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Yu Suzuki’s Photo Gallery at GDC Shenmue Postmortem Conference

kopke March 20, 2014

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Missed Yu Suzuki’s conference? You can still watch it here. We also have a photo gallery to share with you!

Photo Credits: Tomás Cofré with Special Thanks to Ken Luna Tanamachi

Yu Suzuki about to start the conference!

Yu started with an itroduction to his work

Yu Suzuki

Yu Suzuki talking about his ideas for an RPG

Let's start the Shenmue talk! — Let’s start the Shenmue talk!

"The old man and the Peach Tree" was the 1st prototype — “The old man and the Peach Tree” was the 1st prototype

Yu explaining what the 1st prototype was about

2nd prototype for Shenmue was "Akira's history" — 2nd prototype for Shenmue was “Akira’s history”

Yu Suzuki learning martial arts

Research China trip photos

Research China trip photos

Akira's early concept art — Akira’s early concept art

Shenmue got named like that until 1999

Cinematics, one of the game's key features — Cinematics, one of the game’s key features

QTEs : Quicktime Events, interactions between gameplay and cinematics

Seed theory helped a lot to compress the game by optimizing resources

The same seed theory was used to build the cities

It is quite impressive how much tech was put into this game!

What? No Shenmue II?

Q&As: Sorry folks, no Shenmue III, maybe if he gets the right chance!

Space Harrier talk

Initially Space Harrier was going to be about a jetplane!

Thanks for the conference Yu!

Yu Suzuki signing autographs!

Alright!

kopke March 20, 2014

2 606 Less than a minute

kopke

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