I am Giles Goddard, I made Star Fox with Shigeru Miyamoto, worked on Super Mario 64 and created 1080 Snowboarding. I have worked in the Japanese games industry for more than 30 years, run my own development studio and am about to release a new snowboarding game for VR, ask me anything!

I’m Giles Goddard, a game dev who programmed Star Fox, 1080° Snowboarding, Stunt Race FX, Doshin the Giant, Steel Diver, Tank Troopers and the iconic Mario stretchy face in Mario 64. At 19 years old, I became the first foreign programmer at Nintendo in Kyoto, Japan working with living legend Shigeru Miyamoto.

I’m the *current* CEO at [Chuhai Labs](https://www.chuhailabs.com/) in Kyoto, Japan working with a talented group of weirdos. We are developing and publishing tons of innovative and silly games that I am really proud of. We even have a Playdate launch title coming out!

For the last year, I have been working on a spiritual successor to 1080° Snowboarding for VR called Carve Snowboarding. We have poured our hearts into making it every bit as thrilling and radical as if you were actually snowboarding! It’ll be releasing *very* soon on the Oculus Quest and we can’t wait for you to hit the slopes!

You can find me on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/giles) later but for now let’s talk games dammit!

ASK ME ANYTHING (and everything!)

[Proof](https://t.co/0PLzzqT13b)

(I’ll be around all weekend to answer questions and I’ll try and answer all of them.)

UPDATE: I will get to all of them 😉 I’ve not done an AMA before and the response has been awesome so far .. thank you !!

UPDATE 2: Thanks again everyone for so many awesome questions, it’s been an absolute privilege.. it’s late here in Japan but I’ll be back tomorrow!