Direct quote 2011-10-06
“true game design”
What it documents
In 2011 Kojima explained he often feels he must do everything while making a game — the script, the art, the story and the gameplay — and that, to him, having a single auteur overseeing everything is true game design; he compared the role to a head chef at a restaurant, saying that if a restaurant changes head chef it is likely to change the whole meal.
Source
Engadget, by Mike Schramm; Kojima talk at the University of Southern California moderated by Geoff Keighley, 2011-10-06. View source ↗
“he often feels that he must do everything while making a game, including the script, the art, the story, and the gameplay. "To me," he said, having one auteur overseeing everything is "true game design," and likened the process to being a head chef at a restaurant, saying that if the restaurant ever changes the head chef, it's likely going to change how the whole meal works.”