A game developer's story with Vanillaware's Kentaro Onishi

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We all know the big players, the Kojimas, the Miyamotos, the Suda51s; but the magic of video games is about more than just the front men. It's about the details, the microcosm of daily working life, and the less recognisable figures that somehow contributed to the industry at large.
Somewhere, down a narrow alleyway, up several flights of stairs, in an unpretentious office where men and women sleep on keyboards and under mountains of sketch filled paper, accost soda machines for not fulfilling their vending duties and shoot hoops with overflowing waste paper baskets, is a collective of individuals with a story worth telling.
You may not know Kentaro Onishi, and he's okay with that. Today he's a programmer at Vanillaware, and one of director George Kamitani's trusted associates - but it hasn't always been this way. He has his own story to tell about where he began, his inspirations, and how playing Starcraft on lunch breaks can end up being a foot in the door.
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