{"id":31880,"date":"2023-07-18T16:52:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T15:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/early-pikmin-concepts-included-creatures-with-ai-chips-in-their-heads\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T15:52:40","slug":"early-pikmin-concepts-included-creatures-with-ai-chips-in-their-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/early-pikmin-concepts-included-creatures-with-ai-chips-in-their-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Pikmin concepts included creatures with AI chips in their heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Although Pikmin as we see them today are just a series of funky, little guys, their original concept was a bit darker in nature.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest instalment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/whatsnew\/ask-the-developer-vol-10-pikmin-4-part-1\/\">Nintendo&#8217;s Ask The Developer<\/a> series of interviews, Pikmin creator Shigeru Miyamoto spoke alongside former series directors Shigefumi Hino and Masamichi Abe, as well as programmer Yuji Kando and designer Junji Morii on the origins of the series. <\/p>\n<p>Hino revealed initially the team had planned to feature creatures with AI chips in their heads in the first Pikmin game, and players would be able to control them by assigning different chips. The concept art for this prototype was shown, and the early Pikmin would have looked like round creatures with limbs, a nose, eyes, and an antenna. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/early-pikmin-concepts-included-creatures-with-ai-chips-in-their-heads\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Pikmin as we see them today are just a series of funky, little guys, their original concept was a bit darker in nature. 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