Entertainment Division
Excellence Award
Shaberu! DS Oryouri Navi
TSUCHIYAMA Yoshinori,
Representing the Shaberu! DS Oryouri Navi development team
© 2006 Nintendo
Profile
TSUCHIYAMA Yoshinori
Born in Ishikawa, 1967. He graduated from Visual Design Course at Kanazawa College of Art and entered Nintendo Co., Ltd. Joined the development of The Legend of Zelda - Four Swords Adventures + (Navi tracker mode: director), Sennen Kazoku (Thousand Year Family) and others.
Award Reason
In this work, the creator opens up a new field in game software with a totally new style of “oryori navigator” (cooking navigator) by combining a new presentation method and technology. Explanation of the cooking by charming synthetic voice and the presentation and technology which made it possible to teach the steps of cooking by voice recognition are wonderful. The idea where, even though the user’s hands are wet, or full when they are in the middle of cooking, they can move to the next step by just saying “OK” with their voice, accurately captures users’ needs.