When people speak of the leading creative lights in the game industry, Q Entertainment's Tetsuya Mizuguchi's name inevitably comes up. Soft-spoken and contemplative, the game designer - particularly known for working on titles such as Space Channel 5 and Sega Rally while at Sega, and Lumines and Meteos at his own company Q Entertainment - is recently most famous for melding music into interactive experiences.
Following the re-release of underappreciated six-year-old classic Rez onto the Xbox Live Marketplace, he may be free to move forward into new concepts once again. In this in-depth Gamasutra interview, the designer firstly discusses the creation of Rez HD for XBLA, before discussing the future of games - from his unique perspective - in fascinating detail.
