“Every Monday, six of us venture out into the garden and sit at the vertices of a pentagon. The last person to arrive is required to spend the meeting sitting on my lap, which is sometimes painful for me, but also sometimes quite pleasant. Each team member writes ideas out onto slips of white paper, and impales them onto bamboo poles near seedlings. When we return the subsequent Monday, the ideas with the healthiest-looking sprouts are implemented, and the rest are discarded.”

– Dejobaan Games founder Ichiro Lambe being facetious about his team’s creative process.

The story: An unexpectedly funny interviewee, Ichiro has a wacky humor about him that bleeds into his work. This quote didn’t make it into the finished piece, but I felt it was worth sharing. In this very same interview he suggested plying game testers with various forms of alcohol to help determine how effective his game would be on different consoles. Good stuff. Dejobaan’s upcoming game about kamikaze skydiving, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, is profiled here at The Escapist.