Yasuhisa Yamamura, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Japanese video game designer
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Place of Birth: Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
About Yasuhisa Yamamura
- Yasuhisa Yamamura (Japanese: ?? ??, Hepburn: Yamamura Yasuhisa, born December 10, 1964 in Hyogo Prefecture) is a Japanese video game designer working for Nintendo.
- He was involved as a level designer in the development of numerous games in the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series.
- Speaking about his work on the action-adventure The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, he specified his contributions as the conception of routes, the placement of enemies and the creation of environments.
- Yamamura's level design philosophy takes into account experienced players skipping areas, with him stressing "the importance of omission and its effects".
- A regular visitor of amusement arcades, he collects used circuit boards.
- He is also referred to by the nickname "Yamahem" or "Yamahen" (????, Yamahemu).
- In 2006, his work on the map and level design of New Super Mario Bros.
- was nominated for the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Award in the category "Game Design".
- The pigeon character Yamamura that debuted in the platform game Super Mario Maker is named after Yasuhisa Yamamura.
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