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Ash Parrish
It’s okay to be flat!

In a GDC presentation (one with a line to get in so long, folks had to wait outside on the roof) talking about the unique challenges of making a 3D Kirby game, Shinya Kumazaki — general director of the Kirby series — shared this slide on what it means to be Kirby.

Photo of a slide from a GDC presentation featuring the pink round blob hero Kirby twisted, flattened, and stretched into weird but cute configurations
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