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Kirby at 30: Looking at a game's anniversary through lens of new games
As the legendary Kirby game series approached its 30th anniversary in 2022, its executive director at HAL Laboratory decided to celebrate the occasion by "taking on a new challenge." In a GDC 2023 presentation that he co-hosted, Shinya Kumazaki led a packed audience through a two-game retrospective, to explain how the simultaneous production of a brand-new 3D game and a 2D remake took different paths to fulfilling the same Kirby series imperative: "approachable, yet deep."