Is Minecraft a once-in-a-lifetime success — a "Tainted Love," a Tetris — or a foundational work for the next great video-game auteur, like the creator of Sim City and The Sims, Will Wright?
In March 2012, the video-game auteur Tim Schafer sought $400,000 to make a new game but ended up with $3.36 million; in May, the musician Amanda Palmer set a goal of $100,000 to record a new album and raked in more than $1 million.
Above, Games auteur Hidetaka Suehiro, a.k.a.a
Games auteur Hidetaka Suehiro AKA Swery (All illustrations by Stephen Maurice Graham).
One of Japan's video-game auteurs has gone independent.
There aren't very many video-game auteurs, but Miyamoto is one.
E.A. was founded in 1982 by Trip Hawkins, a former marketing manager at Apple Computer, as "the new Hollywood," and it was at first supposed to be a haven for video-game auteurs.
When, in the game of auteur limbo, the bar is set progressively higher, the very concept elicits increasing skepticism.
Wright may be the game industry's greatest auteur, but to a large extent he has abdicated authorship of his own creation.
This is Child of Eden, the luminous new game from the Japanese auteur Tetsuya Mizuguchi and one of the most inspirational exhibits of artistry to be found in interactive entertainment today.
In the months before Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain launched, widespread news reports alleged deplorable working conditions at Konami, the massive veteran Japanese corporation that has long published the Metal Gear games – and employed their auteur, Hideo Kojima.
