Shinji Mikami says he wants to ‘make his own game’ and change development culture
Tango Gameworks founder Shinji Mikami has revealed that he plans to make another game, and also wants to change game development culture.
Mikami – who’s best known for directing Resident Evil, producing Resident Evil 2 and 3, and writing and directing Resident Evil 4 – founded Tango Gameworks in 2010, where he directed The Evil Within.
Since then, however, Mikami has taken more of a supervisory role, as the executive producer of both The Evil Within 2 and Ghostwire Tokyo.
In a new chat with Jun Takeuchi on the official Biohazard YouTube channel, Mikami said he has two aspirations – to make “sustainably developed games” that change game development culture, and to make another game of his own.
“This is something I haven’t really been able to do yet,” Mikami said. “I wanted to make a new sort of game for the younger generation of developers with sustainable development practices. What’s it called… a Sustainable Development Goals game.”
The Sustainable Development Goals are 17 global goals created by the United Nations in 2015 as a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet”. Goal 8, which is what Mikami is likely referring to, aims to “promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all”.
“So I want to make sustainably developed games,” Mikami explained. “The most important thing is probably the acceptance of game development culture. You change your processes based on results. You get good results, you adopt the system, but changing culture is more difficult.
“I want to create that kind of culture, that’s one of the things I want to do. Even if I retire, I’ll have achieved one goal with Tango Gameworks.
“Something else I want to do is make
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