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HE INTER IEW
“Differences give
us more wider/
kind perspective
and deeper/
richer culture.”
OPM: How did the idea for
Wattam come about?
KT: When I was living in
Vancouver, Canada, I saw
many different people there
who came from other
countries. Their native
languages are not English but
they get over their language
barriers by using English as
a common tool. That was
very impressive for me.
On the other hand, we still
have so many fights and
conflicts all over the world,
and our differences are
making them. Different
perspectives, thoughts,
benefits, religions, races,
cultures etc etc, even
[though] we all live on the
same planet. That’s a very
sad and silly thing. What if
we all have the same
language, skin colour, or
perspective, maybe we will
have less fights and conflicts
than we have now. But also it
would be a very boring world.
I have believed our
differences give us morewider/kind perspective and
deeper/richer culture, but
unfortunately our differences
just keep making confusions
and discriminations.
I am not a superhero, but
for some reason I thoughtI should try to make a
videogame that can solve
this problem with celebrating
our differences, and go
beyond our differences by
having fun together. I knew
this is a very abstract andambitious concept (so it^
took a long time to finish
Wattam, haha), but I thought
I had to make such a
videogame now because the
world has been a mess for
a long time.Above The cure for exam season is becoming one with the katamari.