In 2021, game designer Takaya Imamura announced his retirement from Nintendo after spending over three decades with the company. Imamura got his start at Nintendo in 1989 by designing characters for F-Zero and Star Fox under the supervision of Donkey Kong and Super Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. Apparently, Imamura’s subconscious wasn’t ready to move on after his departure from Nintendo, and he found himself working with Miyamoto again in his dreams.
“For the first six months or so after leaving Nintendo, I kept dreaming I was still going to work,” Imamura told Nintendo Life. “I’d start developing a game and then I’d wake up and go, ‘Oh, oh. Okay that’s weird.'”
Imamura went on to state that he saw Miyamoto in person one time after he left, and his former colleague “got a good laugh” after hearing that he had been appearing in Imamura’s dreams.
Although Imamura retired from Nintendo and accepted a job as a professor, he hasn’t left the video game industry behind. His new project is Omega 6: The Triangle Star, which is based upon the manga that he wrote and illustrated. During the Nintendo Life interview, Imamura noted that he designed most of the characters himself for Omega 6, but his students designed four of the characters and he brought their designs into the game.
Omega 6: The Triangle Stars will be released on February 28 on Switch and PC.