he left the video game giant for unknown reasons, however, it's now been discovered that he's relocated to the island of Okinawa in Japan to teach programming to children.
During an interview with 4Gamer recently, he explained how the move was prompted by his child, who would soon enter elementary school. Programming has also become compulsory in Japanese schools as of this year, and Moro decided to help out by starting up his own programming class where he teaches coding languages to children aged between 8-9 with the assistance of robots built out of Lego.
Isao Moro was previously a sub-director on Animal Crossing: City Folk, a co-director for Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, and he also got a special mention in the credits of Splatoon 2. Despite Moro's departure, the series is in safe hands with the current director Aya Kyogoku, who co-directed New Leaf alongside him. She's also the first female lead at Nintendo EAD.
[source videogameschronicle.com]
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As an amateur game dev I completely understand. I dream of getting a job at Nintendo Software Technology (Nintendo’s North American development division), but it’s not something I could do forever.
Programing is compulsory? Interesting.
"She's also the first female lead at Nintendo EAD."
....and?
@Trajan I wish it would have been back when I was in school.
But none of the schools I went to offered programming courses at ALL.
@AllieKitsune Same. I did take CCNA in high school though to get out of the language requirement. Then in college I had to take language... Lol
I'm not good with languages, and math. Programming is both of those combined unfortunately.
But playing in Dreams lets me live out my game developer fantasy.
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